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"Louie Louie" is a rhythm and blues song written and composed by American musician Richard Berry in 1955, recorded in 1956, and released in 1957. It is best known for the 1963 hit version by the Kingsmen and has become a standard in pop and rock.
Sep 5, 2022 · Louie Louie was the last chart-topper for an American artist until May, the Beatles taking up the #1 position for the sixteen weeks in between! It was less successful on Billboard, where it spent six weeks at #2 or #3 between December 1963 and January 1964, but failed to get to the top.
Lyrics for The Kingsmen's most famous song: Louie Louie, from the 1963 album "The Kingsmen in Person".Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright...
Oct 31, 2023 · "Louie Louie," recorded by the Kingsmen, began climbing the pop charts 60 years ago. It's a song almost everybody can recognize, but almost nobody understands the words to.
Oct 22, 2023 · This year is the 60th anniversary of the Kingsmen's recording, "Louie Louie." The song has a surprising backstory. AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Sixty years ago, a song began climbing the pop charts ...
Aug 15, 2022 · In the winter of 1963, a team of FBI agents spent their days hunched over portable record players, struggling to decode a message that threatened the morality of America’s youth. It wasn’t from the Russians or Castro, but a band of Portland teenagers called The Kingsmen. And the song was Louie Louie.
Aug 14, 2011 · A rock & roll band from Portland, Oregon, the Kingsmen's one big hit "Louie, Louie" defined the garage-band style and became one of the all-time classics.
Feb 15, 2003 · On November 9, 1963, the Kingsmen’s Garage Rock classic “Louie Louie" began its winter-long climb toward the top of Billboard magazine’s hit parade charts. But that rise was merely one leg of the journey that remarkable song was to make.
Sep 23, 2010 · “Louie, Louie,” the world’s most infamous party song, began its strange life in 1956. Penned by Richard Berry, a 21-year-old L.A. sideman and songwriter, it was originally conceived as a sailor’s lament, its three verses set to a laid-back cha cha-style rhythm.
“Louie Louie” began life as a 1955 Richard Berry song, an imitation Jamaican sea shanty set to a rock ‘n’ roll beat. The mushmouthed sound of The Kingsmen’s cover version came about ...
