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Oct 31, 2023 · Michael Ochs/Archives/Getty Images. "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...
[Intro chords] Louie Louie, oh no, you take me where ya gotta go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, baby. Louie Louie, oh baby, take me where ya gotta go. A fine little girl, she waits for me....
Oct 22, 2023 · How the universally recognized song "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen came to be. October 22, 20238:06 AM ET. Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday. By. Deena Prichep. 3-Minute Listen. Playlist. This...
"Louie Louie" was written by an R&B singer named Richard Berry in 1955. With his group The Pharaohs, he was also the first to record the song; it got some airplay in some cities in the Western US when it was released in 1957. Various garage bands heard it and started covering the song until it became a phenomenon with the Kingsmen's 1963 version.
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 · 1.6K. 287K views 12 years ago. 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. The...
Feb 8, 2011 · This was a big hit for The Kingsmen
