Born in Portland, Jack started out as a jazz pianist but switched to guitar after seeing Elvis Presley perform on television. [69], The session was produced by Ken Chase, a local disc jockey on the AM rock station 91 KISN who also owned the teen nightclub where the Kingsmen were the house band. A D Em D A D Em D I said, Lou..ie Lou. [147] Other sources stated that Davies wrote "You Really Got Me" while trying to work out the chords of "Louie Louie" at the suggestion of the group's manager, Larry Page. [365] In April 2015 Orme Radio broadcast the First Italian Louie Louie Marathon, playing 279 versions in 24 hours. Toots Hibbert also performed it solo and with other acts, most notably the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Dave Matthews Band.[210]. The tune went on to be covered by the Beach Boys, the Grateful Dead. Entered chart August 2, 1975, for six weeks. Louie, Louie, Louie, Louie "[15] Humorist Dave Barry (perhaps with some exaggeration) called it "one of the greatest songs in the history of the world". "Louie Louie" was written by a minor songwriter and performer from Los Angeles named Richard Berry (no relation to Chuck Berry) and was recorded several times in the 1950s, including by Berry,. The error "imbued the Kingsmen recording with a touching humility and humanity"[36] and is now so well known that multiple versions by other groups duplicate it. CHORUS: Am Dm Louie, Louie, Louie, Loo-ee. [404][405], The largest "Louie Louie" parade, organized by WWMR deejay John DeBella, was held in Philadelphia from 1985 to 1989 with proceeds going to leukemia victims. It was also included on two later various artists compilations, Love That Louie: The Louie Louie Files (2002) and Boom Boom A Go-Go! Dave Marsh asserts that "Louie Louie" "far outsold" the No. Members of the Wailers, Kingsmen, Raiders, Sonics and other groups with "Louie Louie" associations regularly made appearances. You know the pain that's in my heartIt just shows I'm not very smartWho needs love when you've got a gun?Who needs love to have any fun? 89, No. Jack Ely, the lead singer of the group the Kingsmen which recorded the hit " Louie Louie " -- a song that prompted an FBI investigation -- has died. She said, "The beat and everything was beautiful. [5] Music historian Peter Blecha noted, "Far from shuffling off to a quiet retirement, evidence indicates that 'Louie Louie' may actually prove to be immortal. 1 hit in the U.S. later the same year, but with the parental roles reversed. [326] The "state rock song" was played following "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning stretch at all Seattle Mariners home games from 1990 up until the 2022 season.[383]. Satan sang Louie Louie Louie Papa Satan sang Louie Louie. [394][395], April 16, 2021 Death of Kingsmen guitarist Mike Mitchell. The title was written and sung by Errol Brown and Tony Wilson of the group Hot Chocolate, and was a No. Bluto Blutarsky (John Belushi) performing "Louie Louie" in National Lampoon's Animal House forever cemented the song's status as a "frat rock" classic and a staple of toga parties. They also made it more "fierce and threatening"[162] by altering the traditional 1-4-5-4 chord pattern to the "darker, more sinister" 1-3b-4-3b.[36]. #2 in 1963. Released nationally on Columbia label in October 1963. Released in July 1999, the "Original Mix" version reached No. 31 in the UK. [205], A BBC reviewer said, "The goofy garage anthem becomes both fiery sermon and dance-til-you-drop marathon. [22], "Louie Louie" is the world's most recorded rock song,[37][38] with published estimates ranging from over 1,600[6] to more than 2,000[39][40] "with ever more still being released and performed". "[340][341] The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the complaint,[342] and looked into the various rumors of "real lyrics" that were circulating among teenagers. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was covered that same year in German by Die Rosy-Singers.[319]. [49] Local R&B groups like Ron Holden and the Playboys and the Dave Lewis Combo popularized "Louie Louie", rearranging Berry's version and performing it at live shows and "battle of the bands" events.[50][51]. 7 hit in the UK Singles Chart for the band in 1973, produced by Mickie Most. Go to google and type in Louie Louie and it'll give you several websites that have the lyrics. [334][335] He referred the matter to the FCC (which declined to act) and also requested that the Indiana Broadcasters Association advise their member stations to pull the record from their playlists. [41] It has been released or performed by a wide range of artists from reggae to hard rock, from jazz to psychedelic, from hip hop to easy listening. Gloria Jones of the Dreamers provided additional backup vocals. [18] The nearly unintelligible (and innocuous) lyrics were widely misinterpreted, and the song was banned by radio stations. Their effort was unusual in that it was rendered "in a version so faithful to Berry's Angeleno-revered original"[136] instead of the more common garage rock style as they "[paid] tribute to the two most important earlier recordings of 'Louie Louie' the 1957 original by Richard Berry and the Pharaohs, and the infamously unintelligible 1963 cover by the Kingsmen". [265] One Allmusic reviewer called it "a truly bizarre rendition"[266] while another lamented that the Clarke/Duke version "criminally, never made it onto any of the various artists collections that showcased the legendary Richard Berry tune."[263]. 2 pop hit, but also helped set the template for garage-rock and later hard-rock guitar. Talmy wanted the successful sounds of the Kinks' 1964 hits "You Really Got Me", "All Day and All of the Night", and "Till the End of the Day" to be copied by the Who. KFJC's Maximum Louie Louie Marathon topped the competition in August 1983 with 823 versions played over 63 hours, plus in studio performances by Richard Berry and Jack Ely. "[44], The Kingsmen version in particular has been cited as the "rosetta stone" of garage rock,[36] the defining "ur-text" of punk rock,[45][46] and "the original grunge classic". The music video, directed by Scott Kalvert, was a parody of Animal House with food fights, dancing girls, and togas. Released nationally on Wand label in October 1963. The bureau's. Trojan's compilation of Jamaica Independence Festival songs from 1966-1975 one piece of text really jumped out at me: 1974's 'Play De Music' by Tinga Stewart - a monster hit and the very last one of the archetypal Festival Songs, celebrating the It's the reason the universe will never be fully comprehensible. [380], Picking up on this initially prankish effort, Whatcom County Councilman Craig Cole introduced Resolution No. Edith Green - Wendell Wyatt Federal Building, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, "Garage Rock Anthem "Louie Louie" Turns 50", "Richard Berry, Songwriter of 'Louie Louie,' Dies at 61", "Who Wrote The Seminal Classic Rock Song "Louie Louie"? Dave Marsh in his book Louie Louie: The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock 'n' Roll Song wrote, "It is the best of songs, it is the worst of songs",[4] and also called it "cosmically crude". Continued touring, line-up changes, and occasional reunions resulted in multiple recorded live versions with various lead singers Keith Morris, Dez Cadena, Henry Rollins, Ron Reyes, and Mike Vallely. Entered chart October 22, 1966, for seven weeks. "Louie Louie (Where Did She Roam)", 1996, "Louie Louie Music", 2012, Armitage Shanks (, "I Wanna Louie Louie (All Night Long)", 2020, Charles Albright (, 1999: Mutha Funkin, "Say It Again" (12" single, UK release), This page was last edited on 30 April 2023, at 17:09. Entered chart November 5, 1988, for four weeks. [382], Although the effort failed in the end, a cover of Berry's rewritten version was released in 1986 by Jr. Cadillac and included on the 1994 compilation The Louie Louie Collection. 65 in Cashbox, No. Wiki User. 1 on Cashbox before Beatlemania hit the United States with "I Want to Hold Your Hand". [113], On 9 November 1998, after a protracted lawsuit that lasted five years and cost $1.3 million, the Kingsmen were awarded ownership of all their recordings released on Wand Records from Gusto Records, including "Louie Louie". 1 on the Cashbox and Music Vendor/Record World pop charts, as well as No. A duo of "jazz rock fusioneers",[261] bassist Stanley Clarke and keyboardist George Duke, included a "killer version"[262] "funk cover"[263] on The Clarke/Duke Project, a 1981 album of eight original compositions and one cover. [166], Iggy Pop (then known as Jim Osterberg) began performing "Louie Louie", "a song nearly as old and unkillable as Iggy himself",[195] "with his own version of the dirty lyrics"[196] in 1965 as a member of the Iguanas. [94] It was the last No. Multiple live versions by Patti Smith, the "punk poet laureate",[212] were released in the mid-1970s on bootleg albums Let's Deodorize The Night, Teenage Perversity & Ships In The Night, In Heat, and Bicentenary Blues, usually as a medley in which Lou Reed's "Pale Blue Eyes" would "sacrilegiously segue" into "Louie Louie". [370], In 2015 Microsoft Messenger introduced the Zya Ditty app which allowed users to create short text-to-autotune music videos using a library of pre-licensed songs including "Louie Louie" and others. Last updated: May 13 2021. The John Belushi version is on the soundtrack album. Who sang Louie Louie song? Dave Marsh called it "the best of the era" and noted that he "rearranged it to suit his style" by adding a full horn section and "garbles the lyrics so completely that it seems likely he made up the verses on the spot" as he "sang a story that made sense in his life" (including making Louie a female). Entered chart September 16, 1999, for two weeks. A version of the song by The Fall with Jon on vocals appeared on the Live 1977 album which was described by Stewart Home as taking "the amateurism of the Kingsmen to its logical conclusion with grossly incompetent musicianship and a drummer who seems to be experiencing extreme difficulty simply keeping time". They were founded in Oldham, in September 1966 by bassist/vocalist Les Holroyd (b. Early video games with chiptune versions of "Louie Louie" included California Games and Donkey Konga. Released on regional Sand label in April 1963. "[201], Pop later wrote a new version with political and satirical verses instead of obscenities that was released on American Caesar in 1993. Catch a ship across the sea. The song's combination of narration and singing within a storytelling structure elicited a variety of critic's reactions ranging from "appealing"[264] and "imaginative adaptation"[261] to "probably the funkiest version of 'Louie Louie' ever recorded". It might be the most important rock song of all time. Louie Louie sung by The Kingsmen in either 1955 or 1963. Who played louie DePalma on taxi? One lyric in particular captured Pop's long term relationship with the song: "I think about the meaning of my life again, and I have to sing "Louie Louie" again. Am Dm Louie, Louie, Louie, Loo-ee. [54] Lewis, "the singularly most significant figure on the Pacific Northwest's nascent rhythm & blues scene in the 1950s and 1960s",[55] released a three chord clone, "David's Mood - Part 2", that was a regional hit in 1963. The Sonics released their "blistering makeover definitive punk arrangement"[36] as a 1965 single (Etiquette ET-23) and on the 1966 album Boom. Jack Ely, lead singer of The Kingsmen, who were best known for 1960s hit Louie Louie, has died at the age of 71. 3)), but not again until two Wammack compilations, That Scratchy Guitar From Memphis (1987) and Scr-Scr-Scratchy! [200] ("55 Minute Louie-Louie", released in 2017 by Shave on their High Alert digital album, commemorated the occasion.) 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I suppose it was taking the punk ethos to the extreme anyone can have a go. [285][286] As the Los Angeles Times noted, "Joe Roth obviously knows the importance of the "Louie Louie" lyric controversy".[287]. "Louie Louie" tells, in simple versechorus form, the first-person story of a Jamaican sailor returning to the island to see his lover. (Marsh, 1993, p. 116). Ely, however, missed his mark, coming in two bars too soon, before the restatement of the riff. hey! "[407] It regularly drew crowds in excess of 50,000, but was ultimately cancelled due to excessive rowdiness. The year 1988 also saw multiple rap and hip hop releases with "Louie Louie" sampling (see Use in sampling section below). This is my personal list of classic or remarkable versions of the many [i]Louie Louie[/i] covers, arranged chronologically. Entered chart May 14, 1966, for two weeks. But it's actually a cover of a song. 103 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. [227], In the film, the Deltas were clearly aping the Kingsmen version complete with slurred dirty lyrics, but the setting was 1962, a year before the Kingsmen recording. Released on: 1993-01-01 Producer. Louie Louie sung by The Kingsmen in either 1955 or 1963. Later with the Stooges and as a solo performer, he recorded multiple versions of the song. [47] "The influential rock critics Dave Marsh and Greil Marcus believe that virtually all punk rock can be traced back to a single proto-punk song, 'Louie Louie'. I never think I'll make it home. [Chorus] Louie, Louie Me gotta go Louie, Louie Me gotta go [Verse 1] Fine little girl she wait for me Me catch the ship for cross the sea I sail the ship all alone I never think I make it home In 1988, Michael Doucet released a "great vocal treatment"[322] of "Louie Louie" in Cajun French on the Michael Doucet and Cajun Brew album. Louie is the only triplet shown to get punished by his mom. Amused by its slapdash sound, he played it on his program as "The Worst Record of the Week". The Raiders also recorded Richard Berry's "Have Love, Will Travel", a "'Louie Louie' rewrite",[133] and "Louie, Go Home", an answer song penned by Lindsay and Revere after Berry declined their request for a "Louie Louie" follow-up,[134] as well as "Just Like Me", a "first cousin to 'Louie Louie'". [149], Biographer Johnny Rogan noted no "Louie Louie" influence, writing that Davies adapted an earlier piano riff to the jazz blues style of Mose Allison, and that he was further influenced by seeing Chuck Berry and Gerry Mulligan in Jazz on a Summer's Day, a 1958 film about the Newport Jazz Festival. The paper printed the lyrics in full, resolving the issue, and resulting in booking the Kingsmen for the fall homecoming entertainment. followed by a sax intro similar to the Rockin' Robin Roberts version (guitar in later releases). [268] Not all reaction was positive, however, as CD Review dismissed it as "blasphemy" and "disco-fied". [258][259] A live version of "Louie Louie", recorded by the band's 1985 lineup, was released on the live album Who's Got the 10?, with Rollins improvising his own lyrics.[260]. [343] In June 1965, the FBI laboratory obtained a copy of the Kingsmen recording and, after 31 months of investigation, concluded that it could not be interpreted, that it was unintelligible at any speed,[344] and therefore the Bureau could not find that the recording was obscene. [333], In January 1964, Indiana governor Matthew E. Welsh, acting on multiple complaint letters, determined the lyrics to be pornographic because his "ears tingled" when he listened to the record. As a quick fix, drummer Lynn Easton covered the pause with a drum fill. Sales estimates ranged from 40,000[31] to 130,000 copies. [387], April 6, 1963 The Kingsmen recorded the version that made "Louie Louie" famous. Not on the 1979 LP or 1993 CD reissue. "Back 2 Back", composed by Hideki Naganuma for Sonic Rush, borrows the "Louie Louie" riff for its main section. From the 2018 soundtrack album for Springsteen on Broadway (spoken intro to "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out"):[229]. The official lyrics are listed below in plain print, with one of the many alternative versions in italics. [412] The hotel is a block away from the site of the 1963 Kingsmen and Raiders recordings. The Kast Off Kinks continue to perform it live, occasionally joined by Ray Davies at the annual Kinks Konvention. "[336] In response, Max Feirtag of publisher Limax Music offered $1,000 to "anyone finding anything suggestive in the lyrics",[337] and Broadcasting magazine published the actual lyrics as provided by Limax. On September 5, 2013, the city of Portland dedicated a plaque at the site to commemorate the event. Louie often calls his oldest brother Huey "nerd". [376][377][378], In 1985, Ross Shafer, host and a writer-performer of the late-night comedy series Almost Live! [118] His "Louie Louie" guitar break has been called "iconic",[119] "blistering",[120] and "one of the most famous guitar solos of all time". 1948), guitarist/vocalist John Lees (b. Rock is primarily about longing. [102], Another factor in the success of the record may have been the rumor that the lyrics were intentionally slurred by the Kingsmento cover up lyrics that were allegedly laced with profanity, graphically depicting sex between the sailor and his lady. There were many covers of the song over the years since it was written. [18] Over the course of the investigation, a "folk legend of modern times that has yet to be bettered for sheer inanity",[36] the FBI interviewed Richard Berry, members of the Kingsmen, members of Paul Revere and the Raiders, and record company executives. Rogan also cited brother Dave Davies' distorted power chords as "the sonic contribution that transformed the composition" into a hit song. Released on regional Jerden label in April 1963. [381] After a spirited debate, the legislature ultimately preserved "Washington, My Home" as the state song while also adopting Woody Guthrie's "Roll On, Columbia, Roll On" as the official folk song. [81][87], First released in May 1963, the single was initially issued by the small Jerden label, before being picked up by the larger Wand Records in October 1963. [57], In 1959, Roberts left the Bluenotes and began singing with another local band, the Wailers, famed for their "hard-nosed R&B/rock fusion". They were huge fans of the Kingsmens "Louie Louie" and Dave Davies remembered the song inspiring Rays singing, saying in an interview:[151][152]. Everybody thinks that these white guys recorded it, but a black guy did this. s eye Lord up above Oowee Louie pie Mama Satan sat down on . ", both lifted from the Roberts version. Where can you hear the instrumental. Louie Louie Louie Louis Louie Louis Louie Loueye Louie Louie Louie Louis Louie Louie you're gonna die. Released as a single on the band's own label, Etiquette, in early 1961, it became a huge hit locally, charting at No. Other major examples of the song's legacy include the celebration of International Louie Louie Day every year on April 11; the annual Louie Louie Parade in Philadelphia from 1985 to 1989; the LouieFest in Tacoma from 2003 to 2012; the ongoing annual Louie Louie Street Party in Peoria; and the unsuccessful attempt in 1985 to make it the state song of Washington. [352] Marsh noted that the lyrics controversy "reflected the country's infantile sexuality" and "ensured the song's eternal perpetuation"; he also included multiple versions of the supposed "dirty lyrics".
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