@blackapril42 what did u expect? naked titties? ITS CALLED A RECORD! probably before your time. we used to communicate over wires too believe it or not! wasnt always point and click! LMFAO!
your record sounds warped. thanks for posting and everything, but IMO, when it comes to music, posting things with awful quality is often worse than not posting them at all.
@Thereyago21 Then listen to the second version of Louie louie by the Wailers from 1961. I white grup and they introduced the, "...give it to them" guitar solo. It is a real great version. They also had a real cool instrumental called "Tall Cool One" It was Rockin' Robin Roberts who found Berry's version in a used record bin and in recorded it with Seattle band, the Wailers in 1961. Btw, in early 1986, Berry's own publishing company successfully reclaimed most of the ownership of this song. ...
@Thereyago21 If you all want to know the story about this song, type in search: Who sang the original Louie Louie? (video by thecourtsmen) Yesterday I wrote like 10 fully comments like this one there. In short, according to Berry himself, "Louie Louie was about a sailor sitting at a bar, talking to the bartender about his girl back in Jamaica. He is pouring out his troubles to the bartender Louie. Berry says he was inspired by a latin band and Chucks 'Havana Moon', thus the lyrics "me gotta go"
I learn something new in the world of youtube virtually every day I didn't know this song was recorded back in 1957 and I don't even remember Richard Berry maybe because I was 8 years old at the time thanks for the posting wish the sound quality was better but I'm glad it's available at all
Opinions like crymethemoon's usually come from someone who never heard the original version, and most likely due to being younger, heard instead the more commercially successful versions, i.e. like the one The Kingsmen recorded. This has happened to probably all of us at one time or another. It's happened to me many times after hearing a song I loved, "covered" by someone else thinking it was not as good as the "original", then only to find out that it wasn't a cover, but the actual original.
In the late 60s and all through the 70s Richard played at the Century Room, Tip Top and several other clubs around L.A. He would open the Century Room at 7am after coming from an after hours club in Santa Ana and that was after his Sat. nite gig in L.A. Damn we had good drugs in those days.
Thank you very much for giving us the original version of Louie Louie. Now that I know it, It strikes me that every cover is better than the original. Even the one of Black Flag.
RIGHT ON!!! Take it from me, there ain't NO version better than this one...and this IS the ORIGINAL. I was playin' drums in Seattle when this song was popular and The Wailers with Rockin'Robin Roberts, Paul Revere and The Raiders, The Kingsmen, The Feelies,The Sonics and many other Northwestern U.S.Bands had versions of this song...But I LOVE this version!!!! Thanks,GeorgeClarkDrummer/Drumputz
what? sex? poon? mag? cover? original? wtf are you going on about?
lol.. seeing as you brought sex into it, how much have you been getting if you're replying to a 2 month old YouTube comment?
There is no need to slag Chuck Berry's cover in order to support Richard Berry's original. I make this point and everyone comes at me. You like the original? Great. Chuck made a cover. Made the original more famous too.
Living in the U.K. I did not hear it,but when I saw a t.v. program about Richard Berry's great song Louie Louie,a radio station in the USA had played the song for 24 hours and everyone by different artiststs.Classic!
Wow, I must be a music illogical square do well. I can hear all the influence of this singer songwriter on the '63 Beach Boy's cover version cover of his tune. It is elegant as all get out. I dig the "50's Do Wop via Jamaica style. It is audio seasoning, Man! Real Caribbean jerk.
look i dont like this version im sorry. i know its the original but sometimes songs belong to other people. like " the kingsmen" they rock this song out. we all have our opionions so if any of you disagree with me i could care less im not gonna argue with you over the comment box like mrblues and love logic guy. like why do you guys talk like elegant people seriously its sickening and you guys like rock n roll and talk like that you guys most be real squares.
That's crap logic. I love the song Boy Named Sue. Johnny Cash does a fantastic job. Considered by most to be the definitive version. That is until I heard Shel Silverstein's version. He wrote the song. Only he knows how it is supposed to sound.
@crymethemoon And as for people talking "elegantly," perhaps some people prefer to speak and type using proper English, and even if they do it doesn't mean they can't like whatever kind of music they like.
@crymethemoon u dont have 2 like it to appreciate its simplicity. Kingsmen ripped it off! But turned it into a classic! and all along, i thought it was an original. but look at songs like Clapton Crossroads. capitalized and made millions on a dead legend. What i find really sickening is rappers ripping off bits and pieces of REAL music, (like this) mixing shit on top, havin the balls 2 call it "music" &claiming it 4 their own. Anyone can crap on a masterpiece. & people just eat it up! go figure!
Richard Berry, this is the original version. Back in the 60s bands would take R&B tunes and reformat them to be rock tunes. The Kingsmen just happened to popularize this particular song even though it had been done before. Most notably by Paul Revere and The Raiders who actually recorded the same song in the same studio a couple days prior to the Kingsmen
As a youngster I recall the original Louie Louie by Richard Berry. While it wasn't a major hit, it was well known and remembered by the great majority of the R&B community. It is noted that it didn't receive national airplay as it was restricted to R&B radio stations. I 'm certain that the Kingsmens version is a nod to the original. I liked the Kingsmen version, however, no Richard Berry, no Kingsmen. The original belongs to my generation and will be remembered as it was.
this was the 1st version i heard of this song. I luckily inherited a stack of 45's from relatives back in the 1960's. This is so superior to that frat band versio!
Dwight Rounds, author of The Year The Music Died, 1964-1972, writes: "The words to Louie, Louie are almost impossible to understand, and are rumored to be obscene.
He's right. If it hadn't been for the kingsmen, you would never have heard of this song. So crawl back into your shitty little apartment and play with your cat or yourself, numbnuts
Did this band record anything else, what year is this from. Wonder how the kings men heard this, who do they credit the composition to on there version.
Interesting to here but i think that the kingsmen play this better than any othr#er band ive heard.
The 1963 version by the Kingsmen was so hot on the College campuses, high school bands play it at football games, juke boxes, elevator music versions, everywhere!! people just assumed the kingsmen were the originals. another thing about lyric, they are written about a west indian character with the patois written in the lyrics. not Vulgar, that's just added to the folklore and hyped sales. written in the 50s, everything was vulgar if not sung by Pat Boone orpattie Paige. Lol!!
Paying respect to the original and honouring its place in musical history doesn't have to mean that covers ought to be disrespected, let alone an entire band who did a cover.
I say this because of your previous comments: I've put it nicely. Feel free to have the last word if you want it. Everyone can decide for themselves.
I don't agree so much as to include all covers, not all covers are good. I'm 59, I first heard Kingsmen as a teenager, that led me to the Richard Berry piece. I became a fan of Berrys for life. I even appered on the same shows at local revues in Los Angeles( Dooto's)
Its one thing to not like a cover or prefer the original. Its quite another to then say something like quote "Fuck the Kingsmen". Blacksheeparty said it twice in two comments. That is the point I was making.
Add to that the fact that, in this case, you, me and many others came to Richard Berry's original through the Kingsmen's cover and I say to myself, hold on, take it easy. Thats the point I was making.
When I first wrote this post I didn't see the post where he said F the Kingsmen. Richard didnot say F anybody, he wound up as sole owner of the rights to Louie Louie. he had battles with his original record company, trying to rip him off of his royalties. like most record cos. were doing to the black artist at the time.
One of the reasons for liberation from more racist ascap, and the emergence of BMI. record company were the biggest crooks on publishing rights and royalties.
i GREW UP IN LA where Richard Berry was and he received a lot of play in LA, but Allan Freed controlled the east coast radio and concert venus for Rock &Roll late 50s. No pay, No Play. every garage band that had an old piano and guitar played this first, it easy chords and simple changes. Lyrics were the important thing for collecting money, lots of bands stole each others "Hooks"
From what I am reading, this seems to be nothing more than a big mix-up. My original comment was directed at blacksheeparty. I wasn't commenting on Richard Berry or the 50s music scene. To be clear, the only reason I typed anything in the first place was to say to blacksheeparty, "no need to curse about The Kingsmen".
When I said "good for you to...experiences", it wasn't to dismiss you. The opposite! It was an attempt to acknowledge the information you brought in.
If I've come off sounding snotty towards you though, please, accept my apologies. You are far more knowledgeable about 50s music in the USA than what I am.
Now that you mention Alan Freed, I vaguely remember seeing a movie "The Alan Freed Story" (1999) with Judd Nelson. You may want to see it if you haven't already. As I said though, you clearly know more about it than what I do
This comment has received too many negative votesshow
first time i heard that annoying song was in Takoma Washington by a local group.
The kids went wild and so did the soldiers who frequented it. Came home and that song hits and for months had to endure that nerve racking song. and to this day,,,,i have no idea what the hell they sing about.
no way, i thought louie louie was like "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOO LOUIE LOUIE, We gota go.." something like that, but now i know, and its such a hit people did covers for it, wow :)
Never even heard this one before. All this time I thought the Kingsmen's version was the original. Have to say I still like there's the best though. I guess a lot of one's preferences is just whatever you grew up with.
Great original song which I had heard before! Nice to hear it from a 45 rpm. Check out my videos if like to hear rare stuff and original recordings! Greetings! MAPO :)
The actual basis of this song was not Richard Berry... He did a "clean" adaptation of the song, and essentially stole and rewrote it.
Philsco 7 months ago
WOW I HAD NO CLUE THIS EXISTED. I NEED AN ORIGINAL.
1234HELLBOUND 7 months ago
PEOPLE ONLY LIKE WHAT THEY ARE FAMILIAR WITH WHICH TELLS ME THEIR MIND ARE LIMITED. OPEN YOUR MIND PEOPLE. ORIGINALS ARE ALWAYS THE MOST POWERFUL!
rdatlasmbrd 8 months ago
This is the best version of this song. I love it!
BFCP4647 9 months ago
wow the video sucks but the song doesent :D
blackapril42 10 months ago
@blackapril42 what did u expect? naked titties? ITS CALLED A RECORD! probably before your time. we used to communicate over wires too believe it or not! wasnt always point and click! LMFAO!
hevy99 2 days ago
your record sounds warped. thanks for posting and everything, but IMO, when it comes to music, posting things with awful quality is often worse than not posting them at all.
Roselynde 11 months ago
@Roselynde
This song is great no mather its "sound quality", but i cant wait for the crystal clear original pressing you found? :)
badmuts12345 10 months ago
This and the Kingsmen's versions are both great! Just different...
Thereyago21 11 months ago
@Thereyago21 Then listen to the second version of Louie louie by the Wailers from 1961. I white grup and they introduced the, "...give it to them" guitar solo. It is a real great version. They also had a real cool instrumental called "Tall Cool One" It was Rockin' Robin Roberts who found Berry's version in a used record bin and in recorded it with Seattle band, the Wailers in 1961. Btw, in early 1986, Berry's own publishing company successfully reclaimed most of the ownership of this song. ...
bellgardens53 7 months ago
@Thereyago21 If you all want to know the story about this song, type in search: Who sang the original Louie Louie? (video by thecourtsmen) Yesterday I wrote like 10 fully comments like this one there. In short, according to Berry himself, "Louie Louie was about a sailor sitting at a bar, talking to the bartender about his girl back in Jamaica. He is pouring out his troubles to the bartender Louie. Berry says he was inspired by a latin band and Chucks 'Havana Moon', thus the lyrics "me gotta go"
bellgardens53 7 months ago
When I was growing up in the '60's, Everybody played this song!
supsailor1885 11 months ago
I learn something new in the world of youtube virtually every day I didn't know this song was recorded back in 1957 and I don't even remember Richard Berry maybe because I was 8 years old at the time thanks for the posting wish the sound quality was better but I'm glad it's available at all
elamite66 1 year ago
it sounds like your turntable is running a bit too fast ...? its a wee bit slower this version..???
accumulatortechs 1 year ago
Hear a direct recording and 78 rpm pic at SRERCRCR
srercrcr 1 year ago
I had no idea there was an original. I like it!
L1S91 1 year ago
HANK GREEN SENT ME HERE.
Globaliterate 1 year ago
@Globaliterate me 2!=]
anotheraccount420 1 year ago
i like the versions from the kinks and motorhead more
ACDCSchlund 1 year ago
In true monophonics.
journeyquest1 1 year ago
If it wasn't voted the state song of Washington then what song was?
KoivuTheHab 1 year ago
good old stuff.
Susamusic 1 year ago
the kingsmen aint got nothing on richard berry....love this on flip thx
ollieveenme 1 year ago
da da da...da da...da da da...da da
Corbon440 1 year ago
I like this version best. I did not know it was the original till I read the comments, I always thought it was the kingsmen.
IndigOcean 1 year ago
department store music...
PyneappleExpress 1 year ago
Opinions like crymethemoon's usually come from someone who never heard the original version, and most likely due to being younger, heard instead the more commercially successful versions, i.e. like the one The Kingsmen recorded. This has happened to probably all of us at one time or another. It's happened to me many times after hearing a song I loved, "covered" by someone else thinking it was not as good as the "original", then only to find out that it wasn't a cover, but the actual original.
Alejandroenfuego 1 year ago
@totoofze47
It also bears a minor resemblance to South Park.
dogtransport 1 year ago
In the late 60s and all through the 70s Richard played at the Century Room, Tip Top and several other clubs around L.A. He would open the Century Room at 7am after coming from an after hours club in Santa Ana and that was after his Sat. nite gig in L.A. Damn we had good drugs in those days.
konagoat 1 year ago
Best party song of all time.It used to be that every garage band of the 60's did this.
trailertrash61 1 year ago
Brilliant version.
flimbambo 1 year ago
I heard nicer music coming out of a dogs arse.
TheWolvie450 1 year ago
@TheWolvie450 thats always bound to happen if you are always next to a dogs ass
roborat91 1 year ago
Hi Gjazz22,
Thank you very much for giving us the original version of Louie Louie. Now that I know it, It strikes me that every cover is better than the original. Even the one of Black Flag.
emeraldriedl 1 year ago
RIGHT ON!!! Take it from me, there ain't NO version better than this one...and this IS the ORIGINAL. I was playin' drums in Seattle when this song was popular and The Wailers with Rockin'Robin Roberts, Paul Revere and The Raiders, The Kingsmen, The Feelies,The Sonics and many other Northwestern U.S.Bands had versions of this song...But I LOVE this version!!!! Thanks,GeorgeClarkDrummer/Drumputz
drumputz 1 year ago
@totoofze47 good catch
chunkymilk 1 year ago
coffee and cigarettes anyone?
chunkymilk 1 year ago
@chunkymilk yep, coffee and cigarrettes just ended :-)
Suchoprd 1 year ago
@Suchoprd or started?
chunkymilk 1 year ago
Frank Zappa on the Great Albert Hall Pipe Organ!
SubliminalAttraction 1 year ago
that's the same record player i use to have.
FutureSimpsons 1 year ago
Am I right in thinking that this sound a lot like a song by The Beach Boys???
maninthebushes 1 year ago
@bugsycline,
what? sex? poon? mag? cover? original? wtf are you going on about?
lol.. seeing as you brought sex into it, how much have you been getting if you're replying to a 2 month old YouTube comment?
There is no need to slag Chuck Berry's cover in order to support Richard Berry's original. I make this point and everyone comes at me. You like the original? Great. Chuck made a cover. Made the original more famous too.
Get over it!
LoveHeartLogicHead 1 year ago
let's not forget the flip side "you are my sunshine"
My favorite part of this record is how the band almost sounds a little drunk.
almost like the groove could fall apart at any moment.... great stuff
oh yeah, Fuck the Kingsmen.
Berry's is the only version.
real rock and roll!
bugsycline 1 year ago
Living in the U.K. I did not hear it,but when I saw a t.v. program about Richard Berry's great song Louie Louie,a radio station in the USA had played the song for 24 hours and everyone by different artiststs.Classic!
stuckin59 1 year ago
I knew this original before the Kingsmen did theirs. I prefer the original, but like the later one. Hopefully Richard got paid.
srercrcr 1 year ago
Wow, I must be a music illogical square do well. I can hear all the influence of this singer songwriter on the '63 Beach Boy's cover version cover of his tune. It is elegant as all get out. I dig the "50's Do Wop via Jamaica style. It is audio seasoning, Man! Real Caribbean jerk.
PyritePete 1 year ago
It was great to hear the song at half time in San Jose yesterday when the Washington Huskies broke in to the sweeet sixteen.
gjazz22 1 year ago
this is the essence of music and the soul ..., mp3, mp4 and "mp10", none of this matters if you have the essence of sound in the soul.
carminha74 2 years ago
look i dont like this version im sorry. i know its the original but sometimes songs belong to other people. like " the kingsmen" they rock this song out. we all have our opionions so if any of you disagree with me i could care less im not gonna argue with you over the comment box like mrblues and love logic guy. like why do you guys talk like elegant people seriously its sickening and you guys like rock n roll and talk like that you guys most be real squares.
crymethemoon 2 years ago 2
@crymethemoon As U say I respect different opinions..
But are U not happy to hear it , so that U can decide?
Im from Seattle but I like the original of any thing..
gjazz22 2 years ago 2
@gjazz22 I read that they found Richard Perry living in a one room shack to tell him his song was a hit. Did he receive royalties?
ronnelson82 1 year ago
@gjazz22 BTW I like all versions
ronnelson82 1 year ago
@crymethemoon
That's crap logic. I love the song Boy Named Sue. Johnny Cash does a fantastic job. Considered by most to be the definitive version. That is until I heard Shel Silverstein's version. He wrote the song. Only he knows how it is supposed to sound.
DFWDan 1 year ago
@crymethemoon
the kingsmen version is pretty god but in my opinion the sonics version is the best
sacrifyce4 1 year ago
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sacrifyce4 1 year ago
@crymethemoon square?
ShanieSuperBoy 1 year ago
@crymethemoon
I like your comment
emeraldriedl 1 year ago
@crymethemoon I totally agree with you
emeraldriedl 1 year ago
@crymethemoon That'sbecause you prefer pop to soul.
doowopbruce 1 year ago
@crymethemoon have u heard the wailers version? kingsmen blew. just as bad as the beach boys.
Stanger182 1 year ago
@crymethemoon And as for people talking "elegantly," perhaps some people prefer to speak and type using proper English, and even if they do it doesn't mean they can't like whatever kind of music they like.
RickenbackerBeatles 1 year ago 3
@RickenbackerBeatles
Agreed.
And music should unite people, no matter how those people speak.
GenieBella 1 year ago
@RickenbackerBeatles AMEN! +++
hevy99 2 days ago
@crymethemoon the phrase is " I couldn't care less" not I could cares less. Also, use punctuation moron.
rickatl 1 year ago
@crymethemoon who calls a person a "square" anymore.
DocSicnarf 10 months ago
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sparky1too 8 months ago
@crymethemoon u dont have 2 like it to appreciate its simplicity. Kingsmen ripped it off! But turned it into a classic! and all along, i thought it was an original. but look at songs like Clapton Crossroads. capitalized and made millions on a dead legend. What i find really sickening is rappers ripping off bits and pieces of REAL music, (like this) mixing shit on top, havin the balls 2 call it "music" &claiming it 4 their own. Anyone can crap on a masterpiece. & people just eat it up! go figure!
hevy99 2 days ago
Who wrote that song?
Polde1243 2 years ago
Richard Berry, this is the original version. Back in the 60s bands would take R&B tunes and reformat them to be rock tunes. The Kingsmen just happened to popularize this particular song even though it had been done before. Most notably by Paul Revere and The Raiders who actually recorded the same song in the same studio a couple days prior to the Kingsmen
phunkyfonz 2 years ago
Great! Thanks.
Polde1243 2 years ago
Teach on that!! finally!! ala, Chuck Berry tunes , remixed and stolen by Beach Boys, undisputed!!
MrBlues2jazz 2 years ago
Richard Berry did. I think this song holds a record for the most recorded tune
MrBlues2jazz 2 years ago
Reminds me of those small 10 buck Jap reel to reel tape recorders back in the early 60's.
53moreHP 2 years ago
This is indeed the original Sountrack of
"Louie Louie!" I know this well, because I used to play the Tenor Sax to start this song off, at High-School Basketball & Football games.
BlkIndianMale49 2 years ago
Different, but also good.
Rahimo 2 years ago
qiero ese disco!!!
nebardo8 2 years ago
As a youngster I recall the original Louie Louie by Richard Berry. While it wasn't a major hit, it was well known and remembered by the great majority of the R&B community. It is noted that it didn't receive national airplay as it was restricted to R&B radio stations. I 'm certain that the Kingsmens version is a nod to the original. I liked the Kingsmen version, however, no Richard Berry, no Kingsmen. The original belongs to my generation and will be remembered as it was.
sameeh109 2 years ago 2
Good story.
lennardg 2 years ago
this was the 1st version i heard of this song. I luckily inherited a stack of 45's from relatives back in the 1960's. This is so superior to that frat band versio!
christophergenovese 2 years ago
hey thanks for posting this...i've never heard this original version....and although i love the kingsmen version...i love this one as well :)
ZAPDUNGAA 2 years ago
Dwight Rounds, author of The Year The Music Died, 1964-1972, writes: "The words to Louie, Louie are almost impossible to understand, and are rumored to be obscene.
000266617 2 years ago
I dig any version of this song from Richard's to the Kingsmen to...whomever. One of the greatest rock songs of all time bar none.
timmy841212 2 years ago 4
He's right. If it hadn't been for the kingsmen, you would never have heard of this song. So crawl back into your shitty little apartment and play with your cat or yourself, numbnuts
smokiebird06 2 years ago 3
Did this band record anything else, what year is this from. Wonder how the kings men heard this, who do they credit the composition to on there version.
Interesting to here but i think that the kingsmen play this better than any othr#er band ive heard.
modernistify 2 years ago
The 1963 version by the Kingsmen was so hot on the College campuses, high school bands play it at football games, juke boxes, elevator music versions, everywhere!! people just assumed the kingsmen were the originals. another thing about lyric, they are written about a west indian character with the patois written in the lyrics. not Vulgar, that's just added to the folklore and hyped sales. written in the 50s, everything was vulgar if not sung by Pat Boone orpattie Paige. Lol!!
MrBlues2jazz 2 years ago
more folks need to recognise this original version of the cut...
fuck the kingsmen...
you wanna sell this wonderful 45?
I'll buy
blacksheeparty 2 years ago 2
fuck you the kingsmen made this song what it is today!. i bet you only knew this through the kingsmen!
clashboy1977 2 years ago
I own the 78....
mine isn't warped like the 45 spinning.
although the cut still has that "wobbeling" sound any way....
and yes, Fuck the Kingsmen
blacksheeparty 2 years ago
blacksheeparty,
Paying respect to the original and honouring its place in musical history doesn't have to mean that covers ought to be disrespected, let alone an entire band who did a cover.
I say this because of your previous comments: I've put it nicely. Feel free to have the last word if you want it. Everyone can decide for themselves.
Regards.
LoveHeartLogicHead 2 years ago
I don't agree so much as to include all covers, not all covers are good. I'm 59, I first heard Kingsmen as a teenager, that led me to the Richard Berry piece. I became a fan of Berrys for life. I even appered on the same shows at local revues in Los Angeles( Dooto's)
MrBlues2jazz 2 years ago
@MrBlues2jazz,
Its one thing to not like a cover or prefer the original. Its quite another to then say something like quote "Fuck the Kingsmen". Blacksheeparty said it twice in two comments. That is the point I was making.
Add to that the fact that, in this case, you, me and many others came to Richard Berry's original through the Kingsmen's cover and I say to myself, hold on, take it easy. Thats the point I was making.
Good for you to have had those experiences.
Regards.
LoveHeartLogicHead 2 years ago
When I first wrote this post I didn't see the post where he said F the Kingsmen. Richard didnot say F anybody, he wound up as sole owner of the rights to Louie Louie. he had battles with his original record company, trying to rip him off of his royalties. like most record cos. were doing to the black artist at the time.
One of the reasons for liberation from more racist ascap, and the emergence of BMI. record company were the biggest crooks on publishing rights and royalties.
MrBlues2jazz 2 years ago
let me ask you, when you have sex, do you want it to be with a magazine or a real girl?
cause me, I'll take the poon over the mag any day...
much like I'll take the original over the cover anyday.
real is always better than a fake.
bugsycline 1 year ago
You seem like AN ASSHOLE AND KNOW NOTHING.. WHAT'S YOUR QUALIFICATIONS??
MrBlues2jazz 2 years ago
i GREW UP IN LA where Richard Berry was and he received a lot of play in LA, but Allan Freed controlled the east coast radio and concert venus for Rock &Roll late 50s. No pay, No Play. every garage band that had an old piano and guitar played this first, it easy chords and simple changes. Lyrics were the important thing for collecting money, lots of bands stole each others "Hooks"
MrBlues2jazz 2 years ago
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MrBlues2jazz,
From what I am reading, this seems to be nothing more than a big mix-up. My original comment was directed at blacksheeparty. I wasn't commenting on Richard Berry or the 50s music scene. To be clear, the only reason I typed anything in the first place was to say to blacksheeparty, "no need to curse about The Kingsmen".
When I said "good for you to...experiences", it wasn't to dismiss you. The opposite! It was an attempt to acknowledge the information you brought in.
LoveHeartLogicHead 2 years ago
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If I've come off sounding snotty towards you though, please, accept my apologies. You are far more knowledgeable about 50s music in the USA than what I am.
Now that you mention Alan Freed, I vaguely remember seeing a movie "The Alan Freed Story" (1999) with Judd Nelson. You may want to see it if you haven't already. As I said though, you clearly know more about it than what I do
My best wishes.
LoveHeartLogicHead 2 years ago
Well did he get the money , royalties aside from the recognition?
wovokanarchy 2 years ago
Toot's & the Maytals version is still the best...
No one sings with so much soul!
elementmarsu 2 years ago
I gotta say wow, don't like this one, love the remakes of it by every band who's done it, but wow...this is pretty bland.
Not enough music goin' on here, just duh duh duh "few guitar chords", duh duh....
Sounds like they were trying to make a
"Lazy rock" genre, lol
monkeylad44 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
first time i heard that annoying song was in Takoma Washington by a local group.
The kids went wild and so did the soldiers who frequented it. Came home and that song hits and for months had to endure that nerve racking song. and to this day,,,,i have no idea what the hell they sing about.
emb1st 2 years ago
Can't stop laughing. You were suppose to dance to that. lol.
Beingreal40 3 years ago
Me too. Especially I love to dance to the Doors version. Or Iggy Pop version.
marakas0 2 years ago
Motörhead's and the Kinks' versions are lovely too.
marakas0 2 years ago 11
motorhead sucks dong
ROSSMC20 2 years ago
I didn't know the Doors did this song. I thought I had all all their albums.
tamspeci 2 years ago
no way, i thought louie louie was like "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOO LOUIE LOUIE, We gota go.." something like that, but now i know, and its such a hit people did covers for it, wow :)
Trapmaker677 3 years ago 2
Never even heard this one before. All this time I thought the Kingsmen's version was the original. Have to say I still like there's the best though. I guess a lot of one's preferences is just whatever you grew up with.
arcturus33333 3 years ago 2
u aint heard the sonics? or the demo for this version on piano only... man! u missin out! check em out
gunsanddrugs 2 years ago
Sould've been the State song of WA!!!!!!!!
DanielVolker 3 years ago
nice vinyl sound :)
walrusLt 3 years ago
best song ever
IISUICIDEII 3 years ago 3
this is almost....doo-wap!
LeoHareMusic 3 years ago
It became later Futurama's song
vincenglish 3 years ago 2
ive heard theres around 300 covers of this song
Domwith5ms 3 years ago
Wiki says 1,500 covers (most probably an improvement on the original...)
jh271055 3 years ago
The original one was a hit although minor. This verison has a nice Caribean flavor like the song it came from "Havana Moon" by Chuck Berry.
No improvement was needed. Only if the other versions had rhythm.
Nat1831 3 years ago
has NO one heard tina turner's version?
chiarosol 3 years ago
tina has a version? wow I bet it rocks
BluesInMySoul 3 years ago
it's fantastic! and as a very very strange coincidence, i'm listening to it right now..!
chiarosol 3 years ago
thank goodness for the kingsmen! they turned it to a classic!
paolorossifan2006 3 years ago 2
What kind of turntable is that?
RickenbackerBeatles 3 years ago
Frank Zappa did a ver. on the Royal albert hall pipe organ
I think Don preston????? on the Uncle Meat Album.....
gjazz22 3 years ago
There is a reference to it in one of (Deep Purple's) live albums, Made in Japan. Let me find the track.
gumbitha 3 years ago
Plastic Peopleeee
HordaRural 3 years ago
Plastic People...sorry, Louie Louie's the best! :-)
AlexakaRosco 3 years ago
he also did a song called'have love,will travel'which was a wee bit like this one...
renofirvine 3 years ago
nice, never heard the original version before.
futbolt 3 years ago
Still the BEST version!
CrudeDude 4 years ago 3
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Led Zeppelins' is better.
physicalgrafiti12345 3 years ago
I didn't know LZ did Louie Louie! Cool! What's it on?
CrudeDude 3 years ago
search the nobs louie louie its from a live album called how the west was won.
physicalgrafiti12345 3 years ago
A led zeppelin's cover???you mean a small part of the dazed and confused version???
clecre 3 years ago
No they played the whole thing not in a medely like I said search the nobs louie louie it is on there.
physicalgrafiti12345 3 years ago
Great original song which I had heard before! Nice to hear it from a 45 rpm. Check out my videos if like to hear rare stuff and original recordings! Greetings! MAPO :)
mapo69 4 years ago