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Working with local radio station WCOL, a letter was sent to Wand Records requesting a copy of the lyrics. Jim Morrison's first vocal performance on stage was "Louie Louie" in 1965 with Rick and the Ravens (with Ray Manzarek) at the Turkey Joint West in Santa Monica. Ely, a former vocalist of the Portland garage-rock band the Kingsmen, passed away at his home in Oregon last week. Leon Russell, "pumping chords all the way through" as a session player on The Top-40 Song Book, a 1964 singalong album by arranger H.

Another actor from the film, DeWayne Jessie as Otis Day of Otis Day and the Knights, included a version on the VHS release Otis My Man in 1987. It wasn’t until 1963, when the band The Kingsmen recorded their rock and roll version, that it gained nationwide notoriety. The Wailers, Little Bill and the Bluenotes, the Frantics, Tiny Tony and the Statics, Merrilee and the Turnabouts, and other local groups soon added the song to their set lists.The paper printed the lyrics in full, resolving the issue, and resulting in booking the Kingsmen for the fall homecoming entertainment.

Their rendition was also one of the first to deliberately duplicate the Jack Ely early vocal re-entry mistake after the bridge. Ry Cooder, live in 1990 at a Village Music function with Richard Berry, Tim Drummond, Scott Mathews, Steve Douglas, and Johnnie Johnson.The song's combination of narration and singing within a storytelling structure elicited a variety of reactions ranging from "appealing" [278] and "imaginative adaptation" [275] to "probably the funkiest version of 'Louie Louie' ever recorded". The legend of the Kingsmen’s “Louie Louie” has been told almost as many times as the song itself has been covered.

Then it started sliding down the charts, leaving the Kingsmen as yet another of the local bands who hit nationally once, before fading into obscurity. Joan Jett said of producer Neil Bogart's insistence that she record "Louie Louie", "This was a song that I did not want to do . He informed the Bureau that no, he wasn't – as had been alleged by politicians and outraged parents – a subversive intent on corrupting the country's youth.You can picture agents slowly going nuts as they desperately struggle to pin something, anything, dirty on the lyrics, regardless of whether or not that something makes any sense or actually features in the lyric.