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Louie Louie

"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. The song is based on the tune "El Loco Cha Cha" popularized by bandleader René Touzet and is an example of Afro-Cuban influence on American popular music.

"Louie Louie"
Single by Richard Berry
A-sideYou Are My Sunshine[1][2]
Written1955
ReleasedApril 1957 (1957-04)
Recorded1956
StudioHollywood Recorders
GenreRhythm and blues
Length2:09
LabelFlip
Songwriter(s)Richard Berry
Richard Berry singles chronology
"Take The Key"
(1956)
"Louie Louie"
(1957)
"Sweet Sugar You"
(1957)

"Louie Louie" tells, in simple verse–chorus form, the first-person story of a Jamaican sailor returning to the island to see his lover.

Historical significance

The "remarkable historical impact"[3] of "Louie Louie" has been recognized by organizations and publications worldwide for its influence on the history of rock and roll. A partial list (see Recognition and rankings table below) includes the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Grammy Hall of Fame, National Public Radio, VH1, Rolling Stone Magazine, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Recording Industry Association of America. 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.

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".[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."[6] Rock critic Greil Marcus called it "a law of nature"[7] and New York Times music critic Jon Pareles, writing in a 1997 obituary for Richard Berry, termed it "a cornerstone of rock".[8] Other writers described it as "musically simple, lyrically simple, and joyously infectious",[9] "deliciously moronic",[10] "a completely unforgettable earworm",[11] and "the essence of rock's primal energy".[12] Others noted that it "served as a bridge to the R&B of the past and the rap scene of the future",[13] that "it came to symbolize the garage rock genre, where the typical performance was often aggressive and usually amateurish",[14] and that "all you need to make a great rock 'n' roll record are the chords to 'Louie Louie' and a bad attitude."[15] Humorist Dave Barry (perhaps with some exaggeration) called it "one of the greatest songs in the history of the world".[16]

The Kingsmen's recording was the subject of an FBI investigation about the supposed, but nonexistent, obscenity of the lyrics that ended without prosecution.[17] The nearly unintelligible (and innocuous) lyrics were widely misinterpreted, and the song was banned by radio stations. Marsh wrote that the lyrics controversy "reflected the country's infantile sexuality" and "ensured the song's eternal perpetuation",[18] while another writer termed it "the ultimate expression of youthful rebellion".[19] Jacob McMurray in Taking Punk To The Masses noted, "All of this only fueled the popularity of the song ... imprinting this grunge ur-message onto successive generations of youth, ... all of whom amplified and rebroadcast its powerful sonic meme ...."[20]

Original version by Richard Berry and the Pharaohs

Richard Berry was inspired to write the song in 1955 after listening to an R&B interpretation of "El Loco Cha Cha" performed by the Latin R&B group Ricky Rillera and the Rhythm Rockers.[21] The tune was written originally as "Amarren Al Loco" ("Tie Up the Madman") by Cuban bandleader Rosendo Ruiz Jr., also known as Rosendo Ruiz Quevedo, but became best known in the "El Loco Cha Cha" arrangement by René Touzet which included a ten-note "1-2-3 1–2 1-2-3 1–2" tumbao or rhythmic pattern.[22][23]

 
"Louie Louie" 10-note riff

In Berry's mind, the words "Louie Louie" "just kind of fell out of the sky",[21] superimposing themselves over the repeating bassline. Lyrically, the first person perspective of the song was influenced by "One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)," which is sung from the perspective of a customer talking to a bartender ("Louie" was the name of Berry's bartender).[24] Berry cited Chuck Berry's "Havana Moon" and his exposure to Latin American music for the song's speech pattern and references to Jamaica.[25]

Los Angeles-based Flip Records recorded Berry's adaptation with his vocal group the Pharaohs in 1956 and released it in April 1957 as a single B-side of "You Are My Sunshine".[26] The Pharaohs were Godoy Colbert (first tenor), Stanley Henderson (second tenor, subbing for Robert Harris), and Noel Collins (baritone). Gloria Jones of the Dreamers provided additional backup vocals. Session musicians included Plas Johnson on tenor sax, Jewel Grant on baritone sax, Ernie Freeman on piano, Irving Ashby on guitar, Red Callender on bass, Ray Martinez on drums, and John Anderson on trumpet.[27][28]

Just prior to the song's release, Berry sold his portion of the publishing and songwriting rights for "Louie Louie" and four other songs for $750 to Max Feirtag, the head of Flip Records, to raise cash for his upcoming wedding.[21][29] The single was a regional hit on the West Coast, particularly in San Francisco, and when Berry toured the Pacific Northwest, local R&B bands began to play the song, increasing its popularity. The song was re-released by Flip in 1961 as an A-side single and again in 1964 on a four-song EP, but never appeared on any of the various record charts. The label reported that the single had sold 40,000 copies.

Other versions appeared on Casino Club Presents Richard Berry (1966), Great Rhythm and Blues Oldies Volume 12 (1977), The Best of Louie, Louie (1983), and In Session: Great Rhythm & Blues (2002). Although similar to the original, the version on Rhino's 1983 The Best of Louie, Louie compilation[30] is actually a note-for-note re-recording (with backup vocals by doo wop revival group Big Daddy)[31] created because licensing could not be obtained for Berry's 1957 version.[32][7] The original version was not legitimately re-released until the Ace Records Love That Louie compilation in 2002.[33]

While the title of the song is often rendered with a comma ("Louie, Louie"), in 1988, Berry told Esquire magazine that the correct title of the song was "Louie Louie" with no comma.[21]

Cover versions

"Louie Louie" is the world's most recorded rock song, with published estimates ranging from over 1,600[6] to more than 2,000.[34] 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. Peter Doggett labeled it "almost impossible to play badly"[35] and Greil Marcus proclaimed, "Has there ever been a bad version of 'Louie Louie'?"[36]

The Kingsmen version in particular has been cited as the "rosetta stone" of garage rock,[37] the defining "ur-text" of punk rock,[38][39] and "the original grunge classic".[40] "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'."[41]

1950s

Richard Berry was on the underbill for a concert in the Seattle-Tacoma area in September 1957 and his record appeared on local radio station charts in November 1957.[42] 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.[43][44]

Holden recorded an unreleased version, backed by the Thunderbirds, for the Nite Owl label in 1959.[45] As a leader of the "dirty but cool" Seattle R&B sound,[46] he would often substitute mumbled, "somewhat pornographic" lyrics in live performances.[47] Lewis, "the singularly most significant figure on the Pacific Northwest's nascent rhythm & blues scene in the 1950s and 1960s",[48] released a three chord clone, "David's Mood - Part 2", that was a regional hit in 1963.

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.[49]

1960s

Rockin' Robin Roberts and the Wailers (1961)

"Louie Louie"
 
Single by Rockin' Robin Roberts
B-side"Maryanne"
Released1961 (1961)
Recorded1960
Genre
Length2:40
LabelEtiquette

Robin Roberts developed an interest in rock 'n' roll and rhythm and blues records as a high school student in Tacoma, Washington. Among the songs he began performing as an occasional guest singer with a local band, the Bluenotes, in 1958 were "Louie Louie", which he had heard on Berry's obscure original single, and Bobby Day's "Rockin' Robin", which gave him his stage name.[50]

In 1959, Roberts left the Bluenotes and began singing with another local band, the Wailers, famed for their "hard-nosed R&B/rock fusion".[51] Known for his dynamic onstage performances, Roberts added "Louie Louie" to the band's set and, in 1960 recorded the track with the Wailers as his backing band.[52] The arrangement, devised by Roberts with the band, was "the first-ever garage version of 'Louie Louie'"[52] and included his ad-lib "Let's give it to 'em, RIGHT NOW!!" Released as a single on the band's own label, Etiquette, in early 1961, it became a huge hit locally, charting at No. 1 on Seattle's KJR and establishing "Louie Louie" as "the signature riff of Northwest rock 'n' roll".[53] It also picked up play across the border in Vancouver, British Columbia, appearing in the top 40 of the CFUN chart. The popularity of the Roberts release effectively buried another version put out at about the same time by Little Bill Englehardt (Topaz T-1305).[52]

The record was then reissued and promoted by Liberty Records in Los Angeles, but it failed to chart nationally.[54] The track was included on the 1963 album The Wailers & Co, the 1964 compilation album Tall Cool One, the 1998 reissue of the 1962 album The Fabulous Wailers Live at the Castle, and multiple later compilations.[55]

Roberts was killed in an automobile accident in 1967, but his "legacy would reverberate down through the ages".[53] Dave Marsh dedicated his 1993 book, "For Richard Berry, who gave birth to this unruly child, and Rockin' Robin Roberts, who first raised it to glory."[56]

The Kingsmen (1963)

"Louie Louie"
 
Original release
Single by the Kingsmen
from the album The Kingsmen in Person
B-side"Haunted Castle"
ReleasedJune 1963 (1963-06) (Jerden)
October 1963 (1963-10) (Wand)
RecordedApril 6, 1963
GenreGarage rock[57]
Length2:42
LabelJerden
Producer(s)
  • Ken Chase
  • Jerry Dennon
The Kingsmen singles chronology
"Louie Louie"
(1963)
"Money"
(1964)
Wand Re-issue
 
Second Wand release with "Lead vocal by Jack Ely" text

On 6 April 1963,[58] the Kingsmen, a rock and roll group from Portland, Oregon, chose "Louie Louie" for their second recording, their first having been "Peter Gunn Rock". The Kingsmen recorded the song at Northwestern Inc. Motion Pictures & Recording Studios at 411 SW 13th Avenue in Portland, Oregon. The one hour session cost either $36,[59] $50,[60] or somewhere in between[61] and the band split the cost.[62]

The session was produced by Ken Chase, a local disc jockey on the AM rock station 91 KISN who also owned the teen nightclub that hosted the Kingsmen as their house band. The engineer for the session was the studio owner, Robert Lindahl. The Kingsmen's lead vocalist, Jack Ely, based his version on the recording by Rockin' Robin Roberts with the Fabulous Wailers, but unintentionally reintroduced Berry’s original rhythm as he showed the other members how to play it with a 1–2–3, 1–2, 1–2–3 beat instead of the 1–2–3–4, 1–2, 1–2–3–4 beat on the Wailers record.[63] The night before their recording session, the band played a 90-minute version of the song during a gig at a local teen club. The Kingsmen's studio version was recorded in one partial and one full take.[64] They also recorded "Jamaica Farewell" and what became the B-side of the release, an original "surf instrumental"[65] by Ely and keyboardist Don Gallucci called "Haunted Castle".[61] Jerry Dennon’s local Jerden label pressed 1,000 copies.[66]

A significant error on the Kingsmen version occurs just after the lead guitar break. As the group was going by the Wailers version, which has a brief restatement of the riff twice over before the lead vocalist comes back in, it would be expected that Ely would do the same. Ely, however, missed his mark, coming in two bars too soon, before the restatement of the riff. He realized his mistake and stopped the verse short, but the band did not realize that he had done so. As a quick fix, drummer Lynn Easton covered the pause with a drum fill. The error is now so well known that multiple versions by other groups duplicate it.[67][68]

The Kingsmen's version with its "ragged",[69] "chaotic",[70] "shambolic, lumbering style",[71] complete with "manic lead guitar solo, insane cymbal crashes, generally slurred and unintelligible lyrics",[72] transformed the earlier Rockin' Robin Roberts version on which it was based into a "gloriously incoherent",[73] "raw and raucous"[67] romp. Ely had to stand on tiptoe to sing into a boom mike, and his braces further impeded his singing. The guitar break is triggered by a shout, "Okay, let's give it to 'em right now!", both lifted from the Roberts version.[74] Critic Dave Marsh suggests it is this moment that gives the recording greatness: "[Ely] went for it so avidly you'd have thought he'd spotted the jugular of a lifelong enemy, so crudely that, at that instant, Ely sounds like Donald Duck on helium. And it's that faintly ridiculous air that makes the Kingsmen's record the classic that it is, especially since it's followed by a guitar solo that's just as wacky."[75] Marsh ranked the song as No. 11 out of the 1001 greatest singles ever made, describing it as "the most profound and sublime expression of rock and roll's ability to create something from nothing".[76] In Rock and Roll: An Introduction, Michael Campbell notes, "The greater freedom of the rhythm section and a blues-influenced guitar solo style were among the features that distinguish rock from the music that came before it. Their use by the Kingsmen shows that they were becoming common practice."[77]

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. Herb Alpert and A&M Records passed on the distribution opportunity,[78] deeming it "too long" and "out of tune".[79]

Sales of the Kingsmen record were initially so low (reportedly 600) that the group considered disbanding. Things changed when Boston's biggest DJ, Arnie Ginsburg, was given the record by a pitchman. Amused by its slapdash sound, he played it on his program as "The Worst Record of the Week". Despite the slam, listener response was swift and positive.[80]

By the end of October, it was listed in Billboard as a regional breakout and a "bubbling under" entry for the national chart. Meanwhile, the Raiders version, with far stronger promotion, was becoming a hit in California and was also listed as "bubbling under" one week after the Kingsmen debuted on the chart. For a few weeks, the two singles appeared destined to battle each other, but demand for the Kingsmen single, backed by national promotion from Wand, acquired momentum and by the end of 1963, Columbia Records had stopped promoting the Raiders version.

It entered the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for December 7, and peaked at No. 2 the following week, a spot which it held for six non-consecutive weeks; it would remain in the top 10 throughout December 1963 and January 1964 before dropping off in early February.[81] In total, the Kingsmen's version spent 16 weeks on the Hot 100, selling a million copies by April 1964.[82] "Dominique" by the Singing Nun and "There! I've Said It Again" by Bobby Vinton prevented the single from reaching No. 1 (although Marsh asserts that it "far outsold" the other records, but was denied Billboard's top spot due to lack of "proper decorum".)[83] "Louie Louie" did reach No. 1 on the Cashbox and Music Vendor/Record World pop charts, as well as No. 1 on the Cashbox R&B chart.[84] It was the last No. 1 on Cashbox before Beatlemania hit the United States with "I Want to Hold Your Hand".[85] The Kingsmen version quickly became a standard at teen parties in the U.S. during the 1960s and, reaching No. 26 on the UK Singles Chart,[86] was the preferred tune for a popular British dance called "The Shake".[87] The first album, The Kingsmen In Person, peaked at No. 20 in 1964 and remained on the charts for over two years (131 weeks total) until 1966.[88]

Due to the lyrics controversy and supported by the band's heavy touring schedule, the single continued to sell throughout 1965 and briefly reappeared on the charts in 1966, reaching No. 65 in Cashbox, No. 76 in Record World, and No. 97 in Billboard.[89][90] Total sales estimates for the single range from 10 million[25] to over 12 million with cover versions accounting for another 300 million.[91]

Another factor in the success of the record may have been the rumor that the lyrics were intentionally slurred by the Kingsmen—to cover up lyrics that were allegedly laced with profanity, graphically depicting sex between the sailor and his lady. Crumpled pieces of paper professing to be "the real lyrics" to "Louie Louie" circulated among teens. The song was banned on many radio stations and in many places in the United States, including Indiana, where a ban was requested by Governor Matthew Welsh.[92][93][94][95] These actions were taken despite the small matter that practically no one could distinguish the actual lyrics. Denials of chicanery by Kingsmen and Ely did not stop the controversy. The FBI started a 31-month investigation into the matter and concluded they were "unable to interpret any of the wording in the record."[17] However, drummer Lynn Easton later admitted that he yelled "Fuck" after fumbling a drum fill at 0:54 on the record.[96][97][98][99]

By the time the Kingsmen version had achieved national popularity, the band had split. Two rival editions—one featuring lead singer Jack Ely, the other with Lynn Easton who held the rights to the band's name—were competing for live audiences across the country. A settlement was reached later in 1964 giving Easton the right to the Kingsmen name but requiring all future pressings of the original version of "Louie Louie" to display "Lead vocal by Jack Ely" on the label.[100] Ely released "Love That Louie" (as Jack E. Lee and the Squires) in 1964 and "Louie Louie '66" and "Louie Go Home" (as Jack Ely and the Courtmen) in 1966 without chart success. He re-recorded "Louie Louie" in 1976 and again in 1980, and these versions appear on multiple 60s hit compilations credited to "Jack Ely (formerly of the Kingsmen)" or "re-recordings by the original artists".

Subsequent Kingsmen "Louie Louie" versions with either Lynn Easton or Dick Peterson as lead vocalist appeared on Live & Unreleased (recorded 1963, released 1992), Live at the Castle (recorded 1964, released 2011), Shindig! Presents Frat Party (VHS, recorded 1965, released 1991), 60s Dance Party (1982), California Cooler Presents Cooler Hits (recorded 1986, released 1987),[101] The Louie Louie Collection (as the Mystery Band, 1994), Red, White & Rock (2002), Garage Sale (recorded 2002, released 2003), and My Music: '60s Pop, Rock & Soul (DVD, 2011).[102]

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". They had not been paid royalties on the songs since the 1960s.[103][104]

When Jack Ely died on April 28, 2015, his son reported that "my father would say, 'We were initially just going to record the song as an instrumental, and at the last minute I decided I'd sing it.'"[105] When it came time to do that, however, Ely discovered the sound engineer had raised the studio's only microphone several feet above his head. Then he placed Ely in the middle of his fellow musicians, all in an effort to create a better "live feel" for the recording. The result, Ely would say over the years, was that he had to stand on his toes, lean his head back and shout as loudly as he could just to be heard over the drums and guitars.[106]

When Mike Mitchell died on April 16, 2021, he was the only remaining member of the Kingsmen's original lineup who still performed with the band.[107] His "Louie Louie" guitar break has been called "iconic",[108] "blistering",[109] and "one of the most famous guitar solos of all time".[110] Guitar Player magazine noted, "Raw, lightning-fast, and loud, the solo's unbridled energy helped make the song a No. 2 pop hit, but also helped set the template for garage-rock – and later hard-rock – guitar."[111]

Paul Revere & the Raiders (1963)

"Louie Louie"
 
Single by Paul Revere & the Raiders
from the album Here They Come!
B-side"Night Train"
ReleasedMay 1963 (1963-05) (Sandē)
June 1963 (1963-06) (Columbia)
RecordedApril 1963
Length2:38
LabelSandē
Producer(s)Roger Hart
Paul Revere & the Raiders singles chronology
"So Fine"
(1963)
"Louie Louie"
(1963)
"Louie Go Home"
(1963)

Paul Revere & the Raiders also recorded a version of "Louie Louie", probably on April 11 or 13, 1963, in the same Portland studio as the Kingsmen.[112][113][114][115] The recording was paid for and produced by KISN radio personality Roger Hart, who soon became personal manager for the band. Released on Hart's Sandē label and plugged on his radio show,[112] their version was more successful locally. Columbia Records issued the single nationally in June 1963 and it went to No. 1 in the West and Hawaii, but only reached No. 103 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. The quick success of "Louie Louie" faltered, however, possibly due to lack of support from Columbia and its A&R man Mitch Miller, a former bandleader (Sing Along With Mitch) with "retrogressive taste"[116] who disliked the "musical illiteracy" of rock and roll.[117]

The Raiders version opened with a distinctive "Grab yo woman, its-a 'Louie Louie' time!" followed by a sax intro similar to the Rockin' Robin Roberts version (guitar in later releases).[118] Another distinctive lyric was "Stomp and shout and work it on out". The original version also contains a scarcely audible "dirty lyric" when Mark Lindsay says, "Do she fuck? That psyches me up!" behind the guitar solo.[119]

Robert Lindahl, president and chief engineer of NWI and sound engineer on both the Kingsmen and Raiders recordings, stated that the Raiders version was not known for "garbled lyrics" or an amateurish recording technique, but, as one author noted, their "more competent but uptight take on the song" was less exciting than the Kingsmen's version.[120]

Live versions were included on Here They Come! (1965), Paul Revere Rides Again! (1983), and The Last Madman of Rock and Roll (1986, DVD). Later releases featured different lead vocalists on Special Edition (1982, Michael Bradley), Generic Rock & Roll (1993, Carlo Driggs), Flower Power (2011, Darren Dowler), and The Revolutionary Hits of Paul Revere & the Raiders (2019, David Huizenga).

The Beach Boys (1964)

Surf music icons the Beach Boys released their version on the 1964 album Shut Down Volume 2 with lead vocals shared by Carl Wilson and Mike Love. Their effort was unusual in that it was rendered "in a version so faithful to Berry's Angeleno-revered original"[121] instead of the more common garage rock style as they "pay 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".[122] Other surf music versions included the Chan-Dells in 1963, the Pyramids and the Surfaris in 1964, the Trashmen, the Invictas, and Jan and Dean in 1965, the Challengers in 1966, the Ripp Tides in 1981, and the Shockwaves in 1988.[123]

Otis Redding (1964)

Otis Redding's version was released on his 1964 album Pain in My Heart. 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).[124] Other versions by R&B artists included Ike & Tina Turner, the Tams, and Nat & John in 1968, Wilbert Harrison in 1969, the Topics in 1970, and Barry White in 1981.[123]

The Angels (1964)

With a version on their 1964 album A Halo to You, the Angels were the first girl group to cover "Louie Louie".[121] Their rendition also appeared on The Best of Louie Louie, Volume 2.[125]

A Minnesota girl group, the Shaggs, released a version as a 1965 single (Concert 1-78-65), and Honey Ltd. covered the song on their eponymous 1968 album and as a single (LHI 1216); however, the distinction of first girl group participation on a released version of "Louie Louie" would go to the Shalimars, an Olympia girl group who provided overdubbed backing vocals in 1960 for a recording by Little Bill (Englehardt) released as a single in 1961 (Topaz 1305).[52]

Female solo artist versions in the 1960s included Maddalena in 1967, titled "Lui Lui", as a single (RCA Italiana 3413), Tina Turner in 1968, released in 1989 on The Best of Louie Louie, Volume 2, and "a sexiest-of-all version by smokey-voiced diva Julie London"[126] released as a single (Liberty 56085) and included on her 1969 album Yummy, Yummy, Yummy.[123]

The Kinks (1964)

"Louie Louie"
Song by the Kinks
from the EP Kinksize Session
ReleasedNovember 27, 1964 (1964-11-27)
RecordedOctober 18, 1964 (1964-10-18)
StudioPye Studios, London
GenreRhythm and blues
Length2:57
LabelPye
Producer(s)Shel Talmy

The Kinks recorded "Louie Louie" on October 18, 1964. It was released in November on the Kinksize Session EP and on two 1965 US-only albums, Kinks-Size and Kinkdom. Live 1960s versions were released on bootlegs The Kinks in Germany (1965), Kinky Paris (1965), Live in San Francisco (1969), Kriminal Kinks (1972), and The Kinks at the BBC (2012). The Kast Off Kinks continue to perform it live, occasionally joined by Ray Davies at the annual Kinks Konvention.[127]

Sources vary on the impact of "Louie Louie" on the writing of "You Really Got Me" and "All Day and All of the Night". One writer called the two songs "sparse representations of a "Louie Louie" mentality",[128] Another noted that the "You Really Got Me" riff is "unquestionably a guitar-based piece, [that] fundamentally differs from "Louie Louie" and other earlier riff pieces with which it sometimes is compared",[129] while another succinctly calls it "a rewrite of the Kingsmen's 'Louie Louie'".[130] A 1965 letter to London's Record Mirror opined, "Besides completely copying the Kingsmen's vocal and instrumental style, The Kinks rose to fame with two watery twists of this classic...."[131]

Dave Marsh asserted that the Kinks "blatantly based their best early hits" on the "Louie Louie" riff.[132] 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.[133] According to biographer Thomas M. Kitts, Davies confirmed that Page suggested that "he write a song like 'Louie Louie'", but denied any direct influence.[134]

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. Rogan also cited brother Dave Davies' distorted power chords as "the sonic contribution that transformed the composition" into a hit song.[135]

Whether directly or indirectly, the Kingsmen version influenced the musical style of the early Kinks. They were huge fans of the Kingsmen’s "Louie Louie" and Dave Davies remembered the song inspiring Ray’s singing, saying in an interview:[136][137]

We played that record over and over. And Ray copied a lot of his vocal style from that guy [Jack Ely]. I was always trying to get Ray to sing, because I thought he had a great voice, but he was very shy. Then we heard The Kingsmen and he had that lazy, throwaway, laid-back drawl in his voice, and it was magic.

The Sandpipers (1966)

After their No. 1 hit "Guantanamera", the Sandpipers, with producer Tommy LiPuma and arranger Nick DeCaro, "cleverly revived" the same soft rock, smooth ballad Spanish language approach to "Louie Louie",[138] reaching No. 30 and No. 35 on the Billboard and Cash Box charts, respectively (the highest charting U.S. version after the Kingsmen). The success of their "smoky version"[139] heralded the entry of the ever adaptable "Louie Louie" into the MOR and easy listening categories and many followed: David McCallum and J.J. Jones (1967), Honey Ltd. (1968), Julie London (1969), Sounds Orchestral (1970), Line Renaud (1973), Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin (1991), and others released singles and albums featuring slower and mellower versions of what had previously been an up tempo pop and rock standard.[140]

Travis Wammack (1966)

With the only instrumental version to make the charts, Travis Wammack reached No. 128 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 in April 1966.[141] An early guitar innovator, his proto-fuzztone sound on "Louie Louie" was created by playing through an overdriven drive-in movie speaker.[142]

Released as a single (Atlantic 2322), the track was not included on Wammack's first album in 1972 or any thereafter. It appeared on a 1967 French release (Formidable Rhythm And Blues (Vol. 3)), but not again until two Wammack compilations, That Scratchy Guitar From Memphis (1987) and Scr-Scr-Scratchy! (1989). It was also included on two later various artists compilations, Love That Louie: The Louie Louie Files (2002) and Boom Boom A Go-Go! (2014).

Other notable 1960s instrumental versions included the Ventures and Ian Whitcomb in 1965, Ace Cannon and Sandy Nelson in 1966, Floyd Cramer and Pete Fountain in 1967, and Willie Mitchell in 1969.[123]

The Sonics (1966)

The Sonics released their version as a 1965 single (Etiquette ET-23) and on the 1966 album Boom. Later versions appeared on Sinderella (1980) and Live at Easy Street (2016).

Described as a major influence on punk and garage music worldwide,[143] the group's characteristic hard-edged, fuzz-drenched sound and "abrasive, all-out approach"[144] "took the Northwest garage sound to its most primitive extreme"[145] and made their "Louie Louie" version ahead of its time. They also made it more "fierce and threatening"[146] by altering the traditional 1-4-5-4 chord pattern to the "sinister-sounding" 1-3b-4-3b.[147]

Mongo Santamaria (1967)

The "Watermelon Man", Cuban percussionist and bandleader Mongo Santamaria, returned "Louie Louie" to its Afro-Cuban roots, echoing Rene Touzet's "El Loco Cha Cha" with his conga- and trumpet-driven Latin jazz version. Originally released on the 1967 album Hey! Let's Party, it was also included on the 1983 compilation The Best of Louie Louie, Volume 2.[125] Other early Latin-flavored versions were released by Pedrito Ramirez con los Yogis (Angelo 518, 1965), Pete Terrace (El Nuevo Pete Terrace, 1966), Eddie Cano (Brought Back Live from P.J.'s, 1967), Mario Allison (De Fiesta, 1967), and Rey Davila (On His Own, 1971).

Latin American jazz/rock innovator Carlos Santana compared Tito Puente's 1962 "Oye Como Va" to "Louie Louie" saying, "... how close the feel was to 'Louie Louie' and some Latin jazz tunes" [148] and "... this is a song like 'Louie Louie' or 'Guantanamera'. This is a song that when you play it, people are going to get up and dance, and that's it."[149]

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention (1967)

"Louie Louie" repeatedly figured in the musical lexicon of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention in the 1960s; he categorized the riff as one of several "Archetypal American Musical Icons ... [whose] presence in an arrangement puts a spin on any lyric in their vicinity"[150] and used it initially "to make fun of the old-fashioned rock 'n' roll they had transcended".[7]

His original compositions "Plastic People" and "Ruthie-Ruthie" (from You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1) were set to the melody of "Louie Louie" and included Richard Berry co-writer credits.[151] Zappa said that he fired guitarist Alice Stuart from the Mothers of Invention because she couldn't play "Louie Louie", although this comment was obviously intended as a joke.[152]

At a 1967 concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Mothers of Invention keyboardist Don Preston climbed up to the venue's famous pipe organ, usually used for classical works, and played the signature riff (included on the 1969 album Uncle Meat). Quick interpolations of "Louie Louie" also frequently turn up in other Zappa works.[153]

Other 1960s versions

1970s

Iggy Pop (1972)

Iggy Pop (then known as Jim Osterberg) began performing "Louie Louie" "with his own version of the dirty lyrics" in 1965 as a member of the Iguanas.[171] Later with the Stooges and as a solo performer, he recorded multiple versions of the song. As the "godfather of punk", he inspired a host of punk rock successors, including many with their own versions as the song became a "live staple for many punk-rock bands of the 1970s".[172][173]

An early London rehearsal version from 1972 was released on Heavy Liquid (2005) and again on Born In A Trailer (2016). A 1973 live version was released on The Detroit Tapes (2009). Metallic KO (1976) featured a provocative version with impromptu obscene lyrics from the last performance of Iggy and the Stooges in 1974 at the Michigan Palace in Detroit where, according to Lester Bangs, "you can actually hear hurled beer bottles breaking on guitar strings".[174] ("55 Minute Louie-Louie", released in 2017 by Shave on their High Alert digital album, commemorated the occasion.) Consequence called this version "a rock standard blown up from the inside out" and said, "The band’s cover of 'Louie Louie' somehow both honors their rock ‘n’ roll forebears and spits on their legacy. In other words, it's punk at its best."[175]

Pop later wrote a new version with political and satirical verses instead of obscenities that was released on American Caesar in 1993. 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."[176] Far Out Magazine called it "the best version of the song out there".[177] It was used during the opening credits of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story and as an ending song in Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes in which Pop took part as himself. The Just Dance video game also featured this version performed by a dancing Iggy Pop avatar.[178]

Multiple live versions were released on Nuggets (recorded 1980, released 1999), Where The Faces Shine - Volume 2 (recorded 1982, released 2008), The Legendary Breaking Point Tour (recorded 1983, released 1993), Kiss My Blood (1991, VHS), Beside You (1993), and Roadkill Rising (1994).

Toots and the Maytals (1972)

"Louie Louie" journeyed to its lyrical Jamaican destination with a reggae version by Toots and the Maytals. It was released as a 1972 UK single (Trojan TR-7865) and on the 1973 Funky Kingston album, described by rock critic Lester Bangs writing in Stereo Review as "Perfection, the most exciting and diversified set of reggae tunes by a single artist yet released".[179]

A BBC reviewer said, "The goofy garage anthem becomes both fiery sermon and dance-til-you-drop marathon. And, thanks to Toots’ soulman’s disregard for verbal meaning, the words are, if anything, even harder to discern than in the Kingsmen's version."[180] Rolling Stone wrote, "And it passes the toughest test of any 'Louie Louie' remake — it rocks hard"[181] and Hi-Fi News & Record Review cited its "incomprehensible majesty" and "crazy vigour" that made it "the best version ever".[182] Another author, writing about the song's use in a scene in This Is England noted, "A black Jamaican band's cover of a black American song, made famous by a white American band, seems an appropriate signifier of the racial harmony that [director Shane] Meadows seeks to evoke ...."[183]

The group performed the song frequently in concert and a live version appeared on the 1998 various artists album Reggae Live Sessions Volume 2. Toots Hibbert also performed it solo and with other acts, most notably the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Dave Matthews Band.[184]

"Brother Louie" (1973)

Although musically not a true cover version, "Brother Louie", Errol Brown and Tony Wilson's song about an interracial romance, was termed by Dave Marsh as "one of the truest heirs Richard Berry's 'Louie Louie' ever had" based on its theme of separated lovers and its minor key reprise of the chorus.[185] The original release by Hot Chocolate reached No. 7 on the UK singles chart. A cover version by Stories was a No. 1 hit in the U.S. later the same year, but with the racial roles reversed.[185] In 1993, the Quireboys' version reached No. 31 in the UK.

Patti Smith (1975)

Multiple live versions by Patti Smith, the "punk poet laureate",[186] 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".[123][187][188] Her cover version has been described as tapping "directly into the primal, urchin-like spirit of rock's renaissance".[189]

Jon the Postman (1977)

Described as "a committed and omnipresent figure on the punk and post-punk scene in Manchester",[190] Jon the Postman became known for waiting until headline bands like the Buzzcocks, the Fall, and Warsaw (later Joy Division)[191] had finished their sets (sometimes before they had finished) before mounting the stage in a drunken state, grabbing the microphone, and performing his own versions of "Louie Louie".[192][193] The first occurrence was at a Buzzcocks concert at the Band on the Wall venue on May 2, 1977,[194] which he described:

I think the Buzzcocks left the stage and the microphone was there and a little voice must have been calling, 'This is your moment, Jon.' I've no idea to this day why I sang 'Louie Louie,' the ultimate garage anthem from the 60s. And why I did it a cappella and changed all the lyrics apart from the actual chorus, I have no idea. I suppose it was my bid for immortality, one of those great bolts of inspiration.[195] For some reason it appeared to go down rather well. I suppose it was taking the punk ethos to the extreme – anyone can have a go. Before punk it was like you had to have a double degree in music. It was a liberation for someone like me who was totally unmusical but wanted to have a go.[196]

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".[193] A version with his group Puerile was included on the 1978 album John the Postman's Puerile.

Motörhead (1978)

"Louie Louie"
 
Single by Motörhead
from the album Overkill (re-issue)
B-side"Tear Ya Down"
Released25 August 1978 (UK) [197]
Recorded1978
StudioWessex, London
Genre
Length2:47
LabelBronze/EMI
Producer(s)
  • Neil Richmond
  • Motörhead
Motörhead singles chronology
"Motorhead"
(1977)
"Louie Louie"
(1978)
"Overkill"
(1979)

"Louie Louie" was Motörhead's first single for Bronze Records in 1978, following their initial release on Chiswick Records in 1977. A "rough-edged cover of the garage rock warhorse"[198] with Clarke's guitar emulating the Hohner Pianet electric piano riff, it was released with "Tear Ya Down" as a 7" vinyl single. Supported by a "back-breaking" touring schedule, the "high-octane" version reached No. 68 on the UK Singles Chart.[199]

The track also appeared on the CD re-issues of Overkill (1996) and The Best of Motörhead (2000). On 25 October 1978 a pre-recording of the band playing the song was broadcast on the BBC show Top of the Pops,[200] and was subsequently released on the 2005 album BBC Live & In-Session. Another live 1978 version was released on Lock Up Your Daughters (1990) and a 1978 alternate studio track appeared Over the Top: The Rarities (2000). The 2005 "deluxe edition" of Overkill included the original version, the BBC version, and two alternate versions.

National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

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. Belushi may have insisted on singing "Louie Louie" because he associated it with losing his virginity, but, according to director John Landis, it was included in the screenplay by soundtrack producer Kenny Vance long before Belushi was involved with the project because "... it would be the song the Deltas would sing".[201]

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. Although Richard Berry released his original version of the song in 1957, and the song had been popular with local bands in the Northwest following Rockin' Robin Roberts' 1961 single, the mythical Faber College was based on Dartmouth College in the Northeast U.S., so the use of "Louie Louie" was an anachronism.[201]

The Kingsmen version was heard during the film along with a brief live rendition by Belushi with Tim Matheson, Peter Riegert, Tom Hulce, Stephen Furst, Bruce McGill, and James Widdoes. A separate version by Belushi played during the credits and was included on the soundtrack album. The Belushi version was also released as a single (MCA 3046) and reached No. 89 and No. 91 on the Billboard and Cash Box charts, respectively.

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. The film's soundtrack producer Kenny Vance (formerly of Jay and the Americans) also released a version with his group The Planotones on the 2007 album Dancin' And Romancin'.

Bruce Springsteen (1978)

Bruce Springsteen has had a long association with "Louie Louie", playing it at multiple concerts and guest appearances, and commenting often on its significance.

From the 1979 No Nukes concert:[202]

Rock is primarily about longing. All the great rock songs are about longing. "Like A Rolling Stone" is about longing; 'How does it feel to be without a home?' — "Louie, Louie"! You're yearning for –'Where's that big party that I know is out there, but I can't find it'.

From the 2018 soundtrack album for Springsteen on Broadway (spoken intro to "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out"):[203]

There is no love without one plus one equaling three. It's the essential equation of art. It's the essential equation of rock 'n' roll. It's the reason the universe will never be fully comprehensible. It's the reason "Louie Louie" will never be fully comprehensible. And it's the reason true rock 'n' roll, and true rock 'n' roll bands, will never die.

He has said that "Born in the U.S.A." was "the most misunderstood song since 'Louie Louie'",[204] and one critic characterized The River as "Less Kierkegaard, lots more Kingsmen".[205]

The first known recorded performance was on September 9, 1978 at the University of Notre Dame on the Darkness Tour, followed by other tour performances in 1978, 1981, 2009, and 2014. He also played the song in guest appearances with other groups in 1982 (at the Stone Pony with Cats on a Hot Surface) and 1983 (at The Headliner in Neptune, NJ with Midnight Thunder). Song "snippets" are frequently played within other songs: "High School Confidential", "Twist and Shout", "Glory Days", and "Pay Me My Money Down".[206]

Multiple concert bootleg albums included a live "Louie Louie" version: Reggae 'N' Soul (1988), Notre Dame Game (1981), Rockin' Days (1983), Rock Through The Jungle (1983), Rock & Roll is Here to Stay (1990), Clubs' Stories (1994), Songs for an Electric Mule (1994), Lost & Live (1995), The Boss Hits the Sixties (2009), Satisfaction (2014), Charlotte, NC 04/19/14 (2014), Who´s Been Covered By The Boss (2014), Saginaw 1978 (2015), and High Hopes Tour 2014 (2018).

E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg played "Louie Louie" on his 2017 live Jukebox show,[207] and guitarist Nils Lofgren credited some of his success to "I just happened to play 'Louie Louie' a little different than the other guys."[208] Steven Van Zandt remembered it as the record that changed his life saying, "That's where it all started."[209]

More recently, Springsteen included the Kingsmen's version in a curated "frat rock" playlist on the 25th episode of his From My Home to Yours Sirius XM radio show in July 2021.[210]

Other 1970s versions

1980s

Black Flag (1981)

"Louie Louie"
 
The cover features Black Flag's singer Dez Cadena and some of his improvised lyrics to "Louie Louie".
Single by Black Flag
B-side"Damaged I"
Released1981 (1981)
GenreHardcore punk
Length5:22
LabelPosh Boy
Producer(s)

The Hermosa Beach, California, hardcore punk band Black Flag released a "raw",[224] "rubbished"[225] version of "Louie Louie" as a single in 1981 through Posh Boy Records. It was the band's first release with Dez Cadena as singer, replacing Ron Reyes who had left the group the previous year.[226][227] Cadena would go on to sing on the Six Pack EP before switching to rhythm guitar and being replaced on vocals by Henry Rollins.[226][228] Cadena improvised his own "nihilistic rewording",[229]

You know the pain that's in my heart
It just shows I'm not very smart
Who needs love when you've got a gun?
Who needs love to have any fun?

The single also included an early version of "Damaged I", which would be re-recorded with Rollins for the band's debut album, Damaged, later that year.[229] Demo versions of both tracks, recorded with Cadena, were included on the 1982 compilation album Everything Went Black.[230]

The front cover art shows the main verse of the lyrics to "Louie Louie" over a photograph by Edward Colver featuring Black Flag's third singer Dez Cadena.

Bryan Carroll of AllMusic gave the single four out of five stars, saying, "Of the more than 1,500 commitments of Richard Berry's 'Louie Louie' to wax ... Black Flag's volatile take on the song is incomparable. No strangers to controversy themselves, the band pummel the song with their trademark pre-Henry Rollins era guitar sludge, while singer Dez Cadena spits out his nihilistic rewording of the most misunderstood lyrics in rock history."[229] Both tracks from the single were included on the 1983 compilation album The First Four Years, and "Louie Louie" was also included on 1987's Wasted...Again.[231][232] A live version of "Louie Louie", recorded by the band's 1985 lineup, was released on the live album Who's Got the 10½?, with Rollins improvising his own lyrics.[233]

Continued touring, line-up changes, and occasional reunions have resulted in multiple recorded live versions with various lead singers Keith Morris, Dez Cadena, Henry Rollins, Ron Reyes, and Mike Vallely.

Stanley Clarke and George Duke (1981)

A duo of "jazz rock fusioneers",[234] bassist Stanley Clarke and keyboardist George Duke, included a "killer version"[235] "funk cover"[236] on The Clarke/Duke Project, a 1981 album of eight original compositions and one cover. The song's combination of narration and singing within a storytelling structure elicited a variety of critic's reactions ranging from "appealing"[237] and "imaginative adaptation[234] to "probably the funkiest version of 'Louie Louie' ever recorded".[238] One Allmusic reviewer called it "a truly bizarre rendition"[239] 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."[236]

A single was also released in Europe (cut to 3:38 from the album's 5:05 length).[240] The album was nominated for a 1982 Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.

Barry White (1981)

Disco king Barry White created Richard Berry's "all-time favorite" version[241] as he "reworked and revamped"[242] the original to create a "Latin-tinged"[243] rendition that "took the song from pure rock 'n' roll to pure moan 'n' groan".[241] Not all reaction was positive, however, as CD Review dismissed it as "blasphemy" and "disco-fied".[244]

White commented,

I'm gonna sing just like Richard Berry. I'm gonna do this song that this black guy wrote. Everybody thinks that these white guys recorded it, but a black guy did this.[245]

Dave Marsh summarized Berry's reaction,

In White's arrangement, "Louie Louie" emerges as an up-tempo Latin groove, driven by timbales and congas and punctuated by brilliant trumpet riffs, while White supplements the chorus with the plaintive interpolation "Comin' home, Jamaaaica!" Richard Berry loved it because White's version finally brought to life his original vision of "all the timbales and congas going, and me singing 'Louie Louie'." "Barry White did it exactly the way I wanted to do it," Berry enthused, "I loved it."[241]

The track was released on White's 1981 Beware! album, and also as 12" and a 7" single (shortened from 7:14 to 3:35).[246] White also performed it on Soul Train on September 19, 1981.[247]

The Fat Boys (1988)

The Fat Boys with producers Latin Rascals brought "Louie Louie" up to date in 1988 with a hip hop version which reached No. 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 46 on the UK Top 100. Their rap, with rewritten lyrics, "chronicled a pursuit of the song's real words".[248]

The Fat Boys version was released on the Coming Back Hard Again album on the Tin Pan Apple label, and also on a 12" single (5:42 and 3:50 edits) and a 7" single (3:50 edit). The 2009 compilation album Fat Boys On Rewind included it as well.[249] Notable live performances in 1988 included Club MTV and the MTV Video Music Awards.

The music video, directed by Scott Kalvert, was a parody of Animal House with food fights, dancing girls, and togas. Dave Marsh in 1993 called their version "the last great "Louie Louie" to date".[248]

The year 1988 also saw multiple rap and hip hop releases with "Louie Louie" sampling (see Use in sampling section below).

Other 1980s versions

1990s

Coupe de Ville (1990)

Written by Mike Binder and directed by Joe Roth, Coupe de Ville featured an extended scene discussing possible interpretations of the "Louie Louie" lyrics and a closing credit montage of multiple "Louie Louie" versions.

Hearing the Kingsmen version on a car radio sparks an extended debate among the three Libner brothers (Patrick Dempsey, Arye Gross, Daniel Stern) about the lyrics and whether it is a "hump song", a "dance song", or a "sea chanty" with the eldest and most worldly brother arguing for the last interpretation.[258][259] As the Los Angeles Times noted, "Joe Roth obviously knows the importance of the "Louie Louie" lyric controversy".[260]

Multiple versions played during the closing credits: Richard Berry, the Rice University Marching Owl Band, the Sandpipers, Les Dantz and his Orchestra,[261] the Kingsmen, and Young MC’s "Louie Louie House Mix" (a remix of the Kingsmen version with samples from Richard Berry and the Rice University MOB). The movie trailer also used the Richard Berry and Kingsmen versions.

The soundtrack album, released by Cypress Records on vinyl, CD and cassette, included the Kingsmen and Young MC versions. A 12" EP (Cypress Records V-74500) was released with four tracks: "Louie Rap", "Louie Vocal Attack", "Louie Louie House Mix", and "Louie DePalma Mix" (all "featuring Maestro Fresh Wes" and "produced by Young MC").

A music video of "Louie Louie House Mix", credited to "Various Artists (featuring Young MC)", was concurrently released and included appearances by Robert Townsend ("It’s a hump song!"), Kareem Abdul Jabbar ("It’s a dance song!"), Martin Short, Young MC, and others.

The inclusion of the Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" is a bit of an anachronism in that the film takes place on a trip from Detroit to Florida during the summer of 1963. The initial release of the Kingsmen version on the regional Jerden label was in May 1963, but no significant national radio airplay and chart activity (or lyrics controversy) occurred until October and its national chart debut was not until early November.[262]

The Three Amigos (1999)

The first release by the Three Amigos (Dylan Amlot, Milroy Nadarajah, and Marc Williams) was their cover of "Louie Louie". The 12" EP, titled Louie Louie, included "Original Mix", "Da Digglar Mix", "Wiseguys Remix", and "Touché's Bonus Beats". Released in July 1999, the "Original Mix" version reached No. 15 on the UK Singles Chart, higher than the Kingsmen's No. 26 in 1964, and to date remains the last "Louie Louie" version to appear on the US or UK charts.[263]

The group's logo paid tribute to the logo of the Kingsmen.[264]

Other 1990s versions

2000s

2010s

2020s

Foreign language versions

Shortly after the Kingsmen's version charted in late 1963, the first international covers appeared. Since the original lyrics were notoriously difficult to discern, the translations were often inaccurate or adapted to a different storyline. Early foreign language versions included:[288]

  • Los Apson (Mexico), as "Ya No Lo Hagas", on a 1963 single (Peerless 1263) and a 1964 album Atrás De La Raya
  • Joske Harry's and the King Creoles (Belgium), on a 1963 single (Arsa 107)
  • Les Players (France), as "Si C'Etait Elle", on a 1964 single (Polydor 1879) and a 1964 EP (Polydor 27 129)
  • Los Supersónicos (El Salvador), on a 1965 single (DCA 1082) and eponymous album
  • Pedrito Ramirez con Los Yogis (US), on a 1965 single (Angelo 518)
  • I Trappers (Italy), as "Lui Lui Non Ha", on a 1965 single (CGD 9606)
  • Los Corbs (Spain), as "Loui Loui", on a 1966 EP (Marfer M.622)
  • Les Zèniths (Canada), on a 1966 single (Première 825)
  • Maddalena (Italy), as "Lui Lui" on a 1967 single (RCA Italiana 3413)
  • Los Yetis (Colombia), on a 1968 album Olvidate

In 1966 the Sandpipers, a US group, released a slower tempo Spanish language version that reached No. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was covered that same year in German by Die Rosy-Singers.[289]

The 1983 compilation The Best of Louie, Louie featured a Russian version by Red Square,[30] and in 1997 an entire album of Spanish covers, The First Louie Louie Spanish Compilation, was released with versions by the Flaming Sideburns, the Navahodads, Los DelTonos, and eight others.[290] Other Spanish versions were released by Los Hermanos Carrion (Mexico), as "Alu, Aluai" on a 1971 album Lagrimas de Cristal Que Manera de Perder, Los Elegantes (Spain), as "Luisa Se Va" on a 1985 album Paso A Paso,[291] and Desperados (Spain), on a 1997 album Por Un Puñado De Temas.

In 1988, Michael Doucet released a "great vocal treatment"[292] of "Louie Louie" in Cajun French on the Michael Doucet and Cajun Brew album.[290] CD Review characterized his version as "oddly appropriate".[293]

More recent non-English efforts included:

  • Elektricni Orgazam (Serbia), as "Lui Lui", on a 1986 album Distorzija
  • Irha (Italy), as "Lui Luisa", on a 1989 EP Beati I Primi (Attack Punk Records - APR 12)[294]
  • Eläkeläiset (Finland), as "Tilulilulei", on a 1994 album Joulumanteli
  • The Dizzy Brains (Madagascar), as "Hiala Aho Zao", on a 2014 album Môla Kely
  • Dynasis (Greece), as "Loui Loui" on a 2019 digital single[295]

Answer songs, sequels, and tributes

"Louie Louie" has spawned a number of answer songs, sequels, and tributes from the 1960s to the present:[296]

  • "Louie Go Home", 1964, Paul Revere & the Raiders (Columbia 4-43008); also released in 1964 by Davie Jones & The King Bees (David Bowie) as "Louie Louie Go Home" (Vocalion V9221).
  • "Love That Louie", 1964, Jack E. Lee & The Squires (RCA 54-8452)
  • "Louie Come Home", 1965, The Epics (Zen 202)
  • "Louie Come Back", 1965, The Legends (Shout! Northwest Killers Volume 2, Norton NW 907)
  • "Louise Louise", 1966, H.B. & The Checkmates (Lavender R1936)
  • "Louie Go Home", 1966, The Campus Kingsmen (Impalla V 1481); different song from the Raiders version
  • "Louie Louie's Comin' Back", 1967, The Pantels (Rich RR-120)
  • "Louie Louie Louie", 1989, Henry Lee Summer (I've Got Everything, CBS ZK 45124)
  • "Louie Louie Got Married", 1994, The Tentacles (K Records IPU XCIV)
  • "Louie Louie (Where Did She Roam)", 1996, Thee Headcoats (SFTRI 335)
  • "Ballad of the Kingsmen", 2004, Todd Snider (East Nashville Skyline, Oh Boy Records OBR-031)
  • "Louie Louie Music", 2012, Armitage Shanks (Louie Louie Music EP, Little Teddy LiTe765)
  • "I Love Louie Louie", 2014, The Rubinoos (45, Pynotic Productions 0045)
  • "55 Minute Louie-Louie", 2017, Shave (High Alert, digital album)
  • "I Wanna Louie Louie (All Night Long)", 2020, Charles Albright (Everything Went Charles Albright, digital album)

"Louie Louie" compilations

Lyrics controversy and investigations

As "Louie Louie" began to climb the national charts in late 1963, Jack Ely's "slurry snarl"[299] and "mush-mouthed",[300] "gloriously garbled"[301] vocals gave rise to dark rumors about "dirty lyrics". The Kingsmen initially ignored the rumors, but soon "news networks were filing reports from New Orleans, Florida, Michigan, and elsewhere about an American public nearly hysterical over the possible dangers of this record".[72] The song quickly became "something of a Rorschach test for dirty minds"[302] who "thought they could detect obscene suggestions in the lyric".[303]

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.[304][305] 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. The National Association of Broadcasters also investigated and deemed it "unintelligible to the average listener", but that "The phonetic qualities of this recording are such that a listener possessing the 'phony' lyrics could imagine them to be genuine."[306] In response, Max Feirtag of publisher Limax Music offered $1,000 to "anyone finding anything suggestive in the lyrics",[307] and Broadcasting magazine published the actual lyrics as provided by Limax.[308] Scepter/Wand Records commented, "Not in anyone's wildest imagination are the lyrics as presented on the Wand recording suggestive, let alone obscene."[309]

The following month an outraged parent wrote to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy alleging that the lyrics of "Louie Louie" were obscene, saying, "The lyrics are so filthy that I can-not [sic] enclose them in this letter."[310][311] The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the complaint,[312] and looked into the various rumors of "real lyrics" that were circulating among teenagers.[313] 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,[314] and therefore the Bureau could not find that the recording was obscene.[17] Over the course of the investigation, the FBI interviewed Richard Berry, members of the Kingsmen, members of Paul Revere and the Raiders, and record company executives. The one person they never interviewed was the man who actually sang the words in question, Jack Ely, whose name apparently never came up because he was no longer with the Kingsmen.[313][315][316]

By contrast, in 1964 the Ohio State University newspaper The Lantern initiated an investigation in response to a growing campus controversy. Working with local radio station WCOL, a letter was sent to Wand Records requesting a copy of the lyrics. The paper printed the lyrics in full, resolving the issue, and resulting in booking the Kingsmen for the fall homecoming entertainment.[317]

In a 1964 interview, Lynn Easton of the Kingsmen said, "We took the words from the original version and recorded them faithfully."[305] Richard Berry told Esquire Magazine in 1988 that the Kingsmen had sung the song exactly as written[21] and often deflected questions about the lyrics by saying, "If I told you the words, you wouldn't believe me anyway."[318][319]

A history of the song and its notoriety was published in 1993 by Dave Marsh, including an extensive recounting of the multiple lyrics investigations,[320] but he was unable to obtain permission to publish the song's actual lyrics[321] because the then current owner, Windswept Pacific, wanted people to "continue to fantasize what the words are".[322] 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".[18] Other authors noted that the song "reap[ed] the benefits that accrue from being pursued by the guardians of public morals"[323] and "Such stupidity helped ensure 'Louie Louie' a long and prosperous life."[324]

The lyrics controversy resurfaced briefly in 2005 when the superintendent of the school system in Benton Harbor, Michigan, refused to let a marching band play the song in a local parade; she later relented.[325][326]

Cultural impact

The Who

The Who were impacted in their early recording career by the riff/rhythm of "Louie Louie", owing to the song's influence on the Kinks, who, like the Who, were produced by Shel Talmy. 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.[121] As a result, Pete Townshend penned "I Can't Explain", "a desperate copy of The Kinks",[327] released in March 1965. In 1979 "Louie Louie" (Kingsmen version) was included on the soundtrack album to Quadrophenia.

"Psyché Rock" and Futurama

In 1967 French composers Michel Colombier and Pierre Henry, collaborating as Les Yper-Sound, produced a synthesizer and musique concrète work based on the "Louie Louie" riff titled "Psyché Rock".[328] They subsequently worked with choreographer Maurice Béjart on a "Psyché Rock"-based score for the ballet Messe pour le temps présent. The full score with multiple mixes of "Psyché Rock" was released the same year on the album Métamorphose. The album was reissued in 1997 with additional remixes including one by Ken Abyss titled "Psyché Rock (Metal Time Machine Mix)" that, along with the original, heavily influenced Christopher Tyng's Futurama theme song.[329][330]

Radio station marathons

In the early 1980s KALX in Berkeley and KFJC in Los Altos Hills engaged in a "Louie Louie" marathon battle with each station increasing the number of versions played. 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.[331][332] During a change in format from adult-contemporary to all-oldies in 1997, WXMP in Peoria became "all Louie, all the time," playing nothing but covers of "Louie Louie" for six straight days.[333] Other stations used the same idea to introduce format changes including KROX (Dallas), WNOR (Norfolk), and WRQN (Toledo).[334] In 2011, KFJC celebrated International Louie Louie Day with a reprise of its 1983 event, featuring multiple "Louie Louie" versions, new music by Richard Berry and appearances by musicians, DJs, and celebrities with "Louie Louie" connections.[335] In April 2015 Orme Radio broadcast the First Italian Louie Louie Marathon, playing 279 versions in 24 hours.[336]

Use in movies

Various versions of "Louie Louie" have appeared in the films listed below.[337]

Year Title Version(s) On OST
Album
Comments
1969 Zavolies (Ζαβολιές) [a] Fotis Lazaridis Orchestra n/a Greece release
1972 Tijuana Blue [b] Kingsmen n/a
1973 American Graffiti Flash Cadillac No [c]
1978 National Lampoon's Animal House Kingsmen, John Belushi Yes [d]
1979 Quadrophenia Kingsmen Yes [e]
1983 Heart Like A Wheel Jack Ely No
Nightmares Black Flag Yes
1984 Blood Simple Toots and the Maytals No
1986 The Cult: Live In Milan [f] The Cult No Italy release
1987 Survival Game [g] Kingsmen n/a Also in trailer
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Cast (uncredited bar band) n/a TV movie
1988 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! Marching Owl Band [h] Yes
Love at Stake Kingsmen No
1989 Fright Night Part 2 Black Flag No
1990 Coupe de Ville Kingsmen, Young MC [i] Yes
1991 Reality 86'd Black Flag n/a
1992 Jennifer 8 Kingsmen No
Passed Away Kingsmen Yes
Dave Cast (Kevin Kline) No
1993 Wayne's World 2 Robert Plant Yes[j]
1994 A Simple Twist of Fate Cast (party singalong) No
1995 Mr. Holland's Opus Cast (student band instrumental) No
Man of the House Kingsmen n/a
1996 Down Periscope Cast (Kelsey Grammer and others) n/a
1997 My Best Friend's Wedding Kingsmen No
1998 ABC - The Alphabetic Tribe [k] Kingsmen, Sandpipers n/a Swiss release
Wild Things Iggy Pop No
2001 Say It Isn't So Kingsmen No
2002 La Bande du drugstore Full Spirits Yes France release
24 Hour Party People John The Postman, Factory All Stars No UK release
2003 Old School Black Flag Yes
Coffee and Cigarettes Richard Berry, Iggy Pop Yes
2004 Friday Night Lights Cast (marching band instrumental) No
2005 Guy X Kingsmen n/a
2006 This Is England Toots and the Maytals Yes UK release
Bobby Cast (Demi Moore) [l] Yes
2009 Capitalism: A Love Story Iggy Pop n/a
2010 Lemmy Motörhead n/a UK release
Knight and Day Kingsmen[m] No
Tournée Nomads, Kingsmen Yes [n] France release
2012 Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story [o] Kingsmen n/a UK TV movie
2013 Il était une fois les Boys King Melrose Yes Canada release
Her Aim Is True Sonics, Wailers n/a Sonics version also in trailer
2014 Desert Dancer Jack Ely No UK release
2018 A Futile and Stupid Gesture Kingsmen n/a
2020 The Way Back Cast (pep band instrumental) No
2021 Penguin Bloom Kingsmen n/a Australia release

The Kingsmen version was used in television commercials for Spaced Invaders (1990), but did not appear in the movie.[p] The Kingsmen version also appeared on More American Graffiti (1975) and Good Morning Vietnam (1987) compilations, but was not used in either movie.

Movie table notes
  1. ^ Zavolies at IMDb
  2. ^ "Tijuana Blue Soundtrack (1972)". ringostrack.com. Ringostrack.
  3. ^ Not on the 1973 OST album or the 1979 More American Graffiti album.
  4. ^ The Kingsmen version is heard in the film. The John Belushi version is on the soundtrack album.
  5. ^ Only included on the 2000 CD reissue. Not on the 1979 LP or 1993 CD reissue.
  6. ^ The Cult: Live in Milan at IMDb
  7. ^ Survival Game at IMDb
  8. ^ In the film the USC Trojan Marching Band is shown but the Rice University MOB version is heard.
  9. ^ The Kingsmen version occurs during the film. The Young MC "Louie Louie House Mix" (feat. Maestro Fresh Wes) plays during the credits and samples versions by Richard Berry, the Kingsmen, and the Rice University Marching Owl Band. Both versions are on the soundtrack album
  10. ^ Also included on the Sixty Six to Timbuktu compilation album.
  11. ^ ABC – The Alphabetic Tribe at IMDb
  12. ^ Imitation of 1969 Julie London version.
  13. ^ Used as a cell phone ringtone by Roy Miller (Tom Cruise) character.
  14. ^ Nomads version only.
  15. ^ Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story at IMDb
  16. ^ YouTube: Spaced Invaders TV Spot 1990 [338]

Book

Music critic Dave Marsh wrote a 245-page book about the song, Louie Louie: The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock 'n Roll Song, Including the Full Details of Its Torture and Persecution at the Hands of the Kingsmen, J.Edgar Hoover's F.B.I, and a Cast of Millions.[339]

Use in video games

Early video games with chiptune versions of "Louie Louie" included California Games and Donkey Konga. Since its introduction in 1987, California Games has been ported to more than a dozen gaming platforms, resulting in multiple unique "Louie Louie" versions based on different or improved programmable sound generator (PSG) chips. "Back 2 Back", composed by Hideki Naganuma for Sonic Rush, borrows the "Louie Louie" riff for its main section.

More recent rhythm action games featured individual artist versions including Rocksmith (Joan Jett), Just Dance (Iggy Pop), and Rocksmith 2014 (Motörhead).[178]

Use in ringtones and apps

"Louie Louie" has long been a popular downloadable ringtone, starting with early MIDI versions, then audio track excerpts, and then full audio tracks. Tom Cruise in Knight and Day (2010) used the Kingsmen version as a ringtone/movement reminder.[340]

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.[341] In 2017 ByteDance acquired Musical.ly and merged it with TikTok to deliver app functionality for creating short lip-sync and music videos. TikTok's current Commercial Music Library of 150,000+ pre-licensed songs includes "Louie Louie" versions by the Kingsmen, the Kinks, Otis Redding, Motörhead, Young and Restless, and the Most.[342]

Use in audio sampling

The earliest known sampling of "Louie Louie" (Kingsmen version) was "Flying Saucer" by Ed Solomon in 1964 (Diamond 160), one of many "break-in" records popular in the 1960s.

Beginning in 1988, multiple rap and hip hop artists used audio samples of the keyboard intro and chorus of the Kingsmen version.[343]

Marching and concert band arrangements

In the 1980s, due to the widespread availability of sheet music arrangements, "Louie Louie" became a staple of concert, marching, and pep bands for middle schools, high schools, and colleges and universities in the U.S. The earliest known high school band albums with a song version were the Evanston Township High School's Hi-Lights 1965 and the Franklin High School Choir, Orchestra, and Stage Band's 1966 Bel Cantos Concert. The first college band album was the USC Trojan Marching Band's Let The Games Begin in 1984.[123] Early big band releases included Dick Crest (Would You Believe - The Dick Crest Orchestra) and Neil Chotem (Neil Chotem and his Orchestra), both in 1968.

Although not commercially released, an example of the song's influence was the 2000 performance by the Dover High School Band joined on saxophone by Bill Clinton (who played in a jazz trio named the Kingsmen at Hot Springs High School, and at whose 1964 graduation dance the actual Kingsmen played).[346][347][348]

Washington State Song

In 1985, Ross Shafer, host and a writer-performer of the late-night comedy series Almost Live! on the Seattle TV station KING, spearheaded an effort to have "Louie Louie" replace "Washington, My Home" by Helen Davis as Washington's official state song.[349] Picking up on this initially prankish effort, Whatcom County Councilman Craig Cole introduced Resolution No. 85-12 in the state legislature, citing the need for a "contemporary theme song that can be used to engender a sense of pride and community, and in the enhancement of tourism and economic development". His resolution also called for the creation of a new "Louie Louie County". While the House did not pass it, the Senate's Resolution 1985-37 declared April 12, 1985, "Louie Louie Day". A crowd of 4,000, estimated by press reports, convened at the state capitol that day for speeches, singalongs, and performances by the Wailers, the Kingsmen, and Paul Revere & the Raiders. Two days later, a Seattle event commemorated the occasion with the premiere performance of a new, Washington-centric version of the song written by composer Berry.[350] 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. "Louie Louie" remains the "unofficial state rock song".[351]

While 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.[297] 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.[352]

International Louie Louie Day

April 11 (Richard Berry's birthday) is celebrated as International Louie Louie Day[353][354] and is listed by Chase's Calendar of Events, the National Special Events Registry,[355] and other sources. This date was chosen as the most significant date for the observance of International Louie Louie Day from a list of "Louie Louie"-related dates occurring in April, including:

April 13, 1957 – Release of Richard Berry's original single.[356]

April 6, 1963 – The Kingsmen recorded the version that made "Louie Louie" famous.[357][358]

April 11 or 13, 1963 – Paul Revere and the Raiders recorded their competing version in the same studio.[112]

April 1, 1985 – First annual WMMR Louie Louie Parade in Philadelphia.[359][334]

April 12, 1985 – "Louie Louie Day" proclaimed by the state of Washington.[359]

April 14, 1985 – "Louie Louie Day" proclaimed by the mayor of Seattle.[360]

April 2, 1986 – "Louie Louie Day" proclaimed by the state of Oregon.[361]

April 10, 1998 – The Kingsmen won a historic legal case against Gusto Records/GML, regaining ownership and royalty rights to all their recordings.[362]

April 28, 2015 – Death of Kingsmen vocalist Jack Ely.[105]

April 24, 2020 – Death of Kingsmen front man Lynn Easton.[363][364]

April 16, 2021 – Death of Kingsmen guitarist Mike Mitchell.[107]

Support for International Louie Louie Day and other "Louie Louie"–related observances is provided by the Louie Louie Advocacy and Music Appreciation Society (LLAMAS).[365][366] and "Louie Louie" fans worldwide. Commemorations of International Louie Louie Day have included newspaper articles,[367] magazine stories,[368][369] and radio programs with discussions of the song's history and playlists of multiple "Louie Louie" versions.[370][371][372]

LouieFest

The City of Tacoma held a summer music and arts festival from 2003 to 2012 in July named LouieFest. The event began in 2003 as the "1000 Guitars Festival" and featured a group performance of "Louie Louie" open to anyone with a guitar. The event was renamed LouieFest in 2004. Members of the Wailers, Kingsmen, Raiders, Sonics and other groups with "Louie Louie" associations regularly made appearances. The grand finale each year was the "Celebration of 1000 Guitars" mass performance of "Louie Louie" on the main stage.[373][374]

Louie Louie parades

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.[375] DeBella described it as "... a parade for no reason ... and the no reason would be 'Louie Louie'."[376] It regularly drew crowds in excess of 50,000, but was ultimately cancelled due to excessive rowdiness.[377]

Peoria, Illinois has held an annual "Louie Louie" street party and festival every year since 1988. The Children's Hospital of Illinois is the most recent charitable beneficiary.[378]

Louie Louie sculpture

A sculpture titled "Louie Louie, 2013" by Las Vegas-based artist Tim Bavington is displayed on the lobby wall of the Edith Green - Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in Portland, Oregon. The work is constructed of 80 colored glass and acrylic panels representing the waveforms of the song using Bavington's concept of sculpting sound waves. [379][380]

Louie Louie hotel room

A hotel room in the McMenamins Crystal Hotel in Portland, Oregon has a "Louie Louie" theme including a painting representing the song by artist Jonathan Case and lyrics on the walls.[381] The hotel is a block away from the site of the 1963 Kingsmen and Raiders recordings.

The Louie Awards

The Seattle Times annually bestows its Louie Awards upon "those who - through conscious act, rotten luck or slip of the tongue - stretch the limits of imagination or tolerance or taste in the Great Northwest."[382]

Recognition and rankings

Summary of "Louie Louie" rankings and recognition in major publications and surveys.

Source Poll/Survey Year Rank
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Hall of Fame Singles 2018 None[383]
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll 1995 None[384]
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Grammy Hall of Fame 1999 None[385]
National Public Radio The 300 Most Important American Records of the 20th Century 1999 None[386]
Smash Hits, James E. Perone The 100 Songs That Defined America 2016 None[387]
The Wire Magazine The 100 Most Important Records Ever Made 1992 None[388]
Mojo Magazine Ultimate Jukebox: The 100 Singles You Must Own 2003 #1[389]
The Ultimate Playlist, Robert Webb The 100 Greatest Cover Versions 2012 #1[390]
Paste Magazine The 50 Best Garage Rock Songs of All Time 2014 #3[391]
Rolling Stone Magazine 40 Songs That Changed The World 2007 #5[392]
All Time Top 1000 Albums, Colin Larkin The All-Time Top 100 Singles 2000 #6[393]
Q Magazine The Music That Changed the World 2004 #10[394]
VH1 100 Greatest Songs of Rock and Roll 2000 #11[395]
The Heart of Rock and Soul, Dave Marsh The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made 1989 #11[396]
Rolling Stone Magazine The 100 Best Singles of the Last 25 Years 1989 #18[397]
Los Angeles Magazine LA's Top 100 2001 #19[398]
Rock and Roll, Paul Williams The 100 Best Singles 1993 #22[399]
VH1 100 Greatest Dance Songs 2000 #27[400]
NME Magazine Top 100 Singles of All Time 1976 #43[401]
Acclaimed Music Best of All Time Lists 2001 #44[402]
Mojo Magazine 100 Greatest Singles of All Time 1997 #51[403]
Rolling Stone Magazine The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time 2010 #54[404]
Rolling Stone Magazine The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time 2004 #55[405]
NEA and RIAA Songs of the Century 1999 #57[406]
Mojo Magazine Big Bangs: 100 Records That Changed The World 2007 # 70[407]
Pitchfork Magazine The 200 Best Songs of the 1960s 2006 #154[408]
Rolling Stone Magazine The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time 2021 #156[287]
NME Magazine The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time 2014 #157[409]
WCBS-FM Top 1001 Songs of the Century 2005 #184[410]

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This article is about the song For the American singer see Louie Louie musician For other uses see Louie Louie disambiguation 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 The song is based on the tune El Loco Cha Cha popularized by bandleader Rene Touzet and is an example of Afro Cuban influence on American popular music Louie Louie Single by Richard BerryA sideYou Are My Sunshine 1 2 Written1955ReleasedApril 1957 1957 04 Recorded1956StudioHollywood RecordersGenreRhythm and bluesLength2 09LabelFlipSongwriter s Richard BerryRichard Berry singles chronology Take The Key 1956 Louie Louie 1957 Sweet Sugar You 1957 Louie Louie tells in simple verse chorus form the first person story of a Jamaican sailor returning to the island to see his lover Contents 1 Historical significance 2 Original version by Richard Berry and the Pharaohs 3 Cover versions 3 1 1950s 3 2 1960s 3 2 1 Rockin Robin Roberts and the Wailers 1961 3 2 2 The Kingsmen 1963 3 2 3 Paul Revere amp the Raiders 1963 3 2 4 The Beach Boys 1964 3 2 5 Otis Redding 1964 3 2 6 The Angels 1964 3 2 7 The Kinks 1964 3 2 8 The Sandpipers 1966 3 2 9 Travis Wammack 1966 3 2 10 The Sonics 1966 3 2 11 Mongo Santamaria 1967 3 2 12 Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention 1967 3 2 13 Other 1960s versions 3 3 1970s 3 3 1 Iggy Pop 1972 3 3 2 Toots and the Maytals 1972 3 3 3 Brother Louie 1973 3 3 4 Patti Smith 1975 3 3 5 Jon the Postman 1977 3 3 6 Motorhead 1978 3 3 7 National Lampoon s Animal House 1978 3 3 8 Bruce Springsteen 1978 3 3 9 Other 1970s versions 3 4 1980s 3 4 1 Black Flag 1981 3 4 2 Stanley Clarke and George Duke 1981 3 4 3 Barry White 1981 3 4 4 The Fat Boys 1988 3 4 5 Other 1980s versions 3 5 1990s 3 5 1 Coupe de Ville 1990 3 5 2 The Three Amigos 1999 3 5 3 Other 1990s versions 3 6 2000s 3 7 2010s 3 8 2020s 3 9 Foreign language versions 4 Answer songs sequels and tributes 5 Louie Louie compilations 6 Lyrics controversy and investigations 7 Cultural impact 7 1 The Who 7 2 Psyche Rock and Futurama 7 3 Radio station marathons 7 4 Use in movies 7 5 Book 7 6 Use in video games 7 7 Use in ringtones and apps 7 8 Use in audio sampling 7 9 Marching and concert band arrangements 7 10 Washington State Song 7 11 International Louie Louie Day 7 12 LouieFest 7 13 Louie Louie parades 7 14 Louie Louie sculpture 7 15 Louie Louie hotel room 7 16 The Louie Awards 7 17 Recognition and rankings 8 References 9 Sources 10 Further reading 11 External linksHistorical significance EditThe remarkable historical impact 3 of Louie Louie has been recognized by organizations and publications worldwide for its influence on the history of rock and roll A partial list see Recognition and rankings table below includes the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the Grammy Hall of Fame National Public Radio VH1 Rolling Stone Magazine the National Endowment for the Arts and the Recording Industry Association of America 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 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 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 6 Rock critic Greil Marcus called it a law of nature 7 and New York Times music critic Jon Pareles writing in a 1997 obituary for Richard Berry termed it a cornerstone of rock 8 Other writers described it as musically simple lyrically simple and joyously infectious 9 deliciously moronic 10 a completely unforgettable earworm 11 and the essence of rock s primal energy 12 Others noted that it served as a bridge to the R amp B of the past and the rap scene of the future 13 that it came to symbolize the garage rock genre where the typical performance was often aggressive and usually amateurish 14 and that all you need to make a great rock n roll record are the chords to Louie Louie and a bad attitude 15 Humorist Dave Barry perhaps with some exaggeration called it one of the greatest songs in the history of the world 16 The Kingsmen s recording was the subject of an FBI investigation about the supposed but nonexistent obscenity of the lyrics that ended without prosecution 17 The nearly unintelligible and innocuous lyrics were widely misinterpreted and the song was banned by radio stations Marsh wrote that the lyrics controversy reflected the country s infantile sexuality and ensured the song s eternal perpetuation 18 while another writer termed it the ultimate expression of youthful rebellion 19 Jacob McMurray in Taking Punk To The Masses noted All of this only fueled the popularity of the song imprinting this grunge ur message onto successive generations of youth all of whom amplified and rebroadcast its powerful sonic meme 20 Original version by Richard Berry and the Pharaohs EditRichard Berry was inspired to write the song in 1955 after listening to an R amp B interpretation of El Loco Cha Cha performed by the Latin R amp B group Ricky Rillera and the Rhythm Rockers 21 The tune was written originally as Amarren Al Loco Tie Up the Madman by Cuban bandleader Rosendo Ruiz Jr also known as Rosendo Ruiz Quevedo but became best known in the El Loco Cha Cha arrangement by Rene Touzet which included a ten note 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 3 1 2 tumbao or rhythmic pattern 22 23 Louie Louie 10 note riffIn Berry s mind the words Louie Louie just kind of fell out of the sky 21 superimposing themselves over the repeating bassline Lyrically the first person perspective of the song was influenced by One for My Baby And One More for the Road which is sung from the perspective of a customer talking to a bartender Louie was the name of Berry s bartender 24 Berry cited Chuck Berry s Havana Moon and his exposure to Latin American music for the song s speech pattern and references to Jamaica 25 Los Angeles based Flip Records recorded Berry s adaptation with his vocal group the Pharaohs in 1956 and released it in April 1957 as a single B side of You Are My Sunshine 26 The Pharaohs were Godoy Colbert first tenor Stanley Henderson second tenor subbing for Robert Harris and Noel Collins baritone Gloria Jones of the Dreamers provided additional backup vocals Session musicians included Plas Johnson on tenor sax Jewel Grant on baritone sax Ernie Freeman on piano Irving Ashby on guitar Red Callender on bass Ray Martinez on drums and John Anderson on trumpet 27 28 Just prior to the song s release Berry sold his portion of the publishing and songwriting rights for Louie Louie and four other songs for 750 to Max Feirtag the head of Flip Records to raise cash for his upcoming wedding 21 29 The single was a regional hit on the West Coast particularly in San Francisco and when Berry toured the Pacific Northwest local R amp B bands began to play the song increasing its popularity The song was re released by Flip in 1961 as an A side single and again in 1964 on a four song EP but never appeared on any of the various record charts The label reported that the single had sold 40 000 copies Other versions appeared on Casino Club Presents Richard Berry 1966 Great Rhythm and Blues Oldies Volume 12 1977 The Best of Louie Louie 1983 and In Session Great Rhythm amp Blues 2002 Although similar to the original the version on Rhino s 1983 The Best of Louie Louie compilation 30 is actually a note for note re recording with backup vocals by doo wop revival group Big Daddy 31 created because licensing could not be obtained for Berry s 1957 version 32 7 The original version was not legitimately re released until the Ace Records Love That Louie compilation in 2002 33 While the title of the song is often rendered with a comma Louie Louie in 1988 Berry told Esquire magazine that the correct title of the song was Louie Louie with no comma 21 Cover versions Edit Louie Louie is the world s most recorded rock song with published estimates ranging from over 1 600 6 to more than 2 000 34 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 Peter Doggett labeled it almost impossible to play badly 35 and Greil Marcus proclaimed Has there ever been a bad version of Louie Louie 36 The Kingsmen version in particular has been cited as the rosetta stone of garage rock 37 the defining ur text of punk rock 38 39 and the original grunge classic 40 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 41 1950s Edit Richard Berry was on the underbill for a concert in the Seattle Tacoma area in September 1957 and his record appeared on local radio station charts in November 1957 42 Local R amp 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 43 44 Holden recorded an unreleased version backed by the Thunderbirds for the Nite Owl label in 1959 45 As a leader of the dirty but cool Seattle R amp B sound 46 he would often substitute mumbled somewhat pornographic lyrics in live performances 47 Lewis the singularly most significant figure on the Pacific Northwest s nascent rhythm amp blues scene in the 1950s and 1960s 48 released a three chord clone David s Mood Part 2 that was a regional hit in 1963 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 49 1960s Edit Rockin Robin Roberts and the Wailers 1961 Edit Louie Louie Single by Rockin Robin RobertsB side Maryanne Released1961 1961 Recorded1960GenreRhythm and blues rock and rollLength2 40LabelEtiquetteRobin Roberts developed an interest in rock n roll and rhythm and blues records as a high school student in Tacoma Washington Among the songs he began performing as an occasional guest singer with a local band the Bluenotes in 1958 were Louie Louie which he had heard on Berry s obscure original single and Bobby Day s Rockin Robin which gave him his stage name 50 In 1959 Roberts left the Bluenotes and began singing with another local band the Wailers famed for their hard nosed R amp B rock fusion 51 Known for his dynamic onstage performances Roberts added Louie Louie to the band s set and in 1960 recorded the track with the Wailers as his backing band 52 The arrangement devised by Roberts with the band was the first ever garage version of Louie Louie 52 and included his ad lib Let s give it to em RIGHT NOW Released as a single on the band s own label Etiquette in early 1961 it became a huge hit locally charting at No 1 on Seattle s KJR and establishing Louie Louie as the signature riff of Northwest rock n roll 53 It also picked up play across the border in Vancouver British Columbia appearing in the top 40 of the CFUN chart The popularity of the Roberts release effectively buried another version put out at about the same time by Little Bill Englehardt Topaz T 1305 52 The record was then reissued and promoted by Liberty Records in Los Angeles but it failed to chart nationally 54 The track was included on the 1963 album The Wailers amp Co the 1964 compilation album Tall Cool One the 1998 reissue of the 1962 album The Fabulous Wailers Live at the Castle and multiple later compilations 55 Roberts was killed in an automobile accident in 1967 but his legacy would reverberate down through the ages 53 Dave Marsh dedicated his 1993 book For Richard Berry who gave birth to this unruly child and Rockin Robin Roberts who first raised it to glory 56 The Kingsmen 1963 Edit Louie Louie Original releaseSingle by the Kingsmenfrom the album The Kingsmen in PersonB side Haunted Castle ReleasedJune 1963 1963 06 Jerden October 1963 1963 10 Wand RecordedApril 6 1963GenreGarage rock 57 Length2 42LabelJerdenProducer s Ken Chase Jerry DennonThe Kingsmen singles chronology Louie Louie 1963 Money 1964 Wand Re issue Second Wand release with Lead vocal by Jack Ely textOn 6 April 1963 58 the Kingsmen a rock and roll group from Portland Oregon chose Louie Louie for their second recording their first having been Peter Gunn Rock The Kingsmen recorded the song at Northwestern Inc Motion Pictures amp Recording Studios at 411 SW 13th Avenue in Portland Oregon The one hour session cost either 36 59 50 60 or somewhere in between 61 and the band split the cost 62 The session was produced by Ken Chase a local disc jockey on the AM rock station 91 KISN who also owned the teen nightclub that hosted the Kingsmen as their house band The engineer for the session was the studio owner Robert Lindahl The Kingsmen s lead vocalist Jack Ely based his version on the recording by Rockin Robin Roberts with the Fabulous Wailers but unintentionally reintroduced Berry s original rhythm as he showed the other members how to play it with a 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 3 beat instead of the 1 2 3 4 1 2 1 2 3 4 beat on the Wailers record 63 The night before their recording session the band played a 90 minute version of the song during a gig at a local teen club The Kingsmen s studio version was recorded in one partial and one full take 64 They also recorded Jamaica Farewell and what became the B side of the release an original surf instrumental 65 by Ely and keyboardist Don Gallucci called Haunted Castle 61 Jerry Dennon s local Jerden label pressed 1 000 copies 66 A significant error on the Kingsmen version occurs just after the lead guitar break As the group was going by the Wailers version which has a brief restatement of the riff twice over before the lead vocalist comes back in it would be expected that Ely would do the same Ely however missed his mark coming in two bars too soon before the restatement of the riff He realized his mistake and stopped the verse short but the band did not realize that he had done so As a quick fix drummer Lynn Easton covered the pause with a drum fill The error is now so well known that multiple versions by other groups duplicate it 67 68 The Kingsmen s version with its ragged 69 chaotic 70 shambolic lumbering style 71 complete with manic lead guitar solo insane cymbal crashes generally slurred and unintelligible lyrics 72 transformed the earlier Rockin Robin Roberts version on which it was based into a gloriously incoherent 73 raw and raucous 67 romp Ely had to stand on tiptoe to sing into a boom mike and his braces further impeded his singing The guitar break is triggered by a shout Okay let s give it to em right now both lifted from the Roberts version 74 Critic Dave Marsh suggests it is this moment that gives the recording greatness Ely went for it so avidly you d have thought he d spotted the jugular of a lifelong enemy so crudely that at that instant Ely sounds like Donald Duck on helium And it s that faintly ridiculous air that makes the Kingsmen s record the classic that it is especially since it s followed by a guitar solo that s just as wacky 75 Marsh ranked the song as No 11 out of the 1001 greatest singles ever made describing it as the most profound and sublime expression of rock and roll s ability to create something from nothing 76 In Rock and Roll An Introduction Michael Campbell notes The greater freedom of the rhythm section and a blues influenced guitar solo style were among the features that distinguish rock from the music that came before it Their use by the Kingsmen shows that they were becoming common practice 77 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 Herb Alpert and A amp M Records passed on the distribution opportunity 78 deeming it too long and out of tune 79 Sales of the Kingsmen record were initially so low reportedly 600 that the group considered disbanding Things changed when Boston s biggest DJ Arnie Ginsburg was given the record by a pitchman Amused by its slapdash sound he played it on his program as The Worst Record of the Week Despite the slam listener response was swift and positive 80 By the end of October it was listed in Billboard as a regional breakout and a bubbling under entry for the national chart Meanwhile the Raiders version with far stronger promotion was becoming a hit in California and was also listed as bubbling under one week after the Kingsmen debuted on the chart For a few weeks the two singles appeared destined to battle each other but demand for the Kingsmen single backed by national promotion from Wand acquired momentum and by the end of 1963 Columbia Records had stopped promoting the Raiders version It entered the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for December 7 and peaked at No 2 the following week a spot which it held for six non consecutive weeks it would remain in the top 10 throughout December 1963 and January 1964 before dropping off in early February 81 In total the Kingsmen s version spent 16 weeks on the Hot 100 selling a million copies by April 1964 82 Dominique by the Singing Nun and There I ve Said It Again by Bobby Vinton prevented the single from reaching No 1 although Marsh asserts that it far outsold the other records but was denied Billboard s top spot due to lack of proper decorum 83 Louie Louie did reach No 1 on the Cashbox and Music Vendor Record World pop charts as well as No 1 on the Cashbox R amp B chart 84 It was the last No 1 on Cashbox before Beatlemania hit the United States with I Want to Hold Your Hand 85 The Kingsmen version quickly became a standard at teen parties in the U S during the 1960s and reaching No 26 on the UK Singles Chart 86 was the preferred tune for a popular British dance called The Shake 87 The first album The Kingsmen In Person peaked at No 20 in 1964 and remained on the charts for over two years 131 weeks total until 1966 88 Due to the lyrics controversy and supported by the band s heavy touring schedule the single continued to sell throughout 1965 and briefly reappeared on the charts in 1966 reaching No 65 in Cashbox No 76 in Record World and No 97 in Billboard 89 90 Total sales estimates for the single range from 10 million 25 to over 12 million with cover versions accounting for another 300 million 91 Another factor in the success of the record may have been the rumor that the lyrics were intentionally slurred by the Kingsmen to cover up lyrics that were allegedly laced with profanity graphically depicting sex between the sailor and his lady Crumpled pieces of paper professing to be the real lyrics to Louie Louie circulated among teens The song was banned on many radio stations and in many places in the United States including Indiana where a ban was requested by Governor Matthew Welsh 92 93 94 95 These actions were taken despite the small matter that practically no one could distinguish the actual lyrics Denials of chicanery by Kingsmen and Ely did not stop the controversy The FBI started a 31 month investigation into the matter and concluded they were unable to interpret any of the wording in the record 17 However drummer Lynn Easton later admitted that he yelled Fuck after fumbling a drum fill at 0 54 on the record 96 97 98 99 By the time the Kingsmen version had achieved national popularity the band had split Two rival editions one featuring lead singer Jack Ely the other with Lynn Easton who held the rights to the band s name were competing for live audiences across the country A settlement was reached later in 1964 giving Easton the right to the Kingsmen name but requiring all future pressings of the original version of Louie Louie to display Lead vocal by Jack Ely on the label 100 Ely released Love That Louie as Jack E Lee and the Squires in 1964 and Louie Louie 66 and Louie Go Home as Jack Ely and the Courtmen in 1966 without chart success He re recorded Louie Louie in 1976 and again in 1980 and these versions appear on multiple 60s hit compilations credited to Jack Ely formerly of the Kingsmen or re recordings by the original artists Subsequent Kingsmen Louie Louie versions with either Lynn Easton or Dick Peterson as lead vocalist appeared on Live amp Unreleased recorded 1963 released 1992 Live at the Castle recorded 1964 released 2011 Shindig Presents Frat Party VHS recorded 1965 released 1991 60s Dance Party 1982 California Cooler Presents Cooler Hits recorded 1986 released 1987 101 The Louie Louie Collection as the Mystery Band 1994 Red White amp Rock 2002 Garage Sale recorded 2002 released 2003 and My Music 60s Pop Rock amp Soul DVD 2011 102 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 They had not been paid royalties on the songs since the 1960s 103 104 When Jack Ely died on April 28 2015 his son reported that my father would say We were initially just going to record the song as an instrumental and at the last minute I decided I d sing it 105 When it came time to do that however Ely discovered the sound engineer had raised the studio s only microphone several feet above his head Then he placed Ely in the middle of his fellow musicians all in an effort to create a better live feel for the recording The result Ely would say over the years was that he had to stand on his toes lean his head back and shout as loudly as he could just to be heard over the drums and guitars 106 When Mike Mitchell died on April 16 2021 he was the only remaining member of the Kingsmen s original lineup who still performed with the band 107 His Louie Louie guitar break has been called iconic 108 blistering 109 and one of the most famous guitar solos of all time 110 Guitar Player magazine noted Raw lightning fast and loud the solo s unbridled energy helped make the song a No 2 pop hit but also helped set the template for garage rock and later hard rock guitar 111 Paul Revere amp the Raiders 1963 Edit Louie Louie Single by Paul Revere amp the Raidersfrom the album Here They Come B side Night Train ReleasedMay 1963 1963 05 Sande June 1963 1963 06 Columbia RecordedApril 1963Length2 38LabelSandeProducer s Roger HartPaul Revere amp the Raiders singles chronology So Fine 1963 Louie Louie 1963 Louie Go Home 1963 Paul Revere amp the Raiders also recorded a version of Louie Louie probably on April 11 or 13 1963 in the same Portland studio as the Kingsmen 112 113 114 115 The recording was paid for and produced by KISN radio personality Roger Hart who soon became personal manager for the band Released on Hart s Sande label and plugged on his radio show 112 their version was more successful locally Columbia Records issued the single nationally in June 1963 and it went to No 1 in the West and Hawaii but only reached No 103 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart The quick success of Louie Louie faltered however possibly due to lack of support from Columbia and its A amp R man Mitch Miller a former bandleader Sing Along With Mitch with retrogressive taste 116 who disliked the musical illiteracy of rock and roll 117 The Raiders version opened with a distinctive Grab yo woman its a Louie Louie time followed by a sax intro similar to the Rockin Robin Roberts version guitar in later releases 118 Another distinctive lyric was Stomp and shout and work it on out The original version also contains a scarcely audible dirty lyric when Mark Lindsay says Do she fuck That psyches me up behind the guitar solo 119 Robert Lindahl president and chief engineer of NWI and sound engineer on both the Kingsmen and Raiders recordings stated that the Raiders version was not known for garbled lyrics or an amateurish recording technique but as one author noted their more competent but uptight take on the song was less exciting than the Kingsmen s version 120 Live versions were included on Here They Come 1965 Paul Revere Rides Again 1983 and The Last Madman of Rock and Roll 1986 DVD Later releases featured different lead vocalists on Special Edition 1982 Michael Bradley Generic Rock amp Roll 1993 Carlo Driggs Flower Power 2011 Darren Dowler and The Revolutionary Hits of Paul Revere amp the Raiders 2019 David Huizenga The Beach Boys 1964 Edit Surf music icons the Beach Boys released their version on the 1964 album Shut Down Volume 2 with lead vocals shared by Carl Wilson and Mike Love Their effort was unusual in that it was rendered in a version so faithful to Berry s Angeleno revered original 121 instead of the more common garage rock style as they pay 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 122 Other surf music versions included the Chan Dells in 1963 the Pyramids and the Surfaris in 1964 the Trashmen the Invictas and Jan and Dean in 1965 the Challengers in 1966 the Ripp Tides in 1981 and the Shockwaves in 1988 123 Otis Redding 1964 Edit Otis Redding s version was released on his 1964 album Pain in My Heart 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 124 Other versions by R amp B artists included Ike amp Tina Turner the Tams and Nat amp John in 1968 Wilbert Harrison in 1969 the Topics in 1970 and Barry White in 1981 123 The Angels 1964 Edit With a version on their 1964 album A Halo to You the Angels were the first girl group to cover Louie Louie 121 Their rendition also appeared on The Best of Louie Louie Volume 2 125 A Minnesota girl group the Shaggs released a version as a 1965 single Concert 1 78 65 and Honey Ltd covered the song on their eponymous 1968 album and as a single LHI 1216 however the distinction of first girl group participation on a released version of Louie Louie would go to the Shalimars an Olympia girl group who provided overdubbed backing vocals in 1960 for a recording by Little Bill Englehardt released as a single in 1961 Topaz 1305 52 Female solo artist versions in the 1960s included Maddalena in 1967 titled Lui Lui as a single RCA Italiana 3413 Tina Turner in 1968 released in 1989 on The Best of Louie Louie Volume 2 and a sexiest of all version by smokey voiced diva Julie London 126 released as a single Liberty 56085 and included on her 1969 album Yummy Yummy Yummy 123 The Kinks 1964 Edit Louie Louie Song by the Kinksfrom the EP Kinksize SessionReleasedNovember 27 1964 1964 11 27 RecordedOctober 18 1964 1964 10 18 StudioPye Studios LondonGenreRhythm and bluesLength2 57LabelPyeProducer s Shel TalmyThe Kinks recorded Louie Louie on October 18 1964 It was released in November on the Kinksize Session EP and on two 1965 US only albums Kinks Size and Kinkdom Live 1960s versions were released on bootlegs The Kinks in Germany 1965 Kinky Paris 1965 Live in San Francisco 1969 Kriminal Kinks 1972 and The Kinks at the BBC 2012 The Kast Off Kinks continue to perform it live occasionally joined by Ray Davies at the annual Kinks Konvention 127 Sources vary on the impact of Louie Louie on the writing of You Really Got Me and All Day and All of the Night One writer called the two songs sparse representations of a Louie Louie mentality 128 Another noted that the You Really Got Me riff is unquestionably a guitar based piece that fundamentally differs from Louie Louie and other earlier riff pieces with which it sometimes is compared 129 while another succinctly calls it a rewrite of the Kingsmen s Louie Louie 130 A 1965 letter to London s Record Mirror opined Besides completely copying the Kingsmen s vocal and instrumental style The Kinks rose to fame with two watery twists of this classic 131 Dave Marsh asserted that the Kinks blatantly based their best early hits on the Louie Louie riff 132 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 133 According to biographer Thomas M Kitts Davies confirmed that Page suggested that he write a song like Louie Louie but denied any direct influence 134 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 Rogan also cited brother Dave Davies distorted power chords as the sonic contribution that transformed the composition into a hit song 135 Whether directly or indirectly the Kingsmen version influenced the musical style of the early Kinks They were huge fans of the Kingsmen s Louie Louie and Dave Davies remembered the song inspiring Ray s singing saying in an interview 136 137 We played that record over and over And Ray copied a lot of his vocal style from that guy Jack Ely I was always trying to get Ray to sing because I thought he had a great voice but he was very shy Then we heard The Kingsmen and he had that lazy throwaway laid back drawl in his voice and it was magic The Sandpipers 1966 Edit After their No 1 hit Guantanamera the Sandpipers with producer Tommy LiPuma and arranger Nick DeCaro cleverly revived the same soft rock smooth ballad Spanish language approach to Louie Louie 138 reaching No 30 and No 35 on the Billboard and Cash Box charts respectively the highest charting U S version after the Kingsmen The success of their smoky version 139 heralded the entry of the ever adaptable Louie Louie into the MOR and easy listening categories and many followed David McCallum and J J Jones 1967 Honey Ltd 1968 Julie London 1969 Sounds Orchestral 1970 Line Renaud 1973 Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin 1991 and others released singles and albums featuring slower and mellower versions of what had previously been an up tempo pop and rock standard 140 Travis Wammack 1966 Edit With the only instrumental version to make the charts Travis Wammack reached No 128 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 in April 1966 141 An early guitar innovator his proto fuzztone sound on Louie Louie was created by playing through an overdriven drive in movie speaker 142 Released as a single Atlantic 2322 the track was not included on Wammack s first album in 1972 or any thereafter It appeared on a 1967 French release Formidable Rhythm And Blues Vol 3 but not again until two Wammack compilations That Scratchy Guitar From Memphis 1987 and Scr Scr Scratchy 1989 It was also included on two later various artists compilations Love That Louie The Louie Louie Files 2002 and Boom Boom A Go Go 2014 Other notable 1960s instrumental versions included the Ventures and Ian Whitcomb in 1965 Ace Cannon and Sandy Nelson in 1966 Floyd Cramer and Pete Fountain in 1967 and Willie Mitchell in 1969 123 The Sonics 1966 Edit The Sonics released their version as a 1965 single Etiquette ET 23 and on the 1966 album Boom Later versions appeared on Sinderella 1980 and Live at Easy Street 2016 Described as a major influence on punk and garage music worldwide 143 the group s characteristic hard edged fuzz drenched sound and abrasive all out approach 144 took the Northwest garage sound to its most primitive extreme 145 and made their Louie Louie version ahead of its time They also made it more fierce and threatening 146 by altering the traditional 1 4 5 4 chord pattern to the sinister sounding 1 3b 4 3b 147 Mongo Santamaria 1967 Edit The Watermelon Man Cuban percussionist and bandleader Mongo Santamaria returned Louie Louie to its Afro Cuban roots echoing Rene Touzet s El Loco Cha Cha with his conga and trumpet driven Latin jazz version Originally released on the 1967 album Hey Let s Party it was also included on the 1983 compilation The Best of Louie Louie Volume 2 125 Other early Latin flavored versions were released by Pedrito Ramirez con los Yogis Angelo 518 1965 Pete Terrace El Nuevo Pete Terrace 1966 Eddie Cano Brought Back Live from P J s 1967 Mario Allison De Fiesta 1967 and Rey Davila On His Own 1971 Latin American jazz rock innovator Carlos Santana compared Tito Puente s 1962 Oye Como Va to Louie Louie saying how close the feel was to Louie Louie and some Latin jazz tunes 148 and this is a song like Louie Louie or Guantanamera This is a song that when you play it people are going to get up and dance and that s it 149 Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention 1967 Edit Louie Louie repeatedly figured in the musical lexicon of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention in the 1960s he categorized the riff as one of several Archetypal American Musical Icons whose presence in an arrangement puts a spin on any lyric in their vicinity 150 and used it initially to make fun of the old fashioned rock n roll they had transcended 7 His original compositions Plastic People and Ruthie Ruthie from You Can t Do That on Stage Anymore Vol 1 were set to the melody of Louie Louie and included Richard Berry co writer credits 151 Zappa said that he fired guitarist Alice Stuart from the Mothers of Invention because she couldn t play Louie Louie although this comment was obviously intended as a joke 152 At a 1967 concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London Mothers of Invention keyboardist Don Preston climbed up to the venue s famous pipe organ usually used for classical works and played the signature riff included on the 1969 album Uncle Meat Quick interpolations of Louie Louie also frequently turn up in other Zappa works 153 Other 1960s versions Edit Little Bill with the Adventurers and the Shalimars as a 1961 single Topaz T 1305 154 The Wailers on their 1963 album The Wailers and Company 123 The Standells on a 1964 album The Standells in Person at P J s 123 Pat Metheny in the 1960s with his first group The Beat Bombs 155 John Fogerty live in 1964 with the Golliwogs 156 The Bobby Fuller Four recorded 1964 released on a French bootleg LP I Fought The Law in 1983 and on El Paso Rock Early Recordings Vol 1 in 1996 123 Jan and Dean live on their 1965 Command Performance album backed by the Fantastic Baggys 123 157 The Invictas on their 1965 album The Invictas A Go Go re released in 1983 123 The Pink Finks Australia as a 1965 single Mojo MO 001 158 The Castaways live in 1965 at the Cow Palace 159 The Troggs on their 1966 From Nowhere album Their 1966 hit single Wild Thing also used a very similar chord progression A rerecorded version was released on the 2013 album This Is The Troggs 123 160 The song underwent psychedelic treatment courtesy of the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band in 1966 on their debut album Volume One Friar Tuck on his 1967 album Friar Tuck and His Psychedelic Guitar Neighb rhood Childr n on their 1997 album recorded 1967 Long Years in Space and the Underground All Stars on their 1968 album Extremely Heavy 123 The Beau Brummels on a 1966 album Beau Brummels 66 and a second version on the 1968 compilation The Best of the Beau Brummels Vol 44 123 The Swingin Medallions on their 1966 album Double Shot 123 The Syndicate of Sound a live version from 1966 was released in 1991 by Cream Puff War magazine 161 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 162 163 Pink Floyd in an earlier incarnation as The Pink Floyd Sound regularly included psychedelic Louie Louie versions with wild improvised interludes 164 and echo laced discordant jams 165 in their setlists in the mid 60s 166 167 Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead Joey Covington vocals Jerry Garcia Jorma Kaukonen Gary Duncan Jack Casady Mike Shrieve others live at the Family Dog at Great Highway San Francisco on September 7 1969 168 169 The Beatles from the Get Back Let It Be sessions in 1969 released on the 1995 Jamming With Heather bootleg CD 170 1970s Edit Iggy Pop 1972 Edit Iggy Pop then known as Jim Osterberg began performing Louie Louie with his own version of the dirty lyrics in 1965 as a member of the Iguanas 171 Later with the Stooges and as a solo performer he recorded multiple versions of the song As the godfather of punk he inspired a host of punk rock successors including many with their own versions as the song became a live staple for many punk rock bands of the 1970s 172 173 An early London rehearsal version from 1972 was released on Heavy Liquid 2005 and again on Born In A Trailer 2016 A 1973 live version was released on The Detroit Tapes 2009 Metallic KO 1976 featured a provocative version with impromptu obscene lyrics from the last performance of Iggy and the Stooges in 1974 at the Michigan Palace in Detroit where according to Lester Bangs you can actually hear hurled beer bottles breaking on guitar strings 174 55 Minute Louie Louie released in 2017 by Shave on their High Alert digital album commemorated the occasion Consequence called this version a rock standard blown up from the inside out and said The band s cover of Louie Louie somehow both honors their rock n roll forebears and spits on their legacy In other words it s punk at its best 175 Pop later wrote a new version with political and satirical verses instead of obscenities that was released on American Caesar in 1993 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 176 Far Out Magazine called it the best version of the song out there 177 It was used during the opening credits of Michael Moore s Capitalism A Love Story and as an ending song in Jim Jarmusch s Coffee and Cigarettes in which Pop took part as himself The Just Dance video game also featured this version performed by a dancing Iggy Pop avatar 178 Multiple live versions were released on Nuggets recorded 1980 released 1999 Where The Faces Shine Volume 2 recorded 1982 released 2008 The Legendary Breaking Point Tour recorded 1983 released 1993 Kiss My Blood 1991 VHS Beside You 1993 and Roadkill Rising 1994 Toots and the Maytals 1972 Edit Louie Louie journeyed to its lyrical Jamaican destination with a reggae version by Toots and the Maytals It was released as a 1972 UK single Trojan TR 7865 and on the 1973 Funky Kingston album described by rock critic Lester Bangs writing in Stereo Review as Perfection the most exciting and diversified set of reggae tunes by a single artist yet released 179 A BBC reviewer said The goofy garage anthem becomes both fiery sermon and dance til you drop marathon And thanks to Toots soulman s disregard for verbal meaning the words are if anything even harder to discern than in the Kingsmen s version 180 Rolling Stone wrote And it passes the toughest test of any Louie Louie remake it rocks hard 181 and Hi Fi News amp Record Review cited its incomprehensible majesty and crazy vigour that made it the best version ever 182 Another author writing about the song s use in a scene in This Is England noted A black Jamaican band s cover of a black American song made famous by a white American band seems an appropriate signifier of the racial harmony that director Shane Meadows seeks to evoke 183 The group performed the song frequently in concert and a live version appeared on the 1998 various artists album Reggae Live Sessions Volume 2 Toots Hibbert also performed it solo and with other acts most notably the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Dave Matthews Band 184 Brother Louie 1973 Edit Although musically not a true cover version Brother Louie Errol Brown and Tony Wilson s song about an interracial romance was termed by Dave Marsh as one of the truest heirs Richard Berry s Louie Louie ever had based on its theme of separated lovers and its minor key reprise of the chorus 185 The original release by Hot Chocolate reached No 7 on the UK singles chart A cover version by Stories was a No 1 hit in the U S later the same year but with the racial roles reversed 185 In 1993 the Quireboys version reached No 31 in the UK Patti Smith 1975 Edit Multiple live versions by Patti Smith the punk poet laureate 186 were released in the mid 1970s on bootleg albums Let s Deodorize The Night Teenage Perversity amp 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 123 187 188 Her cover version has been described as tapping directly into the primal urchin like spirit of rock s renaissance 189 Jon the Postman 1977 Edit Described as a committed and omnipresent figure on the punk and post punk scene in Manchester 190 Jon the Postman became known for waiting until headline bands like the Buzzcocks the Fall and Warsaw later Joy Division 191 had finished their sets sometimes before they had finished before mounting the stage in a drunken state grabbing the microphone and performing his own versions of Louie Louie 192 193 The first occurrence was at a Buzzcocks concert at the Band on the Wall venue on May 2 1977 194 which he described I think the Buzzcocks left the stage and the microphone was there and a little voice must have been calling This is your moment Jon I ve no idea to this day why I sang Louie Louie the ultimate garage anthem from the 60s And why I did ita cappellaand changed all the lyrics apart from the actual chorus I have no idea I suppose it was my bid for immortality one of those great bolts of inspiration 195 For some reason it appeared to go down rather well I suppose it was taking the punk ethos to the extreme anyone can have a go Before punk it was like you had to have a double degree in music It was a liberation for someone like me who was totally unmusical but wanted to have a go 196 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 193 A version with his group Puerile was included on the 1978 album John the Postman s Puerile Motorhead 1978 Edit Louie Louie Single by Motorheadfrom the album Overkill re issue B side Tear Ya Down Released25 August 1978 UK 197 Recorded1978StudioWessex LondonGenreRock and roll hard rockLength2 47LabelBronze EMIProducer s Neil Richmond MotorheadMotorhead singles chronology Motorhead 1977 Louie Louie 1978 Overkill 1979 Louie Louie was Motorhead s first single for Bronze Records in 1978 following their initial release on Chiswick Records in 1977 A rough edged cover of the garage rock warhorse 198 with Clarke s guitar emulating the Hohner Pianet electric piano riff it was released with Tear Ya Down as a 7 vinyl single Supported by a back breaking touring schedule the high octane version reached No 68 on the UK Singles Chart 199 The track also appeared on the CD re issues of Overkill 1996 and The Best of Motorhead 2000 On 25 October 1978 a pre recording of the band playing the song was broadcast on the BBC show Top of the Pops 200 and was subsequently released on the 2005 album BBC Live amp In Session Another live 1978 version was released on Lock Up Your Daughters 1990 and a 1978 alternate studio track appeared Over the Top The Rarities 2000 The 2005 deluxe edition of Overkill included the original version the BBC version and two alternate versions National Lampoon s Animal House 1978 Edit 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 Belushi may have insisted on singing Louie Louie because he associated it with losing his virginity but according to director John Landis it was included in the screenplay by soundtrack producer Kenny Vance long before Belushi was involved with the project because it would be the song the Deltas would sing 201 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 Although Richard Berry released his original version of the song in 1957 and the song had been popular with local bands in the Northwest following Rockin Robin Roberts 1961 single the mythical Faber College was based on Dartmouth College in the Northeast U S so the use of Louie Louie was an anachronism 201 The Kingsmen version was heard during the film along with a brief live rendition by Belushi with Tim Matheson Peter Riegert Tom Hulce Stephen Furst Bruce McGill and James Widdoes A separate version by Belushi played during the credits and was included on the soundtrack album The Belushi version was also released as a single MCA 3046 and reached No 89 and No 91 on the Billboard and Cash Box charts respectively 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 The film s soundtrack producer Kenny Vance formerly of Jay and the Americans also released a version with his group The Planotones on the 2007 album Dancin And Romancin Bruce Springsteen 1978 Edit Bruce Springsteen has had a long association with Louie Louie playing it at multiple concerts and guest appearances and commenting often on its significance From the 1979 No Nukes concert 202 Rock is primarily about longing All the great rock songs are about longing Like A Rolling Stone is about longing How does it feel to be without a home Louie Louie You re yearning for Where s that big party that I know is out there but I can t find it From the 2018 soundtrack album for Springsteen on Broadway spoken intro to Tenth Avenue Freeze Out 203 There is no love without one plus one equaling three It s the essential equation of art It s the essential equation of rock n roll It s the reason the universe will never be fully comprehensible It s the reason Louie Louie will never be fully comprehensible And it s the reason true rock n roll and true rock n roll bands will never die He has said that Born in the U S A was the most misunderstood song since Louie Louie 204 and one critic characterized The River as Less Kierkegaard lots more Kingsmen 205 The first known recorded performance was on September 9 1978 at the University of Notre Dame on the Darkness Tour followed by other tour performances in 1978 1981 2009 and 2014 He also played the song in guest appearances with other groups in 1982 at the Stone Pony with Cats on a Hot Surface and 1983 at The Headliner in Neptune NJ with Midnight Thunder Song snippets are frequently played within other songs High School Confidential Twist and Shout Glory Days and Pay Me My Money Down 206 Multiple concert bootleg albums included a live Louie Louie version Reggae N Soul 1988 Notre Dame Game 1981 Rockin Days 1983 Rock Through The Jungle 1983 Rock amp Roll is Here to Stay 1990 Clubs Stories 1994 Songs for an Electric Mule 1994 Lost amp Live 1995 The Boss Hits the Sixties 2009 Satisfaction 2014 Charlotte NC 04 19 14 2014 Who s Been Covered By The Boss 2014 Saginaw 1978 2015 and High Hopes Tour 2014 2018 E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg played Louie Louie on his 2017 live Jukebox show 207 and guitarist Nils Lofgren credited some of his success to I just happened to play Louie Louie a little different than the other guys 208 Steven Van Zandt remembered it as the record that changed his life saying That s where it all started 209 More recently Springsteen included the Kingsmen s version in a curated frat rock playlist on the 25th episode of his From My Home to Yours Sirius XM radio show in July 2021 210 Other 1970s versions Edit Allman Brothers Band live at the 1970 Tulane University homecoming dance 211 John Lennon and Friends at his 31st birthday party in 1971 released on the 1989 bootleg CD Let s Have A Party 212 MC5 live in Helsinki in 1972 released on the Kick Copenhagen bootleg LP 123 New York Dolls live in the early 1970s 213 their song Private World has been termed a Louie Louie update 214 Flamin Groovies on their 1971 album Teenage Head and included on their 1976 compilation Still Shakin Live versions appeared on Bucketful of Brains 1983 Slow Death Live France 1983 and Studio 70 France 1984 123 The Clash on the 1977 Louie is a Punkrocker vinyl bootleg 215 216 The Dictators live at Popeye s Spinach Factory in 1977 217 The Fall on the Live 1977 album 218 Spider Stacy and the New Bastards later with The Pogues live at Whitefields School in 1977 219 The Studs punk spoof supergroup Cabaret Voltaire members Stephen Mallinder Richard H Kirk and Chris Watson plus Ian Craig Marsh Adi Newton Glenn Gregory Martyn Ware and Haydn Boyes Weston live in Sheffield UK in June 1977 220 Lou Reed live at the Bottom Line May 21 1978 221 Uh Julian Cope Ian McCulloch Dave Pickett Pete Griffiths live in Liverpool in 1978 222 Blondie live on the on the European Tour December 1979 January 1980 released on the Wet Lips Shapely Hips bootleg album 123 223 1980s Edit Black Flag 1981 Edit Louie Louie The cover features Black Flag s singer Dez Cadena and some of his improvised lyrics to Louie Louie Single by Black FlagB side Damaged I Released1981 1981 7 inch single CD singleGenreHardcore punkLength5 22LabelPosh BoyProducer s Spot Black FlagThe Hermosa Beach California hardcore punk band Black Flag released a raw 224 rubbished 225 version of Louie Louie as a single in 1981 through Posh Boy Records It was the band s first release with Dez Cadena as singer replacing Ron Reyes who had left the group the previous year 226 227 Cadena would go on to sing on the Six Pack EP before switching to rhythm guitar and being replaced on vocals by Henry Rollins 226 228 Cadena improvised his own nihilistic rewording 229 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 The single also included an early version of Damaged I which would be re recorded with Rollins for the band s debut album Damaged later that year 229 Demo versions of both tracks recorded with Cadena were included on the 1982 compilation album Everything Went Black 230 The front cover art shows the main verse of the lyrics to Louie Louie over a photograph by Edward Colver featuring Black Flag s third singer Dez Cadena Bryan Carroll of AllMusic gave the single four out of five stars saying Of the more than 1 500 commitments of Richard Berry s Louie Louie to wax Black Flag s volatile take on the song is incomparable No strangers to controversy themselves the band pummel the song with their trademark pre Henry Rollins era guitar sludge while singer Dez Cadena spits out his nihilistic rewording of the most misunderstood lyrics in rock history 229 Both tracks from the single were included on the 1983 compilation album The First Four Years and Louie Louie was also included on 1987 s Wasted Again 231 232 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 233 Continued touring line up changes and occasional reunions have resulted in multiple recorded live versions with various lead singers Keith Morris Dez Cadena Henry Rollins Ron Reyes and Mike Vallely Stanley Clarke and George Duke 1981 Edit A duo of jazz rock fusioneers 234 bassist Stanley Clarke and keyboardist George Duke included a killer version 235 funk cover 236 on The Clarke Duke Project a 1981 album of eight original compositions and one cover The song s combination of narration and singing within a storytelling structure elicited a variety of critic s reactions ranging from appealing 237 and imaginative adaptation 234 to probably the funkiest version of Louie Louie ever recorded 238 One Allmusic reviewer called it a truly bizarre rendition 239 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 236 A single was also released in Europe cut to 3 38 from the album s 5 05 length 240 The album was nominated for a 1982 Grammy Award for Best R amp B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals Barry White 1981 Edit Disco king Barry White created Richard Berry s all time favorite version 241 as he reworked and revamped 242 the original to create a Latin tinged 243 rendition that took the song from pure rock n roll to pure moan n groan 241 Not all reaction was positive however as CD Review dismissed it as blasphemy and disco fied 244 White commented I m gonna sing just like Richard Berry I m gonna do this song that this black guy wrote Everybody thinks that these white guys recorded it but a black guy did this 245 Dave Marsh summarized Berry s reaction In White s arrangement Louie Louie emerges as an up tempo Latin groove driven by timbales and congas and punctuated by brilliant trumpet riffs while White supplements the chorus with the plaintive interpolation Comin home Jamaaaica Richard Berry loved it because White s version finally brought to life his original vision of all the timbales and congas going and me singing Louie Louie Barry White did it exactly the way I wanted to do it Berry enthused I loved it 241 The track was released on White s 1981 Beware album and also as 12 and a 7 single shortened from 7 14 to 3 35 246 White also performed it on Soul Train on September 19 1981 247 The Fat Boys 1988 Edit The Fat Boys with producers Latin Rascals brought Louie Louie up to date in 1988 with a hip hop version which reached No 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No 46 on the UK Top 100 Their rap with rewritten lyrics chronicled a pursuit of the song s real words 248 The Fat Boys version was released on the Coming Back Hard Again album on the Tin Pan Apple label and also on a 12 single 5 42 and 3 50 edits and a 7 single 3 50 edit The 2009 compilation album Fat Boys On Rewind included it as well 249 Notable live performances in 1988 included Club MTV and the MTV Video Music Awards The music video directed by Scott Kalvert was a parody of Animal House with food fights dancing girls and togas Dave Marsh in 1993 called their version the last great Louie Louie to date 248 The year 1988 also saw multiple rap and hip hop releases with Louie Louie sampling see Use in sampling section below Other 1980s versions Edit The Grateful Dead multiple live versions in the 1980s with Brent Mydland on vocals 250 Joan Jett amp the Blackhearts on the 1992 CD reissue of the 1981 album I Love Rock n Roll one of multiple versions that deliberately repeated the Jack Ely early vocal entry mistake 67 251 39 Clocks Germany recorded as Psychotic Louie Louie on their 1982 album Subnarcotic 123 Rory Gallagher live at the Olympia Hall Paris in 1982 released on the 2022 album A Burning Fever 252 The Last on the 1983 various artists album The Best of Louie Louie also released on Painting Smiles on a Dead Man France 1983 123 Australian Crawl on their 1983 album Phalanx and as a single also released on the 1986 album The Final Wave as The Last Louie Louie 123 The Bangles in 1984 on MTV s The Cutting Edge 253 The Kingsmen in an audience performance at the end of Bud Clark s Inaugural Ball beginning his term as Mayor of Portland Oregon in 1985 254 Girl Trouble on the 1990 album Stomp And Shout And Work It On Out recorded 1985 123 The Sisters of Mercy on the 1985 EP Brimstone amp Treacle Various live versions appeared on bootleg albums Possession Half Moon Over Amsterdam The Lights Shine Clear Through The Sodium Haze A Fire In The Hull At The Blind Parade Cryptic Flowers Live In Maastricht Tune In Turn Off Burn Out and The Quality Of Mercy 123 Husker Du Meat Puppets Minutemen Saccharine Trust and SWA on the 1986 VHS release The Tour 255 Meat Loaf in multiple concerts in Germany Switzerland and the UK on the 20 20 World Tour in 1987 256 Paul Shaffer on the 1989 album Coast to Coast 123 John Stamos with Scott Baio and cast members on Full House S3E9 November 24 1989 257 1990s Edit Coupe de Ville 1990 Edit Written by Mike Binder and directed by Joe Roth Coupe de Ville featured an extended scene discussing possible interpretations of the Louie Louie lyrics and a closing credit montage of multiple Louie Louie versions Hearing the Kingsmen version on a car radio sparks an extended debate among the three Libner brothers Patrick Dempsey Arye Gross Daniel Stern about the lyrics and whether it is a hump song a dance song or a sea chanty with the eldest and most worldly brother arguing for the last interpretation 258 259 As the Los Angeles Times noted Joe Roth obviously knows the importance of the Louie Louie lyric controversy 260 Multiple versions played during the closing credits Richard Berry the Rice University Marching Owl Band the Sandpipers Les Dantz and his Orchestra 261 the Kingsmen and Young MC s Louie Louie House Mix a remix of the Kingsmen version with samples from Richard Berry and the Rice University MOB The movie trailer also used the Richard Berry and Kingsmen versions The soundtrack album released by Cypress Records on vinyl CD and cassette included the Kingsmen and Young MC versions A 12 EP Cypress Records V 74500 was released with four tracks Louie Rap Louie Vocal Attack Louie Louie House Mix and Louie DePalma Mix all featuring Maestro Fresh Wes and produced by Young MC A music video of Louie Louie House Mix credited to Various Artists featuring Young MC was concurrently released and included appearances by Robert Townsend It s a hump song Kareem Abdul Jabbar It s a dance song Martin Short Young MC and others The inclusion of the Kingsmen s Louie Louie is a bit of an anachronism in that the film takes place on a trip from Detroit to Florida during the summer of 1963 The initial release of the Kingsmen version on the regional Jerden label was in May 1963 but no significant national radio airplay and chart activity or lyrics controversy occurred until October and its national chart debut was not until early November 262 The Three Amigos 1999 Edit The first release by the Three Amigos Dylan Amlot Milroy Nadarajah and Marc Williams was their cover of Louie Louie The 12 EP titled Louie Louie included Original Mix Da Digglar Mix Wiseguys Remix and Touche s Bonus Beats Released in July 1999 the Original Mix version reached No 15 on the UK Singles Chart higher than the Kingsmen s No 26 in 1964 and to date remains the last Louie Louie version to appear on the US or UK charts 263 The group s logo paid tribute to the logo of the Kingsmen 264 Other 1990s versions Edit Johnny Winter on the 1990 album A Lone Star Kind of Day 123 Ry Cooder live in 1990 at a Village Music function with Richard Berry Tim Drummond Scott Mathews Steve Douglas and Johnnie Johnson 265 The Dave Matthews Band in some of their early 1990s setlists A version was included on the 2000 album The Best Of What s Around Vol 1 266 John Stamos and David Coulier on Full House S7E3 September 28 1993 with Dylan amp Blake Tuomy Wilhoit 267 The Queers on a bonus 7 record included with the 1994 Shout at the Queers album 268 Neil Diamond live at the 1995 NYU commencement ceremony 269 At the 1997 opening of the Experience Music Project an encore version was performed by the Kingsmen joined by Paul Allen the Presidents of the United States of America and Steve Turner of Mudhoney The other members of Mudhoney declined to participate 270 Warren Zevon live with the Rock Bottom Remainders in Bangor Maine in 1998 Horror author Stephen King sang lead and music critic Joel Selvin performed an extended scream solo 271 2000s Edit The Guess Who in their 2000 reunion concert in Winnipeg 272 Burton Cummings regularly performed live versions at various concerts 273 Steve Jordan released an innovative blatantly personal 274 Tejano conjunto version on his 2005 album 25 Golden Hits 275 Mike Huckabee and Capitol Offense live at HuckPAC 2008 276 Lisa Simpson and the Springfield Children s Band on the 2005 episode of The Simpsons Episode 367 We re on the Road to D ohwhere 277 Dick Dale live at the Surf Club in Ortley Beach NJ in 2007 278 Joe McPhee Cato Salsa Experience and The Thing on the 2007 album Two Bands And A Legend 279 Eddie Angel and Johnny Rabb with The Trashmen live at the Turf Club in St Paul MN on November 22 2008 280 The Hives live with The Sonics November 27 2009 at Debaser Medis Stockholm Sweden 281 The Smashing Pumpkins on their 2008 Live Smashing Pumpkins album series 282 Detroit7 Japan on two 2009 albums Detroit7 and Black amp White 283 James Williamson with Careless Hearts on their eponymous 2009 album 284 2010s Edit Baby It s You a 2011 Broadway jukebox musical featured a production of Louie Louie by cast members as the Kingsmen the Shirelles and Chuck Jackson that was released on the original cast soundtrack album 285 Billy Joel live at the Moda Center in Portland on December 8 2017 286 2020s Edit The September 2021 issue of Rolling Stone magazine published a revised list of Rolling Stone s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time that ranked Louie Louie No 156 down from No 54 in the 2004 and 2010 rankings 287 Foreign language versions Edit Shortly after the Kingsmen s version charted in late 1963 the first international covers appeared Since the original lyrics were notoriously difficult to discern the translations were often inaccurate or adapted to a different storyline Early foreign language versions included 288 Los Apson Mexico as Ya No Lo Hagas on a 1963 single Peerless 1263 and a 1964 album Atras De La Raya Joske Harry s and the King Creoles Belgium on a 1963 single Arsa 107 Les Players France as Si C Etait Elle on a 1964 single Polydor 1879 and a 1964 EP Polydor 27 129 Los Supersonicos El Salvador on a 1965 single DCA 1082 and eponymous album Pedrito Ramirez con Los Yogis US on a 1965 single Angelo 518 I Trappers Italy as Lui Lui Non Ha on a 1965 single CGD 9606 Los Corbs Spain as Loui Loui on a 1966 EP Marfer M 622 Les Zeniths Canada on a 1966 single Premiere 825 Maddalena Italy as Lui Lui on a 1967 single RCA Italiana 3413 Los Yetis Colombia on a 1968 album OlvidateIn 1966 the Sandpipers a US group released a slower tempo Spanish language version that reached No 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was covered that same year in German by Die Rosy Singers 289 The 1983 compilation The Best of Louie Louie featured a Russian version by Red Square 30 and in 1997 an entire album of Spanish covers The First Louie Louie Spanish Compilation was released with versions by the Flaming Sideburns the Navahodads Los DelTonos and eight others 290 Other Spanish versions were released by Los Hermanos Carrion Mexico as Alu Aluai on a 1971 album Lagrimas de Cristal Que Manera de Perder Los Elegantes Spain as Luisa Se Va on a 1985 album Paso A Paso 291 and Desperados Spain on a 1997 album Por Un Punado De Temas In 1988 Michael Doucet released a great vocal treatment 292 of Louie Louie in Cajun French on the Michael Doucet and Cajun Brew album 290 CD Review characterized his version as oddly appropriate 293 More recent non English efforts included Elektricni Orgazam Serbia as Lui Lui on a 1986 album Distorzija Irha Italy as Lui Luisa on a 1989 EP Beati I Primi Attack Punk Records APR 12 294 Elakelaiset Finland as Tilulilulei on a 1994 album Joulumanteli The Dizzy Brains Madagascar as Hiala Aho Zao on a 2014 album Mola Kely Dynasis Greece as Loui Loui on a 2019 digital single 295 Answer songs sequels and tributes Edit Louie Louie has spawned a number of answer songs sequels and tributes from the 1960s to the present 296 Louie Go Home 1964 Paul Revere amp the Raiders Columbia 4 43008 also released in 1964 by Davie Jones amp The King Bees David Bowie as Louie Louie Go Home Vocalion V9221 Love That Louie 1964 Jack E Lee amp The Squires RCA 54 8452 Louie Come Home 1965 The Epics Zen 202 Louie Come Back 1965 The Legends Shout Northwest Killers Volume 2 Norton NW 907 Louise Louise 1966 H B amp The Checkmates Lavender R1936 Louie Go Home 1966 The Campus Kingsmen Impalla V 1481 different song from the Raiders version Louie Louie s Comin Back 1967 The Pantels Rich RR 120 Louie Louie Louie 1989 Henry Lee Summer I ve Got Everything CBS ZK 45124 Louie Louie Got Married 1994 The Tentacles K Records IPU XCIV Louie Louie Where Did She Roam 1996 Thee Headcoats SFTRI 335 Ballad of the Kingsmen 2004 Todd Snider East Nashville Skyline Oh Boy Records OBR 031 Louie Louie Music 2012 Armitage Shanks Louie Louie Music EP Little Teddy LiTe765 I Love Louie Louie 2014 The Rubinoos 45 Pynotic Productions 0045 55 Minute Louie Louie 2017 Shave High Alert digital album I Wanna Louie Louie All Night Long 2020 Charles Albright Everything Went Charles Albright digital album Louie Louie compilations EditIn 1983 Rhino Records released The Best of Louie Louie in conjunction with KFJC s Maximum Louie Louie event The album featured a re recorded Richard Berry version 32 influential versions by Rockin Robin Roberts the Sonics and the Kingsmen Black Flag s version and several other versions some bizarre These included a performance by the Rice University Marching Owl Band an a cappella Hallalouie Chorus in which the song s title was sung to the melody of Handel s Hallelujah Chorus and a David Bowie imitation by Les Dantz and his Orchestra 30 The Best of Louie Louie Volume 2 followed in 1992 with versions by Paul Revere and the Raiders Mongo Santamaria Pete Fountain the Kinks Ike and Tina Turner the Shockwaves and others 125 In 1994 Jerden Records released The Louie Louie Collection a Northwest oriented compilation featuring versions by the Kingsmen Paul Revere and the Raiders Don amp the Goodtimes Little Bill amp the Adventurers the Feelies Ian Whitcomb the University of Washington Husky Marching Band and others The UW Husky Marching Band has been playing Louie Louie for over 40 years 297 In 1997 The First Louie Louie Spanish Compilation was released by Louie Records featuring 11 versions by the Flaming Sideburns the Navahodads Los DelTonos and others 290 In 2002 Ace Records released Love That Louie The Louie Louie Files a comprehensive overview of the origins impact and legacy of the cultural phenomenon known as Louie Louie Featuring detailed sleeve notes by Alec Palao the CD contains 24 tracks divided into eight sections titled The Original Louie Inspirational Louie Northwest Louie Louie As A Way Of Life Transatlantic Louie Louie The Rewrite Louie The Sequel and Louie Goes Home The first CD reissue of Richard Berry s original version is included along with multiple historically important versions 298 Lyrics controversy and investigations EditAs Louie Louie began to climb the national charts in late 1963 Jack Ely s slurry snarl 299 and mush mouthed 300 gloriously garbled 301 vocals gave rise to dark rumors about dirty lyrics The Kingsmen initially ignored the rumors but soon news networks were filing reports from New Orleans Florida Michigan and elsewhere about an American public nearly hysterical over the possible dangers of this record 72 The song quickly became something of a Rorschach test for dirty minds 302 who thought they could detect obscene suggestions in the lyric 303 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 304 305 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 The National Association of Broadcasters also investigated and deemed it unintelligible to the average listener but that The phonetic qualities of this recording are such that a listener possessing the phony lyrics could imagine them to be genuine 306 In response Max Feirtag of publisher Limax Music offered 1 000 to anyone finding anything suggestive in the lyrics 307 and Broadcasting magazine published the actual lyrics as provided by Limax 308 Scepter Wand Records commented Not in anyone s wildest imagination are the lyrics as presented on the Wand recording suggestive let alone obscene 309 The following month an outraged parent wrote to Attorney General Robert F Kennedy alleging that the lyrics of Louie Louie were obscene saying The lyrics are so filthy that I can not sic enclose them in this letter 310 311 The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the complaint 312 and looked into the various rumors of real lyrics that were circulating among teenagers 313 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 314 and therefore the Bureau could not find that the recording was obscene 17 Over the course of the investigation the FBI interviewed Richard Berry members of the Kingsmen members of Paul Revere and the Raiders and record company executives The one person they never interviewed was the man who actually sang the words in question Jack Ely whose name apparently never came up because he was no longer with the Kingsmen 313 315 316 By contrast in 1964 the Ohio State University newspaper The Lantern initiated an investigation in response to a growing campus controversy Working with local radio station WCOL a letter was sent to Wand Records requesting a copy of the lyrics The paper printed the lyrics in full resolving the issue and resulting in booking the Kingsmen for the fall homecoming entertainment 317 In a 1964 interview Lynn Easton of the Kingsmen said We took the words from the original version and recorded them faithfully 305 Richard Berry told Esquire Magazine in 1988 that the Kingsmen had sung the song exactly as written 21 and often deflected questions about the lyrics by saying If I told you the words you wouldn t believe me anyway 318 319 A history of the song and its notoriety was published in 1993 by Dave Marsh including an extensive recounting of the multiple lyrics investigations 320 but he was unable to obtain permission to publish the song s actual lyrics 321 because the then current owner Windswept Pacific wanted people to continue to fantasize what the words are 322 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 18 Other authors noted that the song reap ed the benefits that accrue from being pursued by the guardians of public morals 323 and Such stupidity helped ensure Louie Louie a long and prosperous life 324 The lyrics controversy resurfaced briefly in 2005 when the superintendent of the school system in Benton Harbor Michigan refused to let a marching band play the song in a local parade she later relented 325 326 Cultural impact EditThe Who Edit The Who were impacted in their early recording career by the riff rhythm of Louie Louie owing to the song s influence on the Kinks who like the Who were produced by Shel Talmy 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 121 As a result Pete Townshend penned I Can t Explain a desperate copy of The Kinks 327 released in March 1965 In 1979 Louie Louie Kingsmen version was included on the soundtrack album to Quadrophenia Psyche Rock and Futurama Edit In 1967 French composers Michel Colombier and Pierre Henry collaborating as Les Yper Sound produced a synthesizer and musique concrete work based on the Louie Louie riff titled Psyche Rock 328 They subsequently worked with choreographer Maurice Bejart on a Psyche Rock based score for the ballet Messe pour le temps present The full score with multiple mixes of Psyche Rock was released the same year on the album Metamorphose The album was reissued in 1997 with additional remixes including one by Ken Abyss titled Psyche Rock Metal Time Machine Mix that along with the original heavily influenced Christopher Tyng s Futurama theme song 329 330 Radio station marathons Edit In the early 1980s KALX in Berkeley and KFJC in Los Altos Hills engaged in a Louie Louie marathon battle with each station increasing the number of versions played 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 331 332 During a change in format from adult contemporary to all oldies in 1997 WXMP in Peoria became all Louie all the time playing nothing but covers of Louie Louie for six straight days 333 Other stations used the same idea to introduce format changes including KROX Dallas WNOR Norfolk and WRQN Toledo 334 In 2011 KFJC celebrated International Louie Louie Day with a reprise of its 1983 event featuring multiple Louie Louie versions new music by Richard Berry and appearances by musicians DJs and celebrities with Louie Louie connections 335 In April 2015 Orme Radio broadcast the First Italian Louie Louie Marathon playing 279 versions in 24 hours 336 Use in movies Edit Various versions of Louie Louie have appeared in the films listed below 337 Year Title Version s On OSTAlbum Comments1969 Zavolies Zabolies a Fotis Lazaridis Orchestra n a Greece release1972 Tijuana Blue b Kingsmen n a1973 American Graffiti Flash Cadillac No c 1978 National Lampoon s Animal House Kingsmen John Belushi Yes d 1979 Quadrophenia Kingsmen Yes e 1983 Heart Like A Wheel Jack Ely NoNightmares Black Flag Yes1984 Blood Simple Toots and the Maytals No1986 The Cult Live In Milan f The Cult No Italy release1987 Survival Game g Kingsmen n a Also in trailerThe Return of Sherlock Holmes Cast uncredited bar band n a TV movie1988 The Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad Marching Owl Band h YesLove at Stake Kingsmen No1989 Fright Night Part 2 Black Flag No1990 Coupe de Ville Kingsmen Young MC i Yes1991 Reality 86 d Black Flag n a1992 Jennifer 8 Kingsmen NoPassed Away Kingsmen YesDave Cast Kevin Kline No1993 Wayne s World 2 Robert Plant Yes j 1994 A Simple Twist of Fate Cast party singalong No1995 Mr Holland s Opus Cast student band instrumental NoMan of the House Kingsmen n a1996 Down Periscope Cast Kelsey Grammer and others n a1997 My Best Friend s Wedding Kingsmen No1998 ABC The Alphabetic Tribe k Kingsmen Sandpipers n a Swiss releaseWild Things Iggy Pop No2001 Say It Isn t So Kingsmen No2002 La Bande du drugstore Full Spirits Yes France release24 Hour Party People John The Postman Factory All Stars No UK release2003 Old School Black Flag YesCoffee and Cigarettes Richard Berry Iggy Pop Yes2004 Friday Night Lights Cast marching band instrumental No2005 Guy X Kingsmen n a2006 This Is England Toots and the Maytals Yes UK releaseBobby Cast Demi Moore l Yes2009 Capitalism A Love Story Iggy Pop n a2010 Lemmy Motorhead n a UK releaseKnight and Day Kingsmen m NoTournee Nomads Kingsmen Yes n France release2012 Best Possible Taste The Kenny Everett Story o Kingsmen n a UK TV movie2013 Il etait une fois les Boys King Melrose Yes Canada releaseHer Aim Is True Sonics Wailers n a Sonics version also in trailer2014 Desert Dancer Jack Ely No UK release2018 A Futile and Stupid Gesture Kingsmen n a2020 The Way Back Cast pep band instrumental No2021 Penguin Bloom Kingsmen n a Australia releaseThe Kingsmen version was used in television commercials for Spaced Invaders 1990 but did not appear in the movie p The Kingsmen version also appeared on More American Graffiti 1975 and Good Morning Vietnam 1987 compilations but was not used in either movie Movie table notes Zavolies at IMDb Tijuana Blue Soundtrack 1972 ringostrack com Ringostrack Not on the 1973 OST album or the 1979 More American Graffiti album The Kingsmen version is heard in the film The John Belushi version is on the soundtrack album Only included on the 2000 CD reissue Not on the 1979 LP or 1993 CD reissue The Cult Live in Milan at IMDb Survival Game at IMDb In the film the USC Trojan Marching Band is shown but the Rice University MOB version is heard The Kingsmen version occurs during the film The Young MC Louie Louie House Mix feat Maestro Fresh Wes plays during the credits and samples versions by Richard Berry the Kingsmen and the Rice University Marching Owl Band Both versions are on the soundtrack album Also included on the Sixty Six to Timbuktu compilation album ABC The Alphabetic Tribe at IMDb Imitation of 1969 Julie London version Used as a cell phone ringtone by Roy Miller Tom Cruise character Nomads version only Best Possible Taste The Kenny Everett Story at IMDb YouTube Spaced Invaders TV Spot 1990 338 Book Edit Music critic Dave Marsh wrote a 245 page book about the song Louie Louie The History and Mythology of the World s Most Famous Rock n Roll Song Including the Full Details of Its Torture and Persecution at the Hands of the Kingsmen J Edgar Hoover s F B I and a Cast of Millions 339 Use in video games Edit Early video games with chiptune versions of Louie Louie included California Games and Donkey Konga Since its introduction in 1987 California Games has been ported to more than a dozen gaming platforms resulting in multiple unique Louie Louie versions based on different or improved programmable sound generator PSG chips Back 2 Back composed by Hideki Naganuma for Sonic Rush borrows the Louie Louie riff for its main section More recent rhythm action games featured individual artist versions including Rocksmith Joan Jett Just Dance Iggy Pop and Rocksmith 2014 Motorhead 178 Use in ringtones and apps Edit Louie Louie has long been a popular downloadable ringtone starting with early MIDI versions then audio track excerpts and then full audio tracks Tom Cruise in Knight and Day 2010 used the Kingsmen version as a ringtone movement reminder 340 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 341 In 2017 ByteDance acquired Musical ly and merged it with TikTok to deliver app functionality for creating short lip sync and music videos TikTok s current Commercial Music Library of 150 000 pre licensed songs includes Louie Louie versions by the Kingsmen the Kinks Otis Redding Motorhead Young and Restless and the Most 342 Use in audio sampling Edit The earliest known sampling of Louie Louie Kingsmen version was Flying Saucer by Ed Solomon in 1964 Diamond 160 one of many break in records popular in the 1960s Beginning in 1988 multiple rap and hip hop artists used audio samples of the keyboard intro and chorus of the Kingsmen version 343 1988 Ultramagnetic MCs Travelling at the Speed of Thought 12 single initial release only 344 1988 JVC Force Doin Damage from album Doin Damage 1988 Fat Boys Louie Louie from album Coming Back Hard Again also released as a single 1990 Young and Restless Louie Louie from album Something To Get You Hyped 1990 Young MC and Maestro Fresh Wes Louie Louie from Coupe de Ville soundtrack album samples Richard Berry Kingsmen and other versions 1999 The Three Amigos Louie Louie Original Mix and Wiseguys Remix 12 EP UK release 1999 Mutha Funkin Say It Again 12 single UK release 2004 T O K feat Shaggy Deja Vu from album Unknown Language 345 Marching and concert band arrangements Edit In the 1980s due to the widespread availability of sheet music arrangements Louie Louie became a staple of concert marching and pep bands for middle schools high schools and colleges and universities in the U S The earliest known high school band albums with a song version were the Evanston Township High School s Hi Lights 1965 and the Franklin High School Choir Orchestra and Stage Band s 1966 Bel Cantos Concert The first college band album was the USC Trojan Marching Band s Let The Games Begin in 1984 123 Early big band releases included Dick Crest Would You Believe The Dick Crest Orchestra and Neil Chotem Neil Chotem and his Orchestra both in 1968 Although not commercially released an example of the song s influence was the 2000 performance by the Dover High School Band joined on saxophone by Bill Clinton who played in a jazz trio named the Kingsmen at Hot Springs High School and at whose 1964 graduation dance the actual Kingsmen played 346 347 348 Washington State Song Edit In 1985 Ross Shafer host and a writer performer of the late night comedy series Almost Live on the Seattle TV station KING spearheaded an effort to have Louie Louie replace Washington My Home by Helen Davis as Washington s official state song 349 Picking up on this initially prankish effort Whatcom County Councilman Craig Cole introduced Resolution No 85 12 in the state legislature citing the need for a contemporary theme song that can be used to engender a sense of pride and community and in the enhancement of tourism and economic development His resolution also called for the creation of a new Louie Louie County While the House did not pass it the Senate s Resolution 1985 37 declared April 12 1985 Louie Louie Day A crowd of 4 000 estimated by press reports convened at the state capitol that day for speeches singalongs and performances by the Wailers the Kingsmen and Paul Revere amp the Raiders Two days later a Seattle event commemorated the occasion with the premiere performance of a new Washington centric version of the song written by composer Berry 350 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 Louie Louie remains the unofficial state rock song 351 While 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 297 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 352 International Louie Louie Day Edit April 11 Richard Berry s birthday is celebrated as International Louie Louie Day 353 354 and is listed by Chase s Calendar of Events the National Special Events Registry 355 and other sources This date was chosen as the most significant date for the observance of International Louie Louie Day from a list of Louie Louie related dates occurring in April including April 13 1957 Release of Richard Berry s original single 356 April 6 1963 The Kingsmen recorded the version that made Louie Louie famous 357 358 April 11 or 13 1963 Paul Revere and the Raiders recorded their competing version in the same studio 112 April 1 1985 First annual WMMR Louie Louie Parade in Philadelphia 359 334 April 12 1985 Louie Louie Day proclaimed by the state of Washington 359 April 14 1985 Louie Louie Day proclaimed by the mayor of Seattle 360 April 2 1986 Louie Louie Day proclaimed by the state of Oregon 361 April 10 1998 The Kingsmen won a historic legal case against Gusto Records GML regaining ownership and royalty rights to all their recordings 362 April 28 2015 Death of Kingsmen vocalist Jack Ely 105 April 24 2020 Death of Kingsmen front man Lynn Easton 363 364 April 16 2021 Death of Kingsmen guitarist Mike Mitchell 107 Support for International Louie Louie Day and other Louie Louie related observances is provided by the Louie Louie Advocacy and Music Appreciation Society LLAMAS 365 366 and Louie Louie fans worldwide Commemorations of International Louie Louie Day have included newspaper articles 367 magazine stories 368 369 and radio programs with discussions of the song s history and playlists of multiple Louie Louie versions 370 371 372 LouieFest Edit The City of Tacoma held a summer music and arts festival from 2003 to 2012 in July named LouieFest The event began in 2003 as the 1000 Guitars Festival and featured a group performance of Louie Louie open to anyone with a guitar The event was renamed LouieFest in 2004 Members of the Wailers Kingsmen Raiders Sonics and other groups with Louie Louie associations regularly made appearances The grand finale each year was the Celebration of 1000 Guitars mass performance of Louie Louie on the main stage 373 374 Louie Louie parades Edit 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 375 DeBella described it as a parade for no reason and the no reason would be Louie Louie 376 It regularly drew crowds in excess of 50 000 but was ultimately cancelled due to excessive rowdiness 377 Peoria Illinois has held an annual Louie Louie street party and festival every year since 1988 The Children s Hospital of Illinois is the most recent charitable beneficiary 378 Louie Louie sculpture Edit A sculpture titled Louie Louie 2013 by Las Vegas based artist Tim Bavington is displayed on the lobby wall of the Edith Green Wendell Wyatt Federal Building in Portland Oregon The work is constructed of 80 colored glass and acrylic panels representing the waveforms of the song using Bavington s concept of sculpting sound waves 379 380 Louie Louie hotel room Edit A hotel room in the McMenamins Crystal Hotel in Portland Oregon has a Louie Louie theme including a painting representing the song by artist Jonathan Case and lyrics on the walls 381 The hotel is a block away from the site of the 1963 Kingsmen and Raiders recordings The Louie Awards Edit The Seattle Times annually bestows its Louie Awards upon those who through conscious act rotten luck or slip of the tongue stretch the limits of imagination or tolerance or taste in the Great Northwest 382 Recognition and rankings Edit Summary of Louie Louie rankings and recognition in major publications and surveys Source Poll Survey Year RankRock amp Roll Hall of Fame Hall of Fame Singles 2018 None 383 Rock amp Roll Hall of Fame Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll 1995 None 384 National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Grammy Hall of Fame 1999 None 385 National Public Radio The 300 Most Important American Records of the 20th Century 1999 None 386 Smash Hits James E Perone The 100 Songs That Defined America 2016 None 387 The Wire Magazine The 100 Most Important Records Ever Made 1992 None 388 Mojo Magazine Ultimate Jukebox The 100 Singles You Must Own 2003 1 389 The Ultimate Playlist Robert Webb The 100 Greatest Cover Versions 2012 1 390 Paste Magazine The 50 Best Garage Rock Songs of All Time 2014 3 391 Rolling Stone Magazine 40 Songs That Changed The World 2007 5 392 All Time Top 1000 Albums Colin Larkin The All Time Top 100 Singles 2000 6 393 Q Magazine The Music That Changed the World 2004 10 394 VH1 100 Greatest Songs of Rock and Roll 2000 11 395 The Heart of Rock and Soul Dave Marsh The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made 1989 11 396 Rolling Stone Magazine The 100 Best Singles of the Last 25 Years 1989 18 397 Los Angeles Magazine LA s Top 100 2001 19 398 Rock and Roll Paul Williams The 100 Best Singles 1993 22 399 VH1 100 Greatest Dance Songs 2000 27 400 NME Magazine Top 100 Singles of All Time 1976 43 401 Acclaimed Music Best of All Time Lists 2001 44 402 Mojo Magazine 100 Greatest Singles of All Time 1997 51 403 Rolling Stone Magazine The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time 2010 54 404 Rolling Stone Magazine The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time 2004 55 405 NEA and RIAA Songs of the Century 1999 57 406 Mojo Magazine Big Bangs 100 Records That Changed The World 2007 70 407 Pitchfork 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