They did release it. Lloyd G William's recorded it but recording label listed Otis Day as artist. Actor DeWayne Jessie rushed to change his name to Otis Day and get the fame and royalties for songs he never recorded. Lloyd G William's cheated out of millions. Didn't even get his name listed in music credits in movie. Big rip off of music artist Lloyd G Williams.
@@nancywood9531 I think you have some facts confused. I literally just looked this all up and your not really correct, because we have laws in the USA that over rule anything and everything on music. So the song "Shout", was written by "The Isley Brothers". And maybe they own the rights to the song, maybe they don't. They could have sold them, and this happens all the time. But who ever owns it, gets royalty's, no matter who sings it. Period. This is why the most lucrative part of music, is song rights ownership. Some artists make hundreds of thousands a year just off of a single song they own and recorded decades a go. When Whitney Houston sang the song "I will always love you" in the 90's, Dolly Parton also made millions, because she owns the song . In the film "Animal House" an actor named DeWayne Jessie, playing a fictional singer named Otis Day, with a fictional band named The Knights, lip syncd the song Shout, sung in reality by Lloyd G. Williams. Ergo, Lloyd G. Williams, and who ever owns the rights to Shout, maybe "The Isley Brothers", got paid, period. And if that is the version on the Soundtrack, and by all accounts it is, then they get paid, period. It doesn't matter who is and isn't listed. That is not important. That is not how it works. That is the law, and we all know that when it comes to music in America, the right people get paid. Period. Lawsuits happen when anyone try to circumvent the system, and most often the offender loses, and loses big time. So after the film, DeWayne Jessie bought the name Otis Day and the Knights from the studio, legal changed his name to Otis Day, and toured as that singer. Then, according to wiki, in 1989, released an album called Shout, produced by George Clinton, and it flopped. But he probably did moderately well touring. There is a zero point zero percent chance that Lloyd G. Williams did not get what was owed him. Period. So dems da facts, period.
@@Reggie2000 ask Lloyd. He has a site on you tube. I've talked to him.. He was paid $100 to perform the 2 songs in Animal House. It went to court & Dragged out....Royalties went to name on record...Otis Day..... and the record company. That's according to Lloyd G. Williams interviews. He got the shaft!
@@nancywood9531 If he signed away his rights, then he is an ahole who got everything he had coming to him, imo Yes, you can hire someone to sing a song for money. You can go on fiver and do that right now. That is true. I did forget that and I wrongly assumed that they used his recording, as opposed to literally hiring him for a one off. That is my bad. But only in that I wrongly did not think he was a dumb person. They literally would have let him keep the song for no money paid on that film. So now the money goes to who ever owns THAT particular cover, and the songs royalty owner. None would go to an actor lip syncing. If they only paid Lloyd a few hundred to sing it, then they definitely didn't pay DeWayne well to pretend to sing it. Once again, Dewayne is not actually singing that song. You should check out a book called Caddyshack, the making of a Cinderella story if you like Animal House. It covers that film extensively, as well as everyone associated with it, their lives, National Lampoons magazine, the original SNL cast. Very interesting book.
@@Reggie2000 if you look at the original 45 single and the album of Animal House records. It lists Otis Day as singer. Royalties for Shamma Lamma Ding Dong went to singer Otis Day. Since there was no person called Otis Day , the actor went down and legally changed his name from DeWayne Jessie to Otis Day. He owns the name. He owns the rights to it and the royalties. Record company too. I talked to DeWayne Jessie right after movie came out. He was touring. I asked why he didn't sing Shamma Lamma in the concert. He said he wasn't allowed to because of copywrite dispute and it was all in court at that time.. He said they hoped to be able to soon. Crazy as the money thing with Jackie Wilson.
Seth Eheart that's actually a fairly common story for movie shoots since we the audience don't know what went on behind the scenes or who pissed who off before they started rolling ; I've worked on a few productions myself and got my share of stories keep listening!!
I had to endure an elbow shot from MARK Wahlberg on one crappy thriller! Yet another occasion some street people tried to steal our audio equipment off the set of REPO MEN! I'm sure some more enticing stories will come to me ; as this jogs my memory !
I'm almost 50 and to this day the best party I have ever been to in my life was a Toga party when I was 17. We had a cassette of the soundtrack and played it over and over and over. It was a blast!
This movie came out as I started my freshman year in college. We had so many toga parties. Tore off thr bed sheets to wrap around as togas. Some of us were a tie. We had to wear a belt to tie it together.
I was a new college graduate (1978) and had to be at work at 5:00 in the morning. I was asleep upstairs in the frat. house where I lived when Charles Morgan came upstairs and said 'Get up J.T. Animal House is on television.' We lived in animal house.
Watched Animal House for the first time in years and honestly can’t stop loving this scene. Belushi stole every scene for me even though he doesn’t say much
You know Belushi is one of the only actors that can steal a scene with just with the the wink of an eye or a raise of an eyebrow. Who else can act like that? Belushi was pure genius when it came eye movements - he can tell a whole story in a blink of an eye and everyone gets it. That's acting at a level not a lot of actors can compete with. Different Class!
The bassist in this scene is none other than Robert Cray, who went on the have a successful career as a blues guitarist in the '80s with such hits as "Smoking Gun" and "Right Next Door (Because of me)" off his fourth album "Strong Persuader." His role was uncredited in this movie.
Also, the guy on keyboards is Robert Bailey, who, among other things, is a backup vocalist for Garth Brooks. On the final night of the 2014-2017 tour, Robert got to have a little fun and did this song for us.
I actually came across Robert Cray's wiki after seeing a video of Howard Stern's Stump the Baba Booey music trivia quiz show. Booey got the answer right, it was the song Smoking Gun by Robert Cray and after giving the answer he asked out loud "whatever happened to that guy?" after looking him up on Wiki I noticed it said he played an uncredited part in Animal House so I ended up here! Crazy how many little things lead someone to look stuff up!
What a time to be alive!!! Live/watch it again!!! Don't count ourselves out, yet!!! SHOUT!!! SHOUT!!! SHOUT!!! NOW... I WANT YOU TO KNOW!!! I WANT YOU TO KNOW RIGHT NOW!!! NOW... WAAAIT A MINUTE!!!!! A LIL' BIT SOFTER, NOW... A LIL' BIT SOFTER.. NOW!!! A LIL' BIT SOFTER...NOW.. !!! A LITTLE BIT LOUDER NOW!!! GIMME!!! IT A LIL' BIT LOUDER, NOW!!! SING IT WITH ME NOW!!! (CALL & ANSWER) YEAH! YEAH, EAHH! YEE-AAHAA! YE-YHAAAA!!! (DO NOT, GO SOFTLY INTO, THAT DARK NIGHT!!!) DON'T FORGET TO SAY YOU WILL!!! DON'T FORGET TO SAY YEAH!!! YEAAAH!! YEEEAH-A-AHHHYA!!! SAY YOU WILL!!! My neighbors, and I, hear this song, at least once, every weekend!!! We are blessed!
This single was originally song by The Isley Brothers and recorded in 1959 from their album of the same name. It's actually a two part song although the track have been cover by many artists since then.
Watched this movie as a kid whenever AMC aired it and longed for this scene to be a reality - only once in my college experience did a DJ play Shout and it was magical.
I always ask the dj to play this at any wedding reception I attend. It is guaranteed to get everyone (even the non-dancers) on the dance floor laughing and having a great time!
Wasn't it like DeWayne Jessie who actually sang in the movie?? But great lipsynch, great song, great movie. I had no interest in Greek/frat life but so many antics rang very true in our college years....
I was in Sigma Chi at the U of M in the 60s and this was exactly how it was. Animal House is an over-the-top caricature, but it sure nailed it. We had the best parties because we hired the best Black Bands with the big horns. Arnette Williams! Johnny London! It was the best time of my life.
Belushi at 0:54 really brings it home. Even Flounder's date is having a blast. Otter's spitting game. This song is 🔥. Otis Day and the Knights hooked those frat boys up. Great scene. "DO YOU WANNA DANCE?" "WHAT?" "DO YOU WANNA DANCE?!" "YEAH!!" Here we go....
Historical fact: A few of the actors weren't wearing underwear beneath their togas during the filming of this scene. When John Belushi shouts "Gator" Lot of actors who weren't writhing witnessed allot balls rolling on the floor. That is all
Classic dance songs like this are 100% the best things to play at a party. There’s no, and I mean no songs equivalent to these in todays music outside of a handful
This song dates from 1959. The guys who wrote Animal House were thinking about their experiences at Dartmouth fraternity houses. I went to a Dartmouth frat house toga party in 1963 or so. Who remembers the music played that night? This was, however, the overall ambience - that I do remember. The song will live on forever.
My grandson is in a fraternity at Lehigh, and he told me they still play this at frat parties - and Louie Louie. Nice to see the young'uns paying respectful homage to the dignified traditions of the Boomer generation.
This movie came out my freshman year in college...we played it at all the all campus parties, toga parties, etc...every time I hear this I am transported back to that time.
Love this-I graduated from college in 1970 and I could pull out my yearbook and show you every character in the film. Except the band wouldn't be morons running in to a brick wall!
One of the best examples of how to make an anthem in a movie this doesn't just feels like a marketing ploy to make this great it feels like the Delta's anthem!
in 1978 I had my first child, and 6 months later we had a toga party, with this soundtrack, 3 kegs, we had sheets for those that showed up without one, those were the days. cruising 8 tack tapes, some of the best 70's music. Pre MTV. Watched the first SNL show with Chevy Chase, Dan Akroyd, John Belushi. we didn't have twitter, we had school, we would say Kegger in Kenwood, and we all knew where the still was...all the schools knew. with or without twitter 4 schools all knew where to party. Of course that meant all the car clubs would come, so on a hillside in the middle of nowhere, about a mile before you got there, you could hear CCR, Lynard Skynard , Doobie Brothers. When you finally reached your destination, there were 49 fords with suicide doors, 57 Chevy's 69 Chevelles 72 Chevys with tunnel rams, what a party. We would all pass out and drive home, of course we didn't have cell phones so we would just say we spent the night at so and so's house, no biggie. I graduated 1976 our nations 200th birthday it was called the bicentennial . So when you look at your parents or your grandparents, honey there isn't nothing you have done that we haven't done before. (just with better music) ...lol wink
Im in seattle and go to alot of UW frat partys and we had a friend of a friend hanging out with us from university of Oregon for a weekend and he told us that every party plays this song and that the toga partys are frequent and legendary. We had a toga party a few weeks latter and listened too this song over and over and had one of the best partys every
In this moment we will need a Toga Party to release all the stress of Pandemic !!! Thank You Landis for this Amazon Film! Thank you John Belushi you will always remain in our Hearts
There would BE no college movies like Van Wilder if it were not for Animal House. It not only started the genre, but the standard for all those to come after it. It released a year after I graduated high school and I must have seen it 100 times. It still holds up today.
