Song by Richard Berry. His lyrics: [Chorus] Louie, Louie Me gotta go Louie, Louie Me gotta go [Verse 1] Fine little girl she wait for me Me catch the ship for cross the sea I sail the ship all alone I never think I make it home [Chorus] Louie, Louie Well, me gotta go Louie, Louie Me gotta go [Verse 2] Three nights and days me sail the sea Me think of girl, oh constantly On the ship I dream she there I smell the rose in her hair [Chorus] Louie, Louie Me gotta go Well, Louie, Louie Me gotta go [Verse 3] Me see Jamaica moon above It won't be long, me see me love Me take her in my arms and then I tell her I-I never leave again [Chorus] Louie, Louie Well, me gotta go Louie, Louie Me gotta go [Outro] I say, me gotta go Oh yes, me gotta go Well, me gotta go
I've been listening to this song for over 50 years amd still have no idea what his saying. It sounds like he has a hot potato in his mouth and had his tongue cut out... Ouwiw oweww wow wow
Lynn taught me to fish. He was like an uncle to me. I had know idea what he did. Sadly he hated this song up until his end from a stroke. RIP Uncle Lynn miss you!
Hello, this song was played in Clubs when I was in VietNam back in the 1960's . I earned to play the song myself when I was in the Marines in Viet-Nam.......John from North Carolina
In 1964/65 David and I rented a small house next to the 1st two highrise girls' dorms at the Univ. of Arizona. We had a fabulous sound system. Almost every Sat. night we had a party. Louie Louie plus the Beatles Twist and Shout were played a lot. The campus police would stop every Sat. and ask us to turn the volume down and not ask to see our IDs' for the Booz. What a great party school!
A simple yet perfect masterpiece in rock and roll music history! So sad to learn of Jack Ely's passing. From what I read Richard Berry was the original artist who wrote and performed this song. But it was Ely who noticed how much people liked dancing to it and had the foresight to do a cover and the rest is history. Lynne Easton insisted on taking over the lead vocals and Ely left in protest. When the song began to rise on the charts Ely tried to rejoin but Easton wouldn't allow it. Jack Ely deserved so much more recognition and any rewards that were to come from it. This is a precious performance... Mike Mitchell, too.
Jack Ely sang the hit version, but the original template is by Rockin' Robin Roberts and the Wailers. Same tough tempo and even has the same battle cry before the guitar solo.
THIS is where Richard Berry got it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iApNzdSnJw4.htmlsi=0PypiYOS14WA23Ug heard by him through a dressing room wall so he only half heard the song-just the beat. Big Ringo fan on drums!
The so-called “lead singer” in this is Lynn Easton, the original drummer. He’s actually lip-syncing to Jack Ely’s original vocals. I knew him when he was married to one of my best friends. Lynn was a number-one jerk, who insisted on taking over the lead singer spot, because his Mommy owned the rights to the band name. Jack Ely (R.I.P.), was a great guy, who left the band due to Easton’s prima donna and bullying takeover. The reason the words were so garbled was because Jack had braces on his teeth, which were fairly new (he was around 16 or so), and the braces were hurting his mouth and lips, making it hard to pronounce the words as he sang.
Hey...just thought I would pass along this interview with Jack Ely who told the interviewer that the words were garbled NOT because of his braces but because the microphone was hung from the ceiling over his head and he had to throw his head back to sing in the direction of the mic...though this mis-information about his braces causing the trouble is even on the Wikipedia page. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gMdw3sK-1Zc.html
I don't know how you know all that,but I'm with Mike who was the drummer for Jack. For years toured the east coast. He told me the story behind this stunt. Mike says THANK YOU for getting it right. He's glad someone knows what happened and the truth.
The guy pretending to sing on this video actually played the drums on this, the original track. Jack Ely did the vocals. He left the group shortly after the band recorded the tune.
Soulful moves ,singing, what ever he's saying, Lol! and beats. 'You people ' , the host says, funny. The steps and beat is all smooth. Thanks for the memories.
Love this song so much..so I didn't oppose when one of my son's was named after this song ... LOUIE 💚 by his father. Still a very great song n my wonderful son proudly claims this song as one of his oersonal favorites💚
Wow, the Bass Player in the back has good balance, stopped his little slip there. His buddy on the keyboard was Johnny -on-spot just in case. Like real brothers this band. Good dance move routine. I heard this song a lot on the radio back in the day. Thanks for the memories.
No way 1963, its 1965/6 why 🤫because they look beatlesk in other words they look and move like the beatles, The beatles were the first to move, sound & look in a certan way, the guy on the drums copies RINGO just like Animal from seseme street does. They were the first to stop greasing there hair, and everbody copied them, thats why they are marked down in history, just remember there would have been no hippys without the beatles, anyway glad to have found this clip
When the guy on the keyboard looked over at the guy who miss stepped his hand wasn't on the piano but ' the beat goes on, ' like they say. Of course it was lip synched. But great job. Love this song by this group.
The singer on the video was not the singer on the record. He is just mouthing the words. The video frontman was the drummer on the record and his mother owned the band. When the song Louie-Louie became a hit she kicked the singer off the band and made her son the frontman, so he got all the credit, and the real singer is forgotten. The Kingsmen version is a direct copy of a record by Rockin Robin Roberts...on RU-vid. Both the Kingsmen and RRR were local bands in the Seattle, Washington area in the 1960s. see wikipedia.
They actually recorded this in one try, and in a bit of a hurry. The microphone that they used was up high in the air and the lead singer, I believe it was J. Ely, had trouble stretching his neck up high enough to record on it. That was ONR of the reasons his vocals were hard to understand. During this recording, he came in too early on the final verse. But they decided to just keep it that way. Great song.
@@dariowiter3078 Correct. That is actually Lynn Easton. I think because this TV clip circulates so much that people think that the lead singer was Jack Ely (a lot of obituaries actually showed Easton's picture instead of him when he died). He had already been out of the band by 1963, and this clip is from 1965.
@@isaacpadron3211 that's true about recording this in one try ...and at the 1:00 mark in the original recording, the drummer drops one of his drumsticks and yells the "f" word ...that's in the original recording..you can actually hear the drummer yelling that because he dropped one of his drumsticks.
Fun fact: The whole naughty lyrics supposedly sung by the late, great Jack Ely were beautifully explained by the man himself in an interview for the now out of print BEHIND THE HITS book. Turns out, two factors helped create the "controversy"....braces and a studio microphone! Apparently, Mr. Ely was wearing braces the day of that fateful recording. The main mike in the studio was perched at an unreasonable height for any lead singer. The technicians didn't bother readjusting the mike and left it so high that Jack essentially sang into the mike with his head tilted up at a 45' angle. You try singing with your head tilted, neck and vocal chords stretched, braces covering your teeth, AND a microphone hanging nearly a foot higher than you! Now go listen to the cut with that image of the lead singer, and you'll understand why the lyrics sound slurred and distorted! 🇵🇷🇺🇸🤣
That's interesting that Jack said that his braces were part of the problem. In this interview he said it was the microphone placement and not the braces that was the issue.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gMdw3sK-1Zc.html
Sweden Norway and The Bahamas and knowing the lyrics of Louie Louie by the Kingsmen. Rest in peace, Mum. Well - all forebears who are no longer here taught us forbearance.And Ms Cassandra Butts. The suggestion just read was lead singer of Kingsmen came in to early after great guitar solo. This VT adds credence to this theory as he lead singer's shrugs as if to say say we recorded this with me singing - so lip sync away. Yellow and black costumes. My favourite colour combination.
How many people caught the false start on the verse after the guitar solo at 2:01? That was on the record (which they are lip syncing to of course) and he duplicated it in this performance perfectly. The story is when they recorded it they were trying to duplicate the Wailers version and Ely came in too early on the verse so he pauses the drummer rolls and then Jack starts singing again. The mistake became so well known that many bands cover it exactly that way. In fact the only time I've seen these guys not do that was in a video of a performance of Shindig where they actually are playing live. Jack also sings the lyrics a little clearer in that performance.
And don't forget the sound of somebody in the background at the 0:58 mark - also from teh original recording. Supposedly during the 1 take of this demo recording, the drummer dropped one of his sticks and he said "F*@k". Since there4 was no editing done to this recording, this was left in and is heard when the band lip-synced to the original (as they did here).
These guys rented an inexpensive small recording studio. Used inexpensive equipment and recorded the song playing it many times. They were not happy at all with their first time playing the song. They made more recordings of it again and again; during the hour or so time they rented the studio. Then their manager listened and told them that the first take of the recordings is the best one out of all the recordings - and that it is the take we should use - cause it sounds so raw, explosive. Jack Ely, the lead singer, even comes in early: 2:00 Then he realizes it and waits and comes in again a few moments later at the correct time he wants to start. It is true, I think. Their manager picked the right recording to use. The way they played and the way he sang sounds off the cuff, crazy, and it is terrific. They are playing here to the record. Not live. I think all bands did that in this show,
I think (I hope) he was being facetious.... Yes, it's lip-synched to the studio version.... A lot of TV shows forced popular music acts to lip-sync for 'control' purposes (to ensure the same sound quality; to keep the same time length, so that they could reliably produce the show to fit schedules; to avoid embarrassing lyric or even total song 'changes' (i.e., forbidden language; switching to an undesirable alternate song); to focus more on the visual effects and sets)... Sometimes the acts did not sound the same live, and TV audiences might be disappointed.... Ed Sullivan usually had the acts perform truly live (or as live as possible) -- which is another reason his show was so good.... Dick Clark and many others, seem to have had all acts lip-synch to their hit records.... I suppose IF you were a top-notch musical act, you could insist in the contract to either perform live -- or insist that you lip-synch (if you knew, you didn't sound good live)....
'Annie Fanny' was a buxom comic strip that ran in Playboy magazine in the 60's! Also, the song is a direct rip-off of 'Alley-Oop'. What a goof! Thanks for posting this thing...
It also kind of amalgamated bits of Little Orphan Annie, which was slightly satirised in Annie Fanny. Daddy Warbucks in Little Orphan Annie became Sugardaddy Bigbucks in Annie Fanny. Annie Fanny had bright blue eyes. It's Little Orphan Annie who just had circles. The song seems to want to be about Annie Fanny, as female figure with a lot of va va voom, though.
Yes, the soundtrack to this video is actually of the original studio recording with Jack Ely singing. This TV appearance is from after Ely left the band. Lynn Easton moved from drums to lead singer, but lip-synced 'Louie Louie' (as in this TV appearance) until a court action, prevented him.
Great to see the original band doing this classic. Every band has done it. The three chords A, D and E. Always controversial whether it was E major or E minor. Mike seems to be playing the E major version. 🙋♂️👏👏🇬🇧
Now that I know the story of Lynn Easton stealing the vocalist position from Jack Ealy, who recorded the album, this just hits differently. I guess there have always been mama's boy jerks and there always will be.
2:30 It would seem that Lynn Eastons little slip wasn't the only one in this performance. The bassist decides to insert a little slip of his own. Good recovery though.
Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Bureau of Investigation Sections Powered by Mail Image Get FBI Updates Vault Home • Louie Louie (The Song) Louie Louie (The Song) In 1963, a rock group named the Kingsmen recorded the song “Louie, Louie.” The popularity of the song and difficulty in discerning the lyrics led some people to suspect the song was obscene. The FBI was asked to investigate whether or not those involved with the song violated laws against the interstate transportation of obscene material. The limited investigation lasted from February to May 1964 and discovered no evidence of obscenity. File Louie Louie (The Song)
I just came across this video. thanks for putting it up.I always had a big question in my mind as to what those lyrics really were saying .I remember as a kid hearing all kinds of things ;in fact if I made a list of all of the lyrics that people thought they were saying they would probably reach to the Moon. That being said, listening to it now it's obvious the clean lyrics for the ones that are correct.
Well, you know this is a lip-sync, you can hear the "F bomb" in the background at the right moment. I always thought every time I saw this being "performed" by the Kingsmen that it was a lip-sync due to the faint F bomb you can hear.
Lynn Easton's lip-syncing was good, even when Jack Ely sang "Me see" too early. But you could tell he's not impressed with that in the slightest based on the look on his face. Either way, RIP Jack Ely and Lynn Easton.
