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".

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. 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"). 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. It was Easton who was responsible for the sole actual obscenity on the Kingsmen’s recording, one which the F. The Louie Louie Variations", 1996, an "intriguingly titled", "alternative classical" composition by Phillip Kent Bimstein, performed by the Modern Mandolin Quartet, on his Garland Hirschi's Cows album.The Pharaohs were Godoy Colbert (first tenor), Stanley Henderson (second tenor, subbing for Robert Harris), and Noel Collins (baritone). Then he placed Ely in the middle of his fellow musicians, all in an effort to create a better "live feel" for the recording. In 1997 The First Louie Louie Spanish Compilation was released by Louie Records featuring 11 versions by the Flaming Sideburns, the Navahodads, Luxury Liner, and others. Disco king Barry White created Richard Berry's "all-time favorite" version [283] as he "reworked and revamped" [284] the original to create a "Latin-tinged" [285] rendition that "took the song from pure rock 'n' roll to pure moan 'n' groan". One of them, the father of a teen-age girl, wrote to Robert Kennedy, who was then the Attorney General, to complain about the song’s possible obscenity, prompting an F.

K. (Trojan TR-7865) with a longer version included 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". Multiple versions played during the closing credits: Richard Berry, the Rice University Marching Owl Band, the Sandpipers, Les Dantz and his Orchestra, 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). Minute Louie-Louie", released in 2017 by Shave on their High Alert digital album, commemorated the occasion. The album featured a re-recorded Richard Berry version, [38] influential versions by Rockin' Robin Roberts, the Sonics and the Kingsmen, Black Flag's version, and several other versions, some bizarre.The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The company asked the Artists Rights Society to locate him which led to Berry's taking legal action to regain his rights to the song.

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" [152] released as a single ( Liberty 56085) and included on her 1969 album Yummy, Yummy, Yummy. Then we heard The Kingsmen and he had that lazy, throwaway, laid-back drawl in his voice, and it was magic.The original version was included on a 1986 Swedish compilation, [31] but not until the Ace Records Love That Louie release in 2002 did it see wide distribution. 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.

Cadena would go on to sing on the Six Pack EP before switching to rhythm guitar and being replaced on vocals by Henry Rollins. As you might expect, the result sounds less like a teenager's frantic imaginings, and a little more like a seduction.

The Bureau was doubtless spurred on by a series of letters sent to the US attorney general, Robert Kennedy, from concerned parents across America, who seemed to have got wind of events in Indiana, but not New's conclusion. Over the course of the investigation, a "folk legend of modern times that has yet to be bettered for sheer inanity", [37] the FBI interviewed Richard Berry, members of the Kingsmen, members of Paul Revere and the Raiders, and record company executives. Fifty-five years after the teens wrote that letter to the governor, a local Indiana paper, the IndyStar, was able to identify who they were and contacted them.