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It’s difficult to believe this song was once deemed offensive enough to launch an investigation by the FBI. From there, Berry begins to describe the story of a Jamaican sailor making his way across the ocean back home to be with his girl.

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.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, [341] and Desperados (Spain), on a 1997 album Por Un Puñado De Temas. The song quickly became "something of a Rorschach test for dirty minds" [375] who "thought they could detect obscene suggestions in the lyric". Live versions appeared on Bucketful of Brains (1983), Slow Death Live (France, 1983) and Studio '70 (France, 1984). Their anonymity remained in place, so no one would ever know exactly who was behind the banning of Louie Louie. 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.

On that April day in 1963, the only microphone available to Ely was located several feet above him, hanging from the ceiling. In 1988, Michael Doucet released a "great vocal treatment" [342] of "Louie Louie" in Cajun French on the Michael Doucet and Cajun Brew album. Perhaps the Kingsmen's Louie Louie got caught up in a weird, reactionary undercurrent of confusion and fear, a minor moral panic sparked by the Beatles' arrival that would only grow over the ensuing years, as rock music increasingly started to resemble the revolutionary force its opponents thought it had been from the start. 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 stop-time 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.Bruce Springsteen has had a long association with "Louie Louie", playing it at multiple concerts and guest appearances, and commenting often on its significance. Their very appearance marked them out as unfathomably strange and alien (in one extreme version of this response, far-right British politician John Tyndall, described the Beatles in 1963 as "effeminate oddities … looking for all the world like the members of some primitive African tribe", before accusing them of ushering an era of "weirdness in the male type"). The cover features Black Flag's singer Dez Cadena and some of his improvised lyrics to "Louie Louie".

Toots Hibbert took the song back to its Caribbean roots with his ska/rocksteady pioneers, the Maytals. Or perhaps his words are more onanistic: “Every night and day / I play with my thing / Fuck your girl / All kinds of ways. The song "Louie Louie" was originally written and created by a man who, I feel, was one of the true pioneers of my time. In the second verse, for instance, Ely might sing, “At night at ten / I lay her again / Fuck you girl, oh / All the way.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 national charts.

Julie London (1969), Sounds Orchestral (1970) ("by far the best of the numerous easy listening interpretations"), [37] 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. 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! The soundtrack album, released by Cypress Records on vinyl, CD and cassette, included the Kingsmen and Young MC versions.Like Led Zeppelin – who played it in live in 1972 – maybe tackling the song during their pomp was an attempt to keep in touch with their spiky roots. Contacted by the Indianapolis Star, both the Kingsmen and Wand indignantly denied the charge of obscenity. From the live album Metallic KO, described by the critic Lester Bangs as "the only rock album I know where you can actually hear hurled beer bottles breaking against guitar strings".