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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"). Louie Louie” has nonetheless made brethren out of musicians as various as Black Flag, the Beach Boys, and Barry White. Jacob McMurray in Taking Punk To The Masses noted, "All of this only fueled the popularity of the song .

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. Although he characterized the Kingsmen version as an " Animal House joke", [178] he had a higher opinion of Berry's opus, saying, "No one may not underestimate [ sic] the impact of 'Louie Louie', the original Richard Berry version.

The paper printed the lyrics in full, resolving the issue, and resulting in booking the Kingsmen for the fall homecoming entertainment. The lyrics controversy resurfaced briefly Their anonymity remained in place, so no one would ever know exactly who was behind the banning of Louie Louie. It is his belief that only those who want to hear such things can read it into the vocal," noted the official report.

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. The original version also contains a scarcely audible "dirty lyric" when Mark Lindsay says, "Do she fuck? 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.

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. 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. 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".

The Purple Helmets ( The Stranglers), on their 1988 album Ride Again [148] and in multiple 1988 and 1989 live shows. Presumably this was an attempt to chime with the contemporary craze for calypso, which had reached such proportions by 1957 that Hollywood produced no less than four calypso-themed films that year. 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'. In total, the Kingsmen's version spent 16 weeks on the Hot 100, selling a million copies by April 1964.

Richard Berry was on the underbill for a concert in the Seattle-Tacoma area in September 1957 [51] and his record appeared on local radio station charts in November 1957 [52] after "African American DJs Bob Summerrise and Eager Beaver started playing it on their radio shows”. Louie Louie" occurred repeatedly as an " idée fixe" in the musical lexicon of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention in the 1960s.

Hardcore's defining band offered their own take on Louie Louie on a 7in single, before Henry Rollins had joined.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. These days, we tend to think of the moptop-era Beatles as uncomplicated, unthreatening and universally adored, but to a certain kind of reactionary mind, the Beatles were anything but uncomplicated and unthreatening. although Marsh asserts that it "far outsold" the other records, but was denied Billboard's top spot due to lack of "proper decorum".