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"Louie Louie," recorded by the Kingsmen, began climbing the pop charts 60 years ago. It's a song almost everybody can recognize, but almost nobody understands the words to. And even fewer people know ...

In 1963, The Kingsmen made one of the greatest rock n’ roll recordings of all time in Portland, Oregon. The original “Louie Louie” was a calypso-style song, but today it transcends genre – a theory ...

It might be the best-known rock song of all time. It might be the most important rock song of all time. It’s “Louie Louie” and it’s so well-known that with just the title, you likely can begin to hear ...

If you write a hit song, you're supposed to make a bunch of money, but as we all know by now, that isn't always the way it works — and the story of Richard Berry, who wrote "Louie Louie," is a perfect ...

Singer of the Kingsmen known for hugely successful cover of Richard Berry’s song died at home, his son said Jack Ely, the singer known for Louie Louie, the low-budget recording that became one of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1963, a rock hit the airwaves that would go on to cause mass confusion, outrage and accidental comedy. That song was "Louie ...

But there was one group of Americans who were still very interested in the Kingsmen: the FBI. One of the band was interviewed by the FBI in September. He informed the Bureau that no, he wasn't – as ...

Comedian and actor Louie Anderson won an Emmy for his performance on the FX show Baskets, in which he plays Christine Baskets, mother of struggling clown Chip Baskets. Anderson's new book is titled ...

All these men helped contribute to the fame of Louie Louie Jack Ely, singer with the Kingsmen, has died. He is best known for Louie Louie, a song inspired by the Caribbean which appeared, went away ...

In the winter of 1963-64, a team of FBI agents spent their days hunched over portable record players, struggling to decode a message that threatened the morality of America’s youth. It wasn’t from the ...