Your 3 favorite versions of "Louie Louie"?

Slim Lattimer · From: Anaheim, CA USA

Mine are (in no particular order);
*1) by the University of Washington - Huskies Marching Band (instrumental)
*2) by Mongo Santa Maria (Latin instrumental)
*3) by the Grateful Dead (live at the Irvine Ampitheatre, 1988, quite a blusey interpretation I might add)

Steve Hitsman · From: Waterloo, IL

Mother's of Invention, performed on the Royal Albert Hall pipe organ.

D Schubert · From: Columbia, MO, USA

You mean that there is more than one? I always thought the Kingsmen did it first, last, and best.

Ron Whitfield · From: Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA

There is a whole CD out with only Louie Louie covers by some/some not so famous groups that I still gotta get. Slim did any of your choices come from this CD?

I checked it out quickly to see if they had my fave on it, of course they didn't.

The last song the Stooges ever played was this staple of all garage bands. As ice cubes, bottles and eggs pelted them, Iggy and the dum dum boys jammed out the nastiest and funniest version you'll ever hear. It's on the 'Metallic KO' CD.

Barry Blackwood · Posted 2 Jun 2005 3:54 pm

What the hell does this have to do with the Steel Guitar Forum?

Ron Whitfield · From: Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA

It's the free form MUSIC section, OK?

Smiley Roberts · From: Hendersonville,Tn. 37075

3 favorite versions??? You gotta be kiddin'!!
I don't even have ONE fav.

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Barry Blackwood · Posted 2 Jun 2005 5:00 pm

IMO, this song belongs in the "songs you detest the most" thread.

[This message was edited by Barry Blackwood on 02 June 2005 at 06:02 PM.]

Ken Lang · From: Simi Valley, Ca

The song belongs right up there with "My baby think's she's a train." Having said that, it probably makes for a great high school band song as long as the raspy voice and lyrics are gone.

Jussi Huhtakangas · From: Helsinki, Finland

The original is by Richard Berry and it's the only good version of this song, you can flush the others down the toilet when you hear it ( you can actually do it without hearing it too

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info here: http://www.louielouie.net/03-richardberry.htm

Alvin Blaine · From: Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA

3)Ike & Tina Turner
2)Richard Berry & The Pharaohs (the original '57 release)
1)Michael Doucet & Cajun Brew (complete Cajun version with fiddle, accordion and sung in Cajun/French)

Charlie McDonald · From: out of the blue

The Royal Albert Hall pipe organ gets my vote. Really fat sound.

Jim Peters · From: St. Louis, Missouri, USA, R.I.P.

Paul Revere and the Raiders! Really. JP

Dave Horch · From: Frederick, Maryland, USA

My favorite version would be performed by a mime!

Jim Cohen · From: Philadelphia, PA

Ah, yes, the version by Marcel Marceau is surely the best!

Bob Blair · From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Dave Alvin had a whole bunch of different people doing Louie Louie at the Edmonton Folk Festival a few years ago in the workshop sessions he participated in. He would always start by pointing out that "the five is a minor", which of course is the feature most of us missed in our adolescent garage band versions. As Dave Barry once pointed out, Louie Louie was a durable tune if nothing else....

John Billings · From: Ohio, USA

The Kinks did it on their first album. It was great! They chopped up the rhythm guitar part like in "You Really Got Me!"

Jerry Erickson · From: Atlanta,IL 61723

Tuck Andress has a cool solo guitar version.

Bart Maloney · From: Houston, Texas

I can't really stand the song, but I can handle Black Flag's version one time through.

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Jim Cohen · From: Philadelphia, PA

So the 5 is really a minor, eh? For years, I always just thought they played out of tune. In fact, i still do. or maybe some of them played major and some played minor...

Tony Prior · From: Charlotte NC

Steve Allens version was clearly the best..

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Eric West · From: Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.

I liked the version I heard coming out of Norm Sunholm's garage on the corner of Carmen Drive and Quarry Rd in Lake Grove in 1965.

By them.

EJL

Charlie McDonald · From: out of the blue

Modally speaking, the Wurlitzer part, if in E, would go to A, then 1st inversion D, making it Bm7. But only on a Wurlitzer.

Tim Harr · From: Dunlap, Illinois

Jerry is correct. If you are going to enjoy this song at all....listen to Tuck Andress!

The CD is called "Reckless Precision"

A fine offering of finger style guitar playing.

Check it out!!

Tim Harr

Bob Blair · From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Jimbeaux, just because the five is supposed to be a minor doesn't mean it can't be played out of tune! Or that a band member or two can't throw in a major on top of it! Maybe even an out of tune major. Musicians can be pretty resourceful. In the old adolescent garage band days I don't suppose there was such a thing as an in-tune electric guitar.....remember wailing away in those awful old Harmonys and stuff?(my "Rocket" hangs proudly on my office wall, never to be seriously played again except perhaps as a torture device). And never once did I use a minor for the five - not on purpose anyway. But my favorite version of the song is that sixties garage band version my friends and I did in my friend Jeremy's garage - boy we must have stunk.

[This message was edited by Bob Blair on 14 June 2005 at 11:45 AM.]

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