"Louie Louie" - the thread that never stops!

[john poole]

Margie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcRSmTPVClg

[AndyM]

Margie - excellent! May have displaced Julie London from second place (after The Kingsmen, of course) in my L.L. list. Where does the reference to 'pelirojo' (redhead) fit in though??

[john poole]

Maureen Tucker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBqcKvwa6AE

- from her first solo LP "Playin' Possum" (1981/2) "I recorded it alone in my living room on a four track ... between diaper changes. At that point I had five kids, four of them under six, and one brand new"

[Dominic]

This one's a cover of Louie Louie in everything but name (maybe we should start a new thread for rip-offs)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzZNPyixNJQ

[john poole]

Africa -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci_u65I3gAI
Generally, I would not be in favour of a five and a half minute 'Louie Louie'; or including it in a medley with 'Ode to Billie Joe'. From the 1968 LP "Music from Lil Brown" which was packaged as an answer to the Band's first album.

http://record-fiend.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... -1968.html

[john poole]

The Sandpipers (1966) - follow-up single to their version of 'Guantanamera'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ToFSOi8pnY
Jim Brady of The Sandpipers - born 24th August, 1944.

[john poole]

Live version from 1990 with Johnnie Johnson; Ry Cooder (65 last week); Steve Douglas; and on vocals, the man who started it all, Richard Berry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojm4pH1wPEc

[judith]

Listening to Ry Cooder & Richard Berry, I realized I knew nothing at all about the song except that it is permanently imprinted in my brain and decided to look it up. I had no idea that 'Louie Louie' is "the first-person story of a Jamaican sailor returning to the island to see his lady love." (Wikipedia) Kudos to Norman for not using the comma in between the two Louies.