Sources vary on the impact of "Louie Louie" on the writing of " You Really Got Me" and " All Day and All of the Night". More recently, Springsteen included the Kingsmen's version in a curated " frat rock" playlist on the 25th episode of his From My Home to Yours Sirius XM radio show in July 2021 [249] and again as an intro on the 30th episode in October 2023. In an interview with the paper, the then-teen girl admitted to liking the song when she first heard it. Though their arrangement dispenses with the stomping garage-rock rhythm that made the Kingsmen’s version so influential, the lead singer, Frederick (Toots) Hibbert, rivals, even exceeds, Jack Ely for indecipherability, and for sheer verve. The Independent in Britain noted that it reinforced "a growing suspicion that enthusiasm was more important to rock 'n' roll than technical competence or literal meaning.

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. Their effort was unusual in that it was rendered "in a version so faithful to Berry's Angeleno-revered original" [146] instead of the more common garage rock style as they "[paid] tribute to the two most important earlier recordings of 'Louie Louie' — the 1957 original by Richard Berry and the Pharaohs, and the infamously unintelligible 1963 cover by the Kingsmen".They also made it more "fierce and threatening" [174] by altering the traditional 1-4-5-4 chord pattern to the "darker, more sinister" 1-3b-4-3b.

There are over 2,000 versions of Louie Louie, making it one of the most covered rock songs of all time! Convinced there was something naughty within the lyrics, he contacted the Federal Communications Commission. whose] presence in an arrangement puts a spin on any lyric in their vicinity" [177] and used it initially "to make fun of the old-fashioned rock 'n' roll they had transcended".If that's true, then it's faintly ironic, given that the Kingsmen's brand of good-time frat rock was rendered obsolete by the opening chords of I Want To Hold Your Hand.

You can picture agents slowly going nuts as they desperately struggle to pin something, anything, dirty on the lyrics, regardless of whether or not that something makes any sense or actually features in the lyric. The cover features Black Flag's singer Dez Cadena and some of his improvised lyrics to "Louie Louie". 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 tune was written originally as "Amarren Al Loco" ("Tie Up the Madman") by Cuban bandleader Rosendo Ruiz Jr. I was always trying to get Ray to sing, because I thought he had a great voice, but he was very shy. A duo of " jazz rock fusioneers", [275] bassist Stanley Clarke and keyboardist George Duke, included a "killer version" [276] "funk cover" [277] on The Clarke/Duke Project, a 1981 album of eight original compositions and one cover.