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Post subject: Re: Jack Ely
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 7:23 pm
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Refused re-entry into what? as far as the song goes,nobody could ever tell what the guy was singing...there were the usual guesses as to the filthy lyrics but that was just us kids making up what we really didn't hear.
On another note,in a book I have on Strats,the one that played on that song is mentioned as maybe being the most widely heard Strat ever.


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Post subject: Re: Jack Ely
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 10:33 pm
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chef wong wrote:
This guy deserves more recognition. He's the one that sang the historically significant "Louie Louie", only to be refused re-entry after an Army draft. Plays a mean Fender Bass....

I did some reading on the guy. He's pretty cool.

funny that when he left the Kingsman their new singer would lipsync to the recording :lol:
"Louie Louie"

When recorded the band members were Jack Ely (vocalist/rhythm guitar), Lynn Easton (drummer), Mike Mitchell (lead guitar), Don Gallucci (electric piano) and Bob Nordby (bass guitar). Ken Chase (Kingsmen manager and Portland radio station KISN music director) produced the recording session. Robert Lindahl (Northwestern Inc. recording studio owner) was the audio engineer.

"Louie Louie" was kept from the top spot on the charts in late 1963 and early 1964 by the Singing Nun and Bobby Vinton, who monopolized the #1 slot for four weeks apiece. The Kingsmen single reached #1 on the Cashbox chart and #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Additionally in the UK it reached #26 on the Record Retailer chart. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.[1] The B-side of the single was an instrumental, "Haunted Castle".

The band attracted nationwide attention when "Louie Louie" was banned by the governor of Indiana, Matthew E. Welsh, and attracted the attention of the FBI because of alleged indecent lyrics in the Kingsmen's version of the song. The lyrics were, in fact, innocent, but Ely's baffling enunciation permitted teenage fans and concerned parents alike to imagine the most scandalous obscenities. All of this attention only made the song more popular. In April 1966 "Louie Louie" was reissued and once again hit the music charts, reaching #65 on the Cashbox chart and #97 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 1:24 am
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Kingsmen bassist Bob Nordby holds the distinction of owning and playing the very first Sunn amp ever made.

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