But there was a far more economic use of time and energy to deliver comedy, satire, stories, and nonsense set to catchy fun tunes by clever writers, musicians, singers, entertainers and comics and that was on 33RPM and 45 RPM records. Due to the novel nature of the recorded hit songs’...
Sha Na Na began as part of the Columbia University a cappella group, the Kingsmen, but changed their name when a band of the same name gained fame for Louie, Louie. Performing 50s hit songs, accompanied by dance moves and harmonies, Sha Na Na began performing in 1969 at the height of ...
In 1963, when the song "Louie, Louie" by the garage rock band also called The Kingsmen became famous, the group elected to bill themselves as The Statler Brothers. Despite the name, only two members of the group (Don and Harold Reid) are actual brothers and none has the surname of ...
The Kinks started out by being raunchier than any group in history. “You Really Got Me,”“All Day And All Of The Night,”“I Need You,” and “Till The End Of The Day” were truly the Kingsmen unleashed, and for my money more thrillingly raucous records have never been recorded....
BackstreetBoys SHE Others:Twins TheMonkees TheBeatles, SimplePlan,NickelBack, Supergrass,KingsmeninAmerica, Reggae,TheZero0’clockofChina Whichonedoyoulikebest?Why? Doyouknowanythingabout“TheMonkees”? 英国女王伊丽莎白二世亲 自给甲壳虫乐队颁发奖章 Abighit! Howmuchdoyouknowaboutthisband? Goover...
Hit version by The Kingsmen (US #2 1963). From the wiki: “By some accounts ‘Louie Louie’ is the world’s most recorded rock song with over 1,600 versions and counting (with many more amateur versions appearing regularly on YouTube and elsewhere). Richard Berry was inspired to write ...
The Kingsmen still insist that there is nothing lewd or obscene in the indecipherably sung lyrics to their recording of "Louie Louie," but the rumors of the existence certainly created a powerful party reputation for the record. Being featured in the smash hit movie "Animal House" didn't hu...
In 1963, when the song "Louie, Louie" by the garage rock band also called The Kingsmen became famous, the group elected to bill themselves as The Statler Brothers. Despite the name, only two members of the group (Don and Harold Reid) are actual brothers and none has the surname ...
One of the characteristics of the Kingsmen's 1963 hit "Louie Louie" is its garage rock sound—with distorted vocals that have created so much confusion over the years, the issue was taken up by the feds. Anow-debunked rumorstated that the song was full of concealed obscenities that could ...
A couple of the songs mentioned inBorn to Runare too obscure even for Spotify. (The Kingsmen’s“Haunted Castle”falls into this category.) Every other tune explicitly referenced in the book is included the playlist above, a long list of songs that spans blues, country, doo-wop and Major ...