The Kingsmen
- 风格
- #摇滚 #车库摇滚
- 地区
- United States of America 美国
艺人介绍
Garage rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States formed in 1959. Best known for their 1963 recording of Richard Berry's "Louie Louie". Composer Berry sold the rights to his famous song for $750 in 1959. "Louie Louie" was recorded in one take for a one hour session that cost $36.
by Cub Koda
A rock & roll band from Portland, Oregon, the Kingsmens one big hit Louie, Louie defined the garage-band style and became one of the all-time classics. The original lineup included Jack Ely (lead singer and guitar), Lynn Easton (drums), Mike Mitchell (lead guitar), Bob Nordby (bass), and Don Galucci (piano). After Ely had incorrectly taught the rest of the band the Wailers version of Richard Berrys Louie Louie (thus altering the basic rhythm into the now famous duh-duh-duh, duh-duh, duh-duh-duh, duh-duh riff that has become the only way anyone has played it since), they recorded it for fifty dollars at a primitive local recording studio with only three mikes, Ely hollering the lyrics into an overhead boom mike suspended ten feet in the air. Released on a local label, the record went nowhere after Paul Revere & the Raiders quickly covered it in the Northwest market, although it had quickly become a standard for all teen bands in that area. In 1964, the record started to break nationally, causing the breakup of the original lineup when Easton copyrighted the groups name, informing the other members that he was now sole owner of the Kingsmen and its new lead singer. Ely formed his own Kingsmen, touring at the same time as Easton, who was lip-synching the record whenever possible. Only Easton and Mitchell were left from the original lineup, but they kept scoring big with frat-band versions of Money and Little Latin Lupe Lu, reaching their peak with The Jolly Green Giant, while Ely languished in relative obscurity and Gallucci formed Don & the Goodtimes. By the early 90s, history had redressed itself somewhat. While replacement members from the Easton version of the band toured as the original Kingsmen, Jack Ely finally received some of his due, headlining the 30th Anniversary Louie Louie tour. Though the song itself has been covered repeatedly, the version by Ely and the original lineup remains definitive.
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- @紫色食物(不擅长任何事喜欢自言自语)：绝了
- @錳鎷君(Eine kosmisc...)：
- @未知生物：。。
- @兔一刀我龟儿子(。)：很棒
- @未知生物：Garage Rock
- @我媽的鎮定劑(紙片劃傷皮膚)：
- @万里小露露(不为浴)：Jack Ely r.i.p
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