Louie Louie

In Episode 32, you’re going to “Louie Louie” University!! This is our wildest and most comprehensive podcast yet, full of Hot Takes! Wild Theories!! New Terminology!!! and Revisionist History!!!! We trace the song's journey from a Cuban cha-cha-cha tune to Richard Berry and the Pharaohs' transformation of the groove into a doo-wop number about a sailor, with Godoy Colbert’s delightfully dumb “duh-duh-duh’s” (23:16). The larger part of the pod studies the Kingsmen's alchemical coagulation of the song into pure, beautiful 60s termite trash (48:59). Finally, we ride forth with Paul Revere and the Raiders version (1:42:42), recorded the same week and in the same studio as the Kingsmen, but without the magic fairy dust of Joe Ely’s cartoon caterwauling and Lynn Easton’s daffy drumming. All this and the René Touzet number which started it all !!(2:12:43)