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[[Louie Louie (CC)|Louie Louie]] is a song written by [[Richard Berry]], and is one of the most simple rock tunes to play. In the 1960s, it was also a highly-requested song and very much overplayed (it has been considered the original "Smells Like Teen Spirit", for example).
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[[Louie Louie (CC)|Louie Louie]] is a song written by [[Richard Berry]]
  
Louie Louie was also musically quoted by [[Frank Zappa|FZ]] ad nauseum, alternatively praised and loathed by him due to it's simple harmony and catchy melody, and because it was overplayed so much.
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[[Richard  Berry]] & the Pharaohs - Louie Louie / You Are My Sunshine (Flip 45-321 1957)
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Louie Louie was often musically quoted by [[Frank Zappa|FZ]]  
  
 
==Records On Which This Song Has Appeared==
 
==Records On Which This Song Has Appeared==
 
===Official Zappa Albums===
 
===Official Zappa Albums===
*[[Uncle Meat]] as [[Louie Louie]]
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*[[Uncle Meat]] as [[Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in London)|Louie Louie]]
 
*[[Unmitigated Audacity (BTB)]] as [[Louie Louie]]
 
*[[Unmitigated Audacity (BTB)]] as [[Louie Louie]]
  
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==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
* [[Alice Stuart]] got fired from [[The Mothers]] because she couldn't play "[[Louie Louie]]".
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* [[Alice Stuart]] allegedly got fired from [[The Mothers]] because she couldn't play "[[Louie Louie]]".
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 16:23, 14 November 2007

Louie Louie is a song written by Richard Berry

Richard Berry & the Pharaohs - Louie Louie / You Are My Sunshine (Flip 45-321 1957)

Louie Louie was often musically quoted by FZ

Records On Which This Song Has Appeared

Official Zappa Albums

Louie Louie shows up in the following songs:

Trivia

See Also