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The Kingsmen were the most successful and influential rock and roll band Oregon has produced. The band’s recording of "Louie Louie" was a nationwide hit in 1964, and it has remained one of the most popular rock songs of all time. The band got its start in Portland in 1959 when two teenaged friends, drummer Lynn Easton and guitarist Jack Ely, started playing popular music together. By 1960, Mike Mitchell, on lead guitar, and Bob Nordby, on bass, had joined the band. Ken Chase, a local Top 40 radio personality and the owner of the Chase, a teen dance club in Milwaukie, OR, took the group under his wing, and the Kingsmen became the club’s house band in 1961. Don Gallucci joined the group on keyboards in 1962. "Louie Louie," an R&B calypso tune about a homesick sailor, was written and recorded by Los Angeles singer Richard Berry in 1956 and became a short-lived regional hit in California. Composer Berry sold the rights to his famous song for $750 in 1959. The song was rediscovered a few years later by bands in the Seattle area. Rockin' Robin Roberts and the Wailers recorded it, and it became a regional hit in the Northwest in 1961. It was that version that became one of the most popular tunes in the Kingsmen's repertoire. On April 6, 1963, Ken Chase...  Read More

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Masters Of Gospel  Kingsmen Masters Of Gospel CD, Cassette   3 listed $7 - $55 View All
May Day  Kingsmen May Day CD, LP   2 listed $9 - $199 View All
  Kingsmen Men Of Music Cassette   1 listed $7  Details 
  Kingsmen Mojo Workout EP   1 listed $93  Details 
Money  Kingsmen Money 7", 45   27 listed $1 - $22 View All
  Kingsmen More Great Sounds From The Group That Gave You "louie LP   1 listed $4  Details 
  Kingsmen More To The Story CD   1 listed $17  Details 
  Kingsmen My Wife Can't Cook 7"   6 listed $4 - $11 View All
  Kingsmen / Pine Ridge Boys / Kymberlee Knight & Music To Live By LP   2 listed $25 - $45 View All
  Kingsmen Quartet Mississippi Cassette   2 listed $7 - $49 View All
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