Later versions appeared on Sinderella and Live at Easy Street Described as a major influence on punk and garage music worldwide, the group's characteristic hard-edged, fuzz-drenched sound and 'abrasive, all-out approach' 'took the Northwest garage sound to its most primitive extreme' and made their 'Louie Louie' version ahead of its time. Released as a single Atlantic, the track was not included on Wammack's first album in or any thereafter.

With the only instrumental version to make the charts, Travis Wammack reached No. The success of their 'smoky version' heralded the entry of the ever adaptable 'Louie Louie' into the MOR and easy listening categories and many followed: David McCallum and J. Then we heard The Kingsmen and he had that lazy, throwaway, laid-back drawl in his voice, and it was magic. I was always trying to get Ray to sing, because I thought he had a great voice, but he was very shy. And Ray copied a lot of his vocal style from that guy. Whether directly or indirectly, the Kingsmen version influenced the musical style of the early Kinks.

Rogan also cited brother Dave Davies' distorted power chords as 'the sonic contribution that transformed the composition' into a hit song. Black singles speed dating in Memphis USAīiographer Johnny Rogan noted no 'Louie Louie' influence, writing that Davies adapted an earlier piano riff to the jazz blues style of Mose Allison, and that he was further influenced by seeing Chuck Berry and Gerry Mulligan in ' Jazz on a Summer's Day ', a film about the Newport Jazz Festival.

Louie Louie by Dave Marsh