{"id":368,"date":"2008-01-08T01:01:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T08:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2008-01-07T18:09:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T01:09:09","slug":"rare-photo-of-rockin-robin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"Rare color photo of Rockin&#8217; Robin Robert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I continue to do a lot of really tedious work trying to make damaged Hi8 video footage viewable, I thought I&#8217;d share a very rare color photo of <strong>Rockin&#8217; Robin Roberts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rockin&#8217; Robin Roberts<\/strong> is a very important person in the legend of LOUIE LOUIE.  His version of the song recorded with <strong>the Wailers<\/strong>, released in 1961 by Etiquette Records, is considered be the inspirational archetype that led to the recordings two years later by both <strong>the Kingsmen<\/strong> and <strong>Paul Revere &#038; the Raiders<\/strong>.   This is an extremely rare image of Robin with <strong>the Blue Notes<\/strong>, a band led by <strong>Little Bill Engelhart<\/strong>.  A few years after this photo, Robin and bassist <strong>Buck Ormsby<\/strong> left the Blue Notes to join up with the Wailers.<\/p>\n<p>While there&#8217;s no question that other musicians (<strong>Ron Holden &#038; Playboys<\/strong>, <strong>The Frantics<\/strong>, <strong>Dave Lewis<\/strong>, <strong>the Swinging Esquires<\/strong>, among others) <em>performed<\/em> LOUIE LOUIE in the Pacific Northwest between 1957-1963, there&#8217;s a certain degree of debate whether Rockin Robin or Little Bill were the first musicians to <em>record<\/em> <strong>Richard Berry<\/strong>&#8216;s catchy little composition.  One thing that cannot be denied is the fact that Rockin&#8217; Robin created a very powerful rendition of the song that inspired countless other bands in the Northwest to perform this song.<\/p>\n<p>One could make the case that Rockin&#8217; Robin was the quintessential &#8220;misssing link&#8221; between Richard Berry and the Kingsmen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/pix-2008\/RockinRobin-color-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rockin' Robin Roberts - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I continue to do a lot of really tedious work trying to make damaged Hi8 video footage viewable, I thought I&#8217;d share a very rare color photo of Rockin&#8217; Robin Roberts&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific-northwest","category-production-at-louie-central","category-wailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}