{"id":4712,"date":"2013-04-06T00:02:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T07:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=4712"},"modified":"2013-04-06T01:41:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T08:41:31","slug":"twas-50-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=4712","title":{"rendered":"Twas 50 years ago today…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Would you believe that today, April 6th, is the 50th anniversary of the day The Kingsmen<\/strong> stepped into a studio to record to create what they initially thought was a “terrible version” of song that was a regional hit for Rockin’ Robin Robert & The Fabulous Wailers<\/strong>? <\/p>\n

Funny how things turn out sometimes…<\/p>\n

Portland Monthly – The Accidental Story of “Louie Louie”<\/a><\/p>\n

NOTE<\/strong>: Be aware that the photo on the article link is of “Jack Ely & the Kingsmen<\/strong>” – the touring band created by original singer Jack Ely when he was not able to rejoin the band that did the original recording. <\/p>\n

This photo, however, is one of the very few featuring the original five members that recorded THE SONG! Gino Rossi<\/strong> was responsible for taking this photo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Would you believe that today, April 6th, is the 50th anniversary of the day The Kingsmen stepped into a studio to record to create what they initially thought was a “terrible version”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,42,2,22,7,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage-rock","category-jack-ely","category-kingsmen","category-louie-universe","category-pacific-northwest","category-portland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712","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=4712"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4727,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions\/4727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}