{"id":507,"date":"2008-12-22T00:16:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T07:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2008-12-25T23:33:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T06:33:41","slug":"jack-ely-courtmen-in-las-vegas-2008-louie-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"Jack Ely & Courtmen in Las Vegas 2008 – LOUIE of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve written about this year’s reunion of Jack Ely & the Courtmen<\/strong> at the The Sand Dollar Blues Room in Las Vegas back in October<\/a>. The Courtmen was the band that Jack assembled after a court order prohibited him from using the Kingsmen<\/strong> name. As you may or may not know, Jack was the original vocalist for the Kingsmen when they created that iconic recording back in 1963, but he never had a chance to tour with the original band after the big hit record.<\/p>\n

It’s time to share some footage from that event, courtesy of Andy Martello<\/strong><\/a>. Here’s the 2008 version of LOUIE, which I’ve declared LOUIE of the Month.<\/p>\n

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Because my friend Andy has shared more great video from this show at the Sand Dollar Blues Club, I decided I’d post these clips as well. The second view shows the band performing “David’s Mood,” which was the B-side of Jack’s “Louie, Louie ’66” 45 rpm single. This particular song was written by Dave Lewis<\/strong><\/a>, a highly influential Northwest musician that passed away ten years ago.<\/p>\n

If you don’t know who Dave Lewis was, click here<\/a>, here<\/a>, or here<\/a>. Or just purchase the The Godfather of Northwest Rock CD<\/a>. There are some people that believe Dave Lewis was one of the FIRST musicians to ever perform Richard Berry<\/strong>‘s LOUIE LOUIE back in the late 1950s, even if he never recorded it, but that’s another story in itself….<\/p>\n

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For the third clip provided by Andy, the band performs the Paul Revere & the Raiders<\/strong> sequel, “Louie, Go Home.” Musicologists* often note that both The Kingsmen and Paul Revere & the Raiders were from Portland, Oregon, recording LOUIE LOUIE in the same studio, less than a week apart in April 1963.<\/p>\n

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Here’s yet another clip from that same show, which provides a nice overview of this event, despite some of the misinformation embedded in the graphics and YouTube description.<\/p>\n

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* UPDATE<\/strong>: Jack provides a correction:<\/p>\n

\u201cMusicologists\u201d are wrong. Paul Revere and the Raiders were from Caldwell Idaho at the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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