{"id":9793,"date":"2018-12-10T18:53:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=9793"},"modified":"2018-12-10T20:58:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T03:58:15","slug":"celebrating-otis-redding-louie-of-the-week-w-chart-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=9793","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Otis Redding \u2013 LOUIE of the Week (w\/ chart info)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today, I’m reminded it’s the 51st anniversary of Otis Redding<\/strong>‘s tragic death, so I’m recycling a post from two years ago when I visited the Otis Redding exhibit at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned in my original 2016 post<\/a>, Otis Redding’s version of LOUIE LOUIE was released as part of his first album, which was unveiled one month after the Kingsmen<\/strong>\u2018s version of the song entered the Top Ten category on the Billboard Hot 100<\/strong> chart for December 7th in 1963.<\/p>\n

Looking at the Billboard charts for that week, you can see how Kingsmen single entered the Billboard Top Ten at #4, and the Paul Revere & the Raiders<\/strong> version of the same song entered the Billboard charts as #103 under the “Bubbling Under The Hot 100” category.<\/p>\n

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Cash Box magazine covered the same week with completely different numbers. The Kingsmen shared the #8 spot of the Cash Box Top 100<\/strong> with Paul Revere & the Raiders, and Otis Redding entered the charts at #99 with the single release of “Pain In My Heart,” mistyped as “Pains In My Heart.”<\/p>\n

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For the next three weeks (December 14, December 21 + December 28), the Cash Box Top 100 awarded LOUIE LOUIE with the #2 slot, also shared by both Kingsmen and Raiders Revere & the Raiders.<\/p>\n

On December 28th, Otis Redding received some Billboard attention with his “Pain In My Heart” single (which would be the same name as his debut album that would be unveiled a few days later) entering the charts as #109 under the “Bubbling Under The Hot 100” category, and would later peak at the #60 spot.<\/p>\n

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On January 1, 1964, Otis Redding’s “Pain In My Heart” album was released on Atlantic Records’ subsidiary Atco Records on January 1, 1964, and peaked at number 20 on Billboard’s R&B chart and at number 85 on Billboard’s Hot 100.<\/p>\n

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Not only does this album have an excellent version of LOUIE LOUIE, but it’s also got my all-time favorite cover version of “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” and a catchy little number called “The Dog.”<\/p>\n