EASTON, LYNN
Homebase: Portland, OR
Stats: June 6, 1944 -- April 24, 2020
Misc Notes: The founding drummer of The Kingsmen, who took over the band, and after their recording of "Louie Louie" (which featured vocals and rhythm guitar by Jack Ely) became a national hit in late-1963 began serving as their new frontman / vocalist. In short, Easton was then the lead vocalist on the band's second single, "The Jolly Green Giant" (Wand #172), their debut album The Kingsmen In Person (Wand #657) -- and probably every Kingsmen recording that followed up into 1967. Around 1968 Easton began hosting a teen-oriented music show, This Is It, on Portland's KGW-TV.
ALSO SEE:
1.) KINGSMEN, The
MISC NOTES: Recorded in 1976 for S. J. Productions. Released, initially, on the 12-song 60's Dance Party compilation LP - as produced by ERA Records, Inc. and distributed by Dominion Music Corporation. "These selections are re-recordings by the original artists." Note: that album also included a re-recording of the Kingsmen's first hit record "Louie Louie" by their original vocalist, Jack Ely, which led to the lawsuit noted below.
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RECORDING PERSONNEL: Lynn Easton and unknown studio musicians.
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FORMAT: disc
SIZE: 12"
SPEED: 33 1/3 rpm
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Excerpt from the 1983 lawsuit: Kingsmen v. K-Tel Intern. Ltd., 557 F. Supp. 178 (S.D.N.Y. 1983)[/caption]