ELY, JACK

Homebase: Portland, OR
Stats: 1943-2015
Misc Notes: Founding member, leader, guitarist, and vocalist with the Kingsmen. A few months after exiting the band in the summer of 1963, their "Louie Louie" single became a big national hit. He responded by forming a new band: Jack Ely and the Kingsmen. Legal action against him halted that. He then began fronting Portland's Courtmen, and then the Squires. In 1976 he re-recorded "Louie Louie" with studio musicians (released on K-Tel's 1982 60's Dance Party LP and other compilations) which the Kingsmen successfully sued K-Tel over in 1983. That recording was also released on 10 Big Hits of the Rock 'n' Roll Era in 1980, and other compilations).
ALSO SEE:
1.) KINGSMEN, THE
2.) ELY AND THE KINGSMEN, JACK
3.) ELY AND THE COURTMEN, JACK
4.) LEE & THE SQUIRES, JACK E.

Cash Box magazine, February 2, 1966 p.7

Cash Box magazine, February 2, 1966 p.46

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LABEL

SERIAL

DATE

"Louie Louie"

Dominion Music Corporation [MN]

#PBU 5000

1982

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 second hit record "The Jolly Green Giant" by their original drummer, and latter-day frontman / vocalist, Lynn Easton.

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RECORDING PERSONNEL: Jack Ely and unknown session musicians.
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FORMAT: disc
SIZE: 7"
SPEED: 33 1/3 rpm
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A-SIDE MATRIX: 18
B-SIDE MATRIX: 18

[caption id="attachment_49557" align="aligncenter" width="1684"] Excerpt from the 1983 lawsuit: Kingsmen v. K-Tel Intern. Ltd., 557 F. Supp. 178 (S.D.N.Y. 1983)[/caption]