I like this song a lot and the riff is timeless...but man, I have some cognitive dissonance praising this but also having a problem with P. Diddy overly relying on sampling, y'know?
The Ohio Express was terribly underrated by my generation in the 1960s. The band's music is great but at that time there was a heck of a lot of competition. It was a wonderful decade.
Good point much competition. I believe this group was different than those who did Yummy Yummy, Down at Lulu's, please correct me if I'm wrong. I love this song!!! Sadly it became forgotten The 1910 Fruitgum Co had many very good bubblegum songs. To me 68, 69 and 70 were the greatest yrs for music
@@Pito0733I think it's a mix of kingsmen louie louie (due to the keyboard riff) the hollies you know he did (the same riff translated to guitar) and the troggs singing style (from Reg Presley)
I love this era of rock n roll.. You had psychedelic, bubblegum, Motown, folk music, and "garage rock." It wasn't unusual to hear a Frank Sinatra tune mixed in the radio play. That was AM radio in the 1960s. I'm glad I grew up then.
As the original guys who recorded the record, we appreciate seeing the song posted again. Also, thank you all for your kind comments on the UA-cam recording we made several years ago.
First heard this on the Lloyd Thaxton TV show. A few weeks later it was on WMCA! I ran out and bought it! What an infectious 45! A great memory from my sophomore year of HS on Long Island.
In this instance, The Ohio Express were actually The Rare Breed, John Freno on lead vocal. Super K Productions, i.e. Jerry Kasenetz & Jeffrey Katz, remixed The Rare Breed's original single and re-issued it as the first Ohio Express single. Produced by prolific veteran studio hand Sylvester Bradford.
Actually Freno's band who recorded this hit song was the Conquests. Rare Breed and Ohio Express were just fake band names at the beginning. ua-cam.com/video/3loCOWbaJFM/v-deo.html
While this song was released, under the names The Rare Breed and The Ohio Express, this one song wasn't recorded by either group. We were The Conquests when we recorded it. All subsequent songs were recorded by others. A little known fact. We recorded the song again on UA-cam several years ago. :)
I don't actually care who recorded it, I just love the song! I love to play it on my banjo at my music groups every so often! Since it is credited to The Ohio Express I love to use my Joey Levine voice when I'm singing it, even though I know he obviously didn't sing in the record. It actually sounds pretty good when I do my impersonation of Joey Levine singing it!
I heard this song on the Dick Clark show it was them who recorded but then he came yummy yummy yummy that's what really got him up I always love Ohio Express in 1910 for a company and the
Lyrics: You threw me out the night before last And now you want me back in your arms again You think I’m a fool, you treat me like dirt, You pull the string and hope I will be your friend But I know what’s on your mind, So I’d rather be out in the street, Without a dime And I’d rather Beg, Borrow and Steal, I’d rather Beg, Borrow and Steal, I’d rather Beg, Borrow and Steal, Than go back to you, go back to you Than go back to you, go back to you Than go back to you, go back to you Than go back to you, go back to you Yeah How long ‘dja think I’d hang around Pretending not to see the tricks you pulled on me There’s only so much a man can take before His life turns into a tragedy So I’m gettin’ out now while I can, Cause I don’t want to crawl, I want to walk out like a man And I’d rather Beg, Borrow and Steal, I’d rather Beg, Borrow and Steal, I’d rather Beg, Borrow and Steal Than go back to you, go back to you Than go back to you, go back to you Than go back to you, go back to you Than go back to you, go back to you Yeah And I’d rather Beg, Borrow and Steal I’d rather Beg, Borrow and Steal …
The other reason I seek these out is because when we went to a dance, the girls wore a dress or skirt and the boys wore a suit. We really had great dance moves and had fun.
Love this time period. It's 1967 and the kids are a mixture of greasers, frats and beatniks with longish hair. In the movie The Outsider's the frats were called socials or soc's. I was only 6 years old but can remember the high school kids as my neighbor was a high schooler and had her boyfriends over hanging by the side of our house.
It's funny watching the kids dance... tame stuff compared to nowdays. But this launched the counter-culture that changed this country forever. And I miss the old days. Wow. 50 years makes a difference.
Dear Carolyn weaver, Louie Louie is in an entirely different (and advanced) universe from BEG, BORROW and STEAL. Louie Louie is arguably the best party record of all time. BEG, BORROW and STEAL, although cute for a minute, is a cheap knockoff. I think that what grabs most people about Louie Louie, although most won’t realize it, is that instead of using the standard I, IV, V (three chord special) progression the composer has used a I, IV, v (minor v) progression. This is unusual but inspired. It keeps one listening.
I LOVE you guys, when I was in high school in the early 80's, I discovered the Ohio Express on our oldies station, KNRY am 1240 in Monterey. I have a few of your original albums, and this on a 45:) Thanks for so much FUN music! Take care!
Never heard this tune..great lyrics and beat...one of their best and surprised it was no a bigger hit with airplay...oh, that's the music biz. Chewy, chewy...
Beg Borrow or Steal, a big controversy about the back ground music being the same as Louie, Louie by the Kingsmen, mentioned on WABC, WMCA, in New York City, in around end of 1967. Song big on high school dances, how rock and roll was meant to be.
Video of American Bandstand in early June 1967. Great song by a real band from NYC that was turned over to the Ohio Express and credited to the same who did not record or sing or play on the record. The real band who recorded the song did utilize the Louie Louie melody in the making of the song.
there are 3 released versions of Beg Borrow Steal, 3 versions of Hey Joe (the Leaves), and 3 versions of Where Were You When I Needed You (the Grass Roots). All came out by the same groups in quick succession
BB&S, released under the fake band names Rare Breed and Ohio Express, was the same song recorded by The Conquests. ua-cam.com/video/3loCOWbaJFM/v-deo.html
I always believed the Ohio Express was a group from Ohio. However, that was not true and the following explanation might help fill in details for someone: A New York record company owned the name Ohio Express and used the name Ohio Express for several of it's Top 40 pop tunes. The musicians who played and recorded the songs were not from Ohio and were not all the same on every recording. Almost all were from the NYC metropolitan area. The record labels that the songs appeared on were mainly Cameo, Parkway, Bell and later, Buddah. Somewhat later, there was a group from Ohio that toured and performed under the name, Ohio Express, but they were not the same people who had recorded the songs and were not on any of the Ohio Express recordings.
@@XMIR10C The wrecking crew were based out of LA. For the most part these were KK production musicians. Not to be confused with the touring Ohio Express band of the same name.
Certainly derivative ("Louie Louie" and "Hang On Sloopy"), but far better than it needs to be. The Rare Breed (the band who actually did this-as opposed to the Joey Levine-led session group that recorded most of the stuff under the Ohio Express brand later on) deserve more recognition as a standalone band than they got.
As odd as the hairstyles and clothing might seem to us these days, at least the kids made an effort to groom themselves. Take note, scruffy slackers of the 21st Century! ;-)
I dedicated this number to a girlfriend I broke up with after a very toxic relationship I had with her some years ago.Great song and NOT exactly 'bubblegum'.
yes, a real breathing band called The Conquests recorded this song that was released twice (same song) under the then fake names Rare Breed and Ohio Express on 2 different record labels. The record companies scrambled to form real bands to go on tour. ua-cam.com/video/3loCOWbaJFM/v-deo.html
. . I'm not only a senior citizen, but I'm also a working full time railroad employee. One of those Beg Borrow & steal albums had an old steam locomotive coming into a station. I remembered back in the early 1950 the steam locomotive and riding on one into Boston. I still work out of the Boston yards where now Amtrak Acela trains run totally on efficient electric power via overhead wire in a segment down to NY city @ 155 MPH . Taking me back to 1966 when I was JUNIOR /SENIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL I FIND THERE WAS MORE ORDERLY guys and girls meeting and dating back in the 1960s One of my co-workers on the job, I showed them how us kids looked like back then and how they danced. One guy said who is 15+ years younger than me said that they are all dressed in church clothes. Well! when I come to work I dress like any other of the guys, I'm an electrician and I have to protect myself against arc flash explosions that could occur. but if I go to my high school re-union then I dig out the old clothes, which still fits me with a little tightness, but I'm proud to have grown up in that era
This wasn't Louie Louie reincarnated. Louie 's chord progression goes Maj/Maj/Minor Beg Borrow stayed all in Major no minor chords. Most bands play Louie wrong to this day. Beg should have been a huge hit as it has some grit to it.
Yes, Chip, but most players don't even know that! And there's so many versions of "Louie, Louie" that use all major chords. (actually it's a em7!) I'm guessing that Richard Berry's (writer of LL) publishing company couldn't be bothered to sue them all- there were so many LL ripoffs. That and the fact that it might be considered just a common musical cliche like the "Chuck Berry riff" and the "Minor Run Down" (Am, G, F#/D, F, E7)
What a great song! Bands like Ohio Express are what made 60's music. Sadly, we did not know how good we had it.
The world today sure sucks but listening to this music still makes me feel groovy!
I like this song a lot and the riff is timeless...but man, I have some cognitive dissonance praising this but also having a problem with P. Diddy overly relying on sampling, y'know?
I went to high school with these guys and we all were very proud of their music. They were all great guys!!
you are a very luckey person because they happen to be one of my favourite bands.
Wow so cool!!! Love them
@Barb Gartin How cool is that.....they had great music, the 60s and 70s were a great time for pop music!
Buddy Bengert started with the Gentry’s, Cincy’s best garage band
What year 664-65?
Lost my innocence by 10 mid3/68 when uncle "Andy"
Kia in NAMs Central Highlands tail end of bloody mess TET 2wks b-4 my 11th bday!
The Ohio Express was terribly underrated by my generation in the 1960s. The band's music is great but at that time there was a heck of a lot of competition. It was a wonderful decade.
I agree..One of best!
The best!!!!
Good point much competition. I believe this group was different than those who did Yummy Yummy, Down at Lulu's, please correct me if I'm wrong. I love this song!!! Sadly it became forgotten
The 1910 Fruitgum Co had many very good bubblegum songs. To me 68, 69 and 70 were the greatest yrs for music
A great riff, as fans of 'Louie, Louie' already knew...terrific song!
Much better tune!!
Louie louie & Wild thing mixed and voila this “masterpiece”....
@@Pito0733I think it's a mix of kingsmen louie louie (due to the keyboard riff) the hollies you know he did (the same riff translated to guitar) and the troggs singing style (from Reg Presley)
OUR WHOLE SCHOOL WAS HOPING AND BOPPING TO THIS SONG IN OCTOBER 1967. TRUE ROCK AND ROLL. AN OUTSTANDING SONG.
That's quite the experience you get when you hear the first few bars of a tune you haven't heard in decades.
Thanks for this!
Fantastic song. Great dance number. 1967 was the zenith of musical creativity.
MY CANIDATE FOR THE BEST ROCK AND ROLL SONG OF ALL TIME. FAN SAN ANTONIO TEXAS.
Wow i was9 years old when this song came out. Now im 64. Good music. I love classic rock.
Me to
I love this era of rock n roll.. You had psychedelic, bubblegum, Motown, folk music, and "garage rock." It wasn't unusual to hear a Frank Sinatra tune mixed in the radio play. That was AM radio in the 1960s. I'm glad I grew up then.
NO GARAGE ROCK, IT WWSANT INVENTED UNTIL LTER.
IN THE 60'S, LIB=-VING THEN , THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS GARGAE ROCK, THAT A MILLENILA WORD THEY USE
Me to!
Myself & Wife Lisa proclaim this song to our Ex-s
@Lisa. You can add to it British invasion for the kind of music one can hear on the radio in the 1960's.
One of the members, Buddy Bengert, was the lead in Cincy’s best garage band, The Gentrys
Haven't heard this song for 40 yrs., heard it on Little Steven's Garage Bands, great stuff.
This performance has genuineness and natural soul...well done OE.
I went to high school with these guys and we were all so proud of them.
Good tune it had a beat and you can dance to it. Looks like west coast teenagers. Thanks very much.
A great gold nugget from that era of music.
I enjoyed watching the couple dance near the end of the song.
I w@ant to go back to those days..simpler..gentler...with the most awesome music! This is a great song. Thanks for posting.
The bubble gum era of rock and roll short and sweet but beautiful
As the original guys who recorded the record, we appreciate seeing the song posted again. Also, thank you all for your kind comments on the UA-cam recording we made several years ago.
+begborrowandsteal I remember when this song came out. I was in college. It was one you had to sing along with!
+begborrowandsteal from cincy ohio. thank you for one of my favorite tunes
First heard this on the Lloyd Thaxton TV show. A few weeks later it was on WMCA! I ran out and bought it! What an infectious 45! A great memory from my sophomore year of HS on Long Island.
One cool song---a interesting band with an unusual history.
No gblueslover2, we never played with Joe Walsh. :)
In this instance, The Ohio Express were actually The Rare Breed, John Freno on lead vocal. Super K Productions, i.e. Jerry Kasenetz & Jeffrey Katz, remixed The Rare Breed's original single and re-issued it as the first Ohio Express single. Produced by prolific veteran studio hand Sylvester Bradford.
Actually Freno's band who recorded this hit song was the Conquests. Rare Breed and Ohio Express were just fake band names at the beginning. ua-cam.com/video/3loCOWbaJFM/v-deo.html
There are different players in some videos. I remember when Sir Timothy and the Royals became the Ohio Express in Mansfield, Ohio
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The American Breed and Soul Survivors were very good also. I loved bubblegum music especially 1910 Fruitgum Co, very good songs
While this song was released, under the names The Rare Breed and The Ohio Express, this one song wasn't recorded by either group. We were The Conquests when we recorded it. All subsequent songs were recorded by others. A little known fact. We recorded the song again on UA-cam several years ago. :)
Begborrow Andsteal So who are we listening to on this video?
I don't actually care who recorded it, I just love the song! I love to play it on my banjo at my music groups every so often! Since it is credited to The Ohio Express I love to use my Joey Levine voice when I'm singing it, even though I know he obviously didn't sing in the record. It actually sounds pretty good when I do my impersonation of Joey Levine singing it!
I heard this song on the Dick Clark show it was them who recorded but then he came yummy yummy yummy that's what really got him up I always love Ohio Express in 1910 for a company and the
To @@artudolemos5267 : ???
Lyrics:
You threw me out the night before last
And now you want me back in your arms again
You think I’m a fool, you treat me like dirt,
You pull the string and hope I will be your friend
But I know what’s on your mind,
So I’d rather be out in the street,
Without a dime
And I’d rather Beg, Borrow and Steal,
I’d rather Beg, Borrow and Steal,
I’d rather Beg, Borrow and Steal,
Than go back to you, go back to you
Than go back to you, go back to you
Than go back to you, go back to you
Than go back to you, go back to you
Yeah
How long ‘dja think I’d hang around
Pretending not to see the tricks you pulled on me
There’s only so much a man can take before
His life turns into a tragedy
So I’m gettin’ out now while I can,
Cause I don’t want to crawl, I want to walk out like a man
And I’d rather Beg, Borrow and Steal,
I’d rather Beg, Borrow and Steal,
I’d rather Beg, Borrow and Steal
Than go back to you, go back to you
Than go back to you, go back to you
Than go back to you, go back to you
Than go back to you, go back to you
Yeah
And I’d rather Beg, Borrow and Steal
I’d rather Beg, Borrow and Steal …
The other reason I seek these out is because when we went to a dance, the girls wore a dress or skirt and the boys wore a suit. We really had great dance moves and had fun.
Love this time period. It's 1967 and the kids are a mixture of greasers, frats and beatniks with longish hair. In the movie The Outsider's the frats were called socials or soc's. I was only 6 years old but can remember the high school kids as my neighbor was a high schooler and had her boyfriends over hanging by the side of our house.
It's funny watching the kids dance... tame stuff compared to nowdays. But this launched the counter-culture that changed this country forever. And I miss the old days. Wow. 50 years makes a difference.
Still have my 45......always enjoyed this song ! Thanks for the video.
Just to be 16 again and know what I know now !
Hit the charts October 7, 1967 and made it to #29
#25 on WMCA New York 9/27/67. That's where I first heard it. Had to have it!
It should of been in the Top 10. I believe this group was different than who did Yummy Yummy please correct me if I'm wrong. I love this song 😊
Thanks for putting up a stereo take of this great song.
We were rocking to this song in my high school days. Thanks for the great music!
I recall this song in the 7th grade. I was 13teen! I do love this bubblegum song.
Everybody looks so nice.
Great music. Wish it was like it today.
There’s some modern psychedelic rock music that sounds similar,but it’s rare tho!!
Had a lot of fun watching this video and hearing the song! I love the dancing.
I listen to these guys at the YMCA in Mansfield and at the inferno in Mt. Vernon, 1967, 68. Love the Ohio Express.
Lo mejor de lo mejor de aquellos tiempos tan hermosos para oír y bailar sin problemas saludos desde la en CD de México
👍✌️
I remember listening to my older brother's 45's when I was little....this was one of my favorites.
Louie Louie, comes to mind but cool song.
Was thinking the same thing.
And maybe hang on sloopy
Dear Carolyn weaver,
Louie Louie is in an entirely different (and advanced) universe from BEG, BORROW and STEAL. Louie Louie is arguably the best party record of all time. BEG, BORROW and STEAL, although cute for a minute, is a cheap knockoff. I think that what grabs most people about Louie Louie, although most won’t realize it, is that instead of using the standard I, IV, V (three chord special) progression the composer has used a I, IV, v (minor v) progression. This is unusual but inspired. It keeps one listening.
Sorry Carolyn weaver-sarratt- I spelled your name wrong.
I LOVE you guys, when I was in high school in the early 80's, I discovered the Ohio Express on our oldies station, KNRY am 1240 in Monterey. I have a few of your original albums, and this on a 45:) Thanks for so much FUN music! Take care!
It was a good time to be a teenager...
Que cancion tanbonita cundo bailaba con la palomilla donde no existia maldad en los ovenes que bella epoca gracias x el video
My mind went back 53 years ago,but I still Rock and Rolling.
Beautiful era.
In case the Original Guys who Recorded this Record Don't Remember It Landed on the Top 40 10/7/67, Peaked at No.29, Lasted on the Chart 12 Weeks!
HY IDIOT , IT WAS #1 IN NUMEROUS PLACES, GO TO arsa AIRHEADS MRADIOP SURVBYS
I stumbled on this song scanning the AM dial. This is a cool song!! It need more air time!
Love this video--smell the English Leather with some rocking kids.Puts me in a happy zone.
Maxine Stannard English Leather! I haven't thought of that in years. The other big one was Jade East. Brings back memories...
Jade East, Hai Karate, garters, stockings, and mini-skirts..
I still use English Leather today. In the good old days, I also had English Leather "Soap On A Rope" for the shower.
Dancing to this kind of song was just so easy and fun.
I like your bubblegum music
Never heard this tune..great lyrics and beat...one of their best and surprised it was no a bigger hit with airplay...oh, that's the music biz.
Chewy, chewy...
Beg Borrow or Steal, a big controversy about the back ground music being the same as Louie, Louie by the Kingsmen, mentioned on WABC, WMCA, in New York City, in around end of 1967. Song big on high school dances, how rock and roll was meant to be.
+James Hooper AMEN!
James Hooper louie,louie was I- IV- V minor!!!
they are my favourite band
Heard for the first time on Sirius 60's! Love it! :)
Video of American Bandstand in early June 1967. Great song by a real band from NYC that was turned over to the Ohio Express and credited to the same who did not record or sing or play on the record. The real band who recorded the song did utilize the Louie Louie melody in the making of the song.
Always loved this song.
14. When this came out never will be a time and music back then
there are 3 released versions of Beg Borrow Steal, 3 versions of Hey Joe (the Leaves), and 3 versions of Where Were You When I Needed You (the Grass Roots). All came out by the same groups in quick succession
BB&S, released under the fake band names Rare Breed and Ohio Express, was the same song recorded by The Conquests. ua-cam.com/video/3loCOWbaJFM/v-deo.html
Nice to see young people enjoying themselves if not for a moment in time. I wonder how many of these young men ended up in NAM, never to return so sad
My older cousin Erica used to date one of the original band members in the 60s, so we got free records. We thought that was the bomb!
Still sounds mighty fine
AWESOME
Fab band...FAB record !!!
Stumbled on this song only by accident and wondered why I never found it in my early 60"s. Fantastic.
I always believed the Ohio Express was a group from Ohio. However, that was not true and the following explanation might help fill in details for someone: A New York record company owned the name Ohio Express and used the name Ohio Express for several of it's Top 40 pop tunes. The musicians who played and recorded the songs were not from Ohio and were not all the same on every recording. Almost all were from the NYC metropolitan area. The record labels that the songs appeared on were mainly Cameo, Parkway, Bell and later, Buddah. Somewhat later, there was a group from Ohio that toured and performed under the name, Ohio Express, but they were not the same people who had recorded the songs and were not on any of the Ohio Express recordings.
YOU NEVER MENTIONED THE WRECKING CREW
NOR KKATZ
@@XMIR10C The wrecking crew were based out of LA. For the most part these were KK production musicians. Not to be confused with the touring Ohio Express band of the same name.
@@jimshannononsounds you cleaelry are biased towords the crew that lost the lawsuit - the case is closed
@@XMIR10C Not biased at all, just stating historical fact.
Great basement/bubblegum rock!!
A Classic and one of the best Boy " Revenge Songs " on his Girl! "
Could work the other way too you know! With a slight lyric change it could be a tune about a girl giving her boyfriend the brush-off!
GRAN CANCION DE MI EPOCA DE ESTUDIANTE FROM MEXICO CITY .
❤
Certainly derivative ("Louie Louie" and "Hang On Sloopy"), but far better than it needs to be. The Rare Breed (the band who actually did this-as opposed to the Joey Levine-led session group that recorded most of the stuff under the Ohio Express brand later on) deserve more recognition as a standalone band than they got.
As odd as the hairstyles and clothing might seem to us these days, at least the kids made an effort to groom themselves. Take note, scruffy slackers of the 21st Century! ;-)
Ever seen the hippies (they looked very today, man)
@@stevelane6919 But most of the hippies were thin.
Screw your vanity
@@zeroball000 Screw your slovenliness.
I dedicated this number to a girlfriend I broke up with after a very toxic relationship I had with her some years ago.Great song and NOT exactly 'bubblegum'.
So GROOVY!
Vocals sound like The Vogues!
Speaking of beg borrow or "steal" didn't they "Steal" this tune from The Kingsmen (Louie Louie)
Originally the Rare Breed . . . identical master.
Good times of music young 😓
Great time for Music! It was fun being a teenager in the 60's!
@@billymickel464 It sure was! I see healthy young people and listening to great music ☺
@@billymickel464 not wanting to be conservative, i don't see that today 😐
@@andersonlima8811 And when the dancing was done, we had to go outside and find a pay-phone and call our parents for a ride home.
@@billymickel464 really cool! ☺young people today would not have that attitude i Believe.... I can even be pessimistic..
For the longest time I thought this was Jay & the Americans.
+ftsjr me too
File the friggin lawsuit begborrowandsteal. We know each other., remember?
This was not the Yummy Yummy Chewy Chewy Ohio Express. A group called the Rare Breed under a different moniker.
yes, a real breathing band called The Conquests recorded this song that was released twice (same song) under the then fake names Rare Breed and Ohio Express on 2 different record labels. The record companies scrambled to form real bands to go on tour.
ua-cam.com/video/3loCOWbaJFM/v-deo.html
This is a neat garage band sounding song.
I remember this and Yummy Yummy from all that I've watched today. Surely they influenced the Archies or the other way around .... LOL.
Smashing , missed in uk
. . I'm not only a senior citizen, but I'm also a working full time railroad employee. One of those Beg Borrow & steal albums had an old steam locomotive coming into a station. I remembered back in the early 1950 the steam locomotive and riding on one into Boston. I still work out of the Boston yards where now Amtrak Acela trains run totally on efficient electric power via overhead wire in a segment down to NY city @ 155 MPH . Taking me back to 1966 when I was JUNIOR /SENIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL I FIND THERE WAS MORE ORDERLY guys and girls meeting and dating back in the 1960s One of my co-workers on the job, I showed them how us kids looked like back then and how they danced. One guy said who is 15+ years younger than me said that they are all dressed in church clothes. Well! when I come to work I dress like any other of the guys, I'm an electrician and I have to protect myself against arc flash explosions that could occur. but if I go to my high school re-union then I dig out the old clothes, which still fits me with a little tightness, but I'm proud to have grown up in that era
Somebody stole the Kingsman, Louis Louis, intro???!!
Guardado un estender play con esa gran rola
We need this in GOTG vol 3!!!!
Great song!!! I've always liked this song much better than The Kingsmen's "Louie Louie".
The theme of every divorced couple across the land
Dedicated to all the guys ( Like Me ) who found out that their Girlfriend was not TRUE!
Id Give ANY thing to Go back!! Fond memories!! Beam me up Scotty! Theres NOTHING HERE!
This wasn't Louie Louie reincarnated. Louie 's chord progression goes Maj/Maj/Minor Beg Borrow stayed all in Major no minor chords. Most bands play Louie wrong to this day. Beg should have been a huge hit as it has some grit to it.
You are definitely correct.
They begged borrowed and stole "Louie Louie".
Only in your mind
So did Louie Louie from older r and b standards
How'd they get away with the Louie Louie riff?
+MrMace224 They begged for it, borrowed it and, finally, stole it.
+Martín Zuccari XD
+MrMace224 Louie Louie was actually I-IV-Vm... NOT I-IV-V. Sorry.
Yes, Chip, but most players don't even know that! And there's so many versions of "Louie, Louie" that use all major chords. (actually it's a em7!)
I'm guessing that Richard Berry's (writer of LL) publishing company couldn't be bothered to sue them all- there were so many LL ripoffs.
That and the fact that it might be considered just a common musical cliche like the "Chuck Berry riff" and the "Minor Run Down" (Am, G, F#/D, F, E7)
Sorry... don't know what you're responding to. (and of course it's an
Vm7. I played it with The Kingsmen.)
This sounds like "Louie Louie"...right? I wasn't born til '75..so correct me if I'm wrong
The begging sounds just like Louie Louie.
Can't fool somebody with an ear for music.
So TOTALLY UNDERRATED BAND
Did they get permission to use the licks from Louie Louie?
Ohio express e ótimo
same melody as louie, louie - surprised that a fuss was not made about it
I like this version of Louie, Louie
Honey you need a hearing aid ,check it out
WNCI Columbus Ohio E. Karl
If you wrote Louie Louie how could you not sue the poop out of these guys?
E.X.C.E.L.L.E.N.T.E.