Richard Berry

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Louie Louie 00:00 Tools
Louie, Louie 00:00 Tools
Doin' It 00:00 Tools
Have Love Will Travel 00:00 Tools
Round About Midnight 00:00 Tools
Yama Yama Pretty Mama 00:00 Tools
Walk Right In 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sugar You 00:00 Tools
Get Out of the Car 00:00 Tools
Crazy Lover 00:00 Tools
Give It Up 00:00 Tools
I Want You To Be My Girl 00:00 Tools
You Look So Good 00:00 Tools
I'm Your Fool 00:00 Tools
Oh! Oh! Get Out Of The Car 00:00 Tools
Louie, Louie (Re-Recorded / Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Have Love, Will Travel 00:00 Tools
The Big Break 00:00 Tools
Besame Mucho 00:00 Tools
No Room 00:00 Tools
Trackin' Machine 00:00 Tools
Mess Around 00:00 Tools
Mad About You 00:00 Tools
Big John 00:00 Tools
Look Out Miss James 00:00 Tools
Next Time 00:00 Tools
Rockin' Man 00:00 Tools
In A Real Big Way 00:00 Tools
'Round About Midnight 00:00 Tools
Rock, Rock, Rock ... 00:00 Tools
Round About Midnight (Re-Recorded Version) 00:00 Tools
No Kissin' and A-Huggin' 00:00 Tools
Rock, Rock, Rock (This Dance Is Crazy) 00:00 Tools
It's All Right 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Got A Lover But Me 00:00 Tools
Jelly Roll 00:00 Tools
You Are My Sunshine 00:00 Tools
I'll Never Ever Love Again 00:00 Tools
Heaven on Wheels 00:00 Tools
I'm Still In Love With You 00:00 Tools
Well Done 00:00 Tools
Mad About You Baby 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Make You Happy 00:00 Tools
Daddy Daddy 00:00 Tools
The Mess Around 00:00 Tools
Tell Me Why 00:00 Tools
Weep No More 00:00 Tools
Do I, Do I 00:00 Tools
Angel Of My Life 00:00 Tools
One Little Prayer 00:00 Tools
You're The Girl 00:00 Tools
Dreams Of An Angel 00:00 Tools
Please Tell Me 00:00 Tools
Have Love Will Travel (1959) 00:00 Tools
What Good Is A Heart 00:00 Tools
Empty Chair 00:00 Tools
Somewhere There's A Rainbow 00:00 Tools
I Am Bewildered 00:00 Tools
Louie, Louie (Re-Recorded / Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Pretty Brown Eyes 00:00 Tools
Oh! Oh Get Out The Car 00:00 Tools
I'm Learning 00:00 Tools
Bewildered 00:00 Tools
Doin'it 00:00 Tools
Ooh, Baby I Love You (Re-Recorded Version) 00:00 Tools
Don't Cha Go 00:00 Tools
WAIT FOR ME 00:00 Tools
At Last 00:00 Tools
Good Love 00:00 Tools
Rock Rock Rock 00:00 Tools
Take The Key And Open Up My Heart 00:00 Tools
Have Love- Will Travel 00:00 Tools
Big Break 00:00 Tools
God Gave Me You 00:00 Tools
Get Out of the Car - Cars 00:00 Tools
Baby Please Come Home 00:00 Tools
What You Do to Me 00:00 Tools
Visiteur 00:00 Tools
Yama, Yama, Pretty Mama 00:00 Tools
Bye Bye 00:00 Tools
Chacun Fait Ce Qui Lui Plaît 00:00 Tools
Tell Me You Love Me 00:00 Tools
Real Good Lovin' Man 00:00 Tools
Rock, Rock, Rock 00:00 Tools
22 Bullets 00:00 Tools
Take the Key 00:00 Tools
Together 00:00 Tools
Louie Louie (Re-Recorded Version) 00:00 Tools
Tender Love 00:00 Tools
Teenager's Love Song 00:00 Tools
Louie Louie (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
‘Round About Midnight 00:00 Tools
Have Love Will Travel (Re-Recorded Version) 00:00 Tools
What You Do To Me (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Get out of the Car (w/ Bob Dylan intro) 00:00 Tools
Trackin' Machine (Re-Recorded Version) 00:00 Tools
Predoehlicious 00:00 Tools
Watusi 00:00 Tools
Louie, Louie (Original Mix) 00:00 Tools
In A Really Big Way 00:00 Tools
The Watusi 00:00 Tools
Yama, Yama, Pretty Woman 00:00 Tools
Tobacco Road 00:00 Tools
Baby Darling 00:00 Tools
These Pawnshop Blues 00:00 Tools
go go girl 00:00 Tools
Doin it 00:00 Tools
Yama Yama Pretty Mama (Take 7) 00:00 Tools
Have Love With Travel 00:00 Tools
Ruby Baby 00:00 Tools
Doin' It (Re-Recorded Version) 00:00 Tools
I Want You To Be Mine Aka What You Do To Me 00:00 Tools
Baby Darling Aka Baby Baby 00:00 Tools
Pain Gets A Little Deeper 00:00 Tools
Uh!Oh! Get Out Of The Car 00:00 Tools
Walk Right In (Re-Recorded Version) 00:00 Tools
Yama Yama Pretty Mama (Re-Recorded Version) 00:00 Tools
Ooh, Baby, I Love You / Round About Midnight 00:00 Tools
Make Me Yours 00:00 Tools
She Blew A Good Thing 00:00 Tools
Louie,Louie 00:00 Tools
Yama, Yama, Pretty Mama (Take 5) 00:00 Tools
Take The Key (And Open Up My Heart) 00:00 Tools
Black Box (2005) 00:00 Tools
Good Love [take 1] 00:00 Tools
I Want You to Be Mine (What You Do to Me) [*] 00:00 Tools
Ooh Baby I Love You 00:00 Tools
This Time It's Real 00:00 Tools
Ooh, Baby I Love You / Round About Midnight (Medley) 00:00 Tools
The Wallflower 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Doggone (Live) 00:00 Tools
Louie, Louie (Re-Recorded/Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Loule, Loule 00:00 Tools
Walk-Right-In 00:00 Tools
Walk Right In (feat.Shuggie Otis) 00:00 Tools
Each Step 00:00 Tools
Look Out Miss James [take 8] 00:00 Tools
Doin' It (feat.Shuggie Otis) 00:00 Tools
Bewildered (Re-Recorded Version) 00:00 Tools
Daddy Daddy [Take 1] 00:00 Tools
How Love Will Travel 00:00 Tools
The Wallflower (Dance With Me Henry) 00:00 Tools
There Will Be No Next Time (Next Time) 00:00 Tools
Rock_Rock_Rock 00:00 Tools
Wallflower (Roll With Me Henry) 00:00 Tools
There Will Be No Next Time 00:00 Tools
Louie, Louie (Re-Recorded) 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Make You Happy (Re-Recorded Version) 00:00 Tools
Mad About You [take 5] 00:00 Tools
26 Predoehlicious (Instr) 00:00 Tools
Ooh, Baby, I Love You 00:00 Tools
14 The Wallflower (Roll With Me Henry) (Etta James & The Peaches) 00:00 Tools
I Want You to Be Mine 00:00 Tools
Doin’ It 00:00 Tools
Please Tell Me [*] 00:00 Tools
I Wanna' Make You Happy 00:00 Tools
Nothing I Can Do About It 00:00 Tools
Richard Berry 00:00 Tools
Mad About You (Take 5) 00:00 Tools
Mad About You (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Louie, Louie (feat.Shuggie Otis) 00:00 Tools
20 Hey Henry (Etta James with Richard Berry) (Take 6) 00:00 Tools
Bright Eyes (From 'Watership Down') 00:00 Tools
Ooh, Baby I Love You - Part of Medley 00:00 Tools
Louie, Louie - Richard Berry 00:00 Tools
I Want You to Be Mine (What You Do to Me) 00:00 Tools
Mad About 00:00 Tools
Hey Henry [Take 6] 00:00 Tools
Yama, Yama Pretty Mama 00:00 Tools
Richard Berry & The Pharaohs / Louie Louie 00:00 Tools
Louie Louie - Original Version 00:00 Tools
28 Next Time 00:00 Tools
21 Pretty Brown Eyes 00:00 Tools
15 Please Tell Me 00:00 Tools
16 Good Love (Alt) 00:00 Tools
06 Daddy Daddy (The Dreamers with Richard Berry) (Alt) 00:00 Tools
Have Love Will Travel(feat.Shuggie Otis) 00:00 Tools
Rose Bowl Rally Entrance 00:00 Tools
Round About Midnight - Part of Medley 00:00 Tools
ain't that somethin' 00:00 Tools
08 Don't Cha Go (Richard Berry With The Cadets) 00:00 Tools
Daddy Daddy [*] 00:00 Tools
I Am Bewildered [*] 00:00 Tools
Baby Darling AKA Baby, Baby [*] 00:00 Tools
Pretty Brown Eyes [*] 00:00 Tools
Yama Yama Pretty Mama - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
Ooh, Baby, I Love You, Round About Midnight 00:00 Tools
Walk Right In(feat.Shuggie Otis) 00:00 Tools
23 Mad About You (Alt Take 5) 00:00 Tools
18 Oh! Oh! Get Out Of The Car 00:00 Tools
13 Crazy Lover 00:00 Tools
24 I Am Bewildered 00:00 Tools
17 Each Step (Rickey & Jennell) 00:00 Tools
12 Rockin' Man 00:00 Tools
Take the Key and Open Up My He 00:00 Tools
22 Jelly Roll (The Dreamers With Richard Berry) 00:00 Tools
25 This Time Is Real (Rickey & Jennell) 00:00 Tools
19 Wait For Me (The Dreamers With Richard Berry) 00:00 Tools
Walk Right Back 00:00 Tools
One Little Player 00:00 Tools
Richard Berry & The Pharaohs / Have Love Will Travel 00:00 Tools
10 One Little Prayer 00:00 Tools
Louie, Louie - Original Mix 00:00 Tools
no kissin' & a huggin' 00:00 Tools
07 Look Out Miss James (Alt) 00:00 Tools
Cent ans deja 00:00 Tools
09 The Big Break 00:00 Tools
No Kissin' and Huggin' 00:00 Tools
Pretty Brown Eyes (1956) 00:00 Tools
Good Love (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
Louie, Louie (Banned) 00:00 Tools
Wild Berry 00:00 Tools
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Richard Berry (April 11, 1935–January 23, 1997) was an American singer and songwriter, best known as the composer and original performer of the rock standard "Louie Louie". He was born in Extension, Louisiana, and moved with his family to Los Angeles as a baby. He began singing and playing in local doo-wop groups, recording with several of them including The Penguins, The Cadets and The Chimes, before joining The Flairs (who also recorded as The Debonaires and The Flamingoes) in 1953. The Flairs’ record "She Wants To Rock", on Modern Records, featured Berry’s bass vocals, and was an early production by Leiber and Stoller. When, a few months later, that pair needed a bass voice for their production of The Robins’ "Riot In Cell Block #9" on Spark Records, they recruited Berry to provide the menacing introduction to the song – uncredited, as he was contracted to Modern. Berry’s voice was also used at Modern, again uncredited, as the counterpoint to Etta James on her first record and big hit, "The Wallflower (Roll With Me, Henry)", and several of its less successful follow-ups. Berry also recorded with several other groups on the Modern and Flair labels, including The Crowns, and girl group The Dreamers (who later became The Blossoms). By the end of 1954, he left the Flairs to form his own group, the Pharaohs (See Richard Berry & The Pharaohs), while also continuing to work with other groups as a singer and songwriter. One of these was a Latin and R&B group, Rick Rillera and The Rhythm Rockers. In 1955, Berry was inspired to write a new calypso-style song, "Louie Louie", based on The Rhythm Rockers version of René Touzet's "El Loco Cha Cha", and also influenced by Chuck Berry's "Havana Moon". Richard Berry and the Pharaohs recorded and released the song on Flip Records in 1957, originally as a B-side. It became a minor regional hit, and, when the group toured the Pacific Northwest, several local R&B bands began to adopt the song and established its popularity. "Louie Louie" finally became a major hit when The Kingsmen's raucous version – with little trace of its calypso-like origins other than in its lyrics - became a national and international hit in 1963. The nearly unintelligible (and innocuous) lyrics were widely misinterpreted as obscene, and the song was banned by radio stations and even investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The song has been recorded over 1,000 times, but, because Berry sold its copyright cheaply in 1959, he received little financial reward for its success for many years. Berry continued to record in the late 1950s, but with little commercial success, and also continued as a performer. His other songs included "Crazy Lover", recorded on their 1987 debut album by the Rollins Band. During the 1980s, "Louie Louie" received a number of unprecedented accolades, with hundreds of cover versions being issued on CD compilations and played on radio marathons. In 1986 and again in 1993, Berry finally received substantial financial benefits for writing the song. In February 1996, he performed for the final time, reuniting with The Pharaohs and The Dreamers for a benefit concert in Long Beach. However, his health declined, and he died of heart failure in 1997. He was interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.