Everyone knows the song — or, well, parts of it.
"Louie, Louie." "Ohhhhhh, baby." "A fine little girl, she waits for me."
But the next line ... How's it go again?
The voice growling out those indecipherable lyrics belonged to Jack Ely, the lead singer of The Kingsmen, who died this week at the age of 71.
He wasn't the only one to belt out the song — there are hundreds of recordings of "Louie Louie," which was written by Richard Berry in 1955 — but The Kingsmen's 1963 version is the most famous. And it's famously hard to make out the words.
