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  • Richard Berry
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  • American rock singers
  • 1997 deaths
  • African-American musicians
  • 20th-century American singers
  • American male singer-songwriters
  • Burials at Inglewood Park Cemetery
  • American singer-songwriters
  • 1935 births
  • American rhythm and blues singer-songwriters
  • American rock musicians
  • American rock songwriters
  • Modern Records artists
  • RPM Records (United States) artists
  • Smash Records artists
  • Flair Records artists
  • People from Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
abstract
  • Born: April 11, 1935, Extension, Louisiana, USADied: January 23, 1997, Los Angeles, California, USAAmerican R'n'B and vocal group singer, songwriter and musician. Recorded most actively in the 1950's and 1960's. He performed and recorded with many of the doo-wop bands based out of Fremont High School. Most notably he wrote and recorded the original %22Louie, Louie,%22 later performed by The Kingsmen. Once the subject of an annual marathon by California college radio station KFJC, it is the second the most-covered song in in the history of rock music.Married to Dorothy Berry.
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  • Richard Berry (April 11, 1935 – January 23, 1997) was an African-American singer, songwriter and musician, who performed with many Los Angeles doo-wop and close harmony groups in the 1950s, including The Flairs and The Robins.He is best known as the composer and original performer of the rock standard %22Louie Louie%22. The song went on to be a hit for The Kingsmen, becoming one of the most recorded songs of all time; however, Berry received little financial benefit for writing it until the 1980s, having signed away his rights to the song in 1959. In that same year, he wrote and released %22Have Love, Will Travel%22, which has been covered by many artists.
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  • US singer/songwriter, composed Louie Louie
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  • 1935-04-11
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  • 1997-01-23
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  • Ace Records
  • Crown Records
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  • R&B
  • Doo-wop
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