The Swamp Rats released just a handful of singles during their brief existe… Read Full Bio ↴The Swamp Rats released just a handful of singles during their brief existence. While the preponderance of the band’s recorded repertoire was cover versions, the Rats’ choice of material was rather special. Covering well known garage standards like “Louie Louie” and “Hey Joe”—along with more obscure cuts like The Sparkles’ “No Friend of Mine” and The Sonics’ “Psycho”—the Swamp Rats seem to have acknowledged the garage-rock genre while the phenomenon was still in vogue, fully five or six years before the music community at large recognized it via Lenny Kaye’s legendary Nuggets compilation. The Swamp Rats’ distillation of their fellow garage rockers centered on taking already potent material to powerful extremes, resulting in some of the ballsiest recordings of the genre. Some of the band’s 60s material was compiled on a slipshod 1979 album release, Disco Sucks, supplemented with later material recorded by band leader Bob Hocko and others.
Louie Louie
Swamp Rats Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Louie Louie' by these artists:
55. The Kingsmen Louie Louie, oh no, you take me to where ya…
Australian Crawl Louie Louie, oh baby, me gotta go. Louie Louie, oh baby,…
Bad Religion Louie Louie, me gotta go Louie Louie, me gotta go Fine littl…
Ben E. King & The Drifters I said I, I left my wife and child (Lubie…
Berry Richard Louie, Louie, oh, oh, me gotta go Louie, Louie, me gotta…
Black Flag Louie Louie! We've gotta go! Screwie Louie! We've gotta go! …
Black Out Band (Chorus) Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I s…
Blondie Louie Louie Oh no, so here I go Louie, Louie Oh baby, her…
Blondie feat. Robert Fripp Louie Louie Oh no, so here I go Louie, Louie Oh baby, here…
D.R.I. Baby I wonder how you've been Bands on my mind, you…
David and The High Spirit Well I, well I left my wife and child (Louie, go…
Dez Cadena Louie Louie! We've gotta go! Screwie Louie! We've gotta g…
Fastball Sittin' here in your room I've been listen' to the freeway…
Fat Boys This song is going out to The whole wide world out…
Frank Zappa Ah! I know the perfect thing to accompany this man's…
Graham BLVD Louie Louie, oh no, you take me where ya gotta…
Grateful Dead Louie, Louie, me gotta go. Louie, Louie, me gotta go. A…
Harrison Wilbert Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said Louie…
Iggy Pop And now the news [Chorus:] Louie Louie Oh baby I gotta go L…
Iggy Pop the stooges Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said Louie…
iggy pop and the stooges - metallic KO Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said Louie Lo…
iKE [Chorus] Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I sai…
Ike Turner | Tina Turner [Chorus] Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I …
J.Ely Of The Kingsmen Louis Vuitton, Louis Vuitton Louie V, Louie V Louie V, Louie…
Jack Ely formerly of The Kingsmen feat. Jack Ely Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said Louie Lo…
Jan & Dean [Chorus] Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said…
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts Louie, Louie, oh baby Say we gotta go Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah…
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Louie, Louie whoa baby Say we gotta go Yeah, yeah,…
John Belushi Louie, Louie, oh, no I said me gotta go Yeah, yeah, yeah I…
Johnny Otis Louie, Louie, oh, oh, me gotta go Louie, Louie, me gotta…
Jr. Cadillac St.Louie DONOVcNSR,DONOVcNJR THERE'S c RcTTLESNcKE IN MY Hc…
Julie London [Chorus] Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I …
Kings Men Louie Louie, oh no, you take me where ya gotta…
Kingsmen Louie, Louie, oh no, I said we gotta go Yeah yeah…
Kingsmen (The) Louie Louie, oh no, you take me where ya gotta…
Louie Louie Don’t matter where I’m at nigga I’m free We cut the same…
M. Grever Baby Bela From Atlanta Big body big thithi olha perna Baby B…
Mark Lindsay Paul Revere Paul Revere & The Raiders The Raiders Louie Louie, oh baby, I gotta go Yeah yeah yeah yeah…
Mark Lindsay;Paul Revere;Paul Revere & The Raiders Louie Louie, oh baby, I gotta go Yeah yeah yeah yeah…
Motörhead Louie Louie, oh baby, we gotta go Aye-aye-aye-aye-aye-aye Lo…
Motörhead Louie Louie, oh baby, we gotta go. Yi-yi-yi-yi-yi Louie Lo…
Mr. Epp I told that bitch to drop the racks up in…
Otis Redding Fine little girl she waits for me, Me catch the ship…
Paul Revere The Raiders Louie Louie, oh baby, I gotta go Yeah yeah yeah yeah…
Paul Revere & The Raiders Hah, when I left my wife and child, Louie go…
Paul Revere & The Raiders Mark Lindsay Louie Louie, oh baby, I gotta go Yeah yeah yeah yeah…
Pop (Iggy) And now the news [Chorus:] Louie Louie Oh baby I gotta go L…
Pow Wow Louie, Louie Oh oh We gotta go Louie, Louie oh We gotta go …
R&B I'm too real to fake know it ain’t really love because…
R. Berry Louie, Louie, oh, oh, me gotta go Louie, Louie, me gotta…
Richard Berry The Pharaohs Louie, Louie, oh, oh, me gotta go Louie, Louie, me gotta…
Richard Berry & The Pharaohs Louie, Louie, oh, oh, me gotta go Louie, Louie, oh, oh,…
Richard Berry & The Pharoahs Louie, Louie, oh, oh, me gotta go Louie, Louie, me gotta…
Richard Berry and the Pharoahs Louie, Louie, oh, oh, me gotta go Louie, Louie, me gotta…
Richard Berry feat. Shuggie Otis Louie, Louie, oh, oh, me gotta go Louie, Louie, oh, oh,…
Robert Plant (Louie Louie) (Louie Louie) Fine little girl she waits…
Sandpipers CHORUS: Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I…
Shuggie Otis Louie, Louie, oh, oh, me gotta go Louie, Louie, me gotta…
Sonics (the) Louie Louie, me gotta go now Louie Louie, me gotta go…
The Beach Boys Duh duh duh Duh duh Duh duh duh Duh Duh Duh duh duh Duh…
The Beau Brummels [Instrumental Intro] Louie Louie, ya, my said me gotta go…
The Clash Louie, Louie Louie, Louie, oh baby Baby, Louie, Louie Gotta …
the fall Louie Louie, oh baby, I gotta go. Yi-yi-yi-yi-yi Louie Louie…
The King's Men Louie, Louie, oh, oh, me gotta go Louie, Louie, me gotta…
The Kingsmen Louie Louie, oh no, you take me to where ya…
The Kingsmen (60s) Louie, Louie, oh, oh, me gotta go Louie, Louie, me gotta…
The Kinks Louie louie, oh baby, i gotta go. Yi-yi-yi-yi-yi Louie lou…
The Mothers of Invention Ah! I know the perfect thing to accompany this man's…
The Mystery Band Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said Louie Lo…
The Pretenders Shh...here they come Now louie louie had his day Nothin' gon…
The Sandpipers CHORUS: Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I…
The Sisters of Mercy Louie, louie as performed by Richard Berry the Sisters use t…
The Sonics Louie Louie, me gotta go now Louie Louie, me gotta go…
The Stooges Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said Louie…
The Three Amigos * Louie Louie Oh no Louie Louie Oh no Louie Louie Oh…
The Troggs Louie louie, oh baby, I gotta go. Yi-yi-yi-yi-yi Louie louie…
Tina [Chorus] Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I sai…
Toots & The Maytals Louie louie, oh baby, I gotta go. Yi-yi-yi-yi-yi Louie louie…
Toots and The Maytals Louie, Louie, oh baby, I gotta go Yi, yi, yi, yi,…
Toots feat. The Maytals Louie louie, oh baby, I gotta go. Yi-yi-yi-yi-yi Louie louie…
Turner Ike&Tina [Chorus] Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I …
V.A. Louie Baby Let the Bass Drop Time to rock out Hop out…
Various Artists im higher than a bitch right now getting high as a…
Wilbert Harrison Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said Louie Lo…
WOHNZIMMER - Motörhead Louie Louie, oh baby, we gotta go Aye-aye-aye-aye-aye-aye Lo…
Young & Restless Girl you moving too fast you gotta slow down And that…
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Here There & Everywhere To lead a better life I need my love to be…
Here There And Everywhere To lead a better life I need my love to be…
Hey Joe Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun of your…
Hey Joe! Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun of your…
Psycho Baby, you're drivin' me crazy I'm goin' outta my head Well I…
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@BobGuido
I'm glad you think so!
My father is the most humble man who doesn't revel too much in the past or his achievements as a musical artist.
In his words:
"I was 18 years old and just hanging out with these guys who asked me to play guitar in their band. The whole thing was about two years until the draft came. I remember being at the radio station late at night when the studio wasn't live on air. I was brought in after the band recorded the album live off the floor to redo a lot of guitar and bass parts on my own and spent a lot of hours there experimenting and trying out new things into the wee hours of the morning. My parents weren't too happy about it. I wasn't doing very well in school at the time and didn't really like going to school or church very much"
The stories my dad tells (after I press him hard for info) about how the band came to be and how their manager recorded them live off the floor in 1960's era local radio station in McKeesport Pennsylvania have been the mythical legends of our dinner table for years.
I followed in my father's musical footsteps and have pursued a life of musical exploration and experimentation as a violinist, guitarist and composer. My father has been the most amazing and inspiring person I have ever known.
For me, it's amazing to hear my father speak about his friends and other members of the Swamp Rats, pushing the music to it's limits and also pusing the recording equipment to it's limits!
1. Turning up the VOX Super Beatle amp.
2. On the recording side of things, the Raytheon RC-11 analog all vacuum tube mixing console designed originally for radio broadcast stations was used to plug in the RCA 44 velocity ribbon microphone that was used to capture the band. The microphone amplifier level on the RC-11 radio broadcast mixing desk was set up so audio signal from the microphone placed in the room with the VOX Super Beatle amp might overload the electronic amplifier tube circuitry, transforming the pleasant sounding sine waves of audio into a rather pronounced series of harmonic overtones of the 3rd order which sounds rather violent and well....fuzzy!
3. The Ampex tape machine used in the recording was fed a very loud overloaded signal from the Raytheon RC-11 vacuum tube mixing desk - the tube microphone amplifier already distorting from overloading. A similar level of audio was fed to the tape machine to make the tape saturate. There was very limited audio metering on any of this radio broadcast equipment to be able to tell of the signal was too hot or as we say: "in the red".
My father remembers that they had a little rectangular adapter that plugged into the Super Beatle Amp called a VOX Distortion Booster that was used to drive a harder signal into the front end.
It's been fascinating to hear my dad talk about the day the radio station got the first Jimi Hendrix LP, Are You Experienced. The way he talks about hearing that album at the radio station before the record was released to the public is priceless. "Like taking a trip into another dimension, into outer space. No one had ever heard anything like it before. It was mind boggling. That was a pretty special year with both the first Jimi Hendrix and the first Frank Zappa albums coming out and I got to listen to them at the radio station because they had all the new releases sent to them before they were released to the public"
@BobGuido
When The Swamp Rats recorded this song, there was no such thing as punk rock in the mid 1960's. The guys in the band were anti-establishment though and you can hear it in the rough edges and chaotic distortion of their music.
My Dad, Joey Guido (guitarist) is the last surviving member of The Swamp Rats. My dad played guitar and bass guitar on much of these recordings, which was the decision of the band's producer Terry Lee who owned the local radio station where this music was recorded in a primitive sound on sound fashion to analog tape through the radio station mixing desk that was not designed for recording but only for radio broadcasts. The result is the "pleasant" symmetrical clipping distortion we hear in every aspect of these recordings.
If you lived in McKeesport in the 1960's, then you know that the band was never called "Bob Hocko & The Swamp Rats".
The band was always just called "The Swamp Rats"
It's unfortunate that Bob Hocko had to have his own name precede the name of the actual band on this re-release, which was otherwise very well done by Get Hip Records.
When Bob sold the master tapes to Get Hip Records that he took from the original producer Terry Lee, he made this deal that will forever tarnish this band's legacy until Get Hip or the next steward of these recordings correct it.
The name of the band is: THE SWAMP RATS
After Producer Terry Lee's death. Bob Hocko insisted that Get Hip Records call the reissue of the album "Bob Hocko & The Swamp Rats"
Bob Hocko wanted to take credit for as much of the band's legacy as he single handedly could. He had a big ego and was difficult to get along with. He started out as the band's drummer and self-admittedly was not a singer, which is part of the reason why he sounds the way he does. His voice has a very Jekyll & Hyde character as he shifts between sounding like a nasally pipsqueak and a screaming banshee.
The band was always called and will always be called The Swamp Rats and all of the band's members contributed to the innovative sound they produced. Bob Hocko was a wild and out of control guy and you can hear it in his voice. The prototype punk rock guitars, that defined that genre to come in the following decade may well be even more historically significant than Bob's screaming vocals. There were other singers around in the 1960's that screamed (The Beatles - Twist & Shout)
Lastly, The Swamp Rats Wikipedia page has incorrect statements and much incorrect information on it, including someone named "Chuck Keifer" who wasn't a member of The Swamp Rats. Likely just somebody who added themselves to the Wikipedia page in the hopes that no one would notice.
@BobGuido
My Dad Joey Guido (guitarist) is the last surviving member of The Swamp Rats. My dad played guitar and bass guitar on much of these recordings, which was the decision of the band's producer Terry Lee who owned the local radio station where this music was recorded in a primitive sound on sound fashion to analog tape through the radio station mixing desk that was not designed for recording but only for radio broadcasts. The result is the "pleasant" distortion we hear in every aspect of these recordings.
If you lived in McKeesport in the 1960's, then you know that the band was never called "Bob Hocko & The Swamp Rats". It was always just called "The Swamp Rats"
It's unfortunate that Bob Hocko had to have his own name precede the name of the actual band on this re-release, which was otherwise very well done by Get Hip Records.
When Bob sold the master tapes to Get Hip Records that he took from the original producer Terry Lee, he made this deal that will forever tarnish this band's legacy until Get Hip or the next steward of these recordings correct it.
The name of the band is: THE SWAMP RATS
After Producer Terry Lee's death. Bob Hocko insisted that Get Hip Records call the reissue of the album "Bob Hocko & The Swamp Rats"
Bob Hocko wanted to take credit for as much of the band's legacy as he single handedly could. He had a big ego and was difficult to get along with. He started out as the band's drummer and self-admittedly was not a singer, which is part of the reason why he sounds the way he does. His voice has a very Jekyll & Hyde character as he shifts between sounding like a nasally pipsqueak and a screaming banshee.
The band was always called and will always be called The Swamp Rats and all of the band's members contributed to the innovative sound they produced. Bob Hocko was a wild and out of control guy and you can hear it in his voice. The prototype punk rock guitars, that defined that genre to come in the following decade may well be even more historically significant than Bob's screaming vocals. There were other singers around in the 1960's that screamed (The Beatles - Twist & Shout)
Lastly, The Swamp Rats Wikipedia page has
incorrect statements and much incorrect information on it, including someone named "Chuck Keifer" who wasn't a member of The Swamp Rats. Likely just somebody who added themselves to the Wikipedia page in the hopes that no one would notice.
@BobGuido
Very proud son here!
My dad is Joey Guido, Swamp Rats guitarist.
@Glendoras
Bob Guido Cool, he and the band was ahead of it’s time!
@BobGuido
I'm glad you think so!
My father is the most humble man who doesn't revel too much in the past or his achievements as a musical artist.
In his words:
"I was 18 years old and just hanging out with these guys who asked me to play guitar in their band. The whole thing was about two years until the draft came. I remember being at the radio station late at night when the studio wasn't live on air. I was brought in after the band recorded the album live off the floor to redo a lot of guitar and bass parts on my own and spent a lot of hours there experimenting and trying out new things into the wee hours of the morning. My parents weren't too happy about it. I wasn't doing very well in school at the time and didn't really like going to school or church very much"
The stories my dad tells (after I press him hard for info) about how the band came to be and how their manager recorded them live off the floor in 1960's era local radio station in McKeesport Pennsylvania have been the mythical legends of our dinner table for years.
I followed in my father's musical footsteps and have pursued a life of musical exploration and experimentation as a violinist, guitarist and composer. My father has been the most amazing and inspiring person I have ever known.
For me, it's amazing to hear my father speak about his friends and other members of the Swamp Rats, pushing the music to it's limits and also pusing the recording equipment to it's limits!
1. Turning up the VOX Super Beatle amp.
2. On the recording side of things, the Raytheon RC-11 analog all vacuum tube mixing console designed originally for radio broadcast stations was used to plug in the RCA 44 velocity ribbon microphone that was used to capture the band. The microphone amplifier level on the RC-11 radio broadcast mixing desk was set up so audio signal from the microphone placed in the room with the VOX Super Beatle amp might overload the electronic amplifier tube circuitry, transforming the pleasant sounding sine waves of audio into a rather pronounced series of harmonic overtones of the 3rd order which sounds rather violent and well....fuzzy!
3. The Ampex tape machine used in the recording was fed a very loud overloaded signal from the Raytheon RC-11 vacuum tube mixing desk - the tube microphone amplifier already distorting from overloading. A similar level of audio was fed to the tape machine to make the tape saturate. There was very limited audio metering on any of this radio broadcast equipment to be able to tell of the signal was too hot or as we say: "in the red".
My father remembers that they had a little rectangular adapter that plugged into the Super Beatle Amp called a VOX Distortion Booster that was used to drive a harder signal into the front end.
It's been fascinating to hear my dad talk about the day the radio station got the first Jimi Hendrix LP, Are You Experienced. The way he talks about hearing that album at the radio station before the record was released to the public is priceless. "Like taking a trip into another dimension, into outer space. No one had ever heard anything like it before. It was mind boggling. That was a pretty special year with both the first Jimi Hendrix and the first Frank Zappa albums coming out and I got to listen to them at the radio station because they had all the new releases sent to them before they were released to the public"
@robyheavyguitar
@@BobGuido GREAT guitar player ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
@BobGuido
@@robyheavyguitar Thank you Roby! I will let my dad know you think so.
@robyheavyguitar
@@BobGuido 👍👋
@keithm5224
Absolutely killer. The fact that the catalog number is MF-69 makes it that much better.
@jaeylopidas5000
This is the most punk thing I've heard in 60s garage rock so far. The rawness of the singing and guitar playing, as well as the amateurish recording, just sells me on this song. Rivals the Kingsmen's cover as one of my favorites.
@BobGuido
My father describes it like this: "We were just having fun and didn't really know what we were doing and I don't think our manager Terry Lee knew what he was doing either but he was well connected. He wasn't really a record producer though. He was a local radio DJ and provided the live entertainment for local Friday night dances at the Palisades night club where we (The Swamp Rats) played gigs for those dances. Terry Lee had a radio show and operated the local radio station and that's where we recorded the band. The equipment wasn't really recording equipment like you would have in a recording studio at the time. It was old radio station broadcast equipment. All of the equipment including the Super Beatle amp, that everyone plugged into at the same time because it had four inputs for different instruments was also owned by Terry Lee."
@jaeylopidas5000
@@BobGuido The joy of making music is being able to muck around with the sound and see what sounds good, even if the equipment isn't optimal. It ain't a pretty cover, this one, but the energy is pretty raw and punky. Feels like it's a few years ahead of its time.