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DONALD DUCK
 
 
Donald Duck  is a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions.  Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet.  He typically wears a sailor shirt and cap with a bow tie.  Donald is most famous for his semi-intelligible speech and his mischievous and temperamental personality.  He has appeared in more films than any other Disney character, and is the most published comic book character in the world outside of the superhero genre.  Carl Barks is credited for greatly expanding the “Donald Duck universe”, the world in which Donald lives, and creating many additional characters such as Donald’s rich uncle Scrooge McDuck.  Donald has been a very popular character in Europe, particularly in Nordic countries where his weekly magazine Donald Duck & Co was the most popular comics publication from the 1950s to 2009.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
The Kingsmen released “Louie Louie” in 1963, and that is the one that became such a hit.
 
From Wikipedia: “The Kingsmen transformed [Richard] Berry’s easy-going ballad into a raucous romp, complete with a twangy guitar, occasional background chatter, and nearly unintelligible lyrics by [Jack] Ely. A guitar break is triggered by the shout, ‘Okay, let’s give it to ’em right now!’, which first appeared in the Wailers’ version, as did the entire guitar break (although, in the Wailers’ version, a few notes differ, and the entire band played the break).
 
“Critic Dave Marsh suggests it is this moment that gives the recording greatness: ‘[Jack Ely] went for it so avidly you’d have thought he’d spotted the jugular of a lifelong enemy, so crudely that, at that instant, Ely sounds like Donald Duck on helium. And it’s that faintly ridiculous air that makes the Kingsmen’s record the classic that it is, especially since it’s followed by a guitar solo that’s just as wacky.’”
 
(June 2016)