Fact #82475

Jack Ely (vocalist, The Kingsmen) : The studio was a good enough one, but had been primarily used for radio commercials, voiceovers and movie sound track enhancements, but not many live bands. Also, during the recording of "Louie Louie" and "Haunted Castle" (the B side), (engineer, Robert) Lindahl was locked out of the sound booth and Ken Chase, aka Mike Korgan was at the controls and actually produced and engineered the session. Mr. Chase directed us to set up our amplifiers and the drums in a circle. I stood in the middle of the circle and sang or rather almost yelled up at a boom mic that was suspended about four or five feet above my head. There were other mics on the amplifiers and one on the bass drum and one near the snare drum under the symbols, but they were used for definition. Basically the whole thing was recorded on the one overhead mic in order to capture that "live sound" Mr. Chase said we sounded like we did at his teen club. During the guitar solo, the mic on Mike's amp was turned up slightly for "definition" is what Mr. Chase said. He also said he was delighted with the sound he got.
(Source : http://www.classicbands.com/kingsmen.html)