POP/ROCK - May 26, 1987

The record producer who promoted the hit song “Louie Louie” by the Kingsmen has pleaded guilty in a tax-shelter case involving millions of dollars. Gerald B. Dennon has pleaded guilty to causing fraudulent income tax returns to be filed, said the U.S. attorney’s office for western Washington. Dennon sold master recording tapes as unreleased and exclusive, when the recordings were not always new and the ownership rights were not exclusive and worldwide, the U.S. attorney’s office said. Some were old releases of albums by such artists as Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Stevens, Dionne Warwick and Jimmy Dorsey.