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Louie and Peter Cupples live at Miss D's

Louie Shelton and Peter Cupples filmed by Alessandro Sorbello http://www.alessandrosorbello.com and featuring Louie Shelton http://www.louieshelton.com and Peter Cupples http://www.petercupples.com live at Miss D’s in Brisbane Australia 2009.

Induction into the Musicians Hall of Fame

Louie Induction into the Musicians Hall of Fame

Louie Shelton MySpace Music Videos

Performance and Production Credits

1966 Monkees [Deluxe Edition] ~ The Monkees ~ Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Guitar (Electric)
1966 Monkees The Monkees Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Guitar (Electric)
1967 Headquarters [Deluxe Edition] ~ The Monkees ~Guitar
1967 More of the Monkees [Deluxe Edition] ~ The Monkees ~ Guitar
1967 Test Patterns Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart Guitar
1968 I Wonder What She's Doing Tonite? Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart Guitar
1969 Bosses of the Blues, Vol. 1 Big Joe Turner/T-Bone Walker Guitar
1969 Instant Replay The Monkees Guitar
1969 Monkees Present The Monkees Guitar
1969 Touch Me Louie Shelton Guitar
1969 Who Knocked the Brains Out of The Sky Eric Von Schmidt Guitar
1970 Easy Does It Al Kooper Guitar
1970 Gator Creek Gator Creek Vocals
1970 Partridge Family Album The Partridge Family Guitar
1970 Richard Twice Richard Twice Guitar
1970 Seals and Crofts Seals & Crofts Bass
1970 Sweet Giant of the Blues Otis Spann Guitar
1970 Whatever The Friends of Distinction Guitar
1971 Barbra Joan Streisand Barbra Streisand Guitar
1971 Cass Elliot Cass Elliot Guitar
1971 Desiderata Les Crane Personnel
1971 Fables England Dan & John Ford Coley Bass, Guitar, Sitar
1971 Mythical Kings and Iguanas Dory Previn Guitar, Guitar (Electric)
1971 New York City (You're a Woman) [Japan] Al Kooper Bass, Guitar
1971 New York City (You're a Woman) Al Kooper Guitar
1971 People Like Us The Mamas & the Papas Guitar
1971 Rock Requiem Lalo Schifrin Guitar
1971 Up to Date The Partridge Family Guitar
1972 At Home with Their Greatest Hits The Partridge Family Guitar
1972 Partridge Family Christmas Card The Partridge Family Guitar
1972 Partridge Family Shopping Bag The Partridge Family Guitar
1972 Rock Me Baby David Cassidy Guitar
1972 Song for You Carpenters Guitar
1972 Song or Two Cashman & West Guitar
1972 Summer Breeze Seals & Crofts Bass, Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Producer
1972 Through the Eyes of a Horn Jim Horn Guitar
1972 Year of Sunday Seals & Crofts Guitar (Electric), Producer
1973 Angel Clare Art Garfunkel Guitar
1973 Children's Dreams John Hurley Guitar
1973 Crossword Puzzle The Partridge Family Guitar
1973 Diamond Girl Seals & Crofts Guitar, Vocals, Producer
1973 Diane Kolby Diane Kolby Guitar
1973 First David Gates Guitar, Musician
1973 Heart Food [Expanded] Judee Sill Musician
1973 Heart Food Judee Sill Musician
1973 Last Stage for Silverworld Kenny Young Guitar
1973 Let's Get It On Marvin Gaye Guitar
1973 Living Together, Growing Together The 5th Dimension Guitar
1973 Lulu [1973] Lulu
1973 Michael Franks Michael Franks Guitar
1974 Soul & Inspiration [Bonus Tracks] The 5th Dimension Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Guitar (Electric)
1974 Unborn Child Seals & Crofts Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Vocals, Producer
1974 Very Rare T-Bone Walker Guitar
1975 Breakaway Art Garfunkel Guitar
1975 Greatest Hits Seals & Crofts Producer
1975 I'll Play for You Seals & Crofts Guitar, Vocals, Producer
1976 Deardorff & Joseph Deardorff & Joseph Bass, Guitar, Arranger, Guitar (Bass), Producer
1976 Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart Guitar
1976 Get Closer Seals & Crofts Guitar, Vocals
1976 I Hear Music England Dan & John Ford Coley Bass, Guitar, Sitar
1976 Photograph Melanie Guitar
1976 Silk Degrees (Columbia) Boz Scaggs Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Slide Guitar
1976 Silk Degrees [Bonus Tracks] Boz Scaggs Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Slide Guitar
1976 Sudan Village Seals & Crofts Guitar, Vocals, Producer
1976 You Can Sing on the Left or Bark on the Right [Bonus Track] Dirk Hamilton Guitar (Electric)
1976 You Can Sing on the Left or Bark on the Right Dirk Hamilton Guitar (Electric)
1977 One on One Seals & Crofts Producer
1978 Driftin' Alessi Brothers Guitar, Producer
1978 Takin' It Easy Seals & Crofts Guitar, Arranger, Guitar (Electric), Vocals, Producer, Horn Arrangements, Soloist
1979 Fate for Breakfast Art Garfunkel Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Producer
1979 Song for a Young Girl Paul Parrish Bass, Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Producer
1980 Best Side of Goodbye Jane Olivor Arranger, Producer
1980 Hits! Boz Scaggs Guitar
1980 Jose Feliciano [1980] José Feliciano Guitar
1980 Longest Road Seals & Crofts Guitar (Acoustic), Bass, Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Producer, Soloist
1981 Songs of the Beatles Sarah Vaughan Guitar
1983 Can't Slow Down [Deluxe Edition] Lionel Richie Guitar
1983 Can't Slow Down Lionel Richie Guitar
1983 Previously Unavailable Michael Franks Musician
1985 Whitney Houston Whitney Houston Performer
1986 Dancing on the Ceiling Lionel Richie Guitar
1990 Atlantic Jazz: Singers Various Artists Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)

1991 Listen to the Band The Monkees Guitar

1992 Hitsville USA, Vol. 1: The Motown Singles Collection Various Artists Guitar
1993 Best of Joe Cocker [Capitol] Joe Cocker Guitar
1993 Starbox Boz Scaggs Guitar
1993 Up 'Til Now Art Garfunkel Producer
1995 Greatest Hits [Rhino Deluxe Edition] The Monkees Guitar
1995 Greatest Hits [Rhino] The Monkees Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar
1996 Guitar Louie Shelton Guitar, Keyboards, Producer, Engineer
1996 In My Lifetime Neil Diamond Musician
1996 Missing Links, Vol. 3 The Monkees Guitar
1996 Retrospective Bread Guitar
1996 Vol. 2: 1965-1970 The Hondells Guitar
1997 My Time: The Anthology (1969-1997) Boz Scaggs Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar
1997 My Way: The Best of Frank Sinatra [1 CD] Frank Sinatra Coordination
1997 Up Up and Away: The Definitive Collection The 5th Dimension Guitar (Electric)
1998 Anthology The Monkees Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Guitar (Electric)
1998 Hot & Spicy Louie Shelton Synthesizer, Programming, Multi Instruments, Engineer, Drum Programming, Track Programmer
1998 Mythical Kings and Iguanas/Reflections in a Mud Puddle Dory Previn Banjo, Guitar (Electric)
1999 American City Suite: The Very Best Of Cashman & West Cashman & West Guitar
1999 Pop Music: The Modern Era 1976-1999 Various Artists Guitar
2000 Nashville Guitars Various Artists Guitar (Acoustic), Producer
2000 Today Dash Crofts Synthesizer, Guitar (Acoustic), Arranger, Guitar (Electric), Keyboards, Engineer, Drum Programming, Photography
2000 Urban Culture Louie Shelton Guitar, Producer
2001 Christmas With Jim Horn Jim Horn Guitar
2001 Mirror of Emotions Farzad Guitar (Acoustic), Arranger, Guitar (Electric), Producer
2001 Music Box The Monkees Guitar
2001 Then and Now David Cassidy Guitar
2002 Definitive Monkees [Bonus Disc] The Monkees Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Guitar (Electric)
2002 Definitive Monkees The Monkees Guitar
2002 Make It Home Dan Seals Mandolin, Guitar (Electric), Producer, Digital Engineer
2004 Collection: Slow Dancer/Silk Degrees/Down Two Then Left Boz Scaggs Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Slide Guitar
2004 Electra Glide in Blue Original Soundtrack Guitar
2004 Hit List: 24 Hot 100 American Chartbusters of the 1970 Various Artists Producer
2004 Home and Away: The Complete Recordings 1960-1970 Del Shannon Guitar
2004 In the Mood for Memphis Various Artists Guitar (Electric)
2004 Quiet Christmas Various Artists Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
2004 Quietime: Music to Reflect Various Artists Guitar
2004 Rain Book Renee Armand Guitar
2004 Thank Him Krissy Nordhoff Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar
2004 Ultimate 5th Dimension The 5th Dimension Guitar
2004 What Is Hip?: Remix Project, Vol. 1 Various Artists Producer
2005 Chronicles The Carpenters Guitar
2005 Come on Get Happy! The Very Best of the Partridge Family The Partridge Family Guitar
2005 Complete Anthology The Mamas & the Papas Keyboards
2005 Road Is Rocky: Complete Studio Masters 1956-1971 Gene Vincent Guitar
2006 Complete Asylum Recordings Judee Sill Musician
2007 Essential Teddy Pendergrass [3.0] Teddy Pendergrass Guitar
2007 Essential Teddy Pendergrass Teddy Pendergrass Guitar
2007 Gold: Soft Rock Various Artists Producer
2007 Jack of Diamonds John Phillips Guitar
2008 I Stand Alone/You Never Know Who Your Friends Are Al Kooper Guitar
2008 Revolutions in Sound: Warner Bros. Records - The Firs Various Artists Producer
2009 40/40 The Carpenters Guitar
2009 Collection: Whitney Houston/Whitney/My Love Is Your Love Whitney Houston Performer
Tounge & Groove Presents Lynne Hughes Freeway Gypsy Lynne Hughes Guitar, Guitar (12 String)
Friends of Mine Bob Morrison Guitar
Hurtwood Edge Tim Weisberg Guitar
Jack Daugherty and the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Seventy One Jack Daugherty Orchestra Guitar
Little Taste of Southern Fried Southern Fried Guitar
Lord Protect Me from My Friends Rockville Junction Guitar
Who Would Give His Only Song Away Adam Miller Guitar

Recordings

Bio

Over the past several decades you would have heard Louie Shelton's signature guitar riffs and solos on more hit records than any other session guitarist in history. While there are too many to mention, some of his classics include, Boz Scaggs' "Low Down", Lionel Richie's "Hello", Neil Diamond's "Play Me", The Jackson Five's "I Want You Back", "ABC" and "I'll Be There, The Monkees' "Last Train To Clarksville" and "Valerie". Some of the other artists Louie recorded with include John Lennon, Whitney Houston, Barbra Streisand, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, The Carpenters, Joe Cocker, Kenny Rodgers, The Mamas & Papas, James Brown, Ella Fitzgerald and many others.

Not only did Louie play guitar on Seals & Crofts greatest hits, "Summer Breeze", "Diamond Girl", "We May Never Pass This Way Again" and "Get Closer", he produced their many Gold and Platinum albums. Some of Louie's other production credits include Art Garfunkle, England Dan & John Ford Coley, Dan Seals, Cory Wells (of Three Dog Night), Jane Oliver, The Southern Sons, Mother Hubbard and Nashville Guitars.

As a recording artist himself, Louie has released five albums to date. "Touch Me" , "Guitar", "Hot & Spicy", "Urban Culture" and "Nashville Guitars"


While successfully working within all facets of the music industry in Los Angeles for many years, which includes session guitarist, recording artist, record production, and composing and playing on countless movie scores and television shows, Louie had the opportunity of working closely with the great composers Henry Mancini, Dave Grusin, Quincy Jones and Lalo Schifron. Some of his film/documentaries/T.V. credits include J.W. Coope, The World Around Us, The Changing World, Crocodile Man, Traveling South.

In 1984 Louie and his family moved to Australia where he opened his recording studio in downtown Sydney. Within the first year he produced an album for the great Australian singer, Peter Couples, for Polygram Records. Was hired to compose a set of promotional jingles for the number one radio station, 2 GB. And within the year put together and developed one of Australia's most successful bands, Noiseworks, which he secured a major record contract for with Sony Records.

Over the years Louie continued to produce several bands, including Southern Sons, Mother Hubbard, The Wolverines and Bleu Tongue, and was involved with such artists as Tommy Emanuel, Rick Price and Human Nature. Louie also worked for several independent film companies scoring documentaries.

Louie and his family have since returned to Australia and have chosen to live on the Gold Coast in Queensland, where he and his wife, Donnie, share their passion for golf and life in general, he is still going strong musically. He has just put a recording studio in his home and does not intend to slow down any time soon. He recently completed another CD for The Wolverines, is working on his new CD, playing gigs, and, as always, looking for talented Australians to develop and present to both the Australian and American music market. As he continues to have professional ties and commitments in the States, Louie will continue to commute back and forth for film work and productions.