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The Henchmen. The Outsiders [US]. The Checkmates, Ltd. Gene Vincent. In April two Portland-based bands -- the Kingsmen and Paul Revere and the Raiders -- had each recorded their versions of Roberts's and the Wailers' "Louie Louie," and both got considerable radio play in Oregon all that summer.
One supposes that Roberts couldn't resist the impulse to join in because at one point he stepped up, introduced himself, and then led the combo in a rendition of his signature tune, "Louie Louie. That timing was perfect for him to be exposed to the counter-cultural revolution that was rocking the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood with new sounds in the Summer of Love. Then, on the evening of December 21, , Roberts attended a party with coworkers, including a young woman named Sunny Cabell McCully, and eventually they and her two female roommates departed in her car.
As The Times of San Mateo reported, witnesses informed police that at 1 a. McCully's car entered the Kehoe Avenue off-ramp to the Bayshore Freeway today's Highway , heading south in the northbound lanes. Although a few other drivers honked their horns in an effort to alert McCully -- and one even exited to find a telephone and call the Highway Patrol, who sent several troopers racing to the area in an attempt to intercept the wrong-way driver -- all their efforts failed.
After a number of terrified drivers swerved to miss the oblivious McCully, another, Roy Lee Shaffer, didn't react in time, and a head-on collision occurred just south of the 19th Avenue overpass. Making matters worse, Shaffer's car was then struck by another car, and then the whole pileup was struck by a fourth car. Then a fifth car slammed into the fire truck and a tow truck that had arrived on the scene, and that car burst into flames.
Meanwhile, Roberts, McCully, and her two passengers were all stuck in their car and had to be removed by firemen, highway patrolmen, and passersby. In the resultant traffic jam a sixth car ran into a seventh car. The next day a passenger in the fifth car, which had caught fire, also died. Roberts's remains were taken to Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, then transferred home, where memorial services were held at the chapel of his alma mater, the University of Puget Sound, with Chaplin Jeff Smith , who later gained fame as the "Frugal Gourmet" TV chef, officiating.
Three decades later, in the spring of , a kind-hearted Tacoma-based fan, Jeff Miller, formed a Headstone Committee, which held a public fundraising drive. As Ormsby soon realized: "He was one of the He was an ad-libber. He could take any song and turn it into his own song. And he was talented enough to get that energy going with everybody. He was real high-strung -- always a volcano ready to go. Real dynamic and entertaining on stage" Cryptic Tymes.
Blue Notes' drummer Lasse Aanes agreed: "Robin used to jump up on top of the piano during the sax solo and dance around, and then in one motion, leap off and grab the mic from the sax stand and continue singin', never missing a beat! He was a very high-strung person who appeared like he was on speed all the time -- but I don't think he was. I don't think he did any kind of drugs. But he was so hyper that he couldn't sit still for five minutes. He had to walk and shake his hands like he used to do.
And he was just a bundle of nerves and energy and so when he would come onstage it was like a bull out of a chute. Mostly, I think we decided to bring him in because of his energy; to jump all over the stage. And I think he helped add that to all of us. And, he had a very unique voice. I don't know who to compare him to He was the kind of guy that would pace back and forth in a room and literally shake his hands around and stuff, you know: like he was trying to get loose all the time like a jogger or something.
And he was real nutty, a real card.
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