Stanley and Simmons wrote the song in one morning while playing the piano at Ezrin's house before a recording session, with the music of Motown inspiring the song's answering background vocals. Listen to Wicked Lester's 'We Want to Shout It Out Loud'

Bob and Paul kept saying, 'Shout what?' I said 'Who cares!' Whether it's national fervor or my team's better. 'I always thought, just like that commercial on TV, that it was just 'Shout It.' When you've got something, you want to shout it out to the world, and it doesn't matter what it is. 'I always thought the idea was bigger than what they were trying to say with it,' Simmons said of the Hollies' original in Behind the Mask. 'Shout It Out Loud' drew its title and original inspiration from the Hollies' 1970 song 'I Wanna Shout,' which Stanley and Gene Simmons had previously reinterpreted as 'We Want to Shout It Out Loud' on the unreleased self-titled 1972 album by their pre-Kiss band Wicked Lester. 'We went in there kind of green, and came out a lot smarter for it.' 'Working with Bob Ezrin that time was like boot camp,' Stanley recalled. 'If you have a common language things go quicker.' 'I dragged a blackboard in, and I started asking questions to find out why they did or didn't know,' he explained in Kiss: Behind the Mask. Their prior studio albums sounded like dog doody. once Alive! started selling, they were so elated, the mood of the Destroyer album changed.'Īfter discovering the band was unaware of terminology and techniques such as half-time and guitar doubling, Ezrin shifted into teacher and coach mode, right down to literally wearing a whistle around his neck. 'They were down and out, they'd been kicked around. 'Before we started, Bob told me we had to pump these guys up,' engineer Corky Stasiak remembered in 2004's Kiss: Behind the Mask. Eager to keep building on that success - and to finally have an album boast a sound they could be proud of - the group recruited Alice Cooper producer Bob Ezrin to help it take a big step forward.

Kiss shout it out loud