640 The Kingsmen “Louie Louie” 1963

“one Friday night in April 1963 at the Chase, the Kingsmen decided to try an experiment. They would play, one time only, a double-length set—an hour and a half—consisting of nothing but one long ‘Louie Louie’…this first of all ‘Louie’ marathons confirms some weird kind of incipient rock’n’roll genius stirred within them” (Dave Marsh, Louie Louie, 1993). 

The Kingsmen “Louie Louie”