American Bandstand 1964 - TOP 10 - Louie, Louie - The Kingsmen

Airdate: January 18, 1964
Today is the unofficial start of “Beatlemania” as The Beatles first song to chart in America, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”, enters the Billboard Hot 100 at #45. It will be #3 next week. In about 10 minutes from now, in this episode, they will play it for, perhaps, the first time ever on national TV in the U.S. (eat your heart our Ed Sullivan) I will be posting a link to that clip soon. I will say, it is “very strange” (and very cool) watching 2 different eras crossover as the Philadelphia kids dance to “I Want to Hold Your Hand”. It almost seems anachronistic
‘Louie, Louie” is at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 today for its 3rd week in a row and 1 of 6 non-consecutive weeks at #2. It never made it to #1.
In response to never hitting #1 - The Kingsmen drummer Ken Easton: “F- - - !”
Only 3 more weeks until American Bandstand will start airing from Hollywood. They either taped the last episodes in Philadelphia last week or they are taping them as this episode is airing. The final Philadelphia kids dancing today are: Richie Cartledge & Michelle Liebowitz (1:44), Gary Stapleford (far left, 2:45), Bruce Richard & Barbara Warchol (2:54) and Bobby Baritz, Sandi Bartholomew & Ailyene Silverman (3:19).
Whether you prefer the more modern and long-running Bandstand from Hollywood or the more classic Bandstand from Philadelphia, thank you for watching!
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This episode (a new one to the library) was donated by @jthyme. Thank you Gary!

[@bellerophonchallen8861]

No piercings, no tattoos, no half naked bodies. Boys in jacket and tie, girls with set hair and nice dresses. Great time to be around.

[@markperlman8384]

The boys also had hair.

[@CEETEEEFF13]

Calm down pop pop

[@juanrivera3247]

Pero llegaron los hippies y despues los punks y los hooligans el resto del siglo

[@Thomas-lg6jx]

Then liberal socialist judeo-bolshevist hippiedum happened.

[@dannymcrooster4089]

But ready to be teamed. 😊

[@lard_lad_AU]

1964, everyone dressed up classy to go out, ladies had the big hair, young men and women just enjoying living in the moment, some on dates that would lead to marriage. Simpler times back then, nobody needed drugs or validation from facebook likes to feel good. Everybody worked hard and saved their money for a car or a house. Some of these young men may have gone to Vietnam and paid the ultimate sacrifice. But I hope that they survived and became grandparents and great grandparents

[@marksinger3067]

I'll take a ride on that time machine.

[@anttissy2773]

Me too

[@mikebarrett3982]

Count me in

[@dout0rm942]

Take me with'ya

[@DreamVintageCrochet]

Sameeee ✌️❤️🎶

[@sunlandleaonard]

i was 15 years old . i wonder how many of these kids are dead now .I'm 73 now, it seems to me like a different world . time goes so fast

[@skipdow3]

I am 74 now. Don't wonder about it, Get out there and dance to it.

[@user-lo7eo3nt6t]

I was 11 years old, and I also wonder how many of those kids have died. A lot of my former classmates are gone, not to mention everyone in my immediate family! Life really is short!!!😢😿

[@user-lo7eo3nt6t]

​@@skipdow3 You are just trying to keep from being depressed about the horrible passing of time, try not to fall down with your arthritic knees when you dance, not to mention getting a stroke or heart attack! Old age and death to me are terrifying, especially as I see there is no evidence of any afterlife!😮😧😲

[@damiangavigan6485]

Keep it light 😅

[@joycepino9749]

I was going to write the same thing. I'm 69. The year is 2024. Sixty years ago. I great time to be a kid.

[@georgemusic4all4seasons]

4 years old when this song came out and can still remember my mother cleaning house 🏠 and throwing in a few moves while cleaning. To think mother was only 27 years young. Rest In Peace mom and thinking of you everyday ❤️

[@daisychavez8869]

George196 Sorry for your loss. I miss my Momma too.

[@Gigi-zr2gh]

These kids all so pretty happy and carefree. What a time it was! Love this stuff.

[@juanrivera3247]

Su única preucupacion en la vida era ser destruidos por bombas nucleares Pero ya se estaba aproximando la guerra de Vietnam

[@kevinmadden1645]

A curious statement! It was not quite two months since JFK was assassinated.

[@orangezeb1785]

...and to see a pretty mixed crowd racially: not just all Caucasian.

[@keithbate9405]

I am now 67 years old. But when I hear this track I just want to get out on the dance floor and dance and dance !

[@MusicandDancing4Ever]

And people say rock n roll was dead after Elvis was drafted and before the Beatles came. Louie Louie is one of the few rock n roll songs during that time. Love it!

[@archangelmusic13]

it was dead.

[@sandienochs6132]

It will never die as long as someone remembers it, I know I will.

[@bengaljam4550]

61, 62, 63 were horrible years for Rock n Roll, Charts were filled with the likes of Pat Boone, Fabian, Frankie Avalon and a lot of other squares.

[@boomerguy9935]

I was 14 years old in 1964. Two years later, I was playing this song in a garage band. This song provided a lot of money for us!

[@mangoxxgames744]

What's the name of your garage band?

[@boomerguy9935]

Long before they became popular as a little hairy toy, there were a group of imaginary creatures that lived underneath bridges that demanded a toll to cross them. They were called Trolls. We liked the name, played for a couple years and broke up for some reason that I can't remember. About a year later, a couple of us went to a dance with another garage band who used to be competitors. They were friendly and and recognized us and yelled, "Hey, it's the old Trolls!" and invited us on stage to play a song with their instruments. We got some applause and the atmosphere was very friendly. After the dance, we decided to get back together again as the "Olde Trolls". We played until we graduated from high school and went separate ways. I continued my drumming education with professional jazz drummers and continue to moonlight today as a jazz drummer.@@mangoxxgames744

[@tammyrenee64]

I was Born in 64, was a teenager in late 70s and they were the Best years of my life 🫶✌️🎐🪩🎐📻🛼🆒

[@thewilscott]

Great looking teens, great danceable song thank you

[@huskyjerk]

In a week, the outlook and culture of a generation will change forever.

[@brianrocks2087]

This song was a rock and roll and pop hit all over the world.

[@kevmichael2064]

Louie Louie is one the best songs ever!!!!... Great Beat!!!

[@corinne4090]

I remember I loved that song, was only 6 but my Mom was a dancer and that was one of her favs at the time. I am still a 💃 teacher to this day and watched AB liked Philly better than Cali better dancers.

[@kevmichael2064]

@@corinne4090 My Dad said he Liked AB when it was in Philadelphia.....He remembered how it was....He also said he didn't like much after it moved to L A

[@MusicandDancing4Ever]

And people say rock n roll was dead after Elvis was drafted and before the Beatles came. Louie Louie is one of the few rock n roll songs during that time.

[@MH-be6hr]

Groovy, man!🏵🌻🌺

[@marysherfinski5787]

I remember theses times with great fondness...i dance to this song and still live it...thanks for the memories....

[@kathyrizzi8754]

I was 15 in 1964, but I remember dancing to the song “ Louie Louie “ in 63…The Good Ole Day’s!👍👏👏👏🎶🎵🎼🥁🎺🎷🎸🎹🎶

[@SouthBaySteelers]

This was broadcast by satellite. So somewhere out in space, roughly 58 light years away, space alien teenagers are watching this. The teen space alien girls are screaming to the Beatles and Rolling Stones…and driving their parents nuts.

[@whatsit2ya247]

@BBR2 Only we're the space aliens! 🤔👾

[@montyduskin4610]

Toward the end of the song with that young man dancing with those 2young girls is everything cool !!! Wow !

[@arnoldamaral7406]

I was 12 yrs old in the 7 grade. What memories 😜💙🇫🇷 Arnuad Bourbon Amaral

[@williamzinser2378]

The three of them dancing together at 3:25 definitely were 6 months ahead of everyone else. Everyone else looked like they were still stuck in the 50's.

[@Limba777]

Excellent point. It’s a song meant to be danced separately and very a go go

[@mdmphd]

Not those hairstyles (the women at least) and it was integrated - one of the 'subtle' reasons they showed the crowd.

[@Ridersonthestorm8899]

This makes me nostalgic for a year i was not even alive in lol But what a time, look at the fashions,the girls and music.Beautiful clip.Thank you.

[@anythingbootneck]

The guys to!

[@user-bq5lr6dq6b]

The Most! The Great! The Best! ❤️

[@pack-wr6nq]

Had to be January of 64..... Beatles looming on the horizon..... music about to change big-time...

[@adrianmartinelli9799]

John Lennon 2.59 spying better looking than Yoko Oh ! no.

[@Brutorious]

@@adrianmartinelli9799 YES! Thought I was the only one who saw it! So Funny!! Just like John to do that HAHAHA!

[@paulbroderick8438]

Couples dressed like ladies and gentlemen back then. Time to feed my dog, Louie!!

[@nancysloan3731]

Best party song ever!

[@rickwilson8354]

Yeah I used to run home and get off the bus and watch American Bandstand plus we had something else show we're on Chapman and a couple of other local Woods here in Fort Worth Texas I miss those old days

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

They really dance well in such small space. Not stepping on each other's toes. Lol!

[@carltwidle9046]

I remember this song as a young one. Looking at the dancing here in this film clip, a couple of the dancers were not moving in the style of rock and roll. They were more free style. Dancing was changing and becoming go go style.

[@psw4763]

Love watching these and back then good dancers to fun songs.

[@user-hm9gs2im7e]

This song make me smile and want to dance with💃🕺

[@rickytickykatz9599]

Can’t wait for the I want to hold your hand clip too!

[@shave-a-thon3415]

Neither can I!

[@debbiewalker2611]

Love it always watched American Bandstand. Really love watching the dancing we use to do !

[@joyceibanez8207]

This is the ringtone on my phone.This way I know my man is calling. Always loved this song. Too cool.

[@JJ-tr3zo]

Time machine - more early 60's please

[@doctorbohr1585]

The episode is dated Jan 18, 64. In as little as a fortnight these kids were going to have their minds blown by a certain mop topped quartet from Liverpool!

[@boinknook]

True, and I wasn't born till May so I kinda missed it. 🤭

[@williampotts3201]

As cool as it gets. Lovely ladies and cool dudes.

[@Jackie-rc6cj]

They certainly don't make music and dancing like this anymore. Wonderful blast from the past.

[@harrydoherty8299]

there all doing the horizontal bop!! 😂

[@elainecrossan5751]

Love this song! Camping with my family back around the time this song was a hit on the radio, watched teens dancing around picnic table to this blaring from their radio. Great to watch kids dancing on Bandstand to this great song!

[@shave-a-thon3415]

Aaron - In other words, Bandstand's first airing of a show from Hollywood was Feb. 8th, 1964, the day before the legendary, live Ed Sullivan show broadcast with The Beatles from New York City. Sullivan was usually low key and kept his feelings to himself, but in the biography I read about Sullivan, in the week leading up to The Beatles appearance, everyone around him said he was a different Ed Sullivan. He was all smiles and affable. Staffers felt that he sensed that he knew he finally booked the act that would make him an American icon.

[@annlouisescheuer1979]

Great song,never knew exactly what they were saying but it was great anyway. I was a senior in high school when this was popular. Watched AB everyday after school.

[@hayshammond5499]

Well, it came on TV Sat. ….

[@mckennuhhhhhhhhh]

i can relate with some of the commenters in this section in that it does make me wish that i was alive at a time to where i could go to a club or bar and hear this song out of nowhere, where i could listen to this song for all of its unbridled greatness and still dance around and appreciate it. to see this on television would be unprecedented. i can still partly do that now, but it feels like less people will or would appreciate it, and it also feels like it would be less revolutionary.

[@jerryjayson14]

Grew up with this show thank you

[@antonioalvarez5145]

WOW! Great!!! Thank you for these pleasant memories!

[@GLD-hopeful]

Watched this show every Saturday. Who else learned how to dance by watching?

[@michaelchapman4955]

Neighborhood Rock Bands were playing this song at Fri night parties all over Southern Ca... A Neighbor of mine a few years ago who grew up in 'South Philly, John Medora wrote "At The Hop" with David White & Artie Singer for 'Danny & The Junior's in 1958 & it was on launched on ABC Dick Clark's American Bandstand Ch 7 in LA in 1958

[@russwalker3119]

14 years old when this was new, danced to this at the High School - after the game, dances, most local bands covered these songs within a few weeks of their appearance on radio and vinyl.

[@johnmoore5455]

Thank you so much for continuing to post these wonderful videos! I stay on the lookout for the new ones!

[@johnlandis2346]

I'm looking at the audiance and the dancers for Steve Lewis, one of Dick Clark's regulars who was Dicks right hand man out in Hollywood...

[@JD-gy7kp]

This was a GREAT dance tune. Those were wonderful days.

[@ralphruocco3013]

Johnny B. Goode, I Saw Her Standing There, Satisfaction and Louie Louie. Rock n Roll !

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

One of my favorite songs when I was a kid. I watched American Bandstand every weekend. Thanks for the video. Brings back memories.

[@majaman1978]

Wasn’t AB on Monday thru Friday during the early 60’s?? I seem to recall that.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

@@majaman1978 We watched it on Saturdays, we were in school during the week and had to do homework and dinner. We went outside to play after that bedtime.

[@majaman1978]

Yeah I was in grade school too but seem to remember it came on around 4:00. Well after I had been back home. I thought it ran till 6:00 but might be mistaken.

[@trevorcolas]

Great post, Aaron! Don't know why I'm surprised, but I never thought of "Louie, Louie" as a song that you could touch-dance to. Definitely the end of the Philly era.

[@YCDTI]

Hi @tacnid Yeah the Philly dancers really loved to dance arm in arm. I keep thinking they’re going to bust out the twist, watusi, monkey, slauson, mashed potato etc… but no. That wasn’t their “bag” at the time I guess. It was definitely an end of an era in Philly and everywhere - well said. Thank you!

[@jamesperley7010]

Rock and roll had run its course by the early 60s, and besides folk and a little surfer music we were stuck with wholesome slow songs.. Louie was written in the early 50s near the birth of rock and roll. Louie attracted attention because it was a throwback to an earlier age. It didn;t fit the general mood. It was an island in a bland sea ahead of a tsunomi of our own music crashing from the UK. It was a relic from our forgotten past. At least that is how I rermember it.@@YCDTI

[@Don-zz9ym]

@@jamesperley7010 Louie Louie was originally written and composed by R& B singer Richard Berry 1955 released 1957 As usual

[@toomuchinformation]

​@@Don-zz9ym"As usual".

[@darreleggemeyer5541]

We used to go to the Lion's Club in Sparta, Illinois where a band called the Knight Beats played. This was in the mid 60's. Sure brings back a lot of great memories. Wish I could do it all over again!

[@skipdow3]

Do it while you can, I have girl coming from China that will be dancing this song with me, I'm an old man , but will dance as long as I can. She's half my age, but still has the moves, and a killer figure, like the Playmates did back then. All real and all her.

[@mistery-ed7900]

I was at a New Years dance in 2000 and the band played Louie Louie. Couldn't believe it!

[@vincentlussier8264]

And what were the words?

[@mistery-ed7900]

@@vincentlussier8264 Something obscene I'm sure!

[@louisramosLEFTYLOUIE]

Love this show love that song !

[@jimstewart1584]

Most mysterious words ever.This song transferred music in the sixties to hard rock.The Beatles came second !

[@gregmoore7709]

Hey Aaron,Even though it was a hair before my watching bandstand, its still great. With all that jostling around i was waiting for an elbow or a punch lol. The song Louie Louie is still alive today and is a great dancer. I will never forget Watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan for the first time, My dad said look at that they will never make it. lol. Thax Aaron ,i enjoyed your little history lesson a lot too. AAAAAH memories...

[@rickwilson8354]

Yeah this is Ricky Wilson again I forgot to mention I do a sixties old Nostalgia show at 12 on Saturdays as for All My Hotrod Buddies listen to it on the old radios in their hot rods it's a small transmitter so I don't reach a long ways but we have fun with it it's called rapid Rick 1075

[@YCDTI]

@Greg Moore Hi Greg, this was a bit before my time too, but every time I watch that Ed Sullivan Show episode, I can imagine how new and exciting the Beatles were in ‘64 (and still are) and I’m sure a lot people (of a certain age) thought the Beatles were a quick fad with their long hair and incessant caterwauling, lol. Thank you Greg

[@YCDTI]

@@rickwilson8354 Hi Rick, That is really cool that you do a local radio show. I’ll bet you guys really know your 60’s music and hot rods…sounds like my kind of place! If you ever stream your program over the internet, I’d love to listen to it and I’d be happy to give you a plug here on YT 👍 Thanks Rick!

[@gregmoore7709]

​@@YCDTI Aaron i'm going to just throw this out to you because it was so great when i heard it . Unfortunately it was a while back and i think the interview was with Paul.He said the first time on the Ed Sullivan show when John was singing and kind of shook his head and his hair moved, the crowd went wild so they all started to emphasize it lol..

[@AmericanBandstandAgain]

A great start to a cold snowy Saturday here in the Great White North

[@YCDTI]

That sounds nice and winter-appropriate Andrew.. It’s freakishly warm here - in the mid-70’s and nearly 90 up the way in LA for the Super Bowl.

[@jthyme7940]

@@YCDTI Another great post, Aron!! As for the weather, I'll take YOURS over ours ANY TIME! It is -1 as I type this right now and a HIGH of 5 is forecast for the day. I can't wait for Vegas heat!

[@gregmoore7709]

Put on your long johns Andrew and have a good time watching the super bowl lol and its hideous were i live too. I'll still have a Pabst Blue ribbon or so and eat a lot but it won't be warm enough to sit in boxers lol...

[@AmericanBandstandAgain]

@@YCDTI Enjoy the great weather you guys are having. I wish I could golf

[@AmericanBandstandAgain]

@@gregmoore7709 I always wear 2 pairs of pants, actually pants on top of sweats, keeps my legs super warm

[@charlesharnois3684]

I Was 14 Yrs. Old, Lots Of Great Memories,So Glad I Was Able To Live It!

[@dr.aniasara7038]

When it was cool to dance with your best girlfriend or whoever wanted to dance that day.

[@dancerdon9175]

Wouldn’t be Philadelphia American Bandstand without the “bumpty bump bump” jitterbug and lindy steps on the dance floor. Does anyone wonder how the Bandstand Philadelphia dancers’ steps might have morphed into the freestyle line dances featured on the show from Hollywood had Bandstand continued originating from WFIL? Good to see you back Aaron and thank you @jthyme for this glimpse of the dawning of 1964.

[@YCDTI]

They’d still be Lindy Hopping to “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” Don, just with more hip threads, lol. Interesting to ponder.

[@gregmoore7709]

YO Dancer Don , How would you and your dance colleagues have handled dancing like the kids in this video? Thank God you didn't have too,i'm thinking lol...

[@dancerdon9175]

@@gregmoore7709 Hey Greg we would have been dancing the Slauson. I have the gray hair to prove it. LOL

[@gregmoore7709]

@@dancerdon9175lol that's great Don HAAAAhaaaa

[@thefirstMrsLankton]

@@dancerdon9175 Don weren't a lot of the early Cali regulars still partnering to the majority of music on Bandstand circa/1965/66/67? It seems like somewhere in 1967 we saw more "freestyle" on the floor. I adored the sure-footed well-led partners the best and you know who you are! Thank you Aaron! Great song and video!!

[@altfactor]

Supposedly, "Louie, Louie" is one of the most recorded songs in history, with over 250 known recorded versions. But this is by far the best known version, although not the first recorded version.

[@virginiarodriguez4565]

Those are good old song with Dick Clark Louie Louie 👍

[@jimsmith6547]

Thanks for the ab upload sir. Always look forward to a new one.

[@RandyR]

Still one of the most controversial songs ever. Never could figure out why. Just think it sounds great. Was 11 and in a much different world

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

Great song

[@zaker721]

My family was all alive! My grandpa…even my great-grandma, his mother! I was 1. Okay, I wasn’t doing anything too exciting if you don’t count the Great Ex-Lax adventure--It looked like chocolate and though my folks put it out of my reach…I was a very resourceful baby, and it ended unpleasantly for all concerned. But I would love to go back to being the adored baby of the world, surrounded by all my family. In all honestly we would have been watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents as aside from my mom who was into the British Bands, nobody else was interested in AB’s music.

[@user-lo7eo3nt6t]

I was the youngest in my family, and the same as you, a lot of my immediate family was alive, but now everyone is dead, my mother, father, brother, sister, grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins! I also have memories of listening to all the old songs and watching Alfred Hitchcock!!! That's all I have now, j

[@marladell6091]

In LA we did the Slauson to this song....

[@bob343536]

Thank you Aaron!! I like the question marks in the number one position. I had never seen that in any AB clips. Have a great weekend everyone!!

[@YCDTI]

@bob343536, good catch. It’s funny how, even after being a major, well-financed, national TV show on ABC for 7 years, they still use a homemade, hand- drawn Top 10 board. Dick definitely had a penchant for “thrift”, lol.

[@YCDTI]

@SuperStoneyMan I’m afraid I don’t have that one. Sorry. If I ever I get it, I’ll be happy to post it though.

[@doloresfarias9863]

Espectacular

[@bostezogris]

Si, es un excelente documento, esta cancion es una maravilla, y la cancion una joya del garage rock

[@jerrygil1965]

Philadelphia days

[@gladyshernandez2389]

Love this!! What a gem!! Very clear picture of the dancers!!

[@user-xd1qv2bk3l]

Watched American Bandstand every Saturday for years . I’m 72 now. Those were my junior high years

[@joycepino9749]

I watched AB every Saturday afternoon also. Then I would turn the station and watch Soul Train on channel 2 in the Bay Area. I was in High School 69-73.

[@miggans21012]

Awhile back I watched a backstory of this song and was said that when they did the recording that the drummer dropped a drumstick and said the f word during the recording and the censors didn't catch on. You can hear it at 1:59. I also noticed the two girls at 1:58 were giggling when they heard it.

[@robertwheeler4068]

WOW! I was 10 years old in grade school when this was released. This became the National Antheim for every garage band that started up after the British Invasion!🎵🎶😎👌

[@DrJohnPollard]

1:05. Words to the Classic. Always a mystery. Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said Louie Louie, oh baby Me gotta go Fine little girl waits for me Catch a ship across the sea Sail that ship about, all alone Never know if I make it home Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said Louie Louie, oh baby Me gotta go Three nights and days I sail the sea Think of girl, constantly On that ship, I dream she's there I smell the rose in her hair. Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said Louie Louie, oh baby Me gotta go Okay, let's give it to 'em, right now! See Jamaica, the moon above It won't be long, me see me love Take her in my arms again Tell her I'll never leave again Louie Louie, oh no Me gotta go Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said Louie Louie, oh baby Me gotta go Let's take it on outta here now Let's go!

[@lynnenewcomb5554]

The lyrics I heard in college aren't fit to be displayed here. I'm glad to see the "supposed" lyrics. lol

[@trevorcolas]

Thanks, Dr. John 🙂

[@user-bq5lr6dq6b]

My Time! ❤️

[@user-vv7pj3oh9u]

I wish I could go back in time, this was the best ever!

[@loveyu2778]

Love this..this is what America wants to see more of... Not these disastrous kids dancing today..

[@sandienochs6132]

Born in 1949, when this aired I was building a Heathkit 23 channel C.B. Radio in Las Angeles California. WOW, somehow I got old, back then I didn’t think it would ever happen to me! I’m so lucky.

[@user-lo7eo3nt6t]

Old age is like a Mack truck, coming out of nowhere at full speed and colliding head-on with all of us sooner or later, and leaving us bleeding and dazed and feeble and totally shocked by the side of the road!!!😮😧😲☹️😯🤕

[@karensparks2509]

Oh so many memories. Saw them in my hometown and Indiana beach. This song is still used and great! Kings men so cool!

[@fredk9999]

Wow! What can be said? Fabulous then and still, Nothing like it

[@realfunny7]

me 74 now had the dirty version - those were the cool days the 60's - graduated from Admiral King HS '67 Lorain , Ohio

[@SouthBaySteelers]

Every time I hear this tune I think of the movie, Animal House.

[@bostezogris]

Fantastico documento, la cancion, un maravilloso clasico del garage rock

[@brianrocks2087]

It's a rock and roll and pop classic but it's not garage, it just influenced the sound

[@bostezogris]

Estas equivocado, informate, es un super clasico del garage rock, variante northwest sound

[@brianrocks2087]

@@bostezogrisNo lo es, en su momento era un éxito de rock and roll y pop, luego el periodismo lo llamo una influencia para el garage rock por su sonido pero está canción fue un éxito pop mundial en 1963 y 1964 bailable

[@bostezogris]

Hombre es que en la decada de los 60´s no existia el termino garage rock fue posteriormente que se puso esta etiqueta a las muchisimas bandas que hubieron durante ese periodo y que tenian unas caracteristicas similares aunque dentro de este estilo el abanico sonoro era variado, por ejemplo no era lo mismo el sonido The Sonics que The Music Machine o The Seeds, pero si que eran bandas de garage, por cierto que el Louie Louie de los Kingsmen ha sido descrita alguna vez como el prototipo perfecto del sonido garage@@brianrocks2087

[@TheHaratashi]

Funny how the guys are all wearing suit and ties still - 5 years later it was all totally different.

[@Mark-td5ux]

It all went to hell.....

[@mikeberg5003]

I was about 8 years old when this came out. Right before The Beatles came to the US and even at that age we were thinking it was a dirty song. The FBI spent 2 years investigating the lyrics which back then weren't easy to find. Louie, Louie, me gotta go. Louie, Louie, me gotta go. A fine little girl, she wait for me; me catch a ship across the sea. I sailed the ship all alone; I never think I’ll make it home Three nights and days we sailed the sea; me think of girl constantly. On the ship, I dream she there; I smell the rose, in her hair. Me see Jamaica moon above; It won’t be long me see me love. Me take her in my arms and then I tell her I never leave again.

[@DrTucsonJim]

Still one of my favorite songs all these years later

[@jeffscheiner1553]

Can’t compare to dancing to the Singing Nun’s #1 hit.

[@tommy553013]

I can´t stop enjoying it daily.

[@charlesanderson32]

Such a Great Time to be a Teen!

[@Don-zz9ym]

I was a teenager at that time and the band I was in we won our school talent show performing that song R.IP. Jack Ely

[@user-bq5lr6dq6b]

Great Time! ❤️

[@patriciatowhig2957]

That's.. Dancin...

[@scottburton9701]

"Louie Louie" only made it to # 2 in Billboard-It was kept from # 1 by "Dominique" by The Singing Nun & "There! I've Said It Again" by Bobby Vinton.

[@myobmyob2215]

Yeah that Dominque was strange even then. Radio: soft Pop soft Blues soft Rock Ballads all day and night then suddenly nuns were singing in French to a nursery rhyme song. ???

[@dannyroybal7394]

I've Listened To This Masterpiece 1000 Times And I Cant Understand What Its Meaning IS?????

[@jenniferdjaslowskj993]

I've been saying that for a 50 years..!!! but still love dancing to it and evokes memories of it in my family's rec room...wonderful!!

[@skipdow3]

Don't know if this is accurate, but I heard this originated in Jamaica with a different beat.

[@YorkyOne]

Neither could the FBI.

[@llwil2003]

Funny I associate that son with my later years 1966-1969. I guess the bands that played at high school dances played it a lot. I do not associate with being 14 (1964).

[@dariowiter3078]

"I Want To Hold Your Hand" hit No. 20 on its second week on Billboard's Hot 100, not No. 3 as the host of this channel puts it. After hitting No. 20, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" hit No. 1 in week number 3 on Billboard and it stayed there for seven consecutive weeks. "I Want To Hold Your Hand" was Billboard's number one song for 1964.

[@YCDTI]

www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1964-01-25/

[@dougalexander7204]

I was 11, climbing trees and playing in the neighborhood. Dad was saying, “turn that s%&t off”.

[@user-bq5lr6dq6b]

I want comeback! ❤️

[@TSUTENKAKU007]

This song is exceptionally good as well as all the audience wearing all kinds of different hair stylus.

[@jimbalzer]

The Kingsmen, from my hometown of Portland Oregon.