How many versions are there of LOUIE LOUIE?
That’s a very intriguing question! In August 1983, a marathon celebrating the song was held at KFJC Radio in Los Altos Hills, California. For 63 hours, the event known as “Maximum Louie Louie” captivated local and international media alike, playing every known version of the song, encouraging others to deliver their own recording of the song up to the station, where it would find a guaranteed audience on the radio. At the time of the marathon, there were over 800 documented recordings of the song. Since that point in time, the number of known recordings has at least doubled, with the last count somewhere around the 1,600 range. At the headquarters of LOUIELOUIE.NET, we’ve done our best to document all known recordings, but it’s a major challenge to keep up with all the variations. If you’d like to see some of the latest lists of LOUIE LOUIE recordings, we have them available as Adobe Acrobat files: Eric Predoehl’s ALL KNOWN LOUIE LOUIE RECORDINGS database Clay Stabler’s LOUIE LOUIE + S
