Today is a special anniversary for the KFJC Maximum LOUIE LOUIE marathon event that began at 6 pm (PDT) on Friday, August 19th of 1983 in Los Altos Hills, California. For 63 hours, the song was celebrated with a special live radio broadcast that showcased over 800 unique recordings of the song written by Richard Berry.<\/p>\n
This was the event that inspired the documentary project of which this webpage is a part of.<\/p>\n
Today to celebrate this event, we’re sharing some rare, never-released footage from that wild weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n Here is a rare video recording of Richard Berry<\/strong> performing his 1956 composition “No Kissin’ And A-Huggin,'” which was part of the un-aired warm-up session before the live 45 minute version of LOUIE LOUIE, both of which were backed up by the Lady Bo Trio<\/strong> along with special guest Jack Ely<\/strong>, original vocalist of the Kingsmen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Apologies for this being a truncated version of the song. When I originally shot this footage, I really should have captured the whole performance of this song… but what’s done is done, and this is what I’ve got…. one of the very few video recordings of Richard performing this very special song.<\/p>\n