{"id":2588,"date":"2011-02-22T03:03:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T10:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2016-08-10T01:09:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T08:09:37","slug":"the-vikings-1965-louie-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=2588","title":{"rendered":"The Vikings 1965 &#8211; LOUIE of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/pix-2011\/vikings-1965.jpg\" alt=\"The Vikings (1965)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vintage video clips of any band performing LOUIE LOUIE during the mid-60s are a real treat to find.  There&#8217;s not a lot of &#8217;em out there.  <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to YouTube, I&#8217;m sharing a newly discovered 1965 film of <strong>the Vikings,<\/strong> a young band from the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n<p>According to their page on the <a href=\"http:\/\/pnwbands.com\/vikings.html\">Pacific Northwest Bands website<\/a>, they were a band from West Richland, WA that existed from 1965-1967.   They performed regularly at the Richland Roller Rink, opening for such bands as <strong>the Sonics<\/strong> and <strong>Don &#038; the Goodtimes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1966, they were the first place winner at the Tri-Cities Water Follies Battle of the Bands competition.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on preserving your musical legacy, guys!  It&#8217;s quite a treat to see this clip, and I&#8217;m very happy to honor such memories with the LOUIE of the Week award!  CHEERS!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z7V4gB9vOro\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pnwbands.com\/vikings.html\">http:\/\/pnwbands.com\/vikings.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vintage video clips of any band performing LOUIE LOUIE during the mid-60s are a real treat to find. There&#8217;s not a lot of &#8217;em out there. Thanks to YouTube, I&#8217;m sharing a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,33,5,20,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage-rock","category-louie-of-week","category-new-versions","category-old-versions","category-pacific-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7998,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions\/7998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}