Various Artists-The Best of Louie Louie (1983)

 

Artist: Various Artists (Rice University Marching Owl Band, Richard Berry, Rockin' Robin Roberts, The Sonics, The Sandpipers, The Kingsmen, The Last, Black Flag, Les Dantz and his Orchestra, The Impossibles)

Title: The Best of Louie Louie

Label: Rhino

Format: LP

Cat #: RNEP 605

Year of Release: 1983

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1983

Listed Condition: VG+/VG

Sell Date: 7/10/25

Sell Price: $4.53

Discogs Last Sold: 5/29/25 VG+/NM $5.00

Low: $1.69

Median: $4.76

Average: $5.47

High: $15.00

Current low price: $2.95

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 47

Have/Want: 882/90

Where Brooklyn, NY

Time it took to sell:  10 years

Where and When Bought: used That's Entertainment Worcester mid 80's $2.99

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

Fantastic overview of the song many think starts with the Kingsmen and ends with Black Flag.   The original R&B song by Richard Berry is included here.  We also get a version from the Sonics that came a couple years after the Kingsmen made it a hit.  The LA power pop band The Last beat Black Flag to it by a year or so.

Then you get the novelties: marching band, muzak, a David Bowie parody to the tune of "Let's Dance" and a monastic version.  It gets stretched a little thin, but who cares.

You have the original, the hit and the bars after all.