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Sonics, "Louie Louie" > original by Richard Berry. Both are classics in their own right, but the Sonics version is definitive and arguably the first headbanger record ever made
Richard Berry's original is a fine mid-tempo R&B shuffle...
...rediscovered by Tacoma WA band Rockin' Robin Roberts & the Wailers a few years later...
and became a staple of Pacific NW bands like Paul Revere & the Raiders, and the Kingsmen, who had the biggest hit with it in 1963. The Sonics' 1966 cover of it takes it into pure fuzztone necksnapping greatness
