(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LOUIE LOUIE") RICHARD BERRY ... PRICHEP: One of those teenage bands was The Kingsmen. Now, there have been other versions, but this was the one that took the song from ...

"Louie Louie," recorded by the Kingsmen, began climbing the pop charts 60 years ago. It's a song almost everybody can recognize, but almost nobody understands the words to. And even fewer people ...

The Kingsmen's enduring recording of the song turns 60 this year, and remains a classic, in part because of its dramatic history. 'Louie Louie': The story behind the song everyone knows but no one ...