Left to right: Norm Sundholm, Lynn Easton, Dick Peterson, Mike Mitchell, and Barry Curtis of the touring version of the rock and roll band "The Kingsmen" perform onstage in 1964. (Michael Ochs | ...

As probably should be expected, the Louie Louie Committee Committee’s guiding purpose seems easier to appreciate than fully understand. The compulsion to host a madcap array of Portland-area acts ...

RASCOE: And even fewer people know the history of a West Coast dance hit that became a party anthem, with an FBI investigation and a Supreme Court case along the way. Here's Deena Prichep. DEENA ...

Calling the Kingsmen “one-hit wonders” isn’t precisely accurate, yet so undeniably true and so patently irrelevant as to render the term meaningless. A hit like “Louie Louie” has already bestowed such ...

Jack Ely, the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the Kingsmen, whose 1963 recording of "Louie Louie" became a defining song of the garage rock movement and whose unintelligible lyrics drew FBI ...