53 hours of Louie Louie! Too much! (And much more appealing than even 5.3 hours of any modern-classical piece.)

I used to have a cassette-tape copy of an all-Louie Louie LP. There were maybe 12-15 versions, including the original, the first few covers, and a bunch of novelty versions (like the USC Marching Band's, a painfully slow Spanish-language bit, etc.)

The Kingsmen's hit was actually the third version. Richard Berry, the writer, cut a very different-sounding song at a moderate tempo; it was a minor local hit in Seattle. The next guy to record it was another black artist in the same city; I'm sorry I don't remember his name, because he's really the creator of the song we now all know and (maybe) love today -- he altered the rhythm drastically and introduced the "Whao, no" and "Aii-yi-yi-yi" bits. White fraternity boys The Kingsmen, also living in Seattle, heard that version on jukeboxes and copied it note for note to make their record.

The reason so many people thought the song had "dirty" lyrics is that much of the hit record was essentially scat-sung. The Kingsmen's singer didn't know the words -- couldn't decipher them from listening to the previous recording -- and faked his way through half the lines.