We lost a beautiful soul this weekend. Truly, there was no person ever like Little Richard, nor will there ever be another person like Little Richard. I mean seriously… he WAS the…
Category: Music Biz
LOUIE LOUIE in Rap Music
This week, we’re going to take a look at how LOUIE LOUIE has been utilized in rap music. Werner Von Wallenrod is a serious hip hop enthusiast that created a series of…
MIA at the 2020 Grammy Awards? (the forgotten ones)
Many of us were excited when we found out that Iggy Pop would be receiving his lifetime achievement award at the Grammy Awards last Sunday. We figured there would be a special…
Neil Innes and the PledgeMusic fiasco
This post has very little to do with LOUIE LOUIE, but it does address a terrible situation that occurred with a rocker we’re quite fond of. Neil Innes is a brilliant singer-songwriter…
Paul Revere & Raiders 2019 Revival
2019 has been a very good year for fans of Paul Revere & the Raiders music. With the recent release of Quentin Tarantino‘s latest feature film, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,”…
Archival Storage Space Blues
“Space . . . the final frontier. These are the voyages of your intrepid archival researcher documentarian . . . To seek out reasonable and sustainable storage space . . . ….
Thinkin’ ’bout Abilene, Texas
Today in the flow of my digital news feed*, I read the news about some good things in Abilene, Texas… City of Abilene becomes first city in Texas to house all homeless…
Universal Music Group’s 2008 fire disaster + LOUIE LOUIE ?
Yesterday, thanks to the New York Times, we learned of a terrible fire disaster that took place in 2008 at the Universal Music Group vault, which apparently destroyed over 500,000 master recordings….
RIP: Anthony Randall, lost son of Johnny Flamingo
A few days ago, I received some very sad news from my friend Joe Macoll… Hello Eric, it breaks my heart to tell you Anthony Randall has died after a battle with…
RIP: Peggy Lipton, actress + singer
Today, we learned that actress + singer Peggy Lipton died from cancer at the age of 72. “She made her journey peacefully with her daughters and nieces by her side,” Lipton’s daughters…