The Louie Report

On Monday, we lost Dave McElhatton, a news anchorman for KPIX Channel 5, the San Francisco CBS affiliate. I never met the man, but I’d heard a lot of stories about about a decent human being he was. Dave retired from broadcasting in 2000 after nearly 50 years on the airwaves at KCBS radio and [...]

Hey, hey… it’s two of the Monkees backing up Mark Lindsay without any other Raiders! Live from Sacramento, California at some kind of private party that I missed on August 4, 2010, it’s Mark Lindsay singing Richard Berry‘s most famous melody. Two out of four Monkees, namely Mickey Dolenz and Peter Tork, are along for [...]

Today, the second day of August, we’re going to celebrate the birthday of Joe Kelly, one of the two original guitarists of the Shockwaves, a Bay Area surf band that became active in the 1980s. This 1999 performance was probably the last time the band did anything together before the members drifted apart. This was [...]

Last week, I mentioned a handful of KFJC personalities that celebrated their birthdays Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Somehow, I neglected to mention a KFJC personality that had their birthday last Friday. Tommy Predovich, aka “Tommy Toonz” had his day on Friday. Last year, as some of you may remember, I identified Tommy as one [...]

Thanks to the silly social network known as Facebook, I’ve discovered that five friends of mine are celebrating their birthday this week. Because all five of these friends have a connection to KFJC and the big LOUIE Marathon, I thought I’d give a shout-out to ‘em all at once with this little LOUIE of the [...]

There are some things you don’t plan for, but they just kind of happen… Saturday was one of those kinda days. Being the pop-culture connoisseur that I am, I made a point of going to the big Wonder-Con of San Francisco, the big annual event where comic books and comic book-inspired pop culture are fully [...]

This week, I’m giving a shout-out to my friend Kaye Walden, who recorded a unique version of LOUIE LOUIE. I’ve known for Kaye for ages, having photographed her old band – 13th Step, something like 20 years ago. She’s a super-talented drummer that’s played with Dinner with the Browns, Apricot Lounge, and some other bands [...]

This week, I’m giving the LOUIE of the Week award to the lovely Suska Varda! Suska is a singer-songwriter, music teacher and bandleader of the Suska Varda Blues Band which plays all over the San Francisco bay area. She plays an eclectic mix of jazz, blues, rock ‘n’ roll, reggae, yiddish folk songs and some [...]

This week’s LOUIE of the Week has a lot of different things going for it. FIrst, it’s a rare, semi-unreleased version of the song, which as far as I know was only heard ONCE during the KFJC Maximum LOUIE LOUIE marathon of 1983. Second, this version is by The Suburban Kids, the first band that [...]

There’s a few things to note regarding the infamous “Maximum LOUIE LOUIE” marathon at KFJC radio. First, here’s a clip that I borrowed from the KFJC.org website: This clip is a sampling of some of the local TV news coverage of this August 1983 event. Second, the Mountain View Voice newspaper recently posted an article [...]