The Louie Report

This week, the LOUIE of the Week award goes to Le Rimmel of Italy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Hxthr4m5M

This week, the LOUIE spotlight is on The Copy Cats, a band from Germany. Here they are performing live at Angi’s Birthday Bash, Dreikönigskeller, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The Copy Cats began in 1991 in the town of Frankfurt. Members of the band include Silke, lead vocals (ex-Machotoys), Mülli, guitar & vocals (ex-Ten Buck Fuck), [...]

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 [...]

This week’s LOUIE comes from Australia. Here’s the Underdogs doing a LOUIE LOUIE-Wild Thing medley sometime in 1988. The Underdogs are Adam Warnock, John Cunningham, Don Mclean, and Julian Ardas.

This week’s LOUIE isn’t Richard Berry‘s classic melody, but the song “Brother Louie,” which is often mistaken for LOUIE LOUIE. Originally written by Errol Brown and Tony Wilson of the group Hot Chocolate, this song was a top 10 UK chart hit for the band in 1973, but it didn’t become a hit in States [...]

I don’t really know anything about this band, other than they’re from Croatia, but here’s Black Proof doing LOUIE LOUIE!

This week’s LOUIE is is a special performance by Los Blue Jeans of Spain celebrating three years of Rock & Roll with this rockin’ version!

This week, we point the LOUIE of the Week spotlight at Shadows of Eternity, a band from Poland that acknowledges both Richard Berry and Motorhead as the direct inspirations behind their cover version of this song.

This week’s LOUIE is by Jack Ely & the Courtmen – live at the Ontario Oregon Armory in 2009. LOUIE die-hards will recognize Jack as the original vocalist for the Kingsmen when they recorded their big hit. Jack left the band after they recorded the song, and never had a chance to tour with the [...]

This week’s LOUIE is by the Others, playing the song in Alakerta, Helsinki….. Finland.