This week, the LOUIE spotlight is pointed at THE CRY, who created a fine little video to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Kingsmen‘s iconic recording. Within a few hours after initially…
Category: Kingsmen
ZZ Top and the LOUIE connection
Some tasty treats from the TWO LOUIES archives, courtesy of publisher Buck Munger! ZZ Top meets the Kingsmen! From left to right: Lynn Easton, Billy Gibbons, Jack Ely and Mike Mitchell.
The Portland LOUIE celebration of September 2013 – the Lindahl report
Today, I am honored to have a very special guest blogger – my friend Cindy Lindahl, whose father engineered the original LOUIE LOUIE recordings by The Kingsmen and Paul Revere & the…
Mark Your Calendar – LOUIE LOUIE Day in Portland – September 5th
Hot breaking news from OregonMusicNews.com: It’s the song that wouldn’t die. And now it will be commemorated for the ages. To mark the spot where a Portland band, The Kingsmen, recorded Richard…
Thirty Years Ago Today…
Thirty years ago today, Richard Berry, author of the song “LOUIE LOUIE” met Jack Ely, the original vocalist for the Kingsmen, at KFJC Radio, Los Altos Hills, California. The date was August…
LOUIE LOUIE as an art installation in Federal building
Here’s a nice little story about a new art installation at a Federal building in Portland, Oregon = the town where the Kingsmen recorded LOUIE LOUIE, courtesy of OregonLive.com: May 29, 2013…
The FBI Investigation Revisted….
The FBI investigation of LOUIE LOUIE has received a lot of extra attention this week with the recent Smithsonian article on the subject, as summarized by Daily Caller: What you may not…
Freddie & the Screamers – LOUIE of the Week
“A Little Sea Shanty” is the way Barry Curtis liked to describe it. Along with Freddie Dennis, Andy Parypa and Steve Peterson, they are a mixture of former and current members of…
Yes, today is….
For those of you that might have forgotten, today, April 11, is International Louie Louie Day! This year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1963 recording of the Kingsmen’s recording! Here’s a…
Twas 50 years ago today….
Would you believe that today, April 6th, is the 50th anniversary of the day The Kingsmen stepped into a studio to record to create what they initially thought was a “terrible version”…