Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to introduce you to the band from Germany known as THE LOUIE LOUIES! And YES, they’ve got a song called “We’re the LOUIE LOUIEs”…
Category: LOUIE Universe
Penguins and a LOUIE book
I’m stealing this penguin graphic from my pal Andy Martello. You see, Andy’s got this fetish thing for penguins and LOUIE LOUIE, so his friend GolfWidow created a little graphic for him….
Louie Road
Once upon a time, LOUIE LOUIE was written by Richard Berry in Los Angeles, California. Actually, to be precise, it was written at the Harmony Park Ballroom in Anaheim in 1955, a…
Frank Zappa – “Do you want Grace Slick to sing LOUIE LOUIE?”
“Do you want Grace Slick to sing LOUIE LOUIE? Would that be the ultimate get-off for a Fillmore East audience or what?” Damn, I loved hearing that phrase spoken by Frank Zappa…
Archival LOUIE clips found at YouTube.com
YouTube.com is a very interesting website. People get the opportunity to share video clips with the world. It’s a wild mix of home movies, commercials, documentaries, music videos, and oddball shorts that…
LOUIE Radio tonight- Sunday Feb 26th
Tonight on the Allan Handelman’s “Rock Talk” radio show, there will be a big chunk of the show dedicated to the subject of LOUIE LOUIE. Dick Peterson the Kingsmen, will be discussing…
Oh… these silly book sellers…..
Today, I stumbled upon an interesting little website…. http://www.tommytbooks.com/tomlist.html If you scan to the mid-way point, you’ll see…. [01324] Marsh Dave. Louie Louie. New York: Hyperion, 1995. First Stated. 8vo – over…
RIP: Luther Rabb, Seattle musician with Jimi Hendrix
Last week, I got word that Luther Rabb, a musician who played with Jimi Hendrix in during his early Seattle days, has passed away. Luther played in the Velvetones, one of Jimi’s…
DISCOVERED: Jimi Hendrix does LOUIE LOUIE!
I haven’t actually heard this yet, but according to my pals Gerry & Suzy Fialka, there is a recorded version of LOUIE LOUIE by Jimi Hendrix! Apparently somewhere during the warm-up of…
Burning LOUIE LOUIE
My friend Theo deGroot, owner of the the world’s very first LOUIE LOUIE website, uncovered a great website about banned music, thanks to his friend Ed Pinnes. Brian Joseph Davis created a…