Two things i forgot to mention on these pages… 1) KCRW Radio (KCRW.com) launched a new radio series “LOST NOTES,” sharing stories of LOUIE LOUIE for the first episode on April 12,…
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Blast from past – Richard & Dorothy Berry in 1962 Cash Box / non-LOUIE of Week
In course of my research for this project, I’ve uncovered some interesting things connected to the LOUIE LOUIE universe. Here’s an example of one of those things. This is a page of…
The long-lost recordings of Richard Berry
Here’s a little news clipping I found in a 1957 issue of Cash Box magazine. Apparently, when Richard Berry toured the West Coast in Washington and Oregon with Bobby Blue Bland and…
RIP: Tom Petty / LOUIE of the Week
Monday was a day of anger, sadness and shock. One of the worst mass shootings ever in USA. Another great singer-songwriter left us. More natural disasters and a clueless elected official that…
Hadda Brooks’ Bully Wully Boogie – Pre-LOUIE of the week
Here’s a catchy little song by Hadda Brooks that feeds in the LOUIE consciousness as a Pre-LOUIE composition that may or may not have contributed to the inspiration of LOUIE LOUIE. “Bully…
RIP: Leon Russell / duet with Richard Berry – unreleased song of the week
2016 has been a rough year for losing musicians, and frankly we’re getting a bit tired of this sort of thing. In the past month, we’ve lost Leonard Cohen, Mose Alison, Sharon…
Dez Cadena – LOUIE of the Week / GoFundMe anti-cancer campaign
Here’s a little something I recently stumbled upon .. a 2011 solo performance of LOUIE LOUIE by Dez Cadena, the man who sang on Black Flag‘s very first LOUIE LOUIE recording. I…
Remembering Candye Kane – Non-LOUIE of the Week
This one’s for Candye Kane, a multi-talented blues singer that we lost last month. Eight years ago she announced that she had pancreatic cancer, which she actively fought with an incredible zest,…
Remembering Those We Lost in 2015
Last year, we lost quite a few people in the LOUIE universe. Click on their names to read more about them. Jack Ely, the original lead singer of the Kingsmen, was one…
RIP: P.F. Sloan, singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter P.F. Sloan died on Sunday, November 15th. Last year, the LOUIE team (myself, Eric Predoehl + Jesse Block, co-owner of the Octalouie.com video production company) had an opportunity to document his…