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Celebrating International LOUIE LOUIE Day 2025!

Posted on April 11, 2025

Today is International LOUIE LOUIE Day! Today marks the 22nd time we’ve celebrated this special day! As noted on the LouieDay.org page, it was April 11, 2003 that a group of kindred…

Thoughts about Christmas, Mojo Nixon, Glenn Howard, Todd Snider and funny music…..


Posted on December 24, 2024

It’s Christmas time and we’re thinking about this past year. 
 We were saddened to lose Mojo Nixon in 2024. 

 Mojo was something of a hillbilly mutant dynamo that delivered happy…

RIP: Fanita James of the Dreamers- Blossoms

Posted on December 4, 2023

Last month on Thursday, November 23rd – Thanksgiving day, Fanita James, another great musician passed away after a long illness. Fanita’s first recordings were with Richard Berry in 1954. Fanita was part…

RIP: Gary Hobish – musician, producer, recording engineer

Posted on October 31, 2023

The first time I met Gary Hobish was at a NRBQ concert at Don Quixote’s in Felton. My friend Mick Gray introduced me to him as “someone (I) should absolutely meet.” Gary…

LOUIE LOUIE for National Recording Registry!!!

Posted on April 20, 2023

My friend Joe Rallos started a new petition to bring the Kingsmen’s version of LOUIE LOUIE to the 2024 National Recording Registry. As he states on his petition: “Louie Louie” is one…

Iggy Pop 2023 – New album, PUNK magazine + LOUIE

Posted on April 10, 2023

So far, 2023 has turned out be a magnificent year for Iggy Pop fans! First, his new album “Every Loser” is being sold as part of a package that includes a new…

RIP: Jud Cost, music historian, journalist & friend of LOUIE

Posted on March 24, 2023

We just lost another one. Jud Cost just passed away on March 17. Jud was a dedicated music historian / journalist that wrote about music that he loved. Jud was truly a…

Frank Zappa and LOUIE LOUIE

Posted on September 14, 2022

Of all artists to ever perform the song “LOUIE LOUIE,” no other artist has performed it in so many diverse variations as Mr. Frank Zappa. On one level, you get the feeling…

Dorothy Berry – The World Needs Peace

Posted on September 9, 2022

In the large and colorful story behind the song “Louie Louie,” Dorothy Berry holds a very special role. When author Richard Berry wrote the song, he conjured up visions of a person…

RIP: Sandy Nelson, legendary drummer

Posted on March 5, 2022

Last month, we lost Sandy Nelson, one of the best-known rock drummers of the early 1960s. He was the drummer for a lot of Top 40 records, including songs recorded by friends…

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