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The Dreamers – Annette Williams, Gloria Jones and Nannette Williams This week, we’re pointing the mighty LOUIE spotlight at The Dreamers, a vocal group that would became the Blossoms. As music writer Jay Warner once declared, this band was “the most successful unknown group of the 60s.” Richard Berry, the man who […] Rusty Warren, the groundbreaking bawdy female comic, died in her sleep on Tuesday morning at 91 years old. Warren was a lounge and nightclub performer who released a bunch of comedy albums containing songs with naughty lyrics. At the height of her success, alongside such contemporaries as Lenny Bruce, Redd Foxx and others, she […] It’s time for the first LOUIE post for 2021! It’s a new year, as we hit the “restart” with a new operating system in the USA, which will hopefully be a better year than the other year! Today is 1-23-21, or 12321….backwards or forwards… a Palindrome Day! Exciting, huh? Anyways, the first noteworthy LOUIE […] On the third day of LOUIE LOUIE 2020 Christmas, someone gave to me… BRYAN AND THE BRUNELLES Bryan and The Brunelles were Barry ‘Snip’ Turner, Eddy Spence, Ray Goodship, John Bachini, and Bryan Burke. A British band that recorded LOUIE LOUIE in 1965 at the legendary Abbey Road studio in London? I had […] On the second day of LOUIE LOUIE 2020 Christmas, someone gave to me… SMOKY & THE BEARS! I’m not sure what to think about Smoky & the Bears. There’s nothing here that acknowledges Smokey Bear, the legendary advertising icon that spoke out on behalf of the U.S. Forest Service. This isn’t even a real […] This week, we’re sharing some of the great research our friend Clay Stabler had conducted to identify the first pressings of the 1963 Kingsmen LOUIE LOUIE recording. He’s been sharing his research notes at the LOUIE LOUIE Facebook party, so we’re going to provide some LouieLouie.net real estate as a means of sharing these […] (from Louis Restaurant Facebook page) In the city of San Francisco, Geary is a major thoroughfare that runs almost 6 miles east–west, starting off downtown at Market Street, running westbound through the Civic Center area, cutting through what used to be the Fillmore district, with a majority of the street running through the […] Another great singer – Young Jessie aka Obediah Donnell “Obie” Jessie, who was one of Richard Berry‘s earliest musical collaborators, passed away on April 27th. Obediah Donnell Jessie was born on December 28, 1936 in Lincoln Manor, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. His father was a cook, and his mother, who had a brief […] It’s time to make note of a special category of LOUIE moments. “LOUIE Micro-Mentions“- is the special type of moment when the song LOUIE LOUIE is mentioned, but not performed. We’ll start off with these three Micro-Mentions… 1) Don Imus, the controversial disk jockey that recently passed away last month, released a LOUIE-related 45 […] With the beginning of the new year, we thought this would be a good time to acknowledge the latest efforts to answer the question “How many versions of LOUIE LOUIE are there, anyways?” Our friend Clay Stabler has created a special Wikipedia page to answer that very question. “Making progress on the LL […] |
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