Last week, we lost a dear friend. Roy Loney, a founding member of the Flamin’ Groovies, died on Friday the 13th of December. He passed away at Sutter Health’s California Pacific Medical…
Category: Kingsmen-OTHER
The Filipino Kingsmen Playing “Hitchhike” – LOUIE distant relative of Week
Here’s a cool vintage discovery from the early 1960s – another band known as “the Kingsmen” that had NOTHING to do with the band with the LOUIE hit recording. This is a…
B.B. King & the Kings Men – LOUIE distant relative of Week
Did you know that one of B.B. King‘s earliest recordings was with the Kings Men? Absolutely true. In 1954, RPM Records released a recording by B.B. “Blues Boy” King* And The Kings…
Al Dote & the Kingsmen – Hang On Sloopy (LOUIE relative of Week)
This week, the LOUIE spotlight is on a LOUIE-relative (a category that includes brother, sister, bastard or distant cousin) performed by band known as “the Kingsmen,” which as far as I can…
Kingsman: The Secret Service- a movie that probably has NOTHING to do with LOUIE LOUIE
…. but then again, I haven’t heard the soundtrack yet. What the hey, it IS a catchy name for a movie! This film opens in the USA on February 13.
Batmobile at Kingman
Stumbling around the internet tonight, I found myself at GothamGarage.net, the website for a company that creates Batmobile repllica kits. If I had the money, I could build my very own working…
Yet another band called the Kingsmen
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been spending some time trying to clean up some defective, yet “once-in-a-lifetime” type Hi8 footage I’ve shot for this documentary of mine. It’s a lot…
Hawaiian Kingsmen
Things have been super-busy at the headquarters. I’ve barely been able to do much editing on the documentary this past month, much less add anything new to the LOUIE REPORT blog. I…
ULTRA-RARE KingsMen film clip!
Here’s a very obscure film clip of the KingsMen performing “The Hut Sut Song” many years before “LOUIE LOUIE” became a big hit song. I love the opening of this clip –…
Not the same Kingsmen
Contrary to certain rumors floating around cyberspace, the upcoming movie “All the Kings Men” starring Sean Penn is NOT the story of Lynn Easton, Jack Ely, Mike Mitchell, Dick Peterson, Barry Curtis,…