Do you remember how I once mentioned that Jack Ely, original vocalist for the Kingsmen‘s LOUIE LOUIE was scheduled to perform a show in North Carolina last November for the Carolina Beach…
Month: May 2007
RIP: KPIG co-founder Laura Ellen Hopper, and way-too-many American soldiers
Monday was Memorial Day in the United States of America. A national holiday to remember the brave men and women that sacrificed their lives for the good of their country. A time…
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 –…
Names for Country Singers
Earlier this month, I recycled a fun little game from PSPOT on how to get your “blues singer name.” Now in the same spirit, my friend Jose Segue of the HicksWithSticks.com alt-country…
The Big Dirk Fest
I’m not sure if this is really LOUIE-related topic, but next month, there’s going to be a major 2-day celebration to honor the late Dirk Dirksen, the “pope of San Francisco punk…
I Just Want to Rock and Roll!
My friend Andy Martello is a very talented man that appreciates good music. He makes his living telling jokes, spinning plates, throwing objects up in the air, and he happens to maintain…
Who is Dennis Mitchell, and what does he have to do with LOUIE LOUIE?
You may have heard of Dennis Mitchell. As it turns out, there’s actually more than one. The most popular Dennis Mitchell is not a real person, but a comic strip character. He’s…
Grateful Dead and LOUIE LOUIE
Here’s something kinda fun. Thanks to one of my wonderful spies out in cyberspace, I discovered a page on the official Grateful Dead website that acknowledges the very first performance of “LOUIE…
Still blown away by YouTube.
In the course of my LOUIE LOUIE research, I’ve made a lot of really great friends over the years. One of my friends in particular is a die-hard music collector. His house…
BIG Berlin LOUIE LOUIE Party- Wednesday, May 9
This Wednesday, May 9th, there’s going to be a big LOUIE LOUIE party in Berlin, Germany. One Song. One Night. 1001 Versions! A massive celebration of the 50th anniversary of the song!…