I’ve been trying not to turn the LOUIE Report into an obituary webpage. Sadly, we keep losing people, and I do feel the need to acknowledge people that made a difference. Today,…
October musings on the dearly-departed of 2020
2020 has been an extremely difficult year. We’ve lost jobs. We’ve lost restaurants, nightclubs, theaters and community watering holes. We’ve lost record stores, book stores and art galleries. We’ve lost the ability…
LOUIE comic strip – OVERBOARD (October 2020)
Just in case you missed it, the Overboard comic strip by Chip Dunham for October 16, 2020 featured a LOUIE LOUIE reference. This is a screen capture from the official GoComics.com webpage…
RIP: Toots Hibbert of the Maytals, inventor of reggae
This one hurts. We just lost Toots Hibbert of the Maytals. Yesterday, on September 11, his family released this statement: “It is with the heaviest of hearts to announce that Frederick Nathaniel…
LOUIE LOUIE in Video Games
This week has been a hectic one at ye LouieLouie.net offices, made even more stressful by the recent fires that were too close for comfort at our homebase in the San Francisco…
Thinking of Toots, pandemics and misplaced LOUIEs
This has been a challenging year, to put it mildly. The world is experiencing a pandemic unlike any other, and there’s some radical changes taking place that could permanently alter the way…
Identifying the first pressings of Kingsmen LOUIE LOUIE
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…
RIP: Pat O’Day, NW Music Legend
Pat O’Day, the legendary Broadcaster and concert promoter of the Pacific Northwest, has passed away. During the 1960’s he was the highest-profile disc jockey of Seattle and the region’s dominant dance promoter….
A Midsummer Update (the 2020 edition)
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…
RIP: Ennio Morricone, composer of magnificent soundtracks
On Monday, we lost Ennio Morricone, a brilliant composer of many magnificent soundtracks. Morricone created over 400 scores for film and television, as well as over 100 classical pieces. His most famous…