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…
12 Days of LOUIE LOUIE 2020 Christmas – Day 2
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…
12 Days of LOUIE LOUIE 2020 Christmas – Day 1
On the first day of LOUIE LOUIE 2020 Christmas, someone gave to me… DESPERADOS! As the Cambridge English Dictionary defines this word as “someone who is willing to do things that involve…
RIP: Alex Trebek + Holly Cara Price (double cancer whammy)
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…