International LOUIE LOUIE Day – April 11th is coming soon! Here’s a few tasty ones shared by our friend Clay Stabler at the LOUIE LOUIE Party over at Facebook. Today is April…
RIP: Danny Mihm, drummer with Flamin’ Groovies
I’m saddened to report the passing of Danny Mihm, former drummer of the Flamin’ Groovies and the Phantom Movers. This marks the third death of a member of the Flamin’ Groovies within…
LOUIE bits of March 2020 – Clay Day!
As March 2020 comes to close with minimal blog activity, this seemed like a good time to do a little recycling to make up for lost time. Our friend Clay Stabler has…
LOUIE for March 2020
My friend Joe Maccoll shared this one. A fine little meme, it waits for me… UPDATE – MORE VARIATIONS! I just created this subreddit dedicated to all things Louie Louie. https://www.reddit.com/r/LouieLouie/ Also…
a cool Richard Berry photo with Wanda Coleman and Michelle T. Clinton
My friend Heather Harris shared this wonderful photograph on Facebook! For Black History Month, one of the most important persons ever in Rock & Roll: this man wrote “Louie, Louie.” Richard Berry…
The Unlikely Adventure of Emma Berquist
Today’s post may not seem to have any obvious LOUIE connections, but it’s a human story that I thought was worth sharing. This post refers to a scary real life story of…
MIA at the 2020 Grammy Awards? (the forgotten ones)
Many of us were excited when we found out that Iggy Pop would be receiving his lifetime achievement award at the Grammy Awards last Sunday. We figured there would be a special…
LOUIE Micro-Mentions #1 (Don Imus, John Fogerty, Frank Zappa)
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…
Days of Christmas LOUIE – part 3
Today, the “Days of Christmas LOUIE” celebrations comes to an end. Our friend Clay Stabler shared the remaining LOUIE LOUIE clips over at the Facebook LOUIE LOUIE PARTY group as part of…
The Latest List of All Known Versions of LOUIE LOUIE
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,…