Some tasty treats from the TWO LOUIES archives, courtesy of publisher Buck Munger! ZZ Top meets the Kingsmen! From left to right: Lynn Easton, Billy Gibbons, Jack Ely and Mike Mitchell.
Schlicktown Crew – LOUIE of the Week
This week’s LOUIE LOIUE comes from Germany. The musical group is Schlicktown Crew, and they perform LOUIE with a definite Jamaican-Cuban influence! DJ JaiiDee & MC Watt are the two guys that…
Jennie Fagen’s song about Vitamin B – LOUIE of the Week
And now for something completely different…. Jennie Fagen sings a catchy little song about Vitamin B, and gets this week’s LOUIE award! From her YouTube description: This is what Health Coaches do…
The Portland LOUIE celebration of September 2013 – the Lindahl report
Today, I am honored to have a very special guest blogger – my friend Cindy Lindahl, whose father engineered the original LOUIE LOUIE recordings by The Kingsmen and Paul Revere & the…
Man City Blue – LOUIE of the Week
Live from La Coruña, Spain, we have this week’s LOUIE! Performing live at El Pato Negro, we have Man City Blue delivering a catchy little medley that includes LOUIE LOUIE with the…
Parallel Paths of Another Uncredited Songwriter (all about MONEY)
Consider the story of a relatively unknown rhythm & blues singer-songwriter that released a song in the 1950s that became very famous, yet he languished in obscurity, barely receiving any credit for…
Mark Your Calendar – LOUIE LOUIE Day in Portland – September 5th
Hot breaking news from OregonMusicNews.com: It’s the song that wouldn’t die. And now it will be commemorated for the ages. To mark the spot where a Portland band, The Kingsmen, recorded Richard…
The Electric Ferrets – LOUIE of the Week
This week’s LOUIE is a 30 year old version of the song performed by The Electric Ferrets, with some very interesting back history.. Music video of The Electric Ferrets doing one of…
Thirty Years Ago Today…
Thirty years ago today, Richard Berry, author of the song “LOUIE LOUIE” met Jack Ely, the original vocalist for the Kingsmen, at KFJC Radio, Los Altos Hills, California. The date was August…
Happy Birthday Moe Tucker! (LOUIE of the Week)
Big Happy Birthday wishes go out to Moe Tucker of the Velvet Underground, who shared some LOUIE memories for the documentary project years ago. if you haven’t heard her version of LOUIE…