{"id":11433,"date":"2020-04-14T09:58:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T16:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=11433"},"modified":"2020-04-14T09:58:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T16:58:20","slug":"follow-up-on-2020-intl-louie-louie-day-the-quarantine-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=11433","title":{"rendered":"Follow-up on 2020 Intl. Louie Louie Day -the Quarantine Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Saturday, over at LouieLouie.net, we celebrated ” International Louie Louie Day – the Quarantine Edition”.. for hopefully the first and only time.<\/p>\n

It was a challenge to find a way to celebrate this day with all the shelter restrictions in place, but we did manage to assemble a last minute Zoom teleconference \/ musical jam session. Having never used Zoom before, I’m grateful the software was relatively easy to figure out. <\/p>\n

Among the participants, we had two of Richard Berry<\/strong>‘s grandkids and the original Kingsmen<\/strong> keyboardist.<\/p>\n

It was a fun event, and we’ll do it again sometime.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, here’s some other noted celebrations of International Louie Louie Day!<\/p>\n

As I mentioned in previous posts, our friend Clay Stabler<\/strong> (who was part of this Zoom conference) has been sharing a lot of great pre-LL Day posts at the LOUIE LOUIE Party group at Facebook<\/a> that I’ve recycled on these pages, so I’ll use this opportunity to post the rest of them.<\/p>\n

April 9 at 12:31 PM<\/p>\n

International Louie Louie Day is coming soon! Time to count down the Top 10 \u201cmost international\u201d versions. What defines the \u201cmost international\u201d version? Not sure how to measure, so here\u2019s an arbitrary standard: The point of origin farthest from L.A. (where LL was created by Richard Berry<\/strong>) is the winner. Distance in miles to country center. Hope my geography is accurate! Here\u2019s the countdown:<\/p>\n

10. Turkey – 6,861 (D\u00fc\u015fgezginleri<\/strong>)
\n 9. Georgia – 7,029 (Sophie Villy<\/strong>)
\n 8. Israel – 7,605 (RPS Surfers<\/strong>)
\n 7. Australia – 8,251 (many)
\n 6. Thailand – 8,271 (Louis Guitar Boys, Madueli, Rats<\/strong>)<\/p>\n

Countdown continues tomorrow. Here’s Sophie Villy<\/strong>‘s interpretation of Iggy Pop (originally noted in The Louie Report 6\/17\/2014<\/a>). <\/p>\n

More on her at
\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sophie_Villy<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n