{"id":2210,"date":"2010-08-26T12:35:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T19:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2011-05-31T01:50:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T08:50:33","slug":"the-sad-story-of-the-singing-nun-whose-song-stopped-louie-from-1-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=2210","title":{"rendered":"The sad story of the Singing Nun, whose song stopped LOUIE from #1 spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 1963, LOUIE LOUIE by the Kingsmen<\/strong> was very close to becoming a #1 Billboard hit. There was one song that stopped LOUIE LOUIE from reaching that special destination.<\/p>\n

\"Singing<\/p>\n

“Dominique” by the Singing Nun<\/strong> was the big roadblock that stood in the way of LOUIE LOUIE.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, there’s now a new film about her life.<\/p>\n

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The (UK) Guardian had a nice write-up about this project<\/a>:<\/p>\n

She was the bespectacled nun who beat the Beatles<\/strong> to the top of the US charts, sparking a worldwide craze for singers in wimples before either the Sound of Music or TV’s the Flying Nun.<\/p>\n

Now the tragic story of Jeannine Deckers<\/strong>, known as the Singing Nun, has been reclaimed by her native Belgium.<\/p>\n

A new film, released tomorrow, tells the painful tale of the naive young sister from a Brussels suburb who eventually left her convent and took her own life.<\/p>\n

The story of her rise from an awkward convent novice to the Grammy award-winning guitar-strummer known as Belgium’s “Elvis Presley<\/strong> in a habit” inspired numerous stage and screen interpretations.<\/p>\n

In 1966, at the height of Deckers’ success, Debbie Reynolds<\/strong> starred in a saccharine, Oscar-nominated Hollywood musical version of her life story.<\/p>\n

The producers weren’t to know how things would later end: with Deckers depressed, destitute and dependent on alcohol and tranquillisers, killing herself with her lesbian partner in 1985.<\/p>\n

New York stage plays, a British radio play and a cameo in the Simpsons<\/strong> followed in later years.<\/p>\n

The author of a French fictional autobiography, published this year, compared Deckers’ life to that of a true rock star rollercoaster story such as that of Nirvana<\/strong>‘s Kurt Cobain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The new Belgian film, Soeur Sourire \u2013 Sister Smile<\/strong> \u2013 faced an almost decade-long battle for funding and was finally made as a French co-production.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For more information about this project, you can visit the MVD SeaofSound.com page<\/a>, where you can pre-order the DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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