{"id":3519,"date":"2012-01-03T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T07:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2012-01-02T16:20:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T23:20:02","slug":"aliens-45-sells-for-499-louie-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=3519","title":{"rendered":"Aliens 45 sells for $499?? &#8211; LOUIE of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An extremely rare version of LOUIE LOUIE sold for $499 last week on eBay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/aliens-LOUIE-45scan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/aliens-LOUIE-45scan.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"aliens-LOUIE-45scan\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/aliens-LOUIE-45scan.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/aliens-LOUIE-45scan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/aliens-LOUIE-45scan-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Aliens<\/strong> were a band from upstate New York.  They put out a very limited edition 45 single in 1967 with &#8220;LOUIE LOUIE&#8221; on the A-side, and &#8220;Gloria&#8221; on the B-side.<\/p>\n<p>Or was it the other way around?   Hard to tell, as I couldn&#8217;t see any &#8220;A&#8221; or &#8220;B&#8221; type notations on the label scans.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, the Aliens were composed of <strong>Ray Marion<\/strong> on lead guitar and lead vocals (playing a Gibson cherry red ES335), <strong>Curt Meinel<\/strong>, bass (Hagstrom?), <strong>Glen Kane<\/strong> on drums, and a guy named <strong>Howie<\/strong> on Farfisa organ. <\/p>\n<p>They were previously a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=786\">LOUIE of the Week in 2009<\/a>, but with the unexpected high price from last week&#8217;s auction, I thought they&#8217;d be worthy of a repeat posting.<\/p>\n<p>If you visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=360420142537#ht_1985wt_882\">eBay listing<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garagehangover.com\/?q=Reptiles\">GarageHangover.com page<\/a>, you can hear what this recording sounds like &#8211; FREE of charge!<\/p>\n<p>ENJOY!<\/p>\n<p>eBay posting at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=360420142537#ht_1985wt_882\">http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=360420142537#ht_1985wt_882<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An extremely rare version of LOUIE LOUIE sold for $499 last week on eBay. The Aliens were a band from upstate New York. They put out a very limited edition 45 single&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-louie-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3529,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions\/3529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}