{"id":4093,"date":"2012-07-30T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T07:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2012-07-26T00:19:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T07:19:32","slug":"pow-wow-louie-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=4093","title":{"rendered":"Pow woW – LOUIE of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, I’m letting my friend Andy Martello<\/a> pick the LOUIE of the Week. Here’s what he had to say about one of his FAVORITE versions of the song….<\/em><\/p>\n

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Pow woW<\/strong> is a freakishly talented French a cappella band who had an insanely huge hit in 1992 called “Le Chat,” a song which I’ve still never heard. They followed it up with their version of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”<\/p>\n

Other than this, all I know for certain is that one of their members looks a lot like what Doctor Who actor, David Tennant<\/strong> would look like in about 12 years. I also know that this guy would always get more tail than me because he is in a band that had a hit and looks like David Tennant.<\/p>\n

OH YEAH! There are also not one, but TWO most excellent versions of Louie Louie done by them. Both live. Both awesome.<\/p>\n

Garage music fans will hate me for saying this, but their a cappella version is possibly one of the ten best versions of the song ever recorded. The energy, the vocal twists, the doo-wop-into-gospel interpretation\u2014all takes the simplest of 3-chord songs and elevates it into the realm of art. Not bad for a song most associated with frat parties and controversy.<\/p>\n

If you speak French or feel like making Babel Fish work extra hard, go to their website for more information.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/powweb.free.fr\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t bother with their Wikipedia page. That’s where I found all of this nothing I shared with you.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pow_woW#External_links<\/a><\/p>\n

Type in “pow wow louie louie” and you’ll find TWO great versions of the song as well as many other fabulous performances of other great tunes.<\/p>\n

Apologies to all music-lovers, journalists, and people who like clever writing and “Thank GOD I read this, otherwise I’d have never heard of this before” kind of reviews.<\/p>\n