{"id":8002,"date":"2016-08-19T10:59:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T17:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=8002"},"modified":"2016-08-19T22:14:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T05:14:23","slug":"anniversary-of-kfjc-marathon-louie-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=8002","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary of KFJC Marathon &#8211; LOUIE of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Berry_Ely_1983-091-08_web.jpg\" alt=\"Berry_Ely_1983-091-08_web\" width=\"1000\" height=\"698\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Berry_Ely_1983-091-08_web.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Berry_Ely_1983-091-08_web-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Berry_Ely_1983-091-08_web-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Berry_Ely_1983-091-08_web-400x279.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, August 19, 1983, <strong>KFJC<\/strong> began what turned out to be a major turning point in LOUIE LOUIE history with the MAXIMUM LOUIE LOUIE marathon:<\/p>\n<p>1) The first meeting of <strong>Richard Berry<\/strong>, author of the song LOUIE LOUIE and <strong>Jack Ely<\/strong>, original vocalist with <strong>the Kingsmen<\/strong>, whose voice was heard on the world&#8217;s most popular version of the song.<\/p>\n<p>2) A 63 hour marathon celebrating the song, with over 800 unique versions.  <\/p>\n<p>A world record worth acknowledging?  We think so.   <\/p>\n<p>3) The starting point for what has turned into a massively ambitious documentary project, that is <strong>still<\/strong> a work-in-progress&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is still happening&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y5bL7lcCwuM?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/y5bL7lcCwuM\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/y5bL7lcCwuM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, August 19, 1983, KFJC began what turned out to be a major turning point in LOUIE LOUIE history with the MAXIMUM LOUIE LOUIE marathon: 1) The first meeting of Richard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,42,43,2,33,22,24,20,11,19,3,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ep-world","category-jack-ely","category-kfjc","category-kingsmen","category-louie-of-week","category-louie-universe","category-24","category-old-versions","category-production-at-louie-central","category-radio","category-richard-berry","category-san-francisco-bay-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002","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=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8013,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions\/8013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}