{"id":8093,"date":"2016-10-18T14:37:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T21:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=8093"},"modified":"2016-10-19T12:26:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T19:26:44","slug":"happy-90th-birthday-chuck-berry-pre-louie-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=8093","title":{"rendered":"Happy 90th Birthday Chuck Berry &#8211; Pre-LOUIE of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ChuckBerry-wide-legs.jpg\" alt=\"chuckberry-wide-legs\" width=\"960\" height=\"752\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ChuckBerry-wide-legs.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ChuckBerry-wide-legs-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ChuckBerry-wide-legs-768x602.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ChuckBerry-wide-legs-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ChuckBerry-wide-legs-400x313.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, we celebrate <strong>Chuck Berry<\/strong>&#8216;s 90th birthday, who&#8217;s still rockin&#8217; live for fans all over the world!<\/p>\n<p>For the record, Chuck Berry is definitely NOT related to <strong>Richard Berry<\/strong>, author of the song &#8220;LOUIE LOUIE.&#8221;   That being said, there was one particular song that Chuck wrote and released in 1956 that may have had an influence on Richard&#8217;s most famous composition, which was written the year before (1955), but released the year after after (1957).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the original recording of Chuck&#8217;s song, which shall be categorized as a &#8220;Pre-LOUIE,&#8221; one of a handful of songs released before LOUIE, which may or may not have had an impact on Richard&#8217;s creative process.<\/p>\n<p>Richard did actually record his own version of this song, produced by <strong>Steve Douglas<\/strong>, featuring <strong>Leon Russell<\/strong>, but we&#8217;ll save that as-yet unreleased recording for another day&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>CHEERS!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ipTvgnXtYtQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ipTvgnXtYtQ\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/ipTvgnXtYtQ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we celebrate Chuck Berry&#8216;s 90th birthday, who&#8217;s still rockin&#8217; live for fans all over the world! For the record, Chuck Berry is definitely NOT related to Richard Berry, author of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,33,22,16,59,32,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage-rock","category-louie-of-week","category-louie-universe","category-pop-culture","category-pre-louie","category-record-collecting","category-richard-berry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093","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=8093"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8099,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093\/revisions\/8099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}