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Here’s a catchy little song by Hadda Brooks<\/strong> that feeds in the LOUIE consciousness as a Pre-LOUIE composition that may or may not have contributed to the inspiration of LOUIE LOUIE. “Bully Wully Boogie” was a 1946 recording that was originally released on the Modern Records<\/strong> label. It starts off as a standard piano boogie-woogie type song, and somewhere after the 30 second mark, we hear Hadda sing the phrase “Bully Wully,” which flows a bit off the tongue like LOUIE LOUIE, and of course “Wooly Bully” by Sam the Sham<\/strong>.<\/p>\n I’ve been informed that this song may have been recorded 70 years ago today in 1946, but I don’t have a definitive confirmation on that.<\/p>\n Both Hadda Brooks and Richard Berry<\/strong> were signed to Modern Records, but not at the same time. Hadda left Modern in 1950 to pursue bigger dreams in the entertainment industry, and became second African-American woman to host her own television show with “The Hadda Brooks Show” in 1957… the year LOUIE LOUIE was released. <\/p>\n She was considered the “Queen of the Boogie” and had quite a interesting career, appearing in various movies, tourng around the world including a performance for the Queen of England and a private audience with Pope Pius XII<\/strong>. <\/p>\n In 1995, at the age of 79, 50 years after making her first recording with Modern, she returned full-circle by signing with Virgin<\/strong>, the record label that had acquired the Modern masters. In 1996 she released a CD of new recordings, followed by a double-CD retrospective of her work in 1998.<\/p>\n She passed away at the age of 86 years in 2002.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/haddaBrooksTrio_BullyWullyBoogie_early78.jpg\")
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