{"id":9130,"date":"2018-01-23T15:24:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T22:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=9130"},"modified":"2018-01-23T15:24:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T22:24:44","slug":"sandy-and-the-wild-wombats-have-love-will-travel-louie-relative-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=9130","title":{"rendered":"Sandy and The Wild Wombats &#8211; Have Love Will Travel &#8211; LOUIE relative of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sandy-Wild-Wombats-square.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sandy-Wild-Wombats-square.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sandy-Wild-Wombats-square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sandy-Wild-Wombats-square-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sandy-Wild-Wombats-square-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sandy-Wild-Wombats-square-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just out about a cool German rockabilly band known as <strong>Sandy and The Wild Wombats<\/strong>. Apparently, they&#8217;ve been doing some extensive touring all over Europe, and they&#8217;ve already played the \u201cViva Las Vegas\u201d event last year.<\/p>\n<p>The lead vocalist \/ ringleader of this group, <strong>Sandy West<\/strong>, has a real distinctive voice, and i&#8217;m hoping the band will visit San Francisco in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I found a cool performance they did of &#8220;Have Love Will Travel&#8221;- <strong>Richard Berry<\/strong>&#8216;s own sequel to his LOUIE, and I figured I just had to share this thing.<\/p>\n<p>This recording came from their debut album &#8220;The Girl Can&#8217;t Help It!&#8221; and the video is really a hoot&#8230;  probably the funniest video i&#8217;ve ever seen of this song!<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Y_Gi48FzzI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8Y_Gi48FzzI\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/8Y_Gi48FzzI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about this band by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandy-wild.com\">www.sandy-wild.com<\/a>, which for now, is their Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully nobody&#8217;s going to confuse this band with another great &#8220;Sandy band&#8221;- <strong>Big Sandy &#038; the Fly-Rite Boys<\/strong>, featuring my friend <strong>Big Sandy<\/strong> aka <strong>Robert Williams<\/strong>. They also do an excellent version of &#8220;Have Love Will Travel,&#8221; but it&#8217;s more like Richard Berry&#8217;s version, as opposed to the Wild Wombats, who used <strong>the Sonics<\/strong> version as a template.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/183-pcvNh3M?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/183-pcvNh3M\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/183-pcvNh3M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more on Big Sandy, go visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigsandy.net\/\">Bigsandy.net<\/a> and tell him LOUIE sent &#8216;cha!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just out about a cool German rockabilly band known as Sandy and The Wild Wombats. Apparently, they&#8217;ve been doing some extensive touring all over Europe, and they&#8217;ve already played the \u201cViva&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,52,33,58,22,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage-rock","category-international","category-louie-of-week","category-louie-relative","category-louie-universe","category-new-versions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130","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=9130"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9139,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130\/revisions\/9139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}