{"id":9264,"date":"2018-04-15T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=9264"},"modified":"2018-04-15T23:50:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T06:50:00","slug":"rock-hall-of-fame-inducts-louie-louie-as-one-of-batch-of-singles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=9264","title":{"rendered":"Rock Hall of Fame inducts LOUIE LOUIE in the first batch of important singles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/pix-2008\/jerden-kingsmen-45.jpg\" alt=\"LOUIE LOUIE by Kingsmen on Jerden record label\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/rock\/8333912\/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-inducts-songs-born-to-be-wild-louie-louie\">Billboard<\/a> shared this important news:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/strong> began honoring songs in addition to artists at the <strong>33rd<\/strong> annual induction ceremony on Saturday night (April 14) in Cleveland&#8217;s Public Auditorium, immortalizing six singles.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced by &#8220;Little Steven&#8221; Van Zandt, the new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Singles category is &#8220;a recognition of the excellence of the singles that shaped rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll, kind of a rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll jukebox, records by artists not in the Rock Hall &#8212; which is not to say these artists will never be in the Rock Hall. They just are not in the Rock Hall at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first inductees in the category included &#8220;Rocket 88&#8221; by Jackie Breston and his Delta Cats (1951), Link Wray and his Ray Men&#8217;s &#8220;Rumble&#8221; (1958), <strong>&#8220;Louie Louie&#8221; by The Kingsmen (1963)<\/strong>, Procol Harum&#8217;s &#8220;A Whiter Shade of Pale&#8221; (1967) and Steppenwolf&#8217;s &#8220;Born to Be Wild&#8221; (1968).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/rock\/8333912\/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-inducts-songs-born-to-be-wild-louie-louie\">HERE<\/a> for the full story!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billboard shared this important news: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame began honoring songs in addition to artists at the 33rd annual induction ceremony on Saturday night (April 14) in Cleveland&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,2,22,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage-rock","category-kingsmen","category-louie-universe","category-music-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264","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=9264"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9270,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9264\/revisions\/9270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}