This week’s LOUIE is not really LOUIE. It’s what you’d call a LOUIE relative. Different groove, different song, but it feels related in some manner to LOUIE LOUIE, even if I can’t put my finger on it…
Roy Loney & Phantom Movers with special guest vocalist Russell Quan rip it up on “Wooly Bully” live at Winters Tavern, somewhere in Pacifica, CA.
“Wooly Bully” was originally written and recorded by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs in 1965, with no direct connection to Richard Berry & the Pharaohs (the original performers of LOUIE LOUIE), other than a really cool name…
Jack Ely and the Courtmen played quite a few shows with Sam the Sham back in the day…FYI