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THE
LOUIE REPORT
DECEMBER
2002 - PART ONE
updated on January
6, 2003
 JOE
STRUMMER (R.I.P.)
We were saddened by the death of Joe Strummer
of the Clash. He was a major influence at LouieLouie.Net,
and he will be missed.
THE
LOUIE LOUIE.NET TRIBUTE PAGE
THE
OFFICIAL JOE STRUMMER PAGE
first posted on December
14, 2002 (all rights reserved)
There's a lot of news to report in the
LOUIE LOUIE universe. Click on the titles to access
the individual topics or read the whole enchilada....
RICH
DANGEL (R.I.P.)
LOUIE PRODUCTION
LOVE THAT LOUIE-
THE CD!!
THE LOUIE MARATHONS
THAT CANNOT BE STOPPED!!
KINGSMEN
ON TV, NEW BOX SET, and NEW ROCKABILLY COLLECTION
JONATHON
BRANDMEIER- THE CHICAGO DJ
KURT
COBAIN AND LOUIE LOUIE
JOY
DIVISION AND LOUIE LOUIE
LOUIE
IN LOVE & ROCKETS COMICBOOKS
RHYTHM
& BLUES- THE BAND
ABBA
AND LOUIE LOUIE
NOT
LOUIE, BUT WILD THING- THE RUSSIAN WEBSITE
A DOG
NAMED LOUIE LOUIE
MEMORIES
OF ROBIN ROBERTS
TALES
FROM SEASIDE WITH THE WAILERS
RICH
DANGEL (R.I.P.)
 The
LOUIE universe recently lost another good friend when
Rich Dangel died this month. As one of the founding
members of the Wailers of Tacoma, Washington, Rich was
an integral part of LOUIE history. When the Wailers
backed Rockin' Robin for their first release on the
Etiquette record label in 1961, they inadvertently laid
the groundwork for literally thousands of rock and roll
bands. Rich Dangel's guitar arrangement on their rendition
of Richard Berry's LOUIE LOUIE provided a rock and roll
blueprint that others would follow. A calypso-based
vocal melody was transformed into a garage rock standard
in the Pacific Northwest, inspiring the Kingsmen, Paul
Revere & the Raiders, the Sonics, and countless other
bands to render their own version of this catchy little
song.
When I met Rich Dangel,
I found a humble man without any trace of pretension.
In a business where egos often obscure actual talent,
Rich Dangel was the real deal. When not performing with
his old friends The Wailers, Rich also led a jazz band
based in the Seattle region. In fact, his new group,
the Rich Dangel Big Band was scheduled to perform with
jazz legend Ernestine Anderson for a special New Year's
Eve performance.
According to Buck Ormsby
of the Wailers, the preliminary report from the medical
examiner indicates Rich died from a stroke, aka a cerebral
hemorrhage. The family will have a private service,
and will announce a public memorial after the holiday
season. He will be missed.
More information on
Rich Dangel can be found at:
http://www.thefabulouswailers.com/biorich.htm
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=dangelobit05m&date=20021205
http://www.tribnet.com/entertainment/art_music/story/2239867p-2306339c.html
http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20021206/frontpage/22060.shtml
LOUIE
PRODUCTION
Production on the documentary
THE MEANING OF LOUIE continues at a steady pace. We
continue to seek out completion funding for the project,
which isn't easy during these times of economic turmoil
in the USA. Which makes this project so very challenging
from an emotional point is the loss of people that provided
us with such great interviews- Rich Dangel, Godoy Colbert,
Arthur Lee Maye, Pat Mason, Steve Douglas, Jerry Garcia,
and of course, our dear friend Richard Berry, who was
the main reason for all of this interest. This project
is dedicated to preserving their memories, and all of
the other great people that believed in this production.
We wanted all of these guys to see what we did with
this story, and it saddens us that they won't be able
to see the final production. While the documentary remains
unfinished in December 2002, we still hope to put the
finishing touches in the very near future.
In the meantime, we are still
actively seeking alliances to take this production to
the next level. Venture capitalists, media moguls, philanthropists,
and those seeking tax write-offs are welcome to contact
us for more details. There are still people we would
like to interview in distant lands, and there are still
plenty of licensing details that need to be finalized.
In addition to actual capital, we are also open to donations
in the form of airline tickets, hotel accommodations,
car rentals, computer hardware, blank media, and video
equipment. Feel free to contact us if you have any leads
on such alliances.
The good folks at Rock & Rap
Confidential sent me a wonderful little article about
"cyberbegging" Apparently, there's a whole
bunch of people that have made some fairly decent money
by begging on the internet. Karyn Bosnak was one the
pioneers in this new craze, using her savekaryn.com
site to wipe out a $20,000 credit card debt. Yahoo cataloged
a lot of these sites under an "e-panhandling"
category, which includes such inspired sites as "sendeadollar.com",
"helpmeleavemyhusband.com","'helpleahgetpregnant.com"
and the Internet Squeegee Guy, who "will wash the inside
of your monitor screen for spare change."
I don't know if I'm ready
set up such a blatant plea for financing the LOUIE film,
but if any generous folks feel like sending a few dollars
to the cause, I certainly won't complain. I have set
up the coordinates for such contributions at the LouieLouie.Net
Sell-Out Page. If you are interested in actually
purchasing sometthing from this page with PayPal, be
aware that I haven't quite mastered the technique of
creating a decent html/java PayPal shopping cart interface.so
that page is still a bit buggy. It's best to send a
secondary note to confirm all the items you wish to
order. It's also worth noting that PayPal is likely
to take a big chunk out of every small donation. Every
$1.00 donation sent via PayPal actually comes out to
something like 70 cents. If you have any questions about the best way to make a contribution, drop me an email!
http://money.cnn.com/2002/12/11/news/cyberbegging.reut/
http://www.rockrap.com/
LOVE
THAT LOUIE- THE CD!!
Right as I was adding the finishing touches
to this little newsletter, I got word from Alec Palao
of Ace Records that their "Love That LOUIE"
compilation was chosen by the London Times as "reissue
of the year!" I did notice that this CD was
also chosen as a favorite choice for an alternative
Christmas present by John Bungey in a December 13th
article:
"Love That Louie- The Louie
Files by various artists (Ace): is this the ultimate
party album? It's not the first compilation of covers
of the pop classic Louie Louie but it's the most thorough.
No fewer than 24 variations, from Toots and the Maytals
to the Kinks, of that famous riff: Duh-duh-duh duh-duh
. . . And you thought Michael Nyman invented minimalism.
Repeat until all party guests have got coats."
I will admit to being slightly biased
towards this release. I helped Ace Records track down
the Flip Records catalog, and I wrote a portion of the
liner notes. This is actually the very first CD that
used the original tape master of Richard Berry's recording,
as opposed to a bootleg release mastered from someone's
vinyl collection. If you love LOUIE LOUIE, you really
should seek out this of this CD.
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/gotrt/june02/cdchd844.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
THE
LOUIE MARATHONS THAT CANNOT BE STOPPED!!
The spirit of LOUIE LOUIE cannot be broken.
In November, WPRB 103.3 in New Jersey
did a 2 hour LOUIE LOUIE special.
A month before, in October, Paul Malluk,
aka "The Big Baboo" assembled a LOUIE LOUIE show for
public radio station KZMU in Moab, Utah. Paul has talked
about doing another LOUIE show, and can be heard online
at www.kzmu.org
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On August 19th, Stanislav Zabic did a
two-hour LOUIE LOUIE show on KLSU of Baton Rouge, LOUISiana.
In fact you might even be able to hear some of this
at http://www.LittleLighthouse.net.
Krissy Syverson wrote in to mention that
a radio station in Fargo, North Dakota (96.7) was playing
LOUIE LOUIE all the time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
in July.
Tim of KOZY radio in Grand Rapids, Minnesota
played a different version of Louie Louie every Friday
morning for about two years. When he couldn't find another
version to use in a given week, he went out looking
for someone locally to do the song. In a letter to LouieLouie.Net,
he wrote:
"One morning I brought the high school
pep band in to play it LIVE (with no former knowledge
to my morning show co-host, nor anyone else at the
station - just a whole band showed up to play), to
the cheerleaders trying to sing it as the Grand Rapids
High School Cheerleaders Chipmunks (they sped up the
tape) to another staff announcer doing it in a narration
imitating Slowpoke Rodriquez (Speedy's cousin from
the old cartoons), even our news director doing it
as a dramatic reading with my accompanying on piano."
Maybe someday, there might be an all-LOUIE
LOUIE internet radio station, playing every single version
of the song known to mankind. When KFJC
Radio did the earth-shattering MAXIMUM LOUIE LOUIE
marathon in 1983, there were over 800 documented versions
of the song. Almost twenty years later, it's been estimated
that there's now somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 versions
of the song. I'm sure that with the right promotion,
another massive marathon could take place, and the people
all over the world could use the powers of the internet
to send in their MP3 versions of the song, doubling
the number of known versions. Stretch Riedle, instigator
of the original KFJC marathon, continues to collect
every known version, working closely with Theo deGrood,
Andy Martello, Clay Stabler, Phil Milstein, and countless
others that have continued the LOUIE quest.
Cataloging all this stuff remains a massive
undertaking, and if you'd like to see the results that
I've assembled at LouieLouie.Net, there's two documents
I am willing to share with the public.
THE
KFJC MAXIMUM LOUIE COLLECTION is still in the
process of re-organization. Late-night radio logs of
the event weren't always accurate, or even decipherable,
for that matter. The entire marathon, all 63 hours worth,
is the process of being digitized for the digital domain,
and in some cases, we don't even know who performed
certain versions of the song. Like the marathon itself,
the cataloging is the result of dedicated volunteers,
whose commitment to the project is limited by other
more pressing needs such as regular employment, food,
and shelter. You can view the latest version of the
KFJC MAXIMUM LOUIE cataloging project in the form of
an Acrobat document.
THE
ALMOST-COMPREHENSIVE LOUIE LOUIE DATABASE is
the closest thing to a fully comprehensive database
of recorded versions of the song LOUIE LOUIE. As long
as people continue to perform the song, this document
will never be complete. For now, this is as close as
it gets to being comprehensive. Like the KFJC COLLECTION,
this is also an Acrobat document. Corrections, and additions
are always appreciated, even if it sometimes takes a
long time for us to make changes.
Continue on with more
LOUIE NEWS...
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