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...Classic Sports Network. Recently, the network has been airing a 1956 edition of Happy Felton's Knothole Gang. This was a pregame show shot at Ebbets Field, in which three Little Leaguers played catch with one of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and in this particular show, Vinnie, Richie and Louie from St. Bernadette's got to work out for Robinson. The kids enjoy an easy rapport with Robinson as they toss him questions and he tosses them grounders. There is no racial subtext. There isn't even a gap between fan and star--they are just ballplayers of different sizes...
DIED. RICHARD BERRY, 61, singer and composer; in his sleep; in Los Angeles. He wrote Louie Louie, the raucous, unintelligible rock-'n'-roll anthem that inspired many risque versions and attracted the attention of the FBI, which launched a two-year investigation of the lyrics. In 1956 the Louisiana-born Berry sold rights to his works for $750 but finally regained royalties in 1986 of some $2 million...
...ANGELES: Died: Richard Berry, composer of one of collegedom's most enduring anthems, "Louie, Louie." Berry, who sold his simple song for only $500 in 1956, saw it grow into a cult favorite when the Kingsmen recorded their famously incomprehensible version in 1963. It rose to number 2 on the Billboard charts that year, before being ousted by the Beatles. The muddled lyrics of the song can be blamed on the primitive studio conditions in which it was recorded; Kingsmen lead singer Jack Ely had to scream the words into a microphone suspended 12 feet above his head. Hardly...
...what you will about Yale--their musicians never missed a beat, pounding out anything from Pink Floyd to the theme from "Mission: Impossible" to "Louie, Louie." It got to the point that Crimson fans were cheering for the Yale band and cursing their...
...Vegas, and now he was doing what he loved, touring the country with his band, which had just finished recording an album that, to everyone who heard it, sounded like a smash. In fact, Nowell felt so good that May morning, he decided to take his Dalmatian Louie for an early walk along the beach. He tried to get Eric Wilson, Sublime's bass player, to join him--"It's a beautiful day out there," Nowell said--but Wilson closed his eyes and pretended to snore. It would be the last time anyone would see Nowell alive. A few hours...