Brother Louie (Hot Chocolate song)

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"Brother Louie"
Hot Chocolate
singles chronology
"You'll Always Be a Friend"
(1972) 		"Brother Louie"
(1973) 		"Rumours"
(1973)

"Brother Louie" is a song by British

UK Singles Chart in 1973.[1] Alexis Korner has a spoken word part in this version of the song.[2]
Phil Dennys arranged the string section.

Stories version

"Brother Louie"
Single by Stories
from the album About Us
B-side"What Comes After"
ReleasedJune 1973
Genre
Length3:55
LabelKama Sutra 577
Songwriter(s)Errol Brown, Tony Wilson
Producer(s)Kenny Kerner, Richie Wise
Stories singles chronology
"Love Is in Motion"
(1973) 		"Brother Louie"
(1973) 		"
Mammy Blue
"
(1973)

"Brother Louie" was

gold disk.[6]

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Hot Chocolate
Chart (1973) Peak
position
Ireland (IRMA)[7] 19
UK Singles (OCC)[8]
 7
Stories
Quireboys
Chart (1993) Peak
position
UK Singles (OCC)[16]
 32

Other versions

Another cover was released in 1973 by Roy Ayers on his album Virgo Red, playing vibes instead of singing. The song has since been covered by many other artists, notably Vandenberg singer Bert Heerink who had a top 10 hit in 1995 in the Netherlands with a Dutch version titled "Julie July", and a version by English rock band the Quireboys in 1993 which reached No. 32 in the UK.

In popular culture

The recording by Stories was featured in the

C.R.A.Z.Y, but the song's first film appearance was in Wim Wenders' 1974 film Alice in the Cities
(7:15 into the film).

The song, with slightly different wording, is used as the

sitcom loosely based on the life of American comedian Louis C.K. The word "cry" was changed to "die" in the second repetition of the chorus. This version was produced by Reggie Watts
, with the intro emulating the Hot Chocolate version, and with Stories singer Ian Lloyd reprising his vocals.

The Stories recording is used as

walk-up music by New York Mets baseball player Luis Guillorme.[17]

References

  1. ISBN 1-904994-10-5
    .
  2. ^ "Brother Louie by Hot Chocolate". Songfacts.com. Retrieved 2017-11-05.
  3. Cleveland.com
    . Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  4. ^ a b Breihan, Tom (April 16, 2019). "The Number Ones: Stories' "Brother Louie"". Stereogum. Retrieved June 18, 2023. In Stories' hands, it's a tense funk vamp, a satisfying rhythmic squelcher. Between those strings and Lloyd's histrionic delivery...it's basically a disco song.
  5. ISBN 031214704X
    .
  6. ^ US Top 100 Music Hits (August 25, 1973). "Brother Louie". Billboard website. Retrieved May 7, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Brother Louie". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
  8. ^ "Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. 1973-04-14. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  9. ^ Steffen Hung. "Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)". Australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  10. ^ "RPM Top 100 - August 25, 1973" (PDF).
  11. ^ "Top 100 1973-08-25". Cashbox Magazine. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  12. ^ Canada, Library and Archives (December 26, 2017). "Image : RPM Weekly". Library and Archives Canada.
  13. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1973/Top 100 Songs of 1973". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
  14. ^ "Top 100 Year End Charts: 1973". Cashbox Magazine. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
  15. ^ "Billboard Hot 100 60th Anniversary Interactive Chart". Billboard. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  16. ^ "Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. 1993-02-20. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
  17. ^ "Mets Walk-Up Music Playlist". MLB.com. MLB Advanced Media, LP. Retrieved 2022-10-07.

External links

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