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Song: Brother Louie
Song by: Stories (band)

Intro by: Gail Nobles
Podcast vocals, drums, & keyboardist: Gail Nobles

Interview by: Alan Patterson from the Voices of Time
Usage: Attribution 3.0 Creative Commons License
https://archive.org/details/iKey_004_201508


Today\u2019s topic on Postgirl\u2019s Recordings is the band \u201cStories\u201d. They were an early 1970\u2019s rock and pop music band based in New York. They had a number 1 hit with a cover of Hot Chocolate\u2019s song \u201cBrother Louie\u201d song.

Brother Louie a song about an interracial love affair between a white man and a black woman, and the subsequent disowning of the man by his parents because of it. The title was written and sung by Errol Brown and Tony Wilson of the group Hot Chocolate, and was a No. 7 hit in the UK Singles Chart for the band in 1973.

"Brother Louie" was covered by the American band Stories (featuring singer Ian Lloyd) about six months after Hot Chocolate's UK hit. The Stories version reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US and sold a million plus copies to earn a gold disk.

I\u2019m Gail Nobles, and you\u2019re listening to Postgirl\u2019s Recordings. Now I\u2019m going to let you hear Alan Patterson\u2019s interview with lead singer Ian Lloyd. It\u2019s not a recent interview, but you\u2019re going to hear about Louie and more. Enjoy. \u2026.