[Magdalen] FBI - Louie Louie (The Song)

[Sibyl Smirl]

As I remember it, the song had quite a number of covers, plus that it 
was performed without recording "unofficially" by plenty of garage 
bands, and that it had a number of alternative sets of lyrics, some 
obscene, which were not performed for recordings, but only maybe in bars 
or at private parties.  So many of us daydreamed about, and worked at to 
some extent, being rock stars, or folk stars, or both.  (Remember the 
fuss when Bob Dylan used an electric guitar for the first time onstage?) 
  Music is ephemeral when recorders are not turned on.


On 3/5/16 10:05 PM, Charles Wohlers wrote:
> My recollection is also that the song has obscene lyrics. This
> apparently arose because the lyrics as sung are basically
> indecipherable, so one can say pretty much anything you want about them,
> and can't be proved wrong.
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Lynn Ronkainen
> Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2016 10:44 PM
> To: M list
> Subject: [Magdalen] FBI - Louie Louie (The Song)
>
> Sitting here tonight watching PBS do a huge retrospective of the 'rock and
> roll' years from 'the beginning' complete with trivia, many of the original
> artists performing their own work and the interspersed with 'film clips'
> from the 50s, 60s and 70s of various venues featuring the artists when
> 'they
> were young'.... The Kingsman song Louie Louie came on and I googled trying
> to find something I came across last year that defined what all the
> 'hoopla'
> was really about when the song was shrouded with controversy (a swear word
> said when a microphone dropped during the taping that is barely discernable
> and only if you know when to listen for it). A  quick google of the song
> title had this link near the top of the screen -  and I was amazed!  The
> FBI's 119 page report (in PDF form online)...
>
> Thinking back to the spring of 1964 - can't believe this was such a
> priority
> the spring we turned from advisors to warriors after 'the Gulf of
> Tonkin'. I
> think that it really felt like things were falling apart in the USA
> (kind of
> like today?)
>
> https://vault.fbi.gov/louie-louie-the-song/louie-louie-the-song/view
>
> Lynn
>
>


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