The FBI vs “Louie Louie” (or, more accurately, “Louie – Looo-Eye”):
I’m taking this as a true story unless and until snopes.com says otherwise.
It’s just like Hoover’s FBI in its glory days to waste time looking for obscenity where it wasn’t.
And BTW, this report includes the “true, actual, official” lyrics to the iconic song, so a generation of us can go to our rest no longer obsessing over what the words to “Louie Louie” really were.
Given my advanced age, I for one am grateful.
But to read the actual lyrics, you gotta go to the story itself.
Not that there’s anything unprintable (unbloggable?) in them, honest. But there are some colorful 4-letter words repeated here from various livid, dirty-minded listeners who wrote to the FBI insisting that those words WERE in the lyrics, rotting the minds of me and my peers . . . .
{If you have a really strong stomach, you can even watch a video of the song itself here.}
And aren’t you glad that all such pernicious foolishness by government agencies is all behind us now?
Me gotta go now . . .
Hat tip to George Amoss for passing it along.
And just to think, my taxes were paying for this “research” by my government. Granted, in the early sixties I was being paid as a graduate assistant or at the lowest rungs of academia.