Re: [Harp-L] Louis, Louie safe at last!

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For a good song chuckle, check out Todd Snider,  Oh Boy Records, East Nashville Skyline CD - it has a great tune entitled - "The Ballad of the Kingsmen.  I heard them sing it live in 1965 at a private party in Portland OR.  

As Todd sings, Louie Louie was in fact "the feel good hit of this endless summer...." 

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Ross Macdonald
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> Thank God wiser minds have prevailed and the McCord Middle School Band was 
> allowed to perform "Louie, Louie" in Saturday's Blossomtime Festival in Benton 
> Harbor, Mich. 
> 
> The school superintendent had ordered the band not to play the song, citing 
> its allegedly raunchy lyrics from the 1963 song by the Kingsmen. 
> 
> Folks, the lyrics are merely unintelligible, not dirty. This myth has been 
> circulating for years, and the FBI even got sucked into it -- but spent two 
> years and couldn't find anything. 
> 
> The lyrics are moot; the band was going to play the song, NOT sing it! 
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