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

["Wally Walters" <bigwally@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

JUST-IN from the Smoking Gun!

We're happy to see that a dopey Michigan bureaucrat reversed her decision to
bar a middle school marching band from performing "Louie Louie" at a
festival gig. Look, if J. Edgar Hoover couldn't find an excuse to imprison
The Kingsmen at Leavenworth, that tells you all you need to know about the
song's supposed obscenity. Details at:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/louie/louie.html


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <b2becom@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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


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...."

--
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!