Louie Louie The Song(VIDEO)

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/kingsmen_louie.html ^

[navysealdad]

Lyrics to The Kingsmen's version of the song Louie Louie

"Louie Louie" is an American rock 'n' roll song written by Richard Berry in 1955. It has become a standard in pop and rock, with hundreds of versions recorded by different artists. The song is written in the style of a Jamaican ballad; and tells, in simple verse-chorus form, the first-person story of a Jamaican sailor returning to the island to see his lady love.

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The Kingsmen's edition was also the subject of an FBI investigation about the supposed but non-existent obscenity of the lyrics, an investigation that ended without prosecution.

As opposed to the FBI investigation (NOT) of some of P.Diddy's latest "works", such as his artistic March 2009 release, "Imma Put It on Her".

[blam]

"Frank Zappa, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Louie Louie. It don’t get any better"

Apparently there's a ringtone of that...see here.

[Ransomed]

Wasn’t there a radio station that played this song 24 hours a day for a while? I could absolutely be wrong but I seem to remember that they did respectable ratings with that programming.

Freegards

[Texas Eagle]

Wasn’t there a radio station that played this song 24 hours a day for a while?

Yes. It was called Radio Free Gitmo.

Attorney General Eric Holder shut it down for some reason.

[mojo114]

WOW, did you provide us with entertainment tonight! Loved the homepage of angelfire.com. So many good links.. We enjoyed it.
Thank you so much.

[Terry Mross]

I read where the lead singer of The Kingsmen said they recorded it in a garage and the mic was hanging from the ceiling and he had to stand on his toes to get it to pick up his voice. Thus all the “strange” lyrics we had to decipher.

We always thought it said “I felt my bone go in her hair”. Talk about minds being in the gutter!

[Ransomed]

Aye-yi-yi-akbar!!

Freegards

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Here you go...have a good listen.

Louie, Louie
Wailers

[Captain Beyond]

This is one of favorite versions of the song performed by Motorhead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDP7_h4wkgw

[smalltownslick]

I’ll never forget the first time I heard the Richard Berry version. Answered every question for me.

[Frantzie]

Great party song like Wolly Bully.

[smalltownslick]

“Same thing happened to me with “white sportcoat and a pink carnation”.

“What kind of a kareoke dude carries with him THAT song??”

Why wouldn’t he, that’s a great one.

[Frantzie]

What is really weird is this was recorded by the Kingsmen in 1963 in Portland Oregon.

He sounds so much like Ray Davies of the Kinks. The Kinks hit it big in Aug 1964 with You Really Got Me. They had earlier songs but I doubt Portland heard of them time 1964.

Looks what I found:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Really_Got_Me

According to Ray Davies, the song’s characteristic riff came about while working out the chords of The Kingsmen’s “Louie Louie.”

So You Really Got Me - was soemwhat based on or at least insipred by Louie Louie.

[Guyin4Os]

The song needs more cowbell

[HerrBlucher]

That Louie Louie had obscene lyrics is a religious belief for some, it doesn’t matter if you show them the actual lyrics, they will still swear that the song was sung dirty by the Kingsmen. Its as if you are taking something of their childhood away by debunking the myth.

[Captain Beyond]

Here are the Kinks doing Louie Louie in 1965

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrKr3UUnqiM