Song Help Request Louie Louie mystery solved

[Tailgate]

For 40 years I have thought the words to Louie Louie were either unitelligible and that the 3rd verse was dirty language ... not so..

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=dXZ1a2VjbHViLmNvbXx3d3d8Z3g6NjViMGI5MDAzNTg0NzE2MA

I've never seen the lyrics before.. mystery solved! Loved that song!

 

[mikelz777]

More information on the song from Songfacts.com:

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=782

 

[vanflynn]

You weren't the only one. From the "Louie Louie" entry in wickipedia:

The FBI started a 31-month investigation into the matter and concluded they were "unable to interpret any of the wording in the record."[2]

 

[mikelz777]

I wonder if it occurred to the FBI that they could have asked the band about the lyrics.

 

[Tailgate]

More information on the song from Songfacts.com:

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=782

THANK YOU!!! fascinating info.. I never knew!!

 

[ichadwick]

I read a whole book about the Louie Louie lyrics conspiracy last year, including the FBI investigation, the record burnings, the radio bans ands all the other nonsense. Very interesting from a psychological viewpoint. It was a cultural madness like the "Paul is dead" hoax, or any of the backwards-lyrics-are-Satanic hoaxes.

It still amazes me that anyone thought the words were dirty - I played the song in a band in the mid-60s and was able to buy the sheet music with all the words clearly printed. You can probably still buy them. Author was Richard Berry. Nothing salacious about them - just a gentle Jamaican patois... a sailor pining for the love he left behind. I still remember the words, by the way. Comes from playing it over and over and over and over and over.

It's a lot like those unsourced Facebook quotes I suppose. People don't take the time or make to effort to verify them because they don't want facts to dismantle their preconceptions.