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Post by rick on Apr 28, 2015 19:47:47 GMT -5
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Post by sliderocker on Apr 28, 2015 20:03:20 GMT -5
The best story I ever heard about "Louie, Louie" was that the FBI spent three million dollars of the taxpayers' money trying to figure out what was being sung in the lyrics. I heard later that story was an exaggeration but I would not bet on it being false. And one has to wonder what the politically conservative would think about the FBI spending three million dollars to investigate a two minute plus song? Would they be outraged or okay with it? Regardless, the story has become an urban legend because of the hard to understand lyrics. Jack Ely and the Kingsmen provided one of the best rock and roll stories in history because of those lyrics. RIP, Jack.
(Btw, I read the correct lyrics years ago but even knowing them, I still thought Jack was singing about the spice oregano. "Louie, Louie, oh/Oh baby, that oregano!" I always thought Louie was Louise!)
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Post by Sloan on May 8, 2015 9:07:28 GMT -5
The best story I ever heard about "Louie, Louie" was that the FBI spent three million dollars of the taxpayers' money trying to figure out what was being sung in the lyrics. I heard later that story was an exaggeration but I would not bet on it being false. And one has to wonder what the politically conservative would think about the FBI spending three million dollars to investigate a two minute plus song? Would they be outraged or okay with it? Regardless, the story has become an urban legend because of the hard to understand lyrics. Jack Ely and the Kingsmen provided one of the best rock and roll stories in history because of those lyrics. RIP, Jack. (Btw, I read the correct lyrics years ago but even knowing them, I still thought Jack was singing about the spice oregano. "Louie, Louie, oh/Oh baby, that oregano!" I always thought Louie was Louise!) Read about that too. Found the dirty lyrics (supposedly) on some lyric website. They are in parenthesis and in bold face alongside the real lyrics: Chorus: "Louie, Louie, oh no. Me gotta go. Aye-yi-yi, I said. Louie Louie, oh baby. Me gotta go."
"Fine little girl waits for me. Catch a ship across the sea. Sail that ship about, all alone. Never know if I make it home.
"Three nights and days, I sail the sea." (Every night and day, I play with my thing.) "Think of girl, constantly." (I f--k you girl, oh, all the way.) "Oh that ship, I dream she's there. (On my bed, I'll lay her there.) "I smell the rose in her hair." (I feel my bone, ah, in her hair.)
"See Jamaica, the moon above." (Hey lovemaker, now hold my thing.) "It won't be long, me see my love." (It won't take long, so leave it alone.) "Take her in my arms again." (Hey, senorita, I'm hot as hell.) "Tell her I'll never leave again." (I told her I'd never lay her again.)
Louie, Louie is such a great song. Two parts I like about The Kingsmen version. The almost audible "Fuck" early in the song and when Jack Ely sings the last verse a bit too early, stops, and then starts singing again. Fantastic! I am also picturing the scene in Animal House as I type this. RIP. F |
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2015 10:41:36 GMT -5
Interesting side note about the ever fascinating history of this song. It apparently started as a Jamaican sea shanty adapted by Richard Berry and the Pharoahs
with somewhat more intelligible lyrics (link below)...
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