Band Banned From Performing 'Louie Louie'

[displacedtexan]

Unfreakin' believable! This crap is still going on!

Band Banned From Performing 'Louie Louie'

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- A pop culture controversy that has simmered for decades came to a head when a middle school marching band was told not to perform "Louie Louie."

Benton Harbor Superintendent Paula Dawning cited the song's allegedly raunchy lyrics in ordering the McCord Middle School band not to perform it in Saturday's Grand Floral Parade, held as part of the Blossomtime Festival.

In a letter sent home with McCord students, Dawning said "Louie Louie" was not appropriate for Benton Harbor students to play while representing the district - even though the marching band wasn't going to sing it. LINK

Just in case my code is messy, http://tinyurl.com/cds4n

Ahem.

Louie, Louie,
me gotta go.
Louie, Louie,
me gotta go.

A fine little girl, she wait for me;
me catch a ship across the sea.
I sailed the ship all alone;
I never think I'll make it home

Three nights and days we sailed the sea;
me think of girl constantly.
On the ship, I dream she there;
I smell the rose in her hair.

Me see Jamaica moon above;
It won't be long me see me love.
Me take her in my arms and then
I tell her I never leave again.

For the whole story, see:

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/louie.htm

[SheepyMcSheepster]

1. lol

i love the misinterpreted lyric from snopes:

"felt my boner in her hair."

lol, seriously.........people are crazy

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. Dontcha know rock and roll is the music of the devil!!

:evilgrin:

[Hugin]

3. Man... Are these people stuck in the '50s or what!

Louie Louie? For crying out loud!

I can't believe it...

<shaking head>

Just can't believe it.

It makes me wonder just how long Paula Dawning has been
holding this grudge... Now, finally she has THE POWAH! to
act in her pompous crusade.

I'll be sure to pray for her on this National Day of Prayer.

[ProfessorGAC]

37. LOL! That's What I Thought Too

The song is about a million years old, for goodness sake! Pep bands have been playing it since before i was in high school, and that was quite some time ago!

Troglodytes!
The Professor

[DanCa]

4. Me I pray to the

God of sex and drugs and rock and roll. Lol sorry it seemed appropriate. Humour no matter how bad seems all we got left against the right.

[MindPilot]

5. She must be playin' wit her own ding-a-ling

Do you suppose she'll keep the kids from singing "Oh Cum All Ye Faithful" at Christmas time?

[Hugin]

6. LOL...

That's just wrong... wrong... wrong... on so many levels!

[mantis49]

36. Or "Don we now our GAY apparel..."

[Bluebear]

41. ROFL!

:rofl:

[Zorra]

7. Republicans will be burning books before too long, just like their fascist

predecessors.

"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings." Heinrich Heine

[TheMightyFavog]

33. They're already doing it...

Fundies burn Harry Potter Books, memorabilia, and Ouija boards.

[stevedeshazer]

8. Hell, here in Portland, they put up a monument

at the site of the former studio where it was recorded by the Kingsmen, back in 19 fuckin' 63!

[goodboy]

9. this has been an ongoing controversy at THE Ohio State University

but we liberal ohioans will have it played! Play on TBDBITL!

[ghostsofgiants]

10. Maybe they were afraid of a massive outburst of pranks and panty raids?

[Bridget Burke]

11. And the cafeteria will no longer sell bananas....

So students won't be tempted to smoke the peels.

Louie, Louie is the theme song of the MOB (Marching Owl Band)--the highly unorthodox group that accompanies Rice University's teams to games. Unless they're still barred from College Station--one MOB performance was disrespectful to Aggie Tradition.

http://mob.rice.edu/

[Norquist Nemesis]

12. But "Son of A Preacher Man" is okey-dokey and approved!

It must be! That's what they were playing as delegates entered the convention hall last fall during the GOP National Covention. :shrug:

[freeplessinseattle]

13. So now, how exactly is that raunchy? or can you only see it if

you have a dirty mind?

[Karenina]

25. It's a MARCHING BAND...

INSTRUMENTAL. Great for a two-step and hand claps on 2 & 4! Lemme hear that low brass! :crazy:

Yo FliS, ya ever think the whole woild gone plum-ficken bats??? We spent hours with our 45's spinning at 33 trying to decipher the lyrics!!! THOSE were the days, my friend! ;-)

[LibertyLover]

14. The FBI

The FBI wasted 2 years and Gods' alone know how much in taxpayer money to investigate the lyrics of a song? I know J. Edgar was a weirdo, but this has got to show that he was not just around the bend, but over the tracks, down in the valley and across the river.

[Hugin]

16. not to mention... "Through the woods".

Geeeze...

Life right now is like reading obscure fundie web pages
during the '90s.

[Generic Other]

15. What? That's Washington state's state song!

GRRRRRR

[RebelOne]

17. I wonder if this dumb ass woman even knows

what the lyrics are.

[Eloriel]

22. And are they PLAYING the song or SINGING it? Sheesh. n/t

[KansDem]

18. Well, it's not the best English, and if you're a school....well,....

But I thought this has been a standard for decades? Wasn't this song featured in "Animal House," and haven't we heard it from time to time at sports events? Why this controversy?

In our house, when we barbeque, my family and I listen to a variety of tunes, including Harry Belfonte singing "Kingston Town":

Down the way
Where the nights are gay
And the sun shines brightly
On the mountain top

I took a trip
On a sailing ship
And when I reached Jamaica
I made a stop

But I'm sad to say,
I'm on my way
Won't be back
For many a day

My heart is down
My head is turning 'round
Had to leave a little girl
In Kingston town.

Down in the market
You can hear
Ladies cry out as
On their heads the bear

'Ackee rice
And fish on ice
And the rum is good
Any time of year.

But I'm sad to say,
I'm on my way
Won't be back
For many a day

My heart is down
My head is turning 'round
Had to leave a little girl
In Kingston town.

Kinda similar to "Louie, Louie." Maybe I'm a bad parent? :scared:

[txaslftist]

19. Mon dat Raggae Muzick gon' keel yous chiddrin, mon!

You canna be joost a playin' like 'dat.
Next ting you gonna be ree ree wit' ganja and makin' dem ladees so fumee, mon.

[immoderate]

20. So funny.

If they don't sing it, it could be a dozen different songs. BTW, one of my favorite novelty albums (and there's a volume 2.) I just saw the words for Louie, Louie written out for the first time, and I'm old enough to remember the original.


--IMM

[TrogL]

21. Have you heard the original?

The words are incomprehensible.

[Goldmund]

23. Quoting those song lyrics makes this a SEX thread.

Tsk, tsk...

[paineinthearse]

24. Blend this post with yesterday's Texas cheerleading post

:shrug:

It's a crazy, retro world.

[bobthedrummer]

26. God help me, the Taliban executed musicians-this is headed that way

an American Taliban that hates musicians!
:hide:

[Telly Savalas]

27. Send in Kevin Bacon to save this town from puritanical oppression.

[Double T]

28. Ancient urban legends being recycled by ignorant, uninformed idiots!

[slackmaster]

29. Too many people have heard Iggy Pop's raunchy version

:shrug:

[rniel]

30. Those are some SICK PERVERTED LYRICS THERE!!

oH MY GOD!!

[CoffeeCat]

31. The same problem with "Louie Louie" happened in 64!!!!! Funny!!

Look at the Smoking Gun site on this issue. In 1964-65 people complained about "Louie Louie" and there was an FBI investigation. Parents were so outraged at the disgusting lyrics (LOL!!) that the FBI studied the song. The end result after listening to the song over and over and over, "You can't prosecute what you can't hear."

A federal investigation and several FBI agents could not determine what the song lyrics were.

You gotta see the site. There's some hilarious letters from outraged, holier than thou parents who seem to have projected their own sick stuff into these lyrics. The lyrica are totally benign!!

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/louie/louieclose1.html

[Hugin]

39. "If the lyrics don't fit... You must acquit."

or something like that.

[donsu]

32. racism

nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

34. Good! The more the puritans overreach, the bigger the backlash.

I love it when the JesusJumpers do stupid things in public. It displays their fundamental ignorance and tight asses to the people.

The backlash cometh sayeth the Lord.

[TheMightyFavog]

35. One of the Professors at UW Marinette Dated The Kingsmen's drummer

She told me that he had "a really big ego."

[LdyGuique]

38. hahaha

A final quote from the article:

"Louie Louie," written by Richard Berry in 1956, is one of the most recorded songs in history. The best-known, most notorious version was a hit in 1963 for the Kingsmen; the FBI spent two years investigating the lyrics before declaring they not only were not obscene but also were "unintelligible at any speed."

But did they try to run it backwards????

I love it. Let the nutjobs continue to attack popular culture. The random malcontent -- Texas and its cheerleaders issue is becoming one of the biggest jokes of all time. Let's add in Louie Louie.

[Gold Metal Flake]

40. The Regressive Party On The March!!

Why are we taking this?

[Moderator]

42. kick