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Title: FBI Spent Years 'Researching' The Lyrics To 'Louie, Louie' Before Realizing The Copyright Office Must Have Them
Source: TechDirt
URL Source: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2 ... ht-office-must-have-them.shtml
Published: May 6, 2015
Author: Mike Masnick
Post Date: 2015-05-11 04:59:26 by Orwellian Nightmare
Keywords: None
Views: 1970
Comments: 5

from the really,-now? dept

Last week, as you may or may not have heard, a guy named Jack Ely passed away at the age of 71. The name may not be that familiar, but the voice almost certainly is. Jack Ely was -- fairly briefly -- the lead singer of the Kingsmen, and happened to do a cover song in a single take under poor conditions, that created one of the most memorable songs in rock and roll history, also known as Louie Louie:

You know the song. You also know the lyrics are completely indecipherable. However, with Ely's death, there's been renewed attention to the fact that the FBI spent nearly two years investigating the damn song. It is just as ridiculous as it sounds, but the FBI has released the file on its investigation and it's a rather hilarious read. It turns out it wasn't just the FBI, but involved the FCC and the Post Office:

Apparently, the government was being inundated with claims from people (some of which you can see in the file) insisting that they had heard the indecipherable lyrics were actually "obscene." If you want to see the supposedly "obscene" interpretation of the lyrics, there's one set on page 14 [pdf] of the document, though I warn you, even the falsely heard "obscene" lyrics are not particularly obscene by today's standards (and I'm at a loss as to how they're that obscene by the standards of 1963, frankly). On page 22, there's another, mostly different set of falsely heard "obscene" lyrics that at least includes the word "fuck." On page 35, yet another version with both "fuck" and "bitch."

There are lots of documents about the FBI playing the record, repeatedly, at different speeds, and all coming to the conclusion that you and I and everyone else already knows: the lyrics are basically indecipherable.

And again:

There are a few more times this determination was made, in part because after the FBI had already gone through the whole investigation, J. Edgar Hoover reopened it after a concerned parent wrote him a letter -- complaining that whether or not the real lyrics are obscene, it doesn't matter because teens can hear the obscene lyrics and "every teenager in the country 'heard' the obscene not the copywritten lyric." There are also letters to Attorney General Robert Kennedy that include lines like "these morons have gone too far," and "This land of ours is headed for an extreme state of moral degradation what with this record, the biggest hit movies and the sex and violence exploited on T.V. How can we stamp out this menace? ? ? ?" Really.

But, in the end, as everyone knows, the song is simply indecipherable, rather than obscene.

And that's because the band was in a tiny studio with just three mics, played a single take of the song and Ely had to scream at a microphone on the ceiling trying to have his voice heard above the instruments (a task he basically failed at doing). But, the idea that there was a mystery to the lyrics is kind of ridiculous for a few reasons, the first one being that the song is a cover song, and the FBI could have easily listened to a few of the earlier versions of the song, such as the original by Richard Berry, or another popular one by Rockin Robin Roberts and The Fabulous Wailers (the one that inspired the Kingsmen to do the cover). You can hear both those and another one right here. Their lyrics are a lot more intelligible in all of those versions, and you can pretty quickly tell that the lyrics to the Kingsmen version is supposed to be the Rockin Robin Roberts version.

Also, as Marc Randazza notes, it took nearly two years for someone in the FBI to think, hey, isn't the song registered at the Copyright Office down the street? Maybe we should send someone over there to find out what it says? This was after the FBI had reached out to the record label (who gave them the accurate lyrics) along with the original author of the song, Richard Berry, who told them the lyrics. Oddly, apparently, the FBI never bothered to ask Ely himself what he sang, though I'm sure he would have said the same damn lyrics, which are below:


Still, what a bizarre story of moral panics, FBI and governmental overreach, the First Amendment... and a bit of copyright thrown in just for fun.

Oh, and as a general postscript, for all the hand wringing about possible obscenities in the song... there actually is one. Just not in the lyrics. At 54 seconds into the song, the drummer Lynn Easton actually fumbled his drumsticks banging them together and yells out "fuck." The FBI never caught on to that, but you can actually hear it if you listen...

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#1. To: Orwellian Nightmare, *Hypocrisy and Hypocrites* (#0)

Still, what a bizarre story of moral panics, FBI and governmental overreach, the First Amendment... and a bit of copyright thrown in just for fun.

The hypocrisy of a homosexual queen like Hoover that had his boyfriend appointed as the assistant director of the FBI so they could stay close while drawing taxpayer checks investigating anyone for morality purposes is stunning.

What was the old saying,"Nothing sucks like a Hoover!"?

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-05-11   5:21:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Orwellian Nightmare (#0)

FBI Spent Years 'Researching' The Lyrics To 'Louie, Louie' ...

Hey - don't be to hard on the folks -
This google search took almost a minute.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_Louie

Chuck_Wagon  posted on  2015-05-11   12:34:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Chuck_Wagon, Orwellian Nightmare (#2)

Louie Louie, oh no
Sayin' we gotta go, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah
Said Louie Louie, oh baby
Said we gotta go

A fine little girl, she waits for me
Catch a ship across the sea
Sail that ship about, all alone
Never know if I make it home

Louie Louie, oh no no no
Sayin' we gotta go, oh no
Said Louie Louie, oh baby
Said we gotta go

Three nights and days I sail the sea
Think of girl, all constantly
On that ship I dream she's there
I smell the rose in her hair

Louie Louie, oh no
Sayin' we gotta go, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah
Said Louie Louie, oh baby
Said we gotta go
Okay, let's give it to 'em, right now!

See, see Jamaica, the moon above
It won't be long, me see me love
Take her in my arms again
I'll tell her I'll never leave again

Louie Louie, oh no
Sayin' we gotta go, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah
Said Louie Louie, oh baby
Said we gotta go

I said we gotta go now
Let's take this on outta here
Let's go!

Willie Green  posted on  2015-05-11   12:49:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Orwellian Nightmare, sneakypete, Willie Green (#0)

There were no dirty lyrics but that did not stop the imaginations of thousands of repressed teenagers from imagining their own. Also, this must have spread from mouth to mouth before the internet - in a few months the whole country's teenagers assumed this song was dirty. I am sure what dirty version was sung changed per teeneage clique but the link above re-creates that assumed dirty lyrics.

Pericles  posted on  2015-05-11   15:59:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Pericles, Orwellian Nightmare, sneakypete, *Music* (#4)

Jack Ely sets the record straight during a radio call-in show.
Very interesting!!!
But he actually recites the true lyrics (and the story behind it) afer about 13 minutes into the YouTube.

Willie Green  posted on  2015-05-11   17:10:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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