If anything, it just renders the vocal into the sound of a sleepy ogre mumbling incomprehensibly. Which, for anyone old enough to remember slowing records down, is laughable. Part of the urban legend that sprang up around Louie Louie said that if you spun the 45 rpm single at 33 1/3, you could hear all the offending lines more clearly. 20,000 copies were sold in a week.Īs the song caught on across the country, so too did rumours about its supposed dirty lyrics. And then, in a scene straight out of a movie, a DJ in Boston named “Woo Woo” Ginsburg locked himself in a studio and spun The Kingsmen’s record for three hours straight on the air. Released in May 1963 on an indie label called Jerden, it was a hit around their native Portland. That version is the one that inspired The Kingsmen to try their hand at it. In 1961, the song was revived, in a more rollicking arrangement, by Seattle band Rockin' Robin Roberts & The Wailers. So when interest in Louie Louie waned, he sold the song to a publisher for $750. But like many young songwriters at the time, he couldn't see the long-term potential of hanging onto your copyrights. The lyric, sung in a Calypso pidgin English, included couplets like: “ On the ship I dream she there / I smell the rose in her hair.”īerry had a regional hit with it in the Pacific Northwest. musician Richard Berry, it was basically a sailor pouring his heart out to a bartender named Louie, lamenting the gal he left behind. The song that had G-men hunched over portable hi-fis straining to decode the lyrics had innocent beginnings. The genie was getting out of the bottle." They were hearing all this stuff in the song. What’s the deal?’ It never occurred to me how repressed teenagers were sexually. “That ought to tell you the mentality of the country back then. “ Louie Louie was kept out of the Number One spot on the charts by the Singing Nun,” Kingsmen keyboardist Don Gallucci told me with a laugh. “The FBI guys came to our shows, and they’d stand next to the speakers to see if we were singing anything off-colour. Edgar Hoover felt we were corrupting the moral fibre of America’s youth,” Mike Mitchell, guitarist and founding member of The Kingsmen, told me in 2016. And behind its feel good, three-chord groove, there were rumoured to be some salacious messages that were threatening the morality of America's youth. That spring, they had released a single called Louie Louie. Somewhere down the Bureau's list of offenders was a band of five teenage musicians from Portland who called themselves The Kingsmen. (Note: the game isn't connected in any way to the 1991 movie Teen Agent.Among the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives listed by the FBI in 1963 were counterfeiters, embezzlers and a bank robber who dyed his hair a different coloir every month and stuffed cotton in his nose and mouth to disguise the shape of his face. By moving the cursor to the top of the screen, you bring up your inventory. You control Mark Hopper with a mouse - click on where you want him to go, left-click on objects and people to look at them, and right-click on them to interact with them. Teenagent is a humorous point-and-click adventure, originally available as shareware, but the DOS version was later re-released as freeware. But first you're sent to the RGB training camp where you'll have to pass the three trials! You take the role of Mark Hopper, an ordinary teenager who gets hired by the RGB intelligence (he was selected by a fortune teller) to solve the mystery of gold disappearing from the Mega Bank. Comedy, Detective / Mystery, Spy / Espionage
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