Perfect!! I was 13 years old in 1963 and listened to Louie Louie on my transistor radio. In spite of what my classmates said, I could clearly hear that the lyrics were perfectly benign.
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching and for the sub!
@laurendoe168
9 ай бұрын
I was 7 when the song was popular, and even I could hear the same as you.
@ceat700
11 ай бұрын
Such a great song, who would imagine it was just a demo 😂 thanks for the video ❤
@the_guitar_trooper
11 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@jamesdennis5796
11 ай бұрын
I never thought I would say this in my lifetime but...this mans voice rvals that of Casey Kasem.
@the_guitar_trooper
11 ай бұрын
Wow. I’m not sure what to say but THANKS!
@leslieperkins2722
9 ай бұрын
He also reminds me of Andy Rooney from 60 minutes.
@appledoreman
9 ай бұрын
Punk classic - often imitated, never bettered. It's the energy!
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
You can’t get away from it! LOL
@MrKaywyn
11 ай бұрын
Truly amazing. I had no idea that it was a demo.
@the_guitar_trooper
11 ай бұрын
Glad you liked it! There’s a lot more in the pipeline.
@georgebaiano3014
11 ай бұрын
That hailous I knew it had to be Louie Louie I like the version sung in Animal House I really enjoyed the story
@the_guitar_trooper
11 ай бұрын
Thanks!! I intend to do more of these, I just need the right subject matter to keep it from being a dry treatise.
@davea2288
9 ай бұрын
I was at an oldies concert (it was FREE admission!) in the early 90's that was put on by WGRR in Cincinnati where Jack Ely and Mark Lindsay, of PR&R fame, both sang "Louie, Louie" together for the first time on stage. It was quite a thing to see and the crowd of 40, 000+ was revved up to see it. At an autograph session after the concert, I got Jack's signature on my playbill and was able to thank him for coming such a long way from Washington state and doing a fantastic performance. He was very thankful of the comment and overall, just a gracious guy.
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
Wow! GREAT POST! Thanks for the view and sub as well!!
@MrKaywyn
11 ай бұрын
It's interesting the Paul Revere and The Raiders' version also includes an f bomb which comes on the bridge.
@the_guitar_trooper
11 ай бұрын
I dunno about that one. You’d have to give me auditory proof. I suppose the off-mic stuff during the bridge on that recording could be just about anything.
@jimwalshonline9346
9 ай бұрын
I'll never, never lay you again...
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
HA!
@dennisangeloni2990
Ай бұрын
Interesting and I had heard so many different stories about Louie Louie which I recall from the early days of 45's. It was a solid song and so beloved by millions of people. Did not know of the 'inside story' - but that was fairly common back then. Good job of revealing what was going on behind the scenes and I still enjoy this song.
@the_guitar_trooper
Ай бұрын
Glad the you enjoyed it, Dennis! Please help me to spread the love 💕 by sharing the channel and the videos!
@clydepurse3680
10 күн бұрын
Thanks for doing this one. I requested you do it quite some time ago. I remember all the snickers my friends would do while singing the “dirty lyrics” that we felt were so obvious. I didn’t believe it when I read the “true lyrics” that were released at some point. I’m 74 years old now, but still sing, (to myself,) the dirty lyrics I thought were real, so many, many years ago! “Stick my finger up the…..” well, you get it. ✌🏼
@the_guitar_trooper
10 күн бұрын
Thanks for the view, Clyde! Please share the videos and channel for me!
@vanessahenry7238
9 ай бұрын
These stories are great!
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
Thank you!! Feel free to subscribe and join the channel!!
@gordonhaire9206
9 ай бұрын
When you said F bomb I knew it was louie louie. the Kingsmen
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
Ha! Yeah, not much wiggle room there. Thanks for the view!
@TheLugzy
11 ай бұрын
ur gonna blow up soon man i know it keep up the good content🔥
@the_guitar_trooper
11 ай бұрын
Hey! Thanks for the kind words! A new interesting long form vid is coming soon!
@kennethswain6313
9 ай бұрын
I really look forward your presentations. The back stories give us insight into the music we grew up with
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
Thank you SO MUCH!! And Thank You for the support!! You’re already a subscriber, right?
@guarddave
6 ай бұрын
Great coverage! Two comments: I saw the Kingsmen open for the Beach Boys in June 1965 in Indianapolis when they dedicated "Louie, Louie" to Indiana Governor, Matt Welsh. Also, I feel their version of "Money" to be the definitive version of the song.
@the_guitar_trooper
6 ай бұрын
Great Post! Thanks!!
@sixstringsoneway
9 ай бұрын
Great video! Excellent job with research and presentation, I LIKE and SUB your channel, Guitar Trooper. Classic story from the early days of Rock... Keep Rock alive!!!!
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
Welcome aboard, my friend! And Thank You for the kind words! I’m in production today on a new long video and a new short, if I can stay awake long enough to finish them!
@shuroom57
9 ай бұрын
Great show! Thanks for the info!
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
You bet! Thanks as always !!
@damoon2631
9 ай бұрын
Thank you!! This was hilarious!!!
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it, and THANKS for the view!
@dokukarmagad12578
4 ай бұрын
Another entertainng video. We all bought this record (I believe I still have the Wand single somewhere around my house) and all "knew" the song had "dirty" lyrics, with speculations abot the song's actual content, though knwing some of the words did not necessarily mean we grasped the concepts. Just after it came out, I was a Tenderfoot (11 yrs old) on a camping trip to the Yorktown Battlefield where the older Boy Scouts were giving us the real lowdown on the lyrics and explaining what the content meant in explicit detail, when I naively expressed my disbelief that such activities were common or even possible between males and females, one of the older guys said, "Well, your mother did it" and I responded "She never did!" to an uproar of laughter and an explanation of the facts of life. I was more enlightened by the end of that camping trip. Regarding the FBI's interest in the song, this was the sixties and J Edgar Hoover was in charge of the FBI. They did all kinds of stupid and reprehensible things under his leadership, from illegally spying on various political and civil rights figures, to ignoring blatant crimes and focusing on minor offenses, to keeping illegal lists and findings of supposed crimes and torts and using them for blackmail, to hounding and persecuting interracial couples. All of that is well documented and the agency did not start to ease off until Hoover was dead and gone. He was a menace to decency and freedom. My impression is that the agents at the FBI were more interested in personal advancement than gung-ho about these actions, but Hoover and the upper level management were insistent that America would not be safe unless such procedures were maintained and pressed the agents to perform such acts regularly. I have seen the reports and commentary by agents that the "Louie Louie" investigation was a waste of time that proceeded as long as it did to keep the higher ups from freaking out. It is truly one of the great 60s songs and was an early form of garage rock and even a forerunner of punk and some say grunge. Everybody played that song.
@the_guitar_trooper
4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the view and the post!
@robdavidson993
11 ай бұрын
Great channel!
@the_guitar_trooper
11 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoy it!
@john-brady
9 ай бұрын
This was just great. I loved this song as a kid but I don’t recall it being banned from the airwaves here in the NY metropolitan region although I could be wrong about that. Because the vocals were so muddled there were rumors among us young folk that the song was loaded with obscenities and profanity but truth be told no amount of teenage analysis yielded anything concrete on that front and I doubt if anyone caught the F-bomb at 54 seconds… This particular song had such a wonderfully primal vibe and musically it was simple and accessible. Thanks for doing this, it’s great for me, at my age to learn something new - and you always illuminate the far away past in ways that fill in a lot of blanks - complete the picture so to speak… Many thanks for your exacting, informative and entertaining hard work…
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
Wow! Thank you for the kind words and the view and that great post!
@john-brady
9 ай бұрын
@@the_guitar_trooper Any time bro’ - just keep on keepin’ on. I’ll be watching…!
@davidg2122
10 ай бұрын
Awesome
@the_guitar_trooper
10 ай бұрын
Thanks David!
@l.salisbury1253
9 ай бұрын
Ever hear Iggy Pop's 1974 live version? Ten years earlier the FBI would've LUVED that rendition...!
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
I’ll bet! Thanks for the view!
@gmanette188
9 ай бұрын
Thank you
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
You're welcome!
@linda1915
21 күн бұрын
Great song. The FBI had too much time on its hands 😂
@the_guitar_trooper
20 күн бұрын
I still chuckle at them spending over 2 years on the books with it and then blowing it off.
@syearty5621
3 ай бұрын
Wow! Thank you!
@the_guitar_trooper
3 ай бұрын
You're welcome! Please help spread the love and SHARE the videos!
@ericcrawford3453
8 ай бұрын
Interesting stuff!
@the_guitar_trooper
8 ай бұрын
Thanks again for the view!
@jimswordsnchords1759
11 ай бұрын
You know, I had to go check out the "F" bomb at 0:54 and, yup, it's there. lolz Thanks for posting.
@the_guitar_trooper
11 ай бұрын
You betcha! Thanks for that long form watch.
@larrya7360
10 ай бұрын
As far as I know, only the Kingsmen sang Louie Louie with the long “i” syllable on the second “Louie.” Was that just a recording fluke? I always liked the Raiders’ stuff but never thought their version of the song held a candle to the Kingsmen’s. Probably the lyrics said whatever the listener wanted them to say. Still an all-time blue-eyed R&B classic. Sounds as good today as it did 60 years ago.
@the_guitar_trooper
10 ай бұрын
@@larrya7360 Great post! THANKS!!
@the_guitar_trooper
10 ай бұрын
@@larrya7360 Hey, thanks again for the view and comment, Larry! I have no idea where the pronunciation thing came from. You gotta admit that it’s something of a hook.
@davidthompson4649
11 ай бұрын
The most famous " what are the real lyrics" song ever
@the_guitar_trooper
11 ай бұрын
Yeah. And the real lyrics are rather boring, to tell the truth.
@ibji
9 ай бұрын
@@the_guitar_trooper Yeah, I posted that video in 2007, almost 6 million views. and btw no one is supposed to know about that 2nd one.
@scotpens
9 ай бұрын
@@the_guitar_trooper Yeah, it's just a simple ditty in about a guy telling his bartender that he's lonely and has to get back home to his girl. (Louie was composer Richard Berry's bartender.) The dirty lyrics that people thought they heard are way more fun than the real lyrics.
@Music_is_Breathing
8 күн бұрын
Super fun video :)
@the_guitar_trooper
8 күн бұрын
Thank you 🤗 as always!
@glittermama
9 ай бұрын
That explains a lot!
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
Yeah, sometimes situations like that just happen and end up being famous. Thank you so very much for your view! Please do subscribe to the channel if you haven’t yet, and use the top notification option that tells you when I post new content. Thanks again!
@laurendoe168
9 ай бұрын
I have a suggestion, if it isn't too much trouble. During the outro, if you could play the song the video was about in the background (not so loud it makes it hard to understand what you're saying), I would appreciate it. You have just GOT to know I'm about to do a YT search for Louie Louie by the Kingsmen.
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
I’ll take that into consideration! Thanks SO MUCH for watching!
@kc8ueu
9 ай бұрын
Well, now I know why we listened to WLS in Chicago and not any of our local Indiana stations! Of course, that kinda ended when Dick Biondi made his little error. Nobody could understand "Louie Louie" anyway, and that's probably why it was such a huge hit. The F-bomb was partially obscured by static; reception was never as clear back then as it is now. Progress is not necessarily our most important product!
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
Hey - THANK YOU for the view and the comment ! If you haven’t yet, please be sure to subscribe to the channel. It’s free, and it really helps us out growing the channel! Once you’re subscribed, you have the option to become a Trooper Fellow by joining the channel! It will put a sticker on your comments so that I see them first and you get priority responses. Just click on the Join button on my channel main page from a desktop KZitem session (for some reason, they can’t display the Join button on mobile devices). Thanks again for the view!!
@davidirwin1549
9 ай бұрын
It's really sad that the original singer - Jack got pushed to the side as Lynn (and his mother) decided that Lynn should be the lead singer who had to lipsynch Jack's vocals at every place they played at giving Lynn all the credit for someone else's voice.
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
Such is the dynamics of a (young) group, I guess. Thanks for the view and the comment, David !!
@GyppoMarx
9 ай бұрын
I did guess before it was revealed that the song was Louie Louie my second choice was the infamous My Girl is Red Hot😮
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
Ha! Louie Louie has always been an enigma to me. It’s so dumb, stupid simple and yet people love it. LOL.
@earlgreco8636
9 ай бұрын
Think of the publicity all that hoopla got for the song. I can't believe the FBI wasted tax dollar money like that spending all that time on it. They're the ones that should be investigated for fleecing working American taxpayers. What's sad is the original creator of the song sold the rights to it for less than a thousand dollars not knowing it was going to be such a hit.
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
Thanks for the long form view and your channel support, Earl!
@dokukarmagad12578
4 ай бұрын
How about an explication of "Little Black Egg"?
@the_guitar_trooper
4 ай бұрын
Never looked at that
@scottmarleneking6298
6 ай бұрын
So if the F-bomb wasn't the focus of the investigation, what was it that triggered suspicions of obscenity?
@the_guitar_trooper
6 ай бұрын
Oh Man. Just Google “Obscene lyrics Louie, Louie” and you’ll see some examples what they thought that they were looking for. Snopes.com has an excellent treatise on it.
@nomikes4392
8 ай бұрын
Play it backwards. It predicts the death of Paul McCartney!!!
@the_guitar_trooper
8 ай бұрын
Cute guy
@vicoilsteems9764
5 ай бұрын
Who did the original ?
@the_guitar_trooper
5 ай бұрын
From Wiki : “Louie Louie" is a rhythm and blues song written and composed by American musician Richard Berry in 1955, recorded in 1956, and released in 1957.
@halbertking2683
9 ай бұрын
V chord is minor .
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
Yep
@philipbuckley759
9 ай бұрын
too much non essential information this is Louie Louie no...
@the_guitar_trooper
9 ай бұрын
Awwww. I thought that it was fun! Thanks for watching though, Philip! Luv ya!
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