Posted in: Entertainment History, News | No Comments | May 13, 2022
1965 - May 19
FBI agents visit Wand Records to investigate the lyrics to “Louie Louie” by The Kingsmen after an outraged parent wrote to Robert Kennedy, then the Attorney General of the United States, alleging that the lyrics were obscene. The FBI would eventually release a statement that said that it was impossible to exactly decipher the lyrics from “the unintelligible rendition as performed by The Kingsmen.”
The lyrics controversy resurfaced briefly in 2005 when the superintendent of the school system in Benton Harbor, Michigan, refused to let the marching band at one of the schools play the song in a parade. She later relented