Althouse: 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....

२८ एप्रिल, २०१५

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....

"Jack Ely, the Portland guitarist and singer best known for the Kingsmen's 1960s hit 'Louie, Louie' has died at age 71."

२२ टिप्पण्या:

robother म्हणाले...: I never heard those lyrics. Did anyone?; २८/४/१५, ५:३३ PM
Heartless Aztec म्हणाले...: Just picked the guitar up and went through a few verses and a chorus in tribute.; २८/४/१५, ५:४३ PM
madAsHell म्हणाले...: I never heard those lyrics. Did anyone?

I remember that the lyrics were thought to be obscene, and the FBI investigated; २८/४/१५, ५:५६ PM
Mark O म्हणाले...: Three chords.; २८/४/१५, ५:५७ PM
'TreHammer म्हणाले...: "Louie, Louie" makes me think about "Animal House"...good times, good times.; २८/४/१५, ५:५८ PM
Heartless Aztec म्हणाले...: It was 20 years before I realized that Animal House wasn't a documentary.; २८/४/१५, ५:५९ PM
Aussie Pundit म्हणाले...: I know the lyrics only because I've been doing an online guitar course(justin guitar) and it's one of the songs in the course.; २८/४/१५, ६:०६ PM
madAsHell म्हणाले...: The link to the FBI vault even includes the letter addressed to Robert Kennedy from a man in Florida.

Here are the alleged obscene lyrics....

There is a fine little girl waiting for me.
She is just the girl across the way.
When I take her all alone.
She's never the girl I lay at home.

Tonight at ten, I'll lay her again.
We'll fuck your girl, and by the way.
And....on that chair I'll lay her there.
I felt my bone all in her hair.

She had a rag on, I moved above.
It won't be long, I'll slip it off.
I held her in my arms, and then
I told her I'd rather lay her again.; २८/४/१५, ६:२३ PM
Wilbur म्हणाले...: I like the obscene lyrics better.

I never thought The Kingsmen version rated above a C- on any level, including Animal House debauchery, in which I engaged as often as possible.; २८/४/१५, ६:३५ PM
khematite@aol.com म्हणाले...: Frank Zappa (who played it more than a few times himself), asked in an interview about the Kingsmen's version:

"Well, I was also in bands when "Louie Louie," before the Kingsmen made it into the joke that everybody recognizes now. "Louie Louie" used to be a really cool tune, the Richard Berry version of it. It had, y' know, a nice arrangement to it, and a whole different feel to it. It wasn't until The Kingsmen version that it became, y' know, the "Animal House" joke that it is right now."; २८/४/१५, ६:४४ PM
MayBee म्हणाले...: Tracy Partridge dead at 52.; २८/४/१५, ६:४६ PM
The Cracker Emcee Refulgent म्हणाले...: The problem with being at the tail-end of the Baby Boom is that I was too young to appreciate these songs when they were fresh and urgent, but I've had to listen to them ad naseum in the years since. I could live the rest of my life without hearing another hit song made prior to Who's Next.; २८/४/१५, ६:५४ PM
Uncle Frank म्हणाले...: Todd Snider wrote a song about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNG3bpHUEhg

Todd Snider rules!; २८/४/१५, ६:५९ PM
richardsson म्हणाले...: I began listening to really old music in early 1970, and mostly stopped listening to the current hits at that time. But, I went to a dance at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium sometime in October, 1963, and the Kingsmen were the featured act. And beyond "Louie, Loueye, Oh No, we gotta go," I have no idea what they were singing. At least that's what I remember.; २८/४/१५, ७:०३ PM
Laslo Spatula म्हणाले...: MayBee said...
Tracy Partridge dead at 52.

THIS I am sad about. Expecting to hear about on the radio Bonnaduce show tomorrow here in Seattle.

I am Laslo.; २८/४/१५, ८:०६ PM
driguana म्हणाले...: Always love these Louie Louie conversations. If you grew up in Pittsburgh in the late 50s or early 60s you knew the original version by Richard Berry and The Pharoahs quite well as it was played on the radio all the time. The words are very clear and easy to understand. When
The Kingsmen version came out we were appalled at house ridiculous it sounded next to the original. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMr-x4nZyTI; २८/४/१५, ८:५९ PM
Patrick म्हणाले...: Todd Snider might not exactly rule, but I think he's an alright guy.; २८/४/१५, ९:२३ PM
A to the C म्हणाले...: Here is Black Flag's Louie Louie. It's pretty good.
https://youtu.be/DPvc_424KFU; २८/४/१५, ९:३० PM
madAsHell म्हणाले...: Bonnaduce show tomorrow here in Seattle.

I am Laslo.

Great! Laslo is one on my neighbors!!; २८/४/१५, ९:४७ PM
Etienne म्हणाले...: Calipso sux...; २९/४/१५, २:४२ AM
Jaq म्हणाले...: On-line course for guitar? Hmmm. I never thought of that. Off to Bing.; २९/४/१५, ७:०५ AM
Jaq म्हणाले...: Great! Laslo is one on my neighbors!!

You obviously are either a huge huge fan, or don't have any pretty daughters.; २९/४/१५, ७:०६ AM