The battle over the supposed dirty lyrics to the rock song “Louie, Louie” has ended in the city where the controversy started 25 years ago. The song, in which a sailor tells a bartender about his ...

Me catch a ship across the sea. Are you hearing something that we’re not? The FBI did. They spent two years investigating the song, "Louie, Louie" and its lyrics for obscene messages. The song, ...

Some of the national obituaries for Richard Berry last week got the punctuation of his song wrong, which depressed me a little bit. You do your best to promote precision and accuracy, and it all comes ...

FLINT, MI -- Here's a test, and no cheating: Can you recite the words to the 1963 Kingsmen song "Louie Louie?" Don't feel bad. Even the Federal Bureau of Investigation -- after a two-year ...

WASHINGTON — It’s been called the ultimate party song, so it’s hard to imagine it was once the subject of an FBI investigation. Jack Ely, who died Tuesday at the age of 71, got “quite a kick” out of ...

RASCOE: And even fewer people know the history of a West Coast dance hit that became a party anthem, with an FBI investigation and a Supreme Court case along the way. Here's Deena Prichep. DEENA ...

Fifty years ago, FBI agents dressed in dark suits and skinny ties stood among screaming teenage fans and passed out promotional cans of Green Giant vegetables as The Kingsmen rocked the stage with ...

In 1957, Richard Berry released a song he had written two years earlier with his band, the Pharaohs. “Louie Louie” was a song about a sailor pining for his girlfriend in Jamaica. After its release, ...

Turning 50. It’s a daunting prospect for anyone (and I should know). But for a pop song? Most fade away long before they reach that mark. One exception: the legendary “Louie Louie” — that eternally ...

The FBI was so intrigued by the hard-to-understand lyrics that it conducted an investigation into whether the song was obscene. The song was released in 1963. "Right of his mouth, my father would say: ...

Our 14-year-old recently spent his summer lawn mowing money on a used electric guitar, which is a good thing because it keeps him away from the Internet, the devil's playground. He has learned only ...