Band Banned From Performing 'Louie Louie'

[moe.ron]

Guess they were in double secret probation.

Link to the Article (http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/no_louie_louie)

[WCUgirl]

:rolleyes:

[Rio_Kohitsuji]

Just for that I'm gonna break out my trumpet and play it in honor for them :)



Seriously now, that song doesn't have any damn lyrics hardly and it's extrememly easy to learn and play. The parent who called them in on it needs to get a kick in the arse.

[RedRoseSAI]

How stupid. My high school pep band played "Tequila" and "Cocaine". It didn't prompt us to do shots and blow after the game.

ETA - Stuff like this is one of the many reasons why I didn't become a teacher. I can't stand it when whiny parents try to run the schools.

[AlphaFrog]

We played it all the time at my mod-conservative Catholic High School.... Actually, Peoria IL, where I'm from has an annual "Louie, Louie" parade....I believe it's in the summer, which is why we never marched in it....

[hoosier]

Most popular pep band song at Indiana was "the stripper"

[SigkapAlumWSU]

Funny enough, "Louie Louie" is the Washington State Song. So it can be a state song but...?

[Tom Earp]

Conjunctive Butt?

[honeychile]

How terribly sad and pathetic. Luckily, I happened onto this while looking for something else on snopes.com lately:

Louie, Louie lyrics

Louie, Louie,
me gotta go.
Louie, Louie,
me gotta go.
A fine little girl, she wait for me;
me catch a ship across the sea.
I sailed the ship all alone;
I never think I'll make it home

Three nights and days we sailed the sea;
me think of girl constantly.
On the ship, I dream she there;
I smell the rose in her hair.

Me see Jamaica moon above;
It won't be long me see me love.
Me take her in my arms and then
I tell her I never leave again.

Snopes Source (http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/louie.htm)

[Unregistered-]

Good. That song's annoying as hell anyway.

[JupiterTC]

Banning songs from bands has become a popular trend lately. This past basketball season we were not allow to play "Rock and Roll, Part II" (aka the hey song) due to the "alternate lyrics" that the crowd sings, but the band doesn't sing it at all. Go figure.

[ragtimerose]

Marching bands don't (normally) perform lyrics anyway, so I don't understand why the ban.

I understand the decision was later reversed.

[JupiterTC]

Originally posted by ragtimerose
Marching bands don't (normally) perform lyrics anyway, so I don't understand why the ban.



Bands usually don't sing their own tunes (for obvious reasons, of course :)), but the crowds sometimes sing along to the songs. That was the case with my marching band.

[DeltAlum]

Originally posted by ragtimerose
Marching bands don't (normally) perform lyrics anyway...
Otherwise, they would be the Marching Choir...

The Louie Louie urban legend lives on...particularly in the minds of dumb people.

This always hit home with me bacause in 1963 (at the time of the Kingsmen's hit) I was working as a high school student answering the phones at night at a local rock station -- and the parents, teachers, preachers, etc. just wouldn't listen, even though we had a copy of the lyrics to read to them.

It's still unbelievable to me.

[bekibug]

Originally posted by RedRoseSAI
ETA - Stuff like this is one of the many reasons why I didn't become a teacher. I can't stand it when whiny parents try to run the schools.

This is why I like seeing Parent A tell Parent B off when Parent B gets upset at something Parent A's kid did and Parent A is doing something about it. Let Parent A deal with their kids.