I'm Still Here. The Essential Stephen Sondheim. Cleo Laine Sings Sondheim. The Pope and the Dope. Party for Your Right to Fight.
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Copies of 'Louie Louie' were sent in a package, marked 'Obscene', to the FBI laboratory in Washington to be played backwards and forwards at different speeds, and run through a computer to see if the words were as dirty as informants claimed. Agents turned up at concerts by the Kingsmen, who recorded the most famous version of the song in But the investigation foundered because neither the agents nor the FBI's technical experts could make out the words. In , a woman in Crown Point, Indiana, told the FBI a friend had given her a list of what were claimed to be the obscene words. When she played the record at the slower speed, 'the lyrics seemed to follow very closely the words on the typewritten sheet'. On such flimsy evidence, the song was banned in Indiana, and the dirty lyrics myth persisted, despite the original's bland words:. In the version recorded by the Kingsmen, however, most of the words are incomprehensible. The Kingsmen produced only a thousand copies of the record, and it took several months to sell the first By the end of the year it was a hit. Marsh says: 'The energy level of that record is astonishing, and if there is ineptitude, there is also a certain grace.
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