I have the text of Louie Louie at work as given by the author to Bob
Greene and tomorrow I shall post them. The words are about sailing, and
the word "fuck" does not appear, nor is the song about song. The
so-called dirty words of Louie, Louie are one of the great urban legends
of our time, since they never there; the Kingsmen's version is so fuzzed
over everyone thought it said whatever they wanted it to say, It has
been reported that J, Edgar Hoover had the FBI spend two years trying to
decipher the words and they gave up.
Prior to Jefferson Airplane's "We Can Be Together" ('we cheat lie forge
fred fuck hide and deal' and I never knew what 'fred' was),
the first use that I can recall was in the opening words of another San
Francisco band's song, "Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die" which opened the
"Fish Cheer" -
Give me an F! Give me a U! etc...
Many years later Neil Young of course sings "Why do I keep fucking Up"
on "F'!#IN' Up" on the album "Ragged Glory."
First use of "shit" that I know of was on the same Jefferson Airplane
album as "We Can Be Together" which was the great album "Volunteers," on
'Eskimo Blue Day" ('you call it fame but the human name doesn't mean
shit to a tree' and 'we call it proud but the human crowd doesn't mean
shit to a tree' and 'say it plain, the name doesn't mean shit to a
tree' etc., which you have to admit makes a certain amount of sense).
And then came rap and hip hop and those words show up, oh, occasionally
on a handful of tracks... but in my opinion, Eminem (whose music I love,
and lets not get into that again, please) uses the words as eloquently
as anyone out there.
Anyway, I come from doing my bishop thing to answer these questions
about nasty words in songs? Wow, I shock myself on my degenerate
knowledge.
Must get back to being more pious... after I get over remembering Abbie
Hoffman walking around the streets of my sweet home Chicago in 1968 with
the word "FUCK" written on his forehead, proclaiming, "you think this is
obscene? I think the Vietnam war is obscene."
