J. Edgar Hoover's F.B.I. investigation of The Kingmen's LOUIE LOUIE featured a 1964 letter to then-Attorney General Robert Kennedy complaining about the “pornographic” content of LOUIE LOUIE, demanding that the musicians, record companies and promoters of this song be “prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
>>22959034 Somewhere down the Bureau's list of offenders was a band of five teenage musicians from Portland who called themselves The Kingsmen. That spring, they had released a single called Louie Louie. And behind its feel good, three-chord groove, there were rumoured to be some salacious messages that were threatening the morality of America's youth.
“J. Edgar Hoover felt we were corrupting the moral fibre of America’s youth,” Mike Mitchell, guitarist and founding member of The Kingsmen, told me in 2016. “The FBI guys came to our shows, and they’d stand next to the speakers to see if we were singing anything off-colour. It was a different time.”
“Louie Louie was kept out of the Number One spot on the charts by the Singing Nun,” Kingsmen keyboardist Don Gallucci told me with a laugh. “That ought to tell you the mentality of the country back then. I thought, ‘Gee, I know the lyrics. What’s the deal?’ It never occurred to me how repressed teenagers were sexually. They were hearing all this stuff in the song. The genie was getting out of the bottle."
In the spring of 1964, Louie Louie was banned from the airwaves in the entire state of Indiana. Parents, teachers and clergymen, the holy trinity of the easily offended, began to complain about the song's “x-rated” message. And at that point, the FBI started their investigation, assigning agents to decode the lyric. Though they would abandon their inquiry a year later, many of the transcriptions of what they thought they heard are now declassified documents. Couplets like “And on that chair, I lay her there / I felt my boner in her hair” perhaps say more about the overworked FBI agents than The Kingsmen.
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>In the spring of 1964, Louie Louie was banned from the airwaves in the entire state of Indiana.
1964 Governor of Indiana Roger D. Branigin
In early March 1968, President Lyndon Johnson asked Branigin to run as his stand-in during the Indiana Democratic presidential primary. Branigin agreed and campaigned earnestly as a Hoosier candidate representing Hoosiers. When Johnson announced he would drop out of the race on March 31, Branigin decided to continue his campaign, hoping to control the state's votes at the Democratic convention in Chicago later that summer. Despite a hard-fought campaign and early leads in the polls, Branigin lost the Indiana primary to Robert Kennedy. Branigin earned 238,700 votes compared to Kennedy's 328,118, but he came in ahead of third-place finisher Eugene McCarthy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_D._Branigin