Louie Louie
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"With compositions such as “Psyché Rock”, Henry's joyous demolition of the rock 'n' roll standard “Louie, Louie”, he made contact with rock audiences, which discovered correspondences between the disintegrating logic of his rock concrète and their own hallucinogenically fuelled visions of the world." --"Fables of Deconstruction" (1999) by Edwin Pouncey |
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"Louie Louie" (1957) is an American song written by Richard Berry. It has become a standard in pop and rock, with hundreds of versions recorded by different artists. The song is written in the style of a Jamaican ballad; and tells, in simple verse-chorus form, the first-person story of a Jamaican sailor returning to the island to see his lady love. The singer brags of his "fine little girl" to the Louie of the title, presumably a bartender.
A version by The Kingsmen recorded in 1963 is the best-known recording. The Kingsmen's version was also the subject of an FBI investigation about the supposed but non-existent obscenity of the lyrics, an investigation that ended without prosecution. The song is ranked #55 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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