"Louie Louie," recorded by the Kingsmen, began climbing the pop charts 60 years ago. It's a song almost everybody can recognize, but almost nobody understands the words to. And even fewer people ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published in 2019. Two small-town Indiana teenagers got upset with the obscene lyrics they heard in a new rock 'n roll song on the radio, so they did ...

The song “Louie Louie” by the Kingsmen might not strike you as Federal Bureau of Investigation material. But the song was under investigation by the FBI for two whole years. The bureau’s ...

took a riff from a cha-cha song and slapped on some lyrics about a sailor. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LOUIE LOUIE") RICHARD BERRY: (Singing) Louie Louie, me gotta go. PRICHEP: Then he took it on tour up ...

The controversy over the supposedly obscene lyrics came about after the ... spoken to a sympathetic bartender named Louie". So, the most subversive song in rock'n'roll turns out to be a sea ...

If Jack Ely had stood closer to the microphone on the morning of April 6, 1963, when he entered a Portland studio to record a version of the song “Louie Louie,” then the history of popular ...

Fan favorite "Louie Louie" is back at T-Mobile Park this season. But it isn't always the version crowds are used to.

Louie Louie': The story behind the song everyone knows but no one understands ... but almost nobody understands the words to. And even fewer people know the story of the song's evolution ...