"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 ...

In the 1950s, Richard Berry, an LA musician, took a riff from a cha-cha song and slapped on some lyrics about a sailor. RICHARD BERRY: (Singing) Louie Louie, me gotta go. PRICHEP: Then he took it ...

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 ...

The song zoomed to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. “It was Ken’s unique recording technique that made the Kingsmen’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 know ...