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A middle school marching band in Michigan has been forbidden by the school superintendent to play “Louie Louie.”<\/a> <\/p>\n

Yes, it’s not that anyone would actually hear what the lyrics are — assuming that there are <\/em>actual lyrics, or that anyone actually knows <\/em>them beyond the chorus — since it’s a marching band<\/em> we’re talking about. And it’s not like they were having any rogue Texas cheerleaders<\/a> dancing to it. No, it was just considered inappropriate.<\/p>\n

Which leaves the band songless for their Saturday performance. Great lesson there, Ms. Superindendent Ma’am.<\/p>\n

There have long been rumors that the lyrics for “Louie Louie” are raunchy (or, at least, raunchy for the 50s-60s), but …<\/p>\n

“Louie Louie,” written by Richard Berry in 1956, is one of the most recorded songs in history. The best-known, most notorious version was a hit in 1963 for the Kingsmen; the FBI spent two years investigating the lyrics before declaring they not only were not obscene but also were “unintelligible at any speed.”<\/p>\n

Sort of like school superintendents.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A middle school marching band in Michigan has been forbidden by the school superintendent to play “Louie Louie.” Yes, it’s not that anyone would actually hear what the lyrics are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[713,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-band-school-daze","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45154,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/12\/arapahoe-marching-band-marchin.html","url_meta":{"origin":8160,"position":0},"title":"Arapahoe Marching Band marchin…","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 12-Sep-14 10:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Arapahoe Marching Band marching around the field before the game; think that's @FragolaKat in the middle. http:\/\/t.co\/oUd0BYPTYN","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":45987,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/18\/the-marching-band-effect.html","url_meta":{"origin":8160,"position":1},"title":"The Marching Band Effect","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 18-Oct-14 4:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"So that whole marching band parent thing we've been doing? 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