The song “Louie Louie,” was an obsession of the FBI’s in the 1960s. In trying to determine whether the song violated the Federal Interstate Transportation Obscene Matter statues, the FBI spent two ...

In 1957, Richard Berry released a song he had written two years earlier with his band, the Pharaohs. “Louie Louie” was a song about a sailor pining for his girlfriend in Jamaica. After its release, ...

In the mid-1950s, rock 'n' roll music was widely condemned as a public nuisance and threat to public safety, and the junk science of the day claimed that teens were "addicted" to the music. Police ...

RASCOE: And even fewer people know the history of a West Coast dance hit that became a party anthem, with an FBI investigation and a Supreme Court case along the way. Here's Deena Prichep. DEENA ...

"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 ...

As probably should be expected, the Louie Louie Committee Committee’s guiding purpose seems easier to appreciate than fully understand. The compulsion to host a madcap array of Portland-area acts ...