When Ohio passed a law making "Hang on Sloopy" the official state song

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Thatā€™s odd - all this time I thought it was Jocko Homo.

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Some gems in the original complaints filed in the FBI report on ā€œLouie, Louieā€. The misheard lyrics were a real Rorschach reveal of the offended parentsā€™ imaginations.

ā€œThis land of ours is headed for an extreme state of degradation what with this record, the biggest hit movies, and the sex and violence exploited on T.V. ā€¦these morons have gone too far.ā€ Wrote the moron who went too far.

Incessant listening to Louie, Louie: the smoking gun for what really caused the moral degradation of Director Hoover.

Iā€™m struggling not to hear ā€œSnoopyā€, although he doesnā€™t fit many of the lyrics.

And yes, I love whoever wrote that resolution.

Thus did Ohio become the International Standards Organisation for de facto definitions of Musical Genres.
ā€“ EncyclopƦdia Omphalophous, 2773 Ed.

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ā€œIndecipherable at any speed.ā€ Love that phrase.

Hereā€™s an informative and entertaining (21-min) previous radio interview with Jack Ely, the recently-deceased lead singer on ā€˜Louie, Louieā€™. It discloses, among other things, how the slurred lyrics came to be and that he was paid $129.62 for his effort.

Why canā€™t California have such beautiful legislation?

Rich Californians used up all the whereases.

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