Marching band barred from playing song

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Fri May 06, 2005 4:23 pm

Middle school marching band banned from performing song

What's next? No Harry Potter because of witchcraft fears?

BGMello04 · Post by **BGMello04** » Fri May 06, 2005 5:30 pm

I wonder what Aye-Ziggy-Zoomba is translated into english...who knows...maybe the FMB will be banned from playing it too

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Fri May 06, 2005 9:03 pm

BGMello04 wrote:I wonder what Aye-Ziggy-Zoomba is translated into english...who knows...maybe the FMB will be banned from playing it too

(We)'ve already been banned from playing "Hey!"

So pointless....

SaxyGirl85 · Post by **SaxyGirl85** » Sat May 07, 2005 4:53 pm

sounds kinda like dr. toney banning beer barrell...what's next?!?!

MaggotMan09 · Post by **MaggotMan09** » Sat May 07, 2005 6:59 pm

Isn't this a problem for schools in the 1960's??? I mean really. What year is it again??? What's that I just heard on the radio? Did Eminem really just drop 15 F-bombs in a row that all had to be bleeped out even though we know what he's saying? And they're worried about "Louie, Louie?"

FliccGirl · Post by **FliccGirl** » Mon May 09, 2005 6:33 pm

SaxyGirl85 wrote:sounds kinda like dr. toney banning beer barrell...what's next?!?!

He did?

SaxyGirl85 · Post by **SaxyGirl85** » Tue May 10, 2005 5:39 pm

according to backes, dr. toney's first year here he wouldn't let them play beer barrell because it was "satanic" or something...i dunno the whole story..just what i caught semi-paying attention at the saxover...

goofyeuph · Post by **goofyeuph** » Tue May 10, 2005 7:44 pm

Never heard the Beer Barrel thing, but that does sound like a Toney-ism.

They're banning Louie, Louie??? WTF??? Under that guise the next song to be banned should be Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4". After all the song is one long acid trip

I honestly think some people are too soft and too nice. Life Lesson 1) No matter how hard you try, you can't please all of the people all of the time. You can please some of the people all of time, and all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. If someone really has a problem with "Louie Louie" then they have bigger problems that some obscure song lyrics (like having their head shoved so far up their own ass they're breathing through their navel)

It's the Journey... · Wed May 11, 2005 12:02 am

From what I understand about that whole Beer Barrel thing was it was bad timing. I believe we had just had a student killed because of either a drunk driver or he was driving drunk. I thought he was asked to not play it for that one game. I believe it was back the next game which was couple of weeks or so from the incident. It is on the 1997 and 1998 FMC cd's and one of those would have been his first year, 98 I believe.

Falcon30 · Post by **Falcon30** » Wed May 11, 2005 12:08 am

goofyeuph wrote:Never heard the Beer Barrel thing, but that does sound like a Toney-ism.

They're banning Louie, Louie??? WTF??? Under that guise the next song to be banned should be Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4". After all the song is one long acid trip I honestly think some people are too soft and too nice. Life Lesson 1) No matter how hard you try, you can't please all of the people all of the time. You can please some of the people all of time, and all of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. If someone really has a problem with "Louie Louie" then they have bigger problems that some obscure song lyrics (like having their head shoved so far up their own ass they're breathing through their navel)

This guy is obviously a huge a-hole, or the kids believe that there are terrible lyrics in the song.

Hell - my MB played My Sharona ("I always get it up for the touch of the younger kind") and Blister in the Sun ("I'm high as a kite, I just might, stop to check you out") in the same show.

someone send the D_ckweed this:

the "real" lyrics to "Louie Louie" are about as racy as a Neil Simon script, and almost as dumb. What's more, we have the assurance of the man who wrote the song, one Richard Berry, that the Kingsmen did not spice it up in the studio.

The song was about seven years old when the Kingsmen recorded their version in 1963, and the fantastic legend that grew up in its wake--a legend that even an FCC investigation couldn't kill--seems to have sprung solely from their extraordinary lack of elocution.

Berry, who spoke on the subject a while back to a Los Angeles interviewer named Bill Reed, explains the song as the lament of a seafaring man, spoken to a sympathetic bartender named Louie. Here, without further ado, are the "official" published lyrics:

"Louie Louie, me gotta go. Louie Louie, me gotta go. A fine little girl, she wait for me. Me catch the ship across the sea. I sailed the ship all alone. I never think I'll make it home. Louie Louie, me gotta go . Three nights and days we sailed the sea. Me think of girl constantly. On the ship, I dream she there. I smell the rose in her hair. Louie Louie, me gotta go. Me see Jamaican moon above. It won't be long me see me love. Me take her in my arms and then I tell her I never leave again. Louie Louie, me gotta go." (By Richard Berry. Copyright 1957-1963 by Limax Music Inc.)

*from http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_316

golfertk14 · Post by **golfertk14** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:03 am

1987alum wrote:Middle school marching band banned from performing song

What's next? No Harry Potter because of witchcraft fears?

That WOULD suck, I heard the mp3 of the Falcons band doing the H.P. music and it was phenominal!

SaxyGirl85 · Post by **SaxyGirl85** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:59 am

golfertk14 wrote:
1987alum wrote:Middle school marching band banned from performing song

What's next? No Harry Potter because of witchcraft fears?
That WOULD suck, I heard the mp3 of the Falcons band doing the H.P. music and it was phenominal!

stop sucking up, kid...

Godsgirlerific · Post by **Godsgirlerific** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:10 pm

So, they banned the song because of the "raunchy" lyrics... You can't even understand the lyrics!! Seriously, does anyone know any of the lyrics besides "louie louie"? :coo-coo:

Falcon30 · Post by **Falcon30** » Wed May 11, 2005 10:15 pm

I can't stand that this idiot superintendant removed the song because ONE PARENT called.

But - they were allowed to play it.

Benton Harbor lifts "Louie Louie' ban for middle school band

Falcon30 · Post by **Falcon30** » Wed May 11, 2005 10:17 pm

FWIW - I frickin hate Louie Louie being ruined by school bands around the nation.

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