#Wiki aerosmith greatest hits full#

#Wiki aerosmith greatest hits full#

(Remember this the next time someone tries reminiscing to you about the good old days before pop music was full of sex and vulgarities.)

вЂњThis land of ours is headed for an extreme state of moral degradation,вЂќ the incensed parent wrote to Kennedy. One of them, the father of a teen-age girl, wrote to Robert Kennedy, who was then the Attorney General, to complain about the songвЂ™s possible obscenity, prompting an F.B.I. The songвЂ™s popularity among a new generation of rock-and-roll teen-agers brought it to the attention of some concerned citizens. (ThereвЂ™s no accurate count for either, but both must number in the thousands.) First released in May of 1963, and then re-released that October, the KingsmenвЂ™s version climbed to No. The legend of the KingsmenвЂ™s вЂњLouie LouieвЂќ has been told almost as many times as the song itself has been covered. вЂњBlue eye, blue eye / Oh no / A wig on a cone,вЂќ as one version on YouTube has it. As for the lyrics, it doesnвЂ™t matter how you sing them, or even really what you sing, though you might consider beginning with the words вЂњLouie Louie / Oh no / Me gotta go.вЂќ Really, though, the floor is yours. A, D, E minor, runs the chord progression. вЂњLouie LouieвЂќ has nonetheless made brethren out of musicians as various as Black Flag, the Beach Boys, and Barry White. The result was an incomprehensible vocal that, in time, would make Ely the most celebrated interpreter of a song which is close to being pop Esperanto. Ely was wearing dental braces, and his bandmates, who were gathered around Ely in a circle, played their instruments loudly. On that April day in 1963, the only microphone available to Ely was located several feet above him, hanging from the ceiling. The KingsmenвЂ™s most famous recording is вЂњLouie Louie,вЂќ a song written by Richard Berry and first recorded by Berry and his band, the Pharaohs, in 1957. For five years, from 1959 to 1963, Ely sang with the Kingsmen, a group he founded with a childhood friend. Ely, a former vocalist of the Portland garage-rock band the Kingsmen, passed away at his home in Oregon last week. If Jack Ely had stood closer to the microphone on the morning of April 6, 1963, when he entered a Portland studio to record a version of the song вЂњLouie Louie,вЂќ then the history of popular music would have been different.