# Marching Band prohibited from playing "Louie Louie" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 5, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-band-prohibited-from-playing-louie-louie/302591 "2005-05-05T20:37:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-band-prohibited-from-playing-louie-louie/302591/41 "2005-05-07T00:25:57Z")
Once. In 1982. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-band-prohibited-from-playing-louie-louie/302591/42 "2005-05-07T00:41:14Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > I can’t wait to see what high school football games will look like in 5-10 years. > > \*There will be no cheerleaders (cheering could lead to dancing). > \*There will be no marching bands. Since pretty much every song is about love or sex it is only a matter of time before they are all banned. > \*There will be no cheering at all by fans. We have to protect the feelings of the kids on the losing team don’t we? Better yet, they just won;t keep score. Louie, Louie leads to singing Singing leads to dancing Dancing leads to… suffering. [/Yoda] > [@CynicalGabe](#): > > Dancing leads to… suffering. Not if you do it right. Sorry. I’m going to be gone for the weekend, so I had to respond to my own joke, just so I can see it before it gets dropped to page 5. ---
**Author:** ![Citoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4da419/32.png) [@Citoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Citoloco)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-band-prohibited-from-playing-louie-louie/302591/43 "2005-05-07T05:16:22Z")
Thank Og, that song is so tired. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-band-prohibited-from-playing-louie-louie/302591/44 "2005-05-07T17:16:45Z")
> [@DeadlyAccurate](#): > > It takes two years for the FBI to read the lyrics to a song? Did it ever dawn on them to just ask the record company? I believe it about the FBI. [Here’s](http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3123) a link to a story in which it took the FBI 18 months to find 12 hookers in New Orleans. I venture to guess that even without the extensive law enforcement training provided at the FBI I could find a prostitute in New Orleans more efficiently than that. An average of one every six weeks? Pitiful. ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-band-prohibited-from-playing-louie-louie/302591/45 "2005-05-07T18:28:47Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > Which reminds me, they can still play Dinah Moe Hum, can’t they? That would be one hell of a halftime show:) ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-band-prohibited-from-playing-louie-louie/302591/46 "2005-05-07T18:52:06Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > In my collection is an LP from 1985 which is a special compilation by WMMR 93.3 FM Philly, and it includes the Rice University Marching Owl Band performing Louie, Louie. Allegedly the MOB, as they are known, concludes every halftime show with a rendition. As a Rice University alum, I can attest to the fact that the Rice MOB indeed concludes every half-time show with _Louie, Louie_ as they head off the field. It’s been their signature song for at least twenty years. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-band-prohibited-from-playing-louie-louie/302591/47 "2005-05-08T00:38:18Z")
Well, odds are, the shool is trying to prevent a terrible thing from happening again: After the Marching band, playing the evil Louie Louie, stomped the villain: **Michael Burns** - Oh Frank! It’s horrible, horrible… **Lt. Frank Drebin** – There, there… **Michael Burns** - My father died the same way! – I guess the principal thinks the \*Naked gun \* movies are documentaries. ---
**Author:** ![iggy\_popov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@iggy\_popov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iggy_popov)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-band-prohibited-from-playing-louie-louie/302591/48 "2005-05-08T01:38:57Z")
Yeah this is what people do where I live. I live in St. Joseph which is Benton Harbor’s twin city. A large majority of people are like this around here. My dad was principal at a Benton Harbor school for a while and I learned first had that with a few exceptions the whole administration is like this. Isn’t Michigan wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2005, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-band-prohibited-from-playing-louie-louie/302591/49 "2005-05-08T02:39:38Z")
> [@redtail23](#): > > I have Vol. 1 _and_ Vol. 2, although only on cassette. Two entire albums of nothing but Louie Louie…what more could one ask for? 😛 I feel shortchanged. I don’t have two _Louie Louie_ albums, just one: “The Best Of” from Rhino. Includes the MOB, the original Richard Berry, the original Kingsmen, the Sandpipers version and the “Hallelouie Chorus” by The Impossibles. Good Stuff. Here’s a similar compilation, [24 versions on a CD.](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000067A5I/002-4607501-5472022?v=glance&s=music&vi=samples#disc_1) Guaranteed to rot young minds, and I mean that in a good way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marching-band-prohibited-from-playing-louie-louie/302591.md?page=2)