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Whoah - Big, BIG thanks to MICoastieMom for the American Pie link! I believe I once told jadybug that I had interpreted those lyrics in their entirety in a different era and thought I was going to have to do it all over again. BTW, It all looks about right to me!
On topic: I think I had no clue as to what we were singing about when my first band decided to play The Beatles' Norwegian Wood. We were all of thirteen. I wish we did, though! It would have made us that much cooler.
Bit of controversy about that song. It was generally accepted that the trapped miners ate one of their compatriots, but that was so repulsive a later explanation detailed that they actually ate a coal cart mule called "Timothy". That received a lot of "yeahhh righht" skepticism.
I loved "The Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin but couldn't understand the lyrics until YouTube - Viking Kittens came along
One song I remember from years ago was "The Rapper". Because of its offensive nature, it was released with two 'r's. Take one out and you can tell what the guy was singing about. Unbelievably, it was redone in 2000
I've got one that qualifies here, I believe. The Kingsmen only had one top 10 single, that being the song "Louie Louie", released on Wand records. Heavy organ, muddied vocals (I believe on purpose) and good guitar in the middle. It created controversy right off the get go. From what I remember there were parents across the U.S. that raised hell about the lyrics, claiming it should be banned. There was only one problem, though. The average person couldn't decipher the lyrics. There was enough letter writing at the time to get the FBI involved, I believe. I would have thought the FCC would be the first step on something like this. The government spent quite a bit of time on it, but could not find anything vulgar about the lyrics, basically because they couldn't understand them. I believe the group knew all along. It sold a LOT of 45's and the story on it had a lot to do with it. In the area I grew up (Denver), "Louie Louie" got back on the charts again, right in the middle of the controversy, around March of '65, I believe. Couldn't figure the lyrics at all, but one thing about the song; it was played as much as any other song by house bands at the 3.2. clubs.
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. I was 3 when the song came out.
Have no idea what they are talking about.
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