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How Anti-Smut Activists Made 'Louie, Louie' Famous
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Feb 20, 2022
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Robert Corn-Revere
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Censors wore out their welcome during the 20th century's indecency wars.
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The squares at @FBI were so concerned abt Louie Louie's supposedly obscene lyrics (they're not) they missed the drummer shouting the word fuck on the Kingsmen's hit version. Great @reason article by Bob Corn-Revere from The Mind of the Censor.