{"id":3725,"date":"2012-02-24T13:20:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T20:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=3725"},"modified":"2012-02-24T13:20:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T20:20:22","slug":"the-secret-record-reviews-of-j-edgar-hoover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=3725","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Record Reviews of J. Edgar Hoover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/13th_hoover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/13th_hoover.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"13th_hoover\" width=\"500\" height=\"305\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/13th_hoover.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/13th_hoover-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/13th_hoover-150x91.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/13th_hoover-400x244.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Callan<\/strong> uncovers the Secret Record Reviews of J. Edgar Hoover, and it&#8217;s quite an eye-opener&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The FBI\u2019s now infamous probe of \u201cLouie Louie,\u201d the ubiquitous garage rock hit of the early 1960s, was not only one of the weirder chapters in the history of the bureau, but it also had a profound, life-changing effect on FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.<\/p>\n<p>The notorious \u201cLouie Louie\u201d investigation began when a worried parent complained to Attorney General Robert Kennedy that its garbled lyrics might contain some obscured obscenities. Hoover\u2019s disdain for the Kennedy clan led him to believe that anything they disliked must be good. He gave The Kingsmen\u2019s single a few spins on his old Victrola before feeling spontaneously transformed. To that point, Hoover had been suspicious of most youth culture music, at one point calling Fabian \u201ca communist dupe of the highest order.\u201d However,  the raw energy of \u201cLouie Louie\u201d spoke to him in a way music never had. \u201cI can\u2019t explain it,\u201d he confessed to friends, \u201cand dammit, I don\u2019t want to!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoover secretly stymied the bureau\u2019s \u201cLouie Louie\u201d investigation, even as he attended many of the band\u2019s gigs incognito. (This came to an abrupt halt when a photo surfaced from a Kingsmen gig at Georgetown University, in which a stocky and blurry Hoover-esque figure can be seen in the background, doing a keg stand.) When the \u201cLouie Louie\u201d report finally crossed his desk two years later, Hoover brutally edited the content to absolve the band of any wrongdoing. It was he who added the infamous verdict of \u201cunintelligible at any speed,\u201d though he would later confide to his most trusted advisers, \u201cLooking for any meaning\u2013obscene or otherwise\u2013in an aesthetic masterpiece like \u2018Louie Louie\u2019 is like searching for the point of the Mona Lisa.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of this brilliant expose by visiting&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowtimespodcast.com\/the-secret-record-reviews-of-j-edgar-hoover\/\">http:\/\/www.lowtimespodcast.com\/the-secret-record-reviews-of-j-edgar-hoover\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Callan uncovers the Secret Record Reviews of J. Edgar Hoover, and it&#8217;s quite an eye-opener&#8230;. The FBI\u2019s now infamous probe of \u201cLouie Louie,\u201d the ubiquitous garage rock hit of the early&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,27,21,22,16,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-garage-rock","category-humor","category-louie-universe","category-pop-culture","category-record-collecting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3728,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions\/3728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}