Fast Tracks

March, 1993

Your Tax Dollars at Work Department: According to a 120-page report recently made public through the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI tried in vain during the Sixties to figure out the lyrics to Louie Louie. The feds apparently played the Kings-men's hit record both backward and forward, using filters, computers and cryptographers, to no avail. They should have saved their money for Playboy music critic and author Dave Marsh's upcoming tome, which traces the song's long and colorful history--...