Had Bobo at a party in '66. He got pretty high and drunk so he spent the night. He shit on my couch and was gone before we woke up. I miss that asshole.
A lot of people don't know that a young Johnny "Loose Booty" McGee Jr. played backup guitar on this song. He was the 2nd child, of the 2nd generation that grew up At Number 2 2nd Street. Loose Booty McGee went on to have a Number 2 hit on the pop charts in 1982.
You are correct - Bobo signed a lifetime endorsement deal with Kimberly-Clark. To lure him in, they gave him an unlimited supply of Charmin, their premium brand, and they sent him on a promotional tour with Mr. Whipple, but when his popularity began to wane they switched him to their economy 2-ply brand, Cottonelle.
Sadly, near the end, Bobo was spending every penny on his Kaopectate fix, and took to smuggling beef out of the club in his pockets because he didn’t have the coin to pay for Bowser’s kibble. But of course, by the end of the night, Bobo’s pants were full of both shit and stolen beef, which exacerbated Bowser’s gastrointestinal problems. Fortunately after Bobo’s passing, his bandleader Ernie took Bowser in, and gave him a good home with all the Ken-L-Ration he could eat.
It's sad to think that Bobo was just returning to writing songs about shit just before his death. We're left to only wonder what could have been had he lived longer.
This song was the first link between soul and rap. His lyrics were relatable for the average man at the time, because America was going through “The brown years” where an uncontrollable infection ravaged the beef industry, but due to the hard living at the time, people were forced to eat beef. The beef was distributed by the bingo clubs as they were owned by the American government at the time. My grandfather was a young man at the time and often told us of the hardships endured of the time, but said without these hardships, we would never have had the music or culture of shit we have today. Rip Bobo and Rip Gramps. Both legends
Toward the end of his career Bobo had become a full blown kaopectate junkie and was blaming his faithful pooch Bowser for all his problems. Sad. Very, very sad.
Back then, several promising young artists met their fate after speedballing a deadly combination of Kaopectate and Ex-Lax. Very sad too. The Righteous Brothers wrote their song “If There’s a Rock and Roll Heaven, You Know They Have a Hell of a Restroom” about all those tragic losses.
I think the 1973 film Soylent Brown may have been partly based on the rumor of what the Bingo Club was serving - especially at the end, where Charlton Heston screams out “It’s poop! Soylent Brown is made out of poop!”
That was a great album. I heard Ernie and the band tried to overdub one of Bobo’s demos he recorded on his portable cassette recorder, “Free as a Turd”, but the technology of the late ‘60s hadn’t gotten to the point where they could pinch it off.
Although there were no production credits on the tape box for “I Just Dropped My Pants In Some Shit”, it’s rumored that Bobo enlisted the help of legendary producer Phil Sphincter, and his band of session musicians, The Cleaning Crew. It made Ernie and the regular band really angry that they weren’t allowed to play on the session.
@@WillBrison Yes, This a very common rumor that I've heard as well. In fact, I was told that It was Bobo who inspired Phil Sphincter to develop his famous "Wall of Brown" recording method.
Bobo definitely inspired the song “Da Doo Run Run”… Phil Sphincter could really be an asshole though - The Ramones said he brandished a plunger in the control room, and threatened to stick them head-first in a Porta-John if they didn’t do what he said…