Charlie Johnson

The songwriting credits for “Plastic Biscuit” have a tendency to come in a different form nearly every time the novelty song has arrived on the compilation. With lyrics such as for example “…chick’n hon-a-chick-a-chick hole-a-hubba, hell-fried chuck-a-lucka wanna jubba…” it really is no question that a number of the makers might be attempting in order to avoid responsibility over time. The name of Charles Johnson may be the just consistent element in credits because of this tune, sometimes appearing by itself but often together with Nathaniel Epps, Shedrick Lincoln, Samuel Stress Jr., and/or Paul Fulton, indicating that it got a whole lot of great thoughts to create the song’s lyrics. These fellows had been all people from the Potato chips, a vocal group shaped in 1956 out of close friends from Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant community. “Silicone Biscuit,” probably only a strangely worded explanation from the just meals that was open to the citizens of the ghetto, was the just record released with the Potato chips between the season from the group’s development and breakup 2 yrs later. Having place all their potato chips upon this one totally bizarre ditty, the group people might have been disappointed with a dribbling preliminary reaction from the general public. Down the road, however, “Silicone Biscuit” bounced such as a Super Ball, turning up on countless novelty tune compilations and getting area of the Blues Brothers’ repertoire in the ’70s and ’80s. “Silicone Biscuit” has already been a strong competition for the weirdest tune ever recorded, even though placed alongside figures such as for example “They’re Arriving at Take Me Aside, Hee Hee Hah Hah” or “Paralyzed,” and could not maintain need of additional detailing. non-etheless, at least one truth regarding the creation of the track has a right to be brought out from the range before it melts, as they say. While many rock and roll & roll tunes come across as though compiled by inmates inside a service for teenage juvenile delinquents, that one in fact was. The Josie label believed the track and group experienced potential, but rigors of carrying out chipped away in the Potato chips until disbanding appeared the only choice. The users did reconcile in 1980, primed from the Blues Brothers’ publicity from the track. “Everyone’s Laughing” was the name from the 1st single from the group in years, maybe created in a reaction to the hearing public’s seeming hunger for “Plastic Biscuit.” Lately, the original documenting from the track was found in a industrial for a pricey sports vehicle. Johnson also performed using the Platters; additional users from the Potato chips were involved with vocal groups like the O’Jays, the Velours, and Small Anthony & the Imperials.