Pants on the Ground - American Idol

For some odd reason, unfortunately truly believable, the song by 'General' Larry Platt, 'Pants on the Ground' has become a YouTube sensation.

I had the misfortune of wasting 2 minutes and 25 seconds of my time watching 'Pants on the Ground' on YouTube.

Granted, though he's not a real 'General', (so-called because of his civil rights work over the decades), one has to admire his work in the 'nonprofit' sector, but the song leaves much to desire.

I don't know how to describe this 62-year old American Idol Singer singing Pants on the Ground, so I did a little investigating myself and this is what I came up with thanks to 'Idol Chatter'.

Read and enjoy....

"We all got a good chuckle Wednesday out of General Larry Platt and his Pants on the Ground song. Entertaining as he was, I couldn't help but wonder why the American Idol producers saved the last spot of the show for a 62-year-old guy with a funny song.

Now I think I know.

Take a look at the photograph on the home page of the Civil Rights Veterans Movement website. See the young man on the left, looking directly into the camera? That's Larry Platt, age 16.

"We had come by bus in 1963 to a church in Savannah, Georgia to plan a march to desegregate the city," Platt writes. "Reverend Hosea Williams and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were our leaders. That particular planned march was canceled and we were singing to raise our spirits before returning home."

Platt worked with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Georgia, organizing sit-ins in the South.

He was beaten during the Bloody Sunday march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.