Meet the Small Potatoes talking head interviews with the band’s friends, manager Lester Koop (McDowell), and man on the street interviews with the band’s fans (all of whom are potatoes). The Small Potatoes’ trajectory roughly follows trends in American popular music through the second half of the 20th century: The Potatoes start as a country and western band in Idaho in the 1940s, before finding popularity first as rock and roll and then doo wop singers in the 1950s. They reach the peak of their popularity in the 1960s as a British invasion style act, followed by their experimenting with psychedelic rock after a
Prince Edward Island Potatoes popular varieties grown in Prince Edward Island are Russet Burbank, Goldrush, Superior, Yukon Gold, Red Norland, and a number of proprietary varieties. Over 100 varieties of potatoes are grown in Prince Edward Island. Potatoes generally marketed as Russet, Round White, Yellow Fleshed, Red, or Specialty varieties. In 2016, 36,017ha were seeded and 35,896ha harvested, with a yield of 32.50 tonnes per harvested hectare and receipts of $249 million. The Prince Edward Island community of O'Leary is home to the Canadian Potato Museum. In 1969 Stompin' Tom Connors released his song Bud the Spud about a truck driver who hauls potatoes