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
Blackleg (potatoes) Blackleg (potatoes) Blackleg is a plant disease of potato caused by pectolytic bacteria that can result in stunting, wilting, chlorosis of leaves, necrosis of several tissues, a decline in yield, and at times the death of the potato plant. The term “blackleg” originates from the typical blackening and decay of the lower stem portion, or “leg", of the plant. Blackleg in potatoes is most commonly caused by "Pectobacterium atrosepticum" (older synonym: "Erwinia carotovora subsp. astroseptica"), a gram-negative, nonsporulating, facultative anaerobe that is also associated with soft rot of potatoes. While other bacterial species such as "Pectobacterium carotovorum" and "Dickeya dadantii"