Song Name: Soo Bawlz AKA Soo Bawls
Artist: DEVO
- Secret Agent Man b/w Soo Bawlz, Duty Now for the Future [1994 re-release], Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology (single version), Social Fools: The Virgin Singles 1978-1982
- Hardcore Volume 1 [as "Soo Bawls"] (demo version)
- DEVO Live: The Mongoloid Years [as "Soo Bawls"] (live version)
Run Time: 2:22 (single version)
Year Recorded: '78-'79 (single version)
Year Released: 1979 (single version)
Years Performed: 1976-1979
Writing Credits: Mark Mothersbaugh
Sung By: Mark Mothersbaugh (lead)
Alternate Versions: "Blue Balls" (proto-version)
Demo Version: "Soo Bawls" - Run Time: 2:40, Recorded: 1977, Released On: Hardcore Volume 1 (1990)
Song Connections:
- Some similarities to "Blockhead."
- "Huboon Stomp" also mentions huboons.
Trivia / Info:[]
- The only known time "Soo Bawlz" was not performed after "Timing X" was a February, 1977 show at the Crypt in Akron, Ohio.
- "Soo Bawlz" would be portrayed by Toni Basil in several of her productions; in an illustrated show advertisement, on stage, and in videos she directed.[1]
- Rykodisc titles the demo "S00 Bawls" on the 1990 release, replacing the letter "O" with zero in the word "Soo."
Lyrics:[]
- Pretty little mongo
- Everybody wants her toilet
- Same old story
- She don't let no one near it
- The way she teases them
- It's such a shame
- She's got all the huboons
- crying her name
- Soo Bawls Soo Bawls
- She's got 'em howling
- She's got 'em growling
- (Soo Bawls Soo Bawls)
- She's got 'em going clean out of their minds
- (Soo Bawls Soo Bawls)
- Soo Bawls
- Soo Bawls
- Ain't a man in town who wouldn't have her for his daughter
- They'd all trade their brains for one taste of her toilet water
- One Two Three Four Tell the people what she wore
- They run in circles trying to call her up
- But her phone's been disconnected since she sold her butt
Notes and References:[]
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⦁ In a b/w full page ad illustrated by “Cooke”, Toni Basil appears as “Soo Bawlz”. She crashes through glass and the horizontal slats of a wall-less window blind, with her two leashed poodles:
Advertising “SOO BAWLZ”, “AND HER FOLLIES BIZARRE...”, coming June 9, 16, 23 and 30 to the Fox Venice.
The bottom of the page is captioned: “Will Toni Basil let Soo Bawlz come… this time?”
“Toni Basil IS COMING!”, [advertisement] Slash, Volume 1, Number 11, p.2 (1978, July) [#CirculationZero]
⦁ Toni Basil Toni Basil would again embody Soo Bawlz for her debut album Word Of Mouth and the ‘78 ad’s window blind motif would reoccur on the album cover and throughout the Basil-directed video album, as would Soo Bawlz and the poodles:
◦ The levitating Venetian window blind is seen in Basil’s videos for “You Gotta Problem” and “Thief On The Loose”.
◦ The pink poodles with an “English Saddle Clip" furstyle are played by two dancers in Basil’s “Spacewalkin’ The Dog”, which appeared on Basil’s second BBC special in 1983, and preceded the track’s inclusion on the album “Toni Basil”.
⦁ “Toni Basil is Dance Crazy!”, BAM, (1982, December 3)“One of the characters in my video, a girl with a pink hoopskirt and poodles, was originally from an early DEVO show. She’s Sueballs, Chinaman’s girlfriend, Chinaman being Jerry’s character opposite BoojiBoy.”
- Toni Basil (1982)[⦁ DEVO wrote and played three of the songs appearing on Basil's debut album "Word Of Mouth."]
Links:[]
- Secret Agent Man b/w Soo Bawlz [VS 280] 45cat
- Soo Bawlz (overview) AllMusic
- Soo Bawls (overview) AllMusic
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