Today (Saturdays) Bo jam is PIlls a song later covered by the New York Dolls.
Born in McComb, Mississippi, as Ellas Otha Bates, he was adopted and raised by his mother's cousin, Gussie McDaniel, whose surname he assumed, becoming Ellas McDaniel. In 1934, the McDaniel family moved to the largely black South Side area of Chicago, where the young man dropped the name Otha and became known as Ellas McDaniel.
The New York Dolls version sounded like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Ou8D7k10s
More Bo tomorrow..........
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