William Hung

"General" Larry Platt comes out to sing "Pants on the Ground" on "American Idol."' He's got a full hip-hop ensemble of back-up singers. It's hilarious, although he sounded a lot better in the small audition room.

William Hung joins him for the big finale as the singers drop their pants and the crowd goes wild. Totally entertaining, if forced.

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Pants on the Ground

“General” Larry Platt jumped from his chair, dashed off the porch of the tiny house in Reynoldstown and scooted into the driver’s seat of a car in the driveway.

“I got it right here,” he said, fiddling with the car stereo.

In seconds, bass throbbed from the speakers and careened off the graffitied walls of the boarded-up house across the street.

“Pants on the ground! Pants on the ground! You looking like a fool with your pants on the ground!”

The tidy yard filled with pots of cabbage and tomato plants was Platt’s stage as he danced in the grass and sang along. “Gold in your mouth, hat turned sideways …” Seated on the porch, his manager Earl Little, “friend” Sally Harley and a visitor looked on. The “general” did not stop singing until the last note of the song he made famous in January when he auditioned for “American Idol.”

But is it legally his song?

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