Joe is singing about a piece of plastic, ie, Bakelite or baker lite. The phone is made of Bakelite. “My face don't receive me till my back gets wet” refers to the telephone itself being pulled from the receiver and out of the phone box and into the rain: the message isn’t received before the phone gets wet! It’s amazing how much you can extrapolate from an episode of Modern Marvels about the history of plastic on the discovery channel ????
Joe is singing about a piece of plastic, ie, Bakelite or baker lite. The phone is made of Bakelite. “My face don't receive me till my back gets wet” refers to the telephone itself being pulled from the receiver and out of the phone box and into the rain: the message isn’t received before the phone gets wet! It’s amazing how much you can extrapolate from an episode of Modern Marvels about the history of plastic on the discovery channel ????