Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Image by: Janice Lang 
Morning Rolled Oats 

The humble Farmer, March 17, 2010

Series: The humble Farmer Weekly 59-minute show
From: Robert Karl Skoglund
Length: 00:59:00

Humorous social commentary and music from the 1930s 1940s Read the full description.
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Piece Description

McKinney's Cotton Pickers, Bix Beiderbecke, Eddy Lang, Fletcher Henderson, Erroll Garner

Broadcast History

WMPG, WDNA, WRFR

Transcript

1. Thank you for listening to The humble Farmer. For the next 59 or so minutes you’ll be hearing old fashioned music and --- I’d like to say you will be hearing scraps and bits of 73 years of accumulated wisdom but I can’t, because instead of getting smarter, I only seem to have more questions about the peculiar things you and I see or hear every day For example --- Is it fair to categorize people by watching the way they wipe crumbs off the table with their hand? One type of person rubs the crumbs across the crack where the table leaves come together and the other type doesn’t.
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2. When I worked for Russ Thomas in the garage, there was a rubber hose out by the pump. When a car would go over it, a bell would ring. I have a rubber hose in my driveway. When anyone drives over it, a bell rings down in my cellar. This is an ideal rig for a deaf old man who doesn’t hear people knocking at t...
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Musical Works

Title Artist Album Label Year Length
Milenberg Joys McKinney's Cotton Pickers 02:56
Sorry Bix Beiderbecke 03:00
Shim Me Sha Wobble McKinney's Cotton Pickers 02:36
Put It There McKinney's Cotton Pickers 02:55
A Handfull of Riffs Eddie Lang 03:08
Cherry McKinney's Cotton Pickers 05:37
Do Doodle Oom Fletcher Henderson 02:42
Four or Five Times McKinney's Cotton Pickers 02:50
For Once In My Life Erroll Garner 03:24
Tight Like That McKinney's Cotton Pickers 02:43
Copenhagen Fletcher Henderson 02:54
I've Found a New Baby McKinney's Cotton Pickers 03:20
Wringin and Twistin Bix Beiderbecke 03:01

Related Website

http://www.thehumblefarmer.com/ThisWeek.html