
The humble Farmer, March 17, 2010
Series: The humble Farmer Weekly 59-minute show
From: Robert Karl Skoglund
Length: 00:59:00
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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 |