[3][a] Shortly thereafter, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra played it on the Camel Caravan radio show, launching its rise to popularity.
[9] Many artists covered the song in 1938: Wingy Manone on May 23; Nat Gonella; Benny Goodman & His Orchestra on May 31 (Victor 25871);[10] Louis Armstrong with The Mills Brothers on June 10 (Decca 1876);[11] as well as Woody Herman and Count Basie.
In “Three Sappy People” Curly tells Moe and Larry that he is “flat as a floogie” meaning he was broke.
[17] Burt Lancaster mentions the song as he strolls the boardwalk in Louis Malle's "Atlantic City" (1980).
It was one of three pieces of music included in the 1938 Westinghouse Time Capsule, along with Finlandia by Jean Sibelius and "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa.
Here, "flat foot" is slang for a police officer; Flanagan is reporting that an arsonist has escaped by burning down the jail.