(A Blue Devil Arrangement) Every newsworthy event in the 1920's was ultimately memorialized in song--Prohibition from beginning to end, the Teapot Dome scandal, the heroic flights of Lindy, Elder and Johnson, and in mid-decade a legal case, as unlikely as that may seem, involving the teaching of evolution in schools in the out-of-the-way burg of Butler, Tennesse that became known for the rest of time as the Scopes Monkey Trial. It's two main principals were Clarence Darrow and the Silver-Tongued Orator of the West William Jennings Bryan, who would die shortly after the trial after being publicly humiliated by Darrow. Another song inspired by this trial is \"Monkey Biz-ness\" by the International Novelty Orchestra with a Billy Murray vocal. This trial has also been memorialized in movies, probably the most famous one being \"Inherit the Wind\", starring Spencer Tracy.
