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Autographs from Atlantic City

Well now everything dies, baby, that's a fact, but maybe ...

"Atlantic City," The Band
"Atlantic City," Bruce Springsteen
"Atomic Dog," George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic
"Attagirl," Bettie Serveert
"Attractions," Charlie Sexton
"Auctioneer (Another Engine)," R.E.M.
"Audrey," Mike Roe
"Australia," The Shins
"Autograph," Green
"Autographs for the Sick," Daniel Amos

That Mike Roe track is from Demonstrations of Love, the benefit album Dwight Ozard put together for Prism magazine. Three years ago today, Dwight lost his battle with multiple myeloma and died at the too-young age of 43.

"Don't waste this thing," he said. "It's too good."

You really will go free

When we get sprung from out these cages, baby / God knows what we might do ...

"You Really Got a Hold on Me," The Beatles
"You Really Got Me," The Kinks
"You Said," The Primitives
"You Shall See," G. Love & Special Sauce
"You Still Touch Me," Sting
"You Told Them Exactly What I Didn't Say," Terry Taylor
"You Tripped at Every Step," Elvis Costello
"You Were Meant for Me," Jewel
"You Were There," The Call
"You Will Go Free," Tonio K.

Walking

Ma'am, I am tonight

"Walking Contradiction," Green Day
"Walking Down Your Street," The Bangles
"Walking in Memphis," Mark Cohn
"Walking Man," James Taylor
"Walking on a Thin Line," Huey Lewis & The News
"Walking on Sunshine," Me First & the Gimme Gimmes
"Walking on the Spot," Crowded House
"Walking the Dog," Rufus Thomas
"Walking to New Orleans," Fats Domino
"Walking With a Ghost," Tegan and Sara
"Walking With Jesus," The Muslims

Time, Time, Time

Are those dreams or are those prayers? ...

"Time," Phil Keaggy
"Time," T-Bone Burnett
"Time," Tom Waits
"Time," Tori Amos
"Time After Time," Allison Crowe
"Time After Time," Chet Baker
"Time After Time," Cyndi Lauper
"Time After Time," Willie Nelson
"Time and Time Again," Counting Crows
"Time Is a Healer," Eva Cassidy
"Time Is Tight," Booker T. & the MGs
"Time to Begin Again," Billy Crockett
"Time to Get It On," WNOC
"Time to Goof Off," Terry Taylor
"Time Will Do the Talking," Patty Griffin

That Tori Amos video is from her Sept. 17, 2001 performance on Letterman. That same week, our president told us it was our patriotic duty to go out to the mall and do some shopping, so I went and bought a copy of Strange Little Girls.

Here's a question: Is "The American Songbook" closed, or are we still adding to it? The Chet Baker recording above is the Cahn & Styne standard, but the other three tracks listed as "Time After Time" are the Lauper & Hyman song. At the risk of offending the American Songbook Preservation Society, I'd argue the latter song has, oddly, become just as much of a classic and a standard. It's being widely performed, recorded, interpreted and reinterpreted -- that's pretty much what "standard" means, isn't it? Here's Miles Davis, for example, which has to count for something. ...

Satellite to Satisfy You

How many times have you heard someone say ...

"Satellite," Echo and the Bunnymen
"Satellite," Elvis Costello
"Satellite Beach," Peter Case
"Satellite of Love," U2
"Satellite Sky," Mark Heard
"Satellites," Rickie Lee Jones
"Satellites Lost," The Delays
"Satisfaction," Cat Power
"Satisfied Mind," Lucinda Williams
"Satisfy You," Cracker

Painted Desert to Palo Alto

You pay no attention but it won't hurt your grades ...

"The Painted Desert," 10,000 Maniacs
"Painted Moon," The Silencers
"Painter Song," Norah Jones
"Painting by Numbers," James McMurtry
"Pair of Brown Eyes," Peter Case
"Pair of Brown Eyes," The Pogues
"Paisley Park," Prince
"Pale Blue Eyes," Alejandro Escovedo
"Pale Blue Eyes," R.E.M.
"Pale Blue Eyes," Velvet Underground
"Palo Alto," Radiohead

On and On

No, this is how it works ...

"On," The Delays
"On an Evening," Martin Crane
"On Hyndford Street," Van Morrison
"On My Street," Hoodoo Gurus
"On My Way," Mavis Staples
"On the Avenue," Aztec Camera
"On the Bus Mall," The Decemberists
"On the Evening Train," Johnny Cash
"On the Fritz," Steve Taylor
"On the Radio," Regina Spektor
"On the Verge," Vigilantes of Love
"On Your Side," Pete Yorn

Steve Taylor also made another video for "On the Fritz" for a live album 10 years later, but the link in the list above features the original with the '80s perm and clownsuit.

Never-Neverland

I'm thinkin' 'bout buyin' you a hat and a purse ...

"Never Be Anyone Else but You," Emmylou Harris
"Never Be the Same," Crowded House
"Never Been to Nashville," Whisperado
"Never Can Say Goodbye," Isaac Hayes
"Never Know," Jack Johnson
"Never More True," The Choir
"Never See Me Again," Sonia Dada
"Never Tear Us Apart," INXS
"Never Tell," Violent Femmes
"The Neverhood Theme," Terry Taylor
"Neveright," iOs
"Neverland Ballroom," Daniel Amos

Many Rivers to Mars

This isn't the way I figured it would be ...

"Many Rivers to Cross," Elvis Costello & The Attractions
"Many Rivers to Cross," Harry Nilsson and John Lennon
"Many Rivers to Cross," Jimmy Cliff
"Maps and Legends," R.E.M.
"Maralinga," Midnight Oil
"March of the Clouds," Phil Keaggy
"March on Down the Line," Erasure
"Marie," Randy Newman
"The Mariner's Revenge Song," The Decembrists
"Mark's Song," Randy Stonehill
"Mars," Lori McKenna
"Mars Needs Women," Tonio K.

Ladder to Lake Charles

What's the use in half a story, half of a dream?

"The Ladder," Prince
"Lady," Regina Spektor
"Lady Goodbye," Daniel Amos
"The Lady Is a Tramp," Gerry Mulligan Quartet
"Lady Luck," Vigilantes of Love
"Lady Madonna," The Beatles
"Lady with the Spinning Head," U2
"Laid," James
"Laid a Highway," Tift Merritt
"Lake Charles," Lucinda Williams