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25 Data on recordings of
"Save That Time," Russ Long, Serrob Publishing, BMI:
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27 <tr><td>Artist
</td><td>Karrin Allyson
</td></tr>
28 <tr><td>CD
</td><td>I Didn't Know About You
</td></tr>
29 <tr><td>Copyright Date
</td><td>1993</td></tr>
30 <tr><td>Label
</td><td>Concord Jazz, Inc.
</td></tr>
31 <tr><td>ID
</td><td>CCD-
4543</td></tr>
32 <tr><td>Track Time
</td><td>3:
44</td></tr>
33 <tr><td>Personnel
</td><td>Karrin Allyson, vocal;
36 Todd Strait, drums
</td></tr>
37 <tr><td>Notes
</td><td>CD notes
"additional lyric by Karrin Allyson;
38 arranged by Russ Long and Karrin Allyson"</td></tr>
39 <tr><td>ADO Rating
</td><td>1 star
</td></tr>
40 <tr><td><a href=
"http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A1fdovw9ta92k">AMG Rating
</a></td><td>4 stars
</td></tr>
41 <tr><td>Penguin Rating
</td><td>3.5 stars
</td></tr>
42 <tr><td> </td></tr>
43 <tr><td>Artist
</td><td>Kevin Mahogany
</td></tr>
44 <tr><td>CD
</td><td>Double Rainbow
</td></tr>
45 <tr><td>Copyright Date
</td><td>1993</td></tr>
46 <tr><td>Label
</td><td>Enja Records
</td></tr>
47 <tr><td>ID
</td><td>ENJ-
7097 2</td></tr>
48 <tr><td>Track Time
</td><td>6:
27</td></tr>
49 <tr><td>Personnel
</td><td>Kevin Mahogany, vocal;
52 Ralph Moore, tenor saxophone;
53 Lewis Nash, drums
</td></tr>
54 <tr><td>ADO Rating
</td><td>1.5 stars
</td></tr>
55 <tr><td><a href=
"http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Akikbikzjbb19">AMG Rating
</a></td><td>3 stars
</td></tr>
56 <tr><td>Penguin Rating
</td><td>3 stars
</td></tr>
57 <tr><td> </td></tr>
58 <tr><td>Artist
</td><td>Joe Williams
</td></tr>
59 <tr><td>CD
</td><td>Here's to Life
</td></tr>
60 <tr><td>Copyright Date
</td><td>1994</td></tr>
61 <tr><td>Label
</td><td>Telarc International Corporation
</td></tr>
62 <tr><td>ID
</td><td>CD-
83357</td></tr>
63 <tr><td>Track Time
</td><td>3:
58</td></tr>
64 <tr><td>Personnel
</td><td>Joe Williams, vocal
65 The Robert Farnon [
39 piece] Orchestra
</td></tr>
66 <tr><td>Notes
</td><td>This CD is also available as part of a
3-CD package from
67 Telarc,
"Triple Play" (CD-
83461)
</td></tr>
68 <tr><td>ADO Rating
</td><td>black dot
</td></tr>
69 <tr><td><a href=
"http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Amyyvad6kt8w1">AMG Rating
</a></td><td>2 stars
</td></tr>
70 <tr><td>Penguin Rating
</td><td>3 stars
</td></tr>
71 <tr><td> </td></tr>
72 <tr><td>Artist
</td><td>Charles Fambrough
</td></tr>
73 <tr><td>CD
</td><td>Keeper of the Spirit
</td></tr>
74 <tr><td>Copyright Date
</td><td>1995</td></tr>
75 <tr><td>Label
</td><td>AudioQuest Music
</td></tr>
76 <tr><td>ID
</td><td>AQ-CD1033
</td></tr>
77 <tr><td>Track Time
</td><td>7:
07</td></tr>
78 <tr><td>Personnel
</td><td>Charles Fambrough, bass;
79 Joel Levine, tenor recorder;
82 Marion Simon, percussion
</td></tr>
83 <tr><td>Notes
</td><td>On-line information and samples available at
84 <a href=
"http://wwmusic.com/~music/audioq/rel/1033.html">http://wwmusic.com/~music/audioq/rel/
1033.html
</a></td></tr>
85 <tr><td>ADO Rating
</td><td>2 stars
</td></tr>
86 <tr><td><a href=
"http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A5rkcikcjbb89">AMG Rating
</a></td><td>unrated
</td></tr>
87 <tr><td>Penguin Rating
</td><td>3 stars
</td></tr>
92 <tr><td>Artist
</td><td>Holly Cole Trio
</td></tr>
93 <tr><td>CD
</td><td>Blame It On My Youth
</td></tr>
94 <tr><td>Copyright Date
</td><td>1992</td></tr>
95 <tr><td>Label
</td><td>Manhattan
</td></tr>
96 <tr><td>ID
</td><td>CDP
7 97349 2</td></tr>
97 <tr><td>Total Time
</td><td>37:
45</td></tr>
98 <tr><td>Personnel
</td><td>Holly Cole, voice;
100 David Piltch, string bass
</td></tr>
101 <tr><td>Notes
</td><td>Lyrical reference to
"Eastern Standard Time" in
102 Tom Waits'
"Purple Avenue"</td></tr>
103 <tr><td>ADO Rating
</td><td>2.5 stars
</td></tr>
104 <tr><td><a href=
"http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A3a9ds37ya3dg">AMG Rating
</a></td><td>3 stars
</td></tr>
105 <tr><td>Penguin Rating
</td><td>unrated
</td></tr>
106 <tr><td> </td></tr>
107 <tr><td>Artist
</td><td>Milt Hinton
</td></tr>
108 <tr><td>CD
</td><td>Old Man Time
</td></tr>
109 <tr><td>Copyright Date
</td><td>1990</td></tr>
110 <tr><td>Label
</td><td>Chiaroscuro
</td></tr>
111 <tr><td>ID
</td><td>CR(D)
310</td></tr>
112 <tr><td>Total Time
</td><td>149:
38 (two CDs)
</td></tr>
113 <tr><td>Personnel
</td><td>Milt Hinton, bass;
114 Doc Cheatham, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, trumpet;
116 Eddie Barefield, Joe Camel (Flip Phillips), Buddy Tate,
117 clarinet and saxophone;
118 John Bunch, Red Richards, Norman Simmons, Derek Smith,
120 Danny Barker, Al Casey, guitar;
121 Gus Johnson, Gerryck King, Bob Rosengarden, Jackie Williams,
123 Lionel Hampton, vibraphone;
124 Cab Calloway, Joe Williams, vocal;
125 Buck Clayton, arrangements
</td></tr>
126 <tr><td>Notes
</td><td>tunes include Old Man Time, Time After Time,
128 A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight,
129 Four or Five Times, Now's the Time,
130 Time on My Hands, This Time It's Us,
131 and Good Time Charlie
132 On-line samples available at
133 <a href=
"http://www.chiaroscurojazz.com/albuminfo.php4?albumid=49">http://www.chiaroscurojazz.com/albuminfo.php3?albumid=
49</a></td></tr>
134 <tr><td>ADO Rating
</td><td>3 stars
</td></tr>
135 <tr><td><a href=
"http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A1cbyxdab8ola">AMG Rating
</a></td><td>4.5 stars
</td></tr>
136 <tr><td>Penguin Rating
</td><td>3 stars
</td></tr>
137 <tr><td> </td></tr>
138 <tr><td>Artist
</td><td>Alan Broadbent
</td></tr>
139 <tr><td>CD
</td><td>Pacific Standard Time
</td></tr>
140 <tr><td>Copyright Date
</td><td>1995</td></tr>
141 <tr><td>Label
</td><td>Concord Jazz, Inc.
</td></tr>
142 <tr><td>ID
</td><td>CCD-
4664</td></tr>
143 <tr><td>Total Time
</td><td>62:
42</td></tr>
144 <tr><td>Personnel
</td><td>Alan Broadbent, piano;
146 Frank Gibson, Jr., drums
</td></tr>
147 <tr><td>Notes
</td><td>The CD cover features an analemma for equation-of-time fans
</td></tr>
148 <tr><td>ADO Rating
</td><td>1 star
</td></tr>
149 <tr><td><a href=
"http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Asl8zefuk8gfo">AMG Rating
</a></td><td>4 stars
</td></tr>
150 <tr><td>Penguin Rating
</td><td>3.5 stars
</td></tr>
151 <tr><td> </td></tr>
152 <tr><td>Artist
</td><td>Anthony Braxton/Richard Teitelbaum
</td></tr>
153 <tr><td>CD
</td><td>Silence/Time Zones
</td></tr>
154 <tr><td>Copyright Date
</td><td>1996</td></tr>
155 <tr><td>Label
</td><td>Black Lion
</td></tr>
156 <tr><td>ID
</td><td>BLCD
760221</td></tr>
157 <tr><td>Total Time
</td><td>72:
58</td></tr>
158 <tr><td>Personnel
</td><td>Anthony Braxton, sopranino and alto saxophones,
159 contrebasse clarinet, miscellaneous instruments;
160 Leo Smith, trumpet and miscellaneous instruments;
161 Leroy Jenkins, violin and miscellaneous instruments;
162 Richard Teitelbaum, modular moog and micromoog synthesizer
</td></tr>
163 <tr><td>ADO Rating
</td><td>black dot
</td></tr>
164 <tr><td><a href=
"http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A5bkvu3xjan1k">AMG Rating
</a></td><td>unrated
</td></tr>
165 <tr><td> </td></tr>
166 <tr><td>Artist
</td><td>Charles Gayle
</td></tr>
167 <tr><td>CD
</td><td>Time Zones
</td></tr>
168 <tr><td>Copyright Date
</td><td>2006</td></tr>
169 <tr><td>Label
</td><td>Tompkins Square
</td></tr>
170 <tr><td>ID
</td><td>TSQ2839
</td></tr>
171 <tr><td>Total Time
</td><td>49:
06</td></tr>
172 <tr><td>Personnel
</td><td>Charles Gayle, piano
</td></tr>
173 <tr><td>ADO Rating
</td><td>1 star
</td></tr>
174 <tr><td><a href=
"http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:13rc28vw054a">AMG Rating
</a></td><td>4.5 stars
</td></tr>
175 <tr><td> </td></tr>
176 <tr><td>Artist
</td><td>The Get Up Kids
</td></tr>
177 <tr><td>CD
</td><td>Eudora
</td></tr>
178 <tr><td>Copyright Date
</td><td>2001</td></tr>
179 <tr><td>Label
</td><td>Vagrant
</td></tr>
180 <tr><td>ID
</td><td>357</td></tr>
181 <tr><td>Total Time
</td><td>65:
12</td></tr>
182 <tr><td>Notes
</td><td>Includes the song
"Central Standard Time." Thanks to Colin Bowern for this information.
</td></tr>
183 <tr><td><a href=
"http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7ddovwvla9xk">AMG Rating
</a></td><td>2.5 stars
</td></tr>
184 <tr><td> </td></tr>
186 <tr><td>Artist
</td><td>Coldplay
</td></tr>
187 <tr><td>Song
</td><td>Clocks
</td></tr>
188 <tr><td>Copyright Date
</td><td>2003</td></tr>
189 <tr><td>Label
</td><td>Capitol Records
</td></tr>
190 <tr><td>ID
</td><td>52608</td></tr>
191 <tr><td>Total Time
</td><td>4:
13</td></tr>
192 <tr><td>Notes
</td><td>Won the
2004 Record of the Year honor at the
193 Grammy Awards. Co-written and performed by Chris Martin,
194 great-great-grandson of DST inventor William Willett. The song's first
195 line is
"Lights go out and I can't be saved".
</td></tr>
196 <tr><td> </td></tr>
198 <tr><td>Artist
</td><td>Irving Kahal and Harry Richman
</td></tr>
199 <tr><td>Song
</td><td>There Ought to be a Moonlight Saving Time
</td></tr>
200 <tr><td>Copyright Date
</td><td>1931</td>
201 <tr><td>Notes
</td><td>This musical standard was a #
1 hit for Guy Lombardo
202 in
1931, and was also performed by Maurice Chevalier, Blossom Dearie
203 and many others. The phrase
"Moonlight saving time" also appears in
204 the
1995 country song
"Not Enough Hours in the Night" written by Aaron
205 Barker, Kim Williams and Rob Harbin and performed by Doug
207 <tr><td> </td></tr>
209 <tr><td>Artist
</td><td>The Microscopic Septet
</td></tr>
210 <tr><td>CD
</td><td>Lobster Leaps In
</td></tr>
211 <tr><td>Copyright Date
</td><td>2008</td></tr>
212 <tr><td>Label
</td><td>Cuneiform
</td></tr>
213 <tr><td>ID
</td><td>272</td></tr>
214 <tr><td>Total Time
</td><td>73:
05</td></tr>
215 <tr><td>Notes
</td><td>Includes the song
"Twilight Time Zone."</td></tr>
216 <tr><td><a href=
"http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:w9fpxzykldje">AMG Rating
</a></td><td>3.5 stars
</td></tr>
217 <tr><td>ADO Rating
</td><td>2 stars
</td></tr>
219 <tr><td> </td></tr>
221 <tr><td>Artist
</td><td>Bob Dylan
</td></tr>
222 <tr><td>CD
</td><td>The Time They Are A-Changin'
</td></tr>
223 <tr><td>Copyright Date
</td><td>1964</td></tr>
224 <tr><td>Label
</td><td>Columbia
</td></tr>
225 <tr><td>ID
</td><td>CK-
8905</td></tr>
226 <tr><td>Total Time
</td><td>45:
36</td></tr>
227 <tr><td><a href=
"http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gifqxqt5ld0e">AMG Rating
</a></td><td>4.5 stars
</td></tr>
228 <tr><td>ADO Rating
</td><td>1.5 stars
</td></tr>
229 <tr><td>Notes
<td>The title song is also available on
"Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits" and
"The Essential Bob Dylan."</td></tr>
231 <tr><td> </td></tr>
233 <tr><td>TV episode title
</td><td>The Lost Hour
</td>
234 <tr><td>TV series
</td><td><em>Eerie, Indiana
</em></td>
235 <tr><td>TV episode number
</td><td>10</td>
236 <tr><td>Network
</td><td>NBC
</td>
237 <tr><td>Air date
</td><td>1991-
12-
01</td>
238 <tr><td>Notes
</td><td>Despite Indiana's then-lack of DST, Marshall changes his clock with unusual consequences.
</td></tr>
239 <tr><td> </td></tr>
241 <tr><td>TV episode title
</td><td>Time Tunnel
</td>
242 <tr><td>TV series
</td><td><em>The Adventures of Pete
& Pete
</em></td>
243 <tr><td>TV episode number
</td><td>5, season
2</td>
244 <tr><td>Network
</td><td>Nickelodeon
</td>
245 <tr><td>Air date
</td><td>1994-
10-
23</td>
246 <tr><td>Notes
</td><td>The two Petes travel back in time an hour on the day that DST ends.
</td></tr>
247 <tr><td> </td></tr>
249 <tr><td>TV episode title
</td><td>King-Size Homer
</td>
250 <tr><td>TV series
</td><td><em>The Simpsons
</em></td>
251 <tr><td>TV episode number
</td><td>135</td>
252 <tr><td>Network
</td><td>Fox
</td>
253 <tr><td>Air date
</td><td>1995-
11-
05</td>
254 <tr><td>Notes
</td><td>Homer, working from home, remarks
"8:58, first
255 time I've ever been early for work. Except for all those daylight
256 savings days. Lousy farmers."</td></tr>
257 <tr><td> </td></tr>
259 <tr><td>Artist
</td><td>Jules Verne
</td></tr>
260 <tr><td>Book
</td><td>Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours
261 (Around the World in Eighty Days)
</td></tr>
262 <tr><td>Notes
</td><td>Wall-clock time plays a central role in the plot.
263 European readers of the
1870s clearly held the U.S. press in
264 deep contempt; the protagonists cross the U.S. without once
266 An on-line French-language version of the book
267 "with illustrations from the original 1873 French-language edition"
269 <a href=
"http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j">http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j
</a>
270 An on-line English-language translation of the book is available at
271 <a href=
"http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty">http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty
</a></td></tr>
273 <tr><td> </td></tr>
274 <tr><td>Artist
</td><td>Umberto Eco
</td></tr>
275 <tr><td>Book
</td><td>The Island of the Day Before
276 (L'isola del giorno prima)
</td></tr>
277 <tr><td>Copyright Date
</td><td>1994</td></tr>
278 <tr><td>Notes
</td><td>
279 "...the story of a 17th century Italian nobleman trapped near an island
280 on the International Date Line. Time and time zones play an integral
281 part in the novel." (Paul Eggert,
2006-
04-
22)
283 <tr><td> </td></tr>
284 <tr><td>Artist
</td><td>David Jebb
</td></tr>
285 <tr><td>Book
</td><td><a href=
"http://www.thethirteenthtimezone.com">
286 The Thirteenth Time Zone
</a></td></tr>
287 <tr><td>Notes
</td><td>
288 "It's fiction, but it's based on his experiences and travels." (Paul Eggert,
2006-
04-
22)
290 <tr><td> </td></tr>
291 <tr><td>Artist
</td><td>John Dunning
</td></tr>
292 <tr><td>Book
</td><td><a
293 href=
"http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?sid=33&pid=479719">Two
294 O'Clock, Eastern Wartime
</a></td></tr>
295 <tr><td>Copyright Date
</td><td>2001</td></tr>
296 <tr><td>Notes
</td><td>
297 Mystery, history, daylight saving time, and old-time radio.
299 <tr><td> </td></tr>
300 <tr><td>Film
</td><td>Bell Science - About Time
</td></tr>
301 <tr><td>Notes
</td><td>The Frank Baxter/Richard Deacon extravaganza.
302 Information is available at
303 <a href=
"http://www.videoflicks.com/titles/1035/1035893.htm">http://www.videoflicks.com/titles/
1035/
1035893.htm
</a></td></tr>
308 An episode of
"The Adventures of Superman" entitled
"The Mysterious
309 Cube," first aired
1958-
02-
24, had Superman convincing the controllers
310 of WWV to broadcast time signals five minutes ahead of actual time;
311 doing so got a crook trying to beat the statute of limitations to
312 emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure.
315 The
1960s ITC television series
"The Prisoner" included an episode
316 entitled
"The Chimes of Big Ben" in which our protagonist tumbled to
317 the fraudulent nature of a Poland-to-England escape upon hearing
"Big
318 Ben" chiming on Polish local time.
321 The series
"Seinfeld" included an episode entitled
"The Susie," first
322 broadcast
1997-
02-
13, in which Kramer decides that daylight saving time
323 isn't coming fast enough, so he sets his watch ahead an hour.
326 The syndicated comic strip
"Dilbert" featured an all-too-rare example of
327 time zone humor on
1998-
03-
14.
330 Surrealist artist Guy Billout's work
"Date Line" appeared on page
103
331 of the
1999-
11 Atlantic Monthly.
334 "Gloom, Gloom, Go Away" by Walter Kirn appeared on page
106 of Time
335 Magazine's
2002-
11-
11 issue; among other things, it proposed
336 year-round DST as a way of lessening wintertime despair.
339 The
"20 Hours in America" episode of
"The West Wing," first aired
2002-
09-
25,
340 saw White House staffers stranded in Indiana; they thought they had time to
341 catch Air Force One but were done in by intra-Indiana local time changes.
344 "In what time zone would you find New York City?" was a $
200 question on
345 the
1999-
11-
13 United States airing of
"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"
346 "In 1883, what industry led the movement to divide the U.S. into four time
347 zones?" was a $
32,
000 question on the
2001-
05-
23 United States airing of
348 "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" At this rate, the million-dollar time-zone
349 question should have been asked
2002-
06-
04.
352 A private jet's mid-flight change of time zones distorts Alison Dubois'
353 premonition in the
"We Had a Dream" episode of
"Medium"
354 (originally aired
2007-
02-
28).
357 In the
1946 "A Matter of Life and Death,"
358 there is a reference to British Double Summer Time.
359 The time does not play a large part in the plot;
360 it's just a passing reference to the time when one of the
361 characters was supposed to have died (but didn't).
363 <a href=
"http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/">
364 http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/
371 "We're been using the five-cent nickle in this country since 1492.
372 Now that's pretty near 100 years, daylight savings [sic]."
373 (Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding in
"Animal Crackers",
1930,
374 as noted by Will Fitzerald)
378 "What did they do? Extend Daylight Saving Time year round?"
379 (Professional tanner George Hamilton, in dialog from a
380 May,
1999 episode of the syndicated television series
"Baywatch")
383 "A fundamental belief held by Americans is that if you are on land, you
384 cannot be killed by a fish...So most Americans remain on land, believing
385 they're safe. Unfortunately, this belief—like so many myths, such as that
386 there's a reason for 'Daylight Saving Time'—is false."
387 (Dave Barry column,
2000-
07-
02)
390 "I once had sex for an hour and five minutes, but that was on the day
391 when you turn the clocks ahead."
392 (Garry Shandling,
52nd Annual Emmys,
2000-
09-
10)
395 "Would it impress you if I told you I invented Daylight Savings Time?"
396 (
"Sahjhan" to
"Lilah" in dialog from the
"Loyalty" episode of
"Angel,"
397 originally aired
2002-
02-
25)
400 "I thought you said Tulsa was a three hour flight."
401 "Well, you're forgetting about the time difference."
402 (
"Chandler" and
"Joey" in dialog from the episode of
"Friends" first
406 "Is that a pertinent fact,
407 or are you trying to dazzle me with your command of time zones?"
408 (Kelsey Grammer as
"Frasier Crane")
411 "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.
412 It is already tomorrow in Australia."
413 (Charles M. Schulz, provided by Steve Summit)