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"Is that a pertinent fact, or are you trying to dazzle me with your command of time zones?" "Frasier Crane" ========================================================================== Data on recordings of "Save That Time," Russ Long, Serrob Publishing, BMI: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Artist: Karrin Allyson CD: I Didn't Know About You Copyright Date: 1993 Label: Concord Jazz, Inc. ID: CCD-4543 Track Time: 3:44 Personnel: Karrin Allyson, vocal Russ Long, piano Gerald Spaits, bass Todd Strait, drums Notes: CD notes "additional lyric by Karrin Allyson; arranged by Russ Long and Karrin Allyson" ADO Rating: 1 star AMG Rating: 4 stars Penguin Rating: 3.5 stars -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Artist: Kevin Mahogany CD: Double Rainbow Copyright Date: 1993 Label: Enja Records ID: ENJ-7097 2 Track Time: 6:27 Personnel: Kevin Mahogany, vocal Kenny Barron, piano Ray Drummond, bss Ralph Moore, tenor saxophone Lewis Nash, drums ADO Rating: 1.5 stars AMG Rating: 3 stars Penguin Rating: 3 stars -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Artist: Joe Williams CD: Here's to Life Copyright Date: 1994 Label: Telarc International Corporation ID: CD-83357 Track Time: 3:58 Personnel: Joe Williams, vocal The Robert Farnon [39 piece] Orchestra Notes: This CD is also available as part of a 3-CD package from Telarc, "Triple Play" (CD-83461) ADO Rating: black dot AMG Rating: 2 stars Penguin Rating: 3 stars -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Artist: Charles Fambrough CD: Keeper of the Spirit Copyright Date: 1995 Label: AudioQuest Music ID: AQ-CD1033 Track Time: 7:07 Personnel: Charles Fambrough, bass Joel Levine, tenor recorder Edward Simon, piano Lenny White, drums Marion Simon, percussion Notes: On-line information and samples available at http://wwmusic.com/~music/audioq/rel/1033.html ADO Rating: 2 stars AMG Rating: unrated Penguin Rating: 3 stars ========================================================================== Also of note: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Artist: Holly Cole Trio CD: Blame It On My Youth Copyright Date: 1992 Label: Manhattan ID: CDP 7 97349 2 Total Time: 37:45 Personnel: Holly Cole, voice Aaron Davis, piano David Piltch, string bass Notes: Lyrical reference to "Eastern Standard Time" in Tom Waits' "Purple Avenue" ADO Rating: 2.5 stars AMG Rating: 3 stars Penguin Rating: unrated -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Artist: Milt Hinton CD: Old Man Time Copyright Date: 1990 Label: Chiaroscuro ID: CR(D) 310 Total Time: 149:38 (two CDs) Personnel: Milt Hinton, bass Doc Cheatham, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, trumpet Al Grey, trombone Eddie Barefield, Joe Camel (Flip Phillips), Buddy Tate, clarinet and saxophone John Bunch, Red Richards, Norman Simmons, Derek Smith, Ralph Sutton, piano Danny Barker, Al Casey, guitar Gus Johnson, Gerryck King, Bob Rosengarden, Jackie Williams, drums Lionel Hampton, vibraphone Cab Calloway, Joe Williams, vocal Buck Clayton, arrangements Notes: tunes include Old Man Time, Time After Time, Sometimes I'm Happy, A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, Four or Five Times, Now's the Time, Time on My Hands, This Time It's Us, and Good Time Charlie On-line samples available at http://www.globalmusic.com/labels/chiaroscuro/chiaro_cd_gallery.html ADO Rating: 3 stars AMG Rating: 4.5 stars Penguin Rating: 3 stars -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Artist: Paul Broadbent CD: Pacific Standard Time Copyright Date: 1995 Label: Concord Jazz, Inc. ID: CCD-4664 Total Time: 62:42 Personnel: Paul Broadbent, piano Putter Smith, Bass Frank Gibson, Jr., drums Notes: The CD cover features an analemma for equation-of-time fans ADO Rating: 1 star AMG Rating: 4 stars Penguin Rating: 3.5 stars -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Artist: Anthony Braxton/Richard Teitelbaum CD: Silence/Time Zones Copyright Date: 1996 Label: Black Lion ID: BLCD 760221 Total Time: 72:58 Personnel: Anthony Braxton, sopranino and alto saxophones, contrebasse clarinet, miscellaneous instruments Leo Smith, trumpet and miscellaneous instruments Leroy Jenkins, violin and miscellaneous instruments Richard Teitelbaum, modular moog and micromoog synthesizer ADO Rating: black dot AMG Rating: unrated -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Artist: Jules Verne Book: Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours (Around the World in Eighty Days) Notes: Wall-clock time plays a central role in the plot. European readers of the 1870s clearly held the U.S. press in deep contempt; the protagonists cross the U.S. without once reading a paper. An on-line French-language version of the book "with illustrations from the original 1873 French-language edition" is available at http://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/tdm80j An on-line English-language translation of the book is available at http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne/eighty -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Film: Bell Science - About Time Notes: The Frank Baxter/Richard Deacon extravaganza Information on ordering is available at http://www.videoflicks.com/VF2/1035/1035893.ihtml -------------------------------------------------------------------------- An episode of "The Adventures of Superman" entitled "The Mysterious Cube," first aired 1958-02-24, had Superman convincing the controllers of WWV to broadcast time signals five minutes ahead of actual time; doing so got a crook trying to beat the statute of limitations to emerge a bit too early from the titular enclosure. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 1960s ITC television series "The Prisoner" included an episode entitled "The Chimes of Big Ben" in which our protagonist tumbled to the fraudulent nature of a Poland-to-England escape upon hearing "Big Ben" chiming on Polish local time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The series "Seinfeld" included an episode entitled "The Susie," first broadcast 1997-02-13, in which Kramer decides that daylight saving time isn't coming fast enough, so he sets his watch ahead an hour. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The syndicated comic strip "Dilbert" featured an all-too-rare example of time zone humor on 1998-03-14. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Surrealist artist Guy Billout's work "Date Line" appeared on page 103 of the November, 1999 Atlantic Monthly. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "In what time zone would you find New York City?" was a $200 question on the 1999-11-13 United States airing of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" ========================================================================== "Good news." "What did they do? Extend Daylight Saving Time year round?" Professional tanner George Hamilton, in dialog from a May, 1999 episode of the syndicated television series "Baywatch" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A fundamental belief held by Americans is that if you are on land, you cannot be killed by a fish...So most Americans remain on land, believing they're safe. Unfortunately, this belief--like so many myths, such as that there's a reason for 'Daylight Saving Time'--is false." Dave Barry column, 2000-07-02 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I once had sex for an hour and five minutes, but that was on the day when you turn the clocks ahead." Garry Shandling, 52nd Annual Emmys, 2000-09-10