Time and the Arts

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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, bass; 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.chiaroscurojazz.com/albuminfo.php3?albumid=49
ADO Rating	3 stars
AMG Rating	4.5 stars
Penguin Rating	3 stars

Artist	Alan Broadbent
CD	Pacific Standard Time
Copyright Date	1995
Label	Concord Jazz, Inc.
ID	CCD-4664
Total Time	62:42
Personnel	Alan 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	Charles Gayle
CD	Time Zones
Copyright Date	2006
Label	Tompkins Square
ID	TSQ2839
Total Time	49:06
Personnel	Charles Gayle, piano
ADO Rating	1 star
AMG Rating	4.5 stars

Artist	The Get Up Kids
CD	Eudora
Copyright Date	2001
Label	Vagrant
ID	357
Total Time	65:12
Notes	Includes the song "Central Standard Time." Thanks to Colin Bowern for this information.
AMG Rating	2.5 stars

Artist	Coldplay
Song	Clocks
Copyright Date	2003
Label	Capitol Records
ID	52608
Total Time	4:13
Notes	Won the 2004 Record of the Year honor at the Grammy Awards. Co-written and performed by Chris Martin, great-great-grandson of DST inventor William Willett. The song's first line is "Lights go out and I can't be saved".

Artist	Irving Kahal and Harry Richman
Song	There Ought to be a Moonlight Saving Time
Copyright Date	1931
Notes	This musical standard was a #1 hit for Guy Lombardo in 1931, and was also performed by Maurice Chevalier, Blossom Dearie and many others. The phrase "Moonlight saving time" also appears in the 1995 country song "Not Enough Hours in the Night" written by Aaron Barker, Kim Williams and Rob Harbin and performed by Doug Supernaw.

Artist	The Microscopic Septet
CD	Lobster Leaps In
Copyright Date	2008
Label	Cuneiform
ID	272
Total Time	73:05
Notes	Includes the song "Twilight Time Zone."
AMG Rating	3.5 stars
ADO Rating	2 stars

Artist	Bob Dylan
CD	The Time They Are A-Changin'
Copyright Date	1964
Label	Columbia
ID	CK-8905
Total Time	45:36
AMG Rating	4.5 stars
ADO Rating	1.5 stars
Notes	The title song is also available on "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits" and "The Essential Bob Dylan."

Artist	Luciana Souza
CD	Tide
Copyright Date	2009
Label	Universal Jazz France
ID	B0012688-02
Total Time	42:31
AMG Rating	3.5 stars
ADO Rating	2.5 stars
Notes	Includes the song "Fire and Wood" with the lyric "The clocks were turned back you remeber/Think it's still November."

Artist	Ken Nordine
CD	You're Getting Better: The Word Jazz Dot Masters
Copyright Date	2005
Label	Geffen
ID	B0005171-02
Total Time	156:22
ADO Rating	1 star
AMG Rating	4.5 stars
Notes	Includes the piece "What Time Is It" ("He knew what time it was everywhere...that counted").

TV episode title	The Lost Hour
TV series	Eerie, Indiana
TV episode number	10
Network	NBC
Air date	1991-12-01
Notes	Despite Indiana's then-lack of DST, Marshall changes his clock with unusual consequences.

TV episode title	Time Tunnel
TV series	The Adventures of Pete & Pete
TV episode number	5, season 2
Network	Nickelodeon
Air date	1994-10-23
Notes	The two Petes travel back in time an hour on the day that DST ends.

TV episode title	King-Size Homer
TV series	The Simpsons
TV episode number	135
Network	Fox
Air date	1995-11-05
Notes	Homer, working from home, remarks "8:58, first time I've ever been early for work. Except for all those daylight savings days. Lousy farmers."

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

Artist	Umberto Eco
Book	The Island of the Day Before (L'isola del giorno prima)
Copyright Date	1994
Notes	"...the story of a 17th century Italian nobleman trapped near an island on the International Date Line. Time and time zones play an integral part in the novel." (Paul Eggert, 2006-04-22)

Artist	David Jebb
Book	The Thirteenth Time Zone
Notes	"It's fiction, but it's based on his experiences and travels." (Paul Eggert, 2006-04-22)

Artist	John Dunning
Book	Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime
Copyright Date	2001
Notes	Mystery, history, daylight saving time, and old-time radio.

Film	Bell Science - About Time
Notes	The Frank Baxter/Richard Deacon extravaganza. Information is available at http://www.videoflicks.com/titles/1035/1035893.htm

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 1999-11 Atlantic Monthly.
"Gloom, Gloom, Go Away" by Walter Kirn appeared on page 106 of Time Magazine's 2002-11-11 issue; among other things, it proposed year-round DST as a way of lessening wintertime despair.
The "20 Hours in America" episode of "The West Wing," first aired 2002-09-25, saw White House staffers stranded in Indiana; they thought they had time to catch Air Force One but were done in by intra-Indiana local time changes.
"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?" "In 1883, what industry led the movement to divide the U.S. into four time zones?" was a $32,000 question on the 2001-05-23 United States airing of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" At this rate, the million-dollar time-zone question should have been asked 2002-06-04.
A private jet's mid-flight change of time zones distorts Alison Dubois' premonition in the "We Had a Dream" episode of "Medium" (originally aired 2007-02-28).
In the "30 Rock" episode "Anna Howard Shaw Day" (first broadcast 2010-02-11), Jack Donaghy's date realizes that a Geneva-to-New-York business phone call received in the evening must be fake given the difference in local times.
In the 1946 movie "A Matter of Life and Death" (U.S. title "Stairway to Heaven") there is a reference to British Double Summer Time. The time does not play a large part in the plot; it's just a passing reference to the time when one of the characters was supposed to have died (but didn't). The IMDb page is at http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/ . (Dave Cantor)
The 1953 railway comedy movie "The Titfield Thunderbolt" includes a play on words on British Double Summer Time. Valentine's wife wants him to leave the pub and asks him, "Do you know what time it is?" And he, happy where he is, replies: "Yes, my love. Summer double time." IMDB page: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0046436/ . (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02)
The premise of the 1999 caper movie "Entrapment" involves computers in an international banking network being shut down briefly at midnight in each time zone to avoid any problems at the transition from the year 1999 to 2000 in that zone. (Hmmmm.) If this shutdown is extended by 10 seconds, it will create a one-time opportunity for a gigantic computerized theft. To achieve this, at one location the crooks interfere with the microwave system supplying time signals to the computer, advancing the time by 0.1 second each minute over the last hour of 1999. (So this movie teaches us that 0.1 x 60 = 10.) IMDB page: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0137494/ . (Mark Brader, 2009-10-02)
In "The Todd Couple" episode of "Outsourced" (first aired 2011-02-10), Manmeet sets up teledates for 6:00 and 9:00; since one is with a New Yorker and the other with a San Franciscan, hilarity ensues.

"We're been using the five-cent nickle in this country since 1492. Now that's pretty near 100 years, daylight savings [sic]." (Groucho Marx as Captain Spaulding in "Animal Crackers", 1930, as noted by Will Fitzerald)
Brady: "...[Bishop Usher] determined that the Lord began the Creation on the 23rd of October in the Year 4004 B.C. at -- uh, at 9 A.M.!"
Drummond: "That Eastern Standard Time? (Laughter) Or Rocky Mountain Time? (More laughter) It wasn't daylight-saving time, was it? Because the Lord didn't make the sun until the fourth day!"
(From the play "Inherit the Wind" by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, filmed in 1960 with Spencer Tracy as Drummond and Fredric March as Brady, and several other times. Thanks to Mark Brader.)
"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)
"Would it impress you if I told you I invented Daylight Savings Time?" ("Sahjhan" to "Lilah" in dialog from the "Loyalty" episode of "Angel," originally aired 2002-02-25)
"I thought you said Tulsa was a three hour flight." "Well, you're forgetting about the time difference." ("Chandler" and "Joey" in dialog from the episode of "Friends" first aired 2002-12-05)
"Is that a pertinent fact, or are you trying to dazzle me with your command of time zones?" (Kelsey Grammer as "Frasier Crane")
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia." (Charles M. Schulz, provided by Steve Summit)
"I put myself and my staff through this crazy, huge ordeal, all because I refused to go on at midnight, okay? And so I work, you know, and then I get this job at eleven, supposed to be a big deal. Then yesterday daylight [saving] time ended. Right now it's basically midnight." (Conan O'Brien on the 2010-11-08 premier of "Conan.")