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"Catch the Wind" - Donovan from album: What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid (1965) Allmusic genre: British Folk My thoughts: One of my favorite songs by Donovan; I'm sure I've known it for most of my life. ***** "Something in the Air" - Thunderclap Newman from album: Hollywood Dream (1970) Allmusic genre: AM Pop My thoughts: I first knew this song because Wilco covered it live. It's a great song and I'd forgotten about it for a decade; adding it to my Spotify favorites playlist now. ***** "Love Untold" - Paul Westerberg from album: Eventually (1996) Allmusic genre: Adult Alternative Pop/Rock My thoughts: This song is unfamiliar to me. Inoffensive but unmemorable mid-tempo 90's alt-rock. ** "I Know No Pardon" - Vetiver from album: To Find Me Gone (2006) Allmusic genre: Alternative Singer/Songwriter My thoughts: This one is new to me; I think I've heard of the band but I've never listened to the...

"True" is an essential soundtrack item for being nine years old in the summer of 1983, where it constantly played on the radio at Charlotte Swim and Racket Club. I knew nothing about the song except its melody and ubiquity; I was still a year away from tuning into Z-100 on my own, all day, every day. I was in high school before I rediscovered "True" on the jukebox at The Honey Bee diner in Glen Burnie, where my best friend Eileen and I would eat fries, drink coffee, and chainsmoke Camel Lights (still legal to smoke indoors and underage in 1990-91). Playing "True" was the first order of business every time we went there. I don't recall anything else from that jukebox, but "True" was an early experience of the hold musical nostalgia has over me. The lyrics of "True" evoke a school dance -- "Head over heels when toe to toe;" "With a thrill in my head and a pill on my tongue / dissolve the nerves that have just begun ...

For American babies born in 2012: 12 girls named Spring, 1762 girls named Summer (and 5 boys), 3745 girls named Autumn (and 8 boys), and 354 girls named Winter (and 33 boys). 26 girls named January, 778 girls named April, 106 girls named May, 710 girls named June (and 12 boys), 18 girls named July (and 8 boys), 936 boys named August (and 130 girls), 23 girls named September, 56 girls named October, 33 girls named November, and 46 girls named December. Nobody named their baby February or March. Only girls were named after days of the week, as follows: 38 named Sunday, 28 named Tuesday, and 31 named Wednesday. Nobody named their kid Monday, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday.