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Here, without commentary (nor excuses), is a selection of music clips ranging from guilty pleasures to timeless classics: it's up to others to determine which are which.

A faint thematic thread somewhat connects one song to the next, but the real determinant here is pleasure derived from lyrics worth listening to--again, for their trenchancy, their candid emotion, or simply their clever silliness.

Artists range from Helen Morgan to Henry Gibson, the Boswell Sisters to a math-oriented PBS series of a generation or more ago, Jan Clayton (aka to some as Lassie's mother) to Tracy Nelson.

Some selections were omitted because they were introduced by (to me) jarring and noxious commercial ads.

"The Angle Dance"/ Larry Cedar (Square One TV)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqIki33mTgs

"Girl at the Ironing Board"/ Joan Blondell & 1934 Cartoon

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSmEAMtl2i8
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f759zj02K0M
  

"For the Sake of the Children"/Henry Gibson (Nashville)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3TzXk5eong

"My Idaho Home"& "Dues"/ Ronee Blaklee (Nashville)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxrUGz8Dh-s
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm8PwXOHNPs

"Down So Low"/ Tracy Nelson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThhOewiZWu8

"What'd You Do To Me?"/ The Boswell Sisters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFAy_B0S6HY

"What'll I Do?" (Irving Berlin)/ Last Kids Picked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6T7w2d2r28

"Bill" from Show Boat (Jerome Kern)/ Helen Morgan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HeasqkO1Ko

"Brite Side"/ Debbie Harry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKjOfQ_rCY8

Sitting Pretty Medley/ Jack Haley & Ginger Rogers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WM-PwDI_RY

"Long-forgotten Fairytail"/ Magnetic Fields
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ0u8VRJQzo

"Pressure"/ Billy Joel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu10CgX0USw

"The Company Way" (Frank Loesser)/
Sammy Smith & Robert Morse (How to Succeed ...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGhTr8lDCV0

"Live the Life I Sing About"/ Marion Williams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy1OlJGrtt4

"Endicott"/ Kid Creole
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktJefZ3MsgE

"200 Years"/ Henry Gibson (Nashville)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUZ_zSWLwGo

"Going Home"/ Jan Clayton (The Snake Pit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-ZVUlzFmJ0