It’s been a long time since the “golden age” of instrumental hits. What you may not remember —or ever have known — is that some of those most memorable songs actually have lyrics — some admittedly far superior to others. Take a short time trip with me to a little-traveled land of forgotten lyrical versions.

Folks really seemed to like my list of memorable one-word lines of film dialogue so distinctive that you could actually identify the movie. So, after months of mulling what creative thing I could do as a follow-up, I decided to offer a list of similarly memorable two-word movie lines.

Here’s hoping Minnesota prevails on the field Sunday. But when it comes to the Super Bowl of hit music, “The Big Easy” is the big winner. Check out these stats.

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Whenever the winter weather gets too cold and too depressing, I start looking for some temperature-raising songs to help get through those too-long, too-frequent, shiver-inducing nights. Here are a few that might warm your heart, too.

If you want to make a baby boomer feel real-l-l-ly old, remind him or her that Elvis Presley would have turned 75 today. It will be Elvis everywhere this anniversary year.

Deborah Howell, who died Friday, was the best news executive I'd ever met because she didn't confuse running a newspaper with operating a pea-canning factory or an assembly plant for toasters.

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Here is a list of 10 great movies released to theaters in 2009. All but a few are available for holiday-season viewing without leaving your neighborhood.

No matter your own family’s traditions, there’s one holiday season ritual we all seem to share: waiting. Here are some “waiting” songs to help you pass the time while life is on hold during the coming days.

It's a lively noon hour with Dr. Robert Fisch — a Holocaust survivor, a knight in his native Hungary, an honored U of M pediatrician, a painter and a writer who mixes the profound and the mundane in his little book of big ideas.

Some songs' lyrics are good at the "short sprint," offering a single great line (or two). But others excel at the long-distance run, managing to carry an evocative theme through an entire song. Here are a few of my favorites.