Of course, musicians are pretty in tune with radio waves, so it makes sense that radar has been included in many worthy songs.

In an unmotivated overextended scene, "Independent," a less worthy song from the same score, is a wasted interlude before the renewal of blessed dependency and "catching enchantment."

And Sissel sang the words to "Goin' Home" with a sweet, almost operatic purity, honoring the unlikely source of some worthy new songs.

Mr. Toussaint, whose songwriting and arrangements were behind many of New Orleans's most popular records, devoted an afternoon set at the festival to worthy but unexpected songs like "Mind Over Matter" and "A Certain Girl."

The cabaret singer Karen Akers has a two-decade history of shining a light on worthy songs that might otherwise have disappeared.

Once they felt they had a few worthy songs, they hooked up with NJ native Benj Gleeksman on drums.

United Kingdom's Ray Caruana, lead singer with Live Report was outspoken about coming second to what he considered a much less worthy song.

The singer has a history of shining a light on worthy songs that might otherwise have faded into oblivion.

This novel "is a dense, ambitious, worthy song," Valerie Sayers wrote in these pages earlier this year.

Elvis Costello: Late-Night Jams Mr. Costello sidesteps the problem of invidious comparisons on his album "Kojak Variety" (Warner Brothers; CD and cassette) by choosing worthy older songs, most of which haven't achieved hall-of-fame status.