I saw Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary) at a folk festival back in 2014. The local high school chorus was there to sing backup on "Light One Candle." They'd rehearsed the song, knew the words, and were ready to go...standing behind a curtain so he could introduce them when he started the song.

Right before the curtain went up, he said "but what they don't know, is that they're going to come down here and join us all to sing Puff." As in Puff the Magic Dragon, perhaps his best known song. Before the show, I was talking to the kids backstage, and they really didn't know who he was. So I said "you know the song Puff the Magic Dragon?" They all nodded. "That's the guy."

So the curtain goes up, they sing Light One Candle, and the kids gather around Pete to sing Puff. Just after the first chorus, he stops and points to a student at the back...

"She's reading the lyrics from her iPad!" Because she was.

He summoned her down to the mic and said "we're going to sing the next verse together." So this girl (with her iPad) got to sing a verse of one of the most famous songs in the world with the original artist. She did great.

I can't speak to the pop arena, but in her country career, it was less about people "helping" her to write songs, and more about collaboration. She was at the very least an equal partner in her hits.

I used to work in radio as a DJ. You think you hate Christmas songs? You have no idea. You dread the last couple months of the year, because you know that your program director is going to steadily add Christmas songs into the mix every week after Thanksgiving, and there's nothing you can do about it.

What most people don't realize is that there's really only about 8 decent Christmas songs to start with, and most of the time is filled with covers of those songs...of varying quality.

Not from that album/era of Floyd, but I used to take a copy of "On the Turning Away" to test out speakers and headphones.

Phone call in them? How about a song that's all phone call?

Vanity 6 - If a Girl Answers (Don't Hang Up)

The "girl" on the other end? That's Morris Day providing the voice. Or maybe it was Prince? Anyway...funk.

Can you dig it? Click...

Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Capote."

I'm fairly certain you're talking about this scene from the first film.

My ex was a huge Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks fan. Whenever one of their songs comes on, I "nope" right out...except for one...

I crank up "Go Your Own Way" every time.

One other song that really helped was Don Henley - The Heart of the Matter I always liked the song, but I never really listened to the lyrics carefully. When I did - after we broke up - I finally 'got' the song.

I'll go...

There was an album awhile back called "Kiss My Ass" that was made up of then-current artists covering KISS songs. The Lemonheads. Dinosaur Jr. Gin Blossoms. Mighty Mighty Bosstones..

Yet probably the most faithful cover was Garth Brooks - Hard Luck Woman