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And here's the The Ashatones Barbershop Quartet again. These guys are real good but they don't seem to have done their version of "For the Longest Time" yet. I wonder what's keeping them. Until they do, you'll have to settle for their take on another Billy Joel song.

This is "Uptown Girl." About the time Mr. Joel's version of this was high on the charts, a guy I knew sent me songs he'd written and asked me to critique them. I don't like doing that — please don't ask me — but this guy was so persistent that I finally told him the melodies were pretty good but I thought he should work harder on his rhyming. His songs were full of things like rhyming "lady" with "baby." He pointed to the success of "Uptown Girl" and said, "People don't give a shit about precise rhymes." I still don't have a snappy reply to that.