Tune That Name: P

Roll over and go back to sleep — it’s just a dream, that’s all …

“Pam Berry,” The Shins
“Pancho and Lefty,” Emmylou Harris
“Pancho and Lefty,” Gillian Welch
“Pancho and Lefty,” Townes Van Zandt
“Peggy Sue,” Buddy Holly
“Peggy Sue Got Married,” Buddy Holly
“Peggy’s Kitchen Wall,” Bruce Cockburn
“Outlaw Pete,” Bruce Springsteen
“Peter Gunn,” The Kingsmen
“Peter Gunn Suite,” Ray Anthony
“Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead,” Crash Test Dummies
“Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead,” XTC
“Polly,” Animal Collective
“Polly,” Nirvana
“Polly Come Home,” Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
“Little Pollyanna,” Kristy Kruger
“I Loves You Porgy,” Billie Holiday
“I Loves You Porgy,” Nina Simone
“Dear Prudence,” The Beatles
“Dear Prudence,” Siouxsie and The Banshees

The video above for “Peggy Sue” is from a 1957 broadcast of The Arthur Murray Dance Party. Kathryn Murray prepares her television audience by warning them about the band about to perform:

They’re rock and roll specialists. Now, no matter what you think of rock and roll, I think you have to keep a nice open mind about what the young people go for. Otherwise the youngsters won’t feel that you understand them.

That intro is kind of like Buddy Holly’s glasses — archetypally square, yet somehow kind of cool at the same time.