Hootie and the Blowfish, "Can't Find the Time"

At last, we complete our exploration of a too-forgotten oldie. Over the years, a few obscure bands took cracks at recording "Can't Find the Time." The members of the Orpheus Rising incarnation of the band have archived a few snippets by groups with names like Wasabi and Wits End. But the one notable rendition in the past decade was by a very unlikely act: Hootie and the Blowfish, who had just begun their exit from the national stage but placed their cover of "Can't Find the Time" on the soundtrack of 2000's Me, Myself and Irene, a typically manic Jim Carrey comedy. Directors the Farrelly Brothers, or whoever was responsible for the soundtrack, peculiarly opted for mostly newly recorded covers of Steely Dan songs. What the Dan had to do with multiple-personality Carrey was anybody's guess, much less why Hootie and the Blowfish would chime in with a non-Dan cover.

(There is a connection of which the Farrellys were probably unaware, though: Chevy Chase, who was a drummer before he was a comic actor, played in an early version of Steely Dan as well as in a Boston-area band that impersonated Orpheus on a handful of tour dates.)

Darius Rucker and the boys didn't make much of an impression with their languid and faintly countrified take on the chestnut, but it did return the song to the public eye for a short period of time, and in hindsight, it makes a bit more sense of Rucker's country moves to come.