written by Jason Mraz

produced by Martin Terefe

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I’m making this page on June the 24th, 2021, the day after the

44th birthday of Jason Thomas Mraz. Happy Birthday, JM!!

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Jason’s a native of Mechanicsville, Virginia, USA, and heritage-wise

is Czech and Slovakian—Mraz is Czech for the word “frost.” The origins of his career lie in San Diego, CA, in the tail end of the 20th century, where and when he relocated, became a roadie and starting writing and demoing songs. He made a couple independent, pre-record contract recordings he released himself from 1999-2001. Eventually, he scored a deal with WEA division Elektra Entertainment Group (the ‘E’ in ‘WEA’). Fall ’02 brought out his debut album, Waiting For My Rocket To Come.

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Album two, from summer ’05, was a play on the letters in his last name: Mr. A-Z, issued by Atlantic Records (the ‘A’ in ‘WEA’), as have been most of the rest of his albums since, as the year before, Jason’s label Elektra was consolidated into Atlantic. Another three years later, Jason’s worldwide breakthough occurred, with the release and impact of album three, 2008’s We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.

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The song catalogued on this page is WSWDWST’s leading single, “I’m Yours.” This is actually a slightly older song, written in ’04, demoed in ’05, and released in acoustic form as something of a bonus track on the Mr. A-Z record’s accompanying extended play, which helped promote it. But as Jason snuck the song into his live set, he realized just how attached audiences had grown to it. They loved the song, so Jason decided to record an updated version, and make it sort of the “spine” of the WSWDWST album.

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The song has since become Jason’s biggest hit and highest commercially charting single since, as well as his sole #1—in New Zealand, of all markets. Too, along with fellow WSWDWST singles “Make It Mine” and “Lucky” (with Colbie Caillat), it boosted the album to triple platinum status.

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P.S. In my numbering system, when I reached #1,950, I began taking songs from the corresponding years and using them for those song numbers. These songs are particularly big, quintessential, and/or era-defining songs from their respective years. I.e., song #1,950 is a quintessential song from the year 1950, #1,951 was a song from 1951, etc. And being from 2008, “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz is #2,008.

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P.P.S. And writing out that scatting and trying to get it as detailed and accurate as I could possibly muster was certainly a lot of fun... now I have a headache. Thanks, Jase. (Just kidding.)

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YT:

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Jason’s official website