This month there's been so many Saturday Night Live specials celebrating its 50th year on TV it may be hard to keep up with them.

But for music fans there are only two that matter. Friday, Valentine's Day there was a three-hour spectacular that focused on music. Artists like David Byrne, Jack White, Robyn, Arcade Fire, Bad Bunny, Jelly Roll, and Bill Murray serenaded the star-studded audience.

There were so many solid acts it was hard to narrow them down to the five best, but someone had to do it.

Sunday night (2/17), not Saturday for some reason, the party moved from Radio City to 30 Rock and that three-hour epic focused on skits.

But you cannot have a proper SNL without a cold open, Weekend Update, and great music.

Here are a few of the musical highlights.

Adam Sandler, "50 Years"

The only thing better than Adam Sandler doing an original song on live TV is Adam Sandler rocking out a touching tune after being introduced by Jack Nicholson.

The Sandman brought his acoustic guitar to Studio 8H where he launched his improbable career and sang a sweet, sentimental, and often funny live debut of a song summarizing the NBC mainstay.

A sample:

50 years of prank calling some New York magazine critic
50 years of finding out your favorite musician's anti-Semitic
50 years of asking an intern to pick up your laundry at 2:30 a.m
Not realizing that the intern was Martin Scorsese's kid
Or Nora Ephron's kid or Randy Newman's kid
Or whoever Lorne had dinner with on Wednesday night's kid

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Maya Rudolph, Adam Driver et al, "NY 50th Musical"

With all the talented actors, musicians, and thespians who either got their start at SNL or guest hosted the show, it just made sense to cobble together a "musical" honoring the city where SNL has called home.

So naturally Adam Driver played a singing hot dog, Kristen Wiig portrayed a singing green M&M, Kate McKinnon spoofed former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and of course Lin-Manuel Miranda reprised his role as longtime Big Apple resident Alexander Hamilton.

Former SNL musical directors Paul Schaffer and G.E. Smith got their flowers. And even Nick Jonas got to get a few verses into the insane 10+ minute song.

Sabrina Carpenter and Paul Simon, "Homeward Bound"

The celebration opened with two singers from very different eras. On the left of your TV screen was Gen Z's Sabrina Carpenter and next to her stood Boomer Paul Simon holding an acoustic guitar. It was a 58-year difference.

Before performing the Simon & Garfunkel classic that George Harrison & Simon played on SNL in 1976, Carpenter reminded the audience that in '76 she hadn't been born yet.

Then she added neither had her parents.

Once the music began the pair sounded beautiful. Behind them were two guitarists adding some flourishes and additional heft to the gentle tune.

Do we need a Simon & Carpenter collab? If so they could call it Short, Shorter, N' Sweet.

Sabrina's tour gets back on the road next month with gigs in Europe. Get tix on her website.

Will Ferrell, Scarlett Johansson, Kim Kardashian, Kristen Wiig, Ana Gasteyer, "Lawrence Welk"

One thing you've got to give SNL credit for is not pandering (entirely) to a young audience. By parodying the Lawrence Welk Show, a wholesome throwback to a gentler time when ladies wore long skirts and the accordion was not played ironically, SNL was tipping their cap to their oldest fans.

Will Ferrell played the suave Robert Goulet, a French Canadian actor who was born nearly 100 years ago. Zero kids making TikToks had ever heard of him or the Welk Show that last aired over 40 years ago.

So the genius idea to lure the youth into the bizarre sketch about a balding freak of a sister with tiny hands, was to surround her with Gasteyer, Johansson, and the surprise of the night, a singing Kardashian.

SNL's use of Kim K. in a Lawrence Welk sketch is the epitome of the show's biting social commentary and edgy satire because the easy listening band leader was so strict in his day he once fired the popular "Champagne Lady" Alice Lon for showing too much leg.

That sound you heard Sunday night was Welk rolling in his grave at the idea of a reality star who broke out via a sex tape who later gave birth to Kanye West's children.

Thus, the perfect bit.