Shortcut Remapping: Show Current Song

I've been able to navigate to the currently paying song just fine. But one of my FAVORITE shortcuts in iTunes is Cmd-L, Show Current Song. It shows me the song that is playing, in whatever venue it is playing it in, be it playlist or album or whatever. As the current Mac shortcut for Focus on the search bar has 2 Keymappings, would it be possible to remap Cmd-L to Show Current Song?

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