Viewing Current Song in iTunes 10?

Is there a command for iTunes to show you the song that's currently playing (show it highlighted in a visible list in the browser window)? Suppose it's on shuffle and you are separately doing stuff in iTunes like making a different playlist. Can you somehow say, "hey, get me back to the current song and show me what it is"?

From iTunes Keyboard Shortcuts (in the Help menu):
Show where a song file is located
Shift-Command-R
Show the currently playing song in the list
Command-L

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Sounds like you did this on the fly.
MM is supposed to open the Marker Panel Dialogue
M just sets a marker
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