JUDY COLLINS - WHO KNOWS WHERE THE TIME GOES

Who Knows Where The Time Goes

JUDY COLLINS

SONGWRITER: SANDY DENNY

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: WHO KNOWS WHERE THE TIME GOES

LABEL: ELEKTRA RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK

YEAR: 1968

 

     Judith Marjorie Collins(born May 1, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career spanning seven decades. An Academy Award-nominated documentary director and a Grammy Award-winning recording artist, she is known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk music, country, show tunes, pop music, rock and roll and standards), for her social activism, and for the clarity of her voice. Her discography consists of 36 studio albums, nine live albums, numerous compilation albums, four holiday albums, and 21 singles.

        Collins' debut studio album, A Maid of Constant Sorrow, was released in 1961 and consisted of traditional folk songs. She had her first charting single with "Hard Lovin' Loser" (Nº 97) from her fifth studio album In My Life(1966), but it was the lead single from her sixth studio album Wildflowers(1967), "Both Sides, Now" – written by Joni Mitchell – that gave her international prominence. The single reached Nº 8 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and won Collins her first Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance. She enjoyed further success with her recordings of "Someday Soon", "Chelsea Morning" (also written by Mitchell), "Amazing Grace", "Turn! Turn! Turn!", and "Cook with Honey".

        Collins experienced the biggest success of her career with her recording of Stephen Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns" from her tenth studio album Judith(1975). The single peaked at Nº 36 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in 1975 and then again in 1977 at Nº 19, spending 27 non-consecutive weeks on the chart and earning her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female, as well as a Grammy Award for Sondheim for Song of the Year. Judith would also become her best-selling studio album; it was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1975 for sales of over 500,000 copies and Platinum in 1996 for sales of over 1,000,000 copies.

         In 2017, Collins's rendition of the song "Amazing Grace" was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or artistically significant". That same year, she received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Folk Album for Silver Skies Blue with Ari Hest. In 2019 at the age of 80, she scored her first Nº 1 album on an American Billboard Chart with Winter Stories, a duet album with Norwegian singer, songwriter, and guitarist Jonas Fjeld featuring Chatham County Line. In 2022, she released her first studio album of all original material, entitled Spellbound.

        Who Knows Where the Time Goes is the seventh studio album by American singer and songwriter Judy Collins, released by Elektra Records in 1968. It peaked at Nº 29 on the Billboard 200 charts.

       The album was recorded live in the studio and was Collins' first studio album to be recorded in Los Angeles. Produced by David Anderle, the album features numerous well-known musicians, including Stephen Stills(credited as "Steven Stills"). The songs include her own composition "My Father", Ian Tyson's "Someday Soon" (which would go on to become one of Collins' signature songs), two Leonard Cohen compositions ("Story of Isaac" and "Bird on the Wire"), the traditional murder ballad "Pretty Polly", and the title song, "Who Knows Where the Time Goes", composed by Sandy Denny.

       Two versions of the song "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" were released. Version 1 with only vocal, two guitars, and bass appeared on the B-side of "Both Sides Now", on the soundtrack to the 1968 film The Subject Was Roses, and on the compilation album Colors of the Day. Version 2 is a composite: the first verse is the same take as version 1, but with everything remixed to the left channel, then crossfading to a different recording with a larger arrangement, modulated to a different key. Version 2 appears on the album.

      Collins' cover of Joni Mitchell's "Chelsea Morning" was recorded during the Who Knows Where the Time Goes sessions, but not included on the album; however, a single release of the song, with "Pretty Polly" as the B-side, charted in August 1969.

   "Hello, Hooray", written by Canadian singer-songwriter Rolf Kempf, was later covered as the opening track on Alice Cooper's 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies.

       In 1969, the album was certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of over 500,000 copies in the US

Across the morning sky,

All the bird are leaving,

Ah, how can they know it's time to go?

Before the winter fire,

We'll still be dreaming.

I do not count the time

 

Who knows where the time goes?

Who knows where the time goes?

 

Sad deserted shore,

Your fickle friends are leaving,

Ah, but then you know it's time for them to go,

But I will still be here,

I have no thought of leaving.

I do not count the time

 

Who knows where the time goes?

Who knows where the time goes?

 

And I'm not alone,

When my love is near me,

And I know, it will be so, till it's time to go,

So come the storms of winter ,

And then the birds of spring again.

I do not feel the time

 

Who knows how my love grows?

Who knows where the time goes?

 

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