Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
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| “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” | |||||
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| Single by Chicago from the album The Chicago Transit Authority |
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| B-side | "Listen" | ||||
| Released | October 1970 | ||||
| Format | 7" | ||||
| Recorded | January 27/30, 1969 | ||||
| Genre | Jazz rock | ||||
| Length | 4:36 (album track) 3:20 (single) |
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| Label | Columbia Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Robert Lamm | ||||
| Producer | James William Guercio | ||||
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"Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" is a song written and sung by Robert Lamm for the rock band Chicago and recorded for their debut album The Chicago Transit Authority (1969).
The song was not released as a single until two records from their second album ("Make Me Smile" and "25 or 6 to 4") had become hits. It became the band's third straight Top 10 record, peaking at #7 in the U.S.
The song deals with how one faces living in a world under constraints of time.
The original uncut album version opens with a brief "free form" piano solo performed by Lamm. A spoken verse by Lamm is mixed into the sung final verse of the album version. The single version is minus the "free form" intro and the spoken verse and was originally mixed in mono. A stereo re-edit (beginning from the point where the "free form" intro leaves off) was issued on the group's Only The Beginning greatest hits CD set.
A live version on the Chicago at Carnegie Hall box set presents an expanded version of the "free form" intro, which itself is given its own track.
The song is played backwards with (fake) Satanic messages in the 2000 movie Little Nicky.
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