Who Knows Where the Time Goes is a 1968 album by Judy Collins. It peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts. Produced by David Anderle with numerous well-known musicians including Stephen Stills, the album had a rock-country-arthouse feel, typically eclectic for Collins, and included her own composition "My Father", as well as 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" – and the traditional murder ballad "Pretty Polly"; and the title song, "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?", composed by Sandy Denny. (More from Wikipedia)
There is a strong feminist stance in women's music, however; and that was largely absent from the music scene in the mid-1970's, Helen Reddy's "I Am Woman" (1972) notwithstanding. Besides her own fine compositions, Meg Christian reinterprets a Rolf Kempf song, "Hello Hooray" as a feminist anthem, with some new lyrics that she added. The song had been included on one of Judy Collins' best albums, Who Knows Where the Time Goes (1968).
(January 2014)
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Sandy Denny was invited to join the Strawbs, and they recorded an album together in 1967 that was ultimately released in 1972 as All Our Own Work, under the name Sandy Denny and the Strawbs.
The album includes an early version of one of Sandy Denny's best-known songs, "Who Knows Where the Time Goes"; Denny later recorded "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" with Fairport Convention when she became their lead singer in mid-1968. Judy Collins heard a demo of the song and decided to include it as the title song of one of her best albums, Who Knows Where the Time Goes. "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" was also released by Collins as the B-side of her #8 hit single, "Both Sides Now" (written by Joni Mitchell). I remember raising eyebrows with a friend ages ago; she seemed surprised that I was familiar with "Who Knows Where the Time Goes", and honestly, at that time I might only have seen the Judy Collins album rather than actually having heard the song.
(July 2014)
