"Time Has Come Today" | ||||
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![]() Cover of the 1968 French single | ||||
Single by The Chambers Brothers | ||||
from the album The Time Has Come | ||||
B-side |
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Released | December 1967 | |||
Recorded | August 1967 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 2:37 (original single version) 3:05 (hit single version #1) 4:45 (hit single version #2) 11:06 (LP version) | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Songwriter(s) |
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Producer(s) | David Rubinson | |||
The Chambers Brothers singles chronology | ||||
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The Chambers Brothers singles chronology | ||||
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"Time Has Come Today" is a hit single by the American psychedelic soul group the Chambers Brothers, written by Willie & Joe Chambers. The song was recorded and released as a single in 1966 by Columbia Records. [1] It was then featured on the album The Time Has Come in November 1967, and released again as a single in December 1967. The 1967 single was a Top 10 near-miss in America, spending five weeks at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the fall of 1968. [2] In Canada, the song reached No. 9. [3] It is now considered one of the landmark rock songs of the psychedelic era. [4]
The song has been described as psychedelic rock, [5] [6] psychedelic soul [7] [8] and acid rock, [9] and features a fuzz guitar twinned with a clean one. [10] Various other effects were employed in its recording and production, including the alternate striking of two cow bells producing a "tick-tock" sound, warped throughout most of the song by reverb, echo and changes in tempo. The long version quotes several bars from " The Little Drummer Boy" at 5:40.
Writer Chuck Eddy includes the song in a list of examples of "pre- dub dub metal". [11]
The original version of the song, hastily recorded in late 1966, [12] [13] was rejected by Columbia. [14] [15] Instead, the more orthodox single " All Strung Out Over You" b/w "Falling In Love" (Columbia 4-43957) was released on December 19, 1966, and became a regional hit. The success of "All Strung Out Over You" gave them the opportunity to re-record "The Time Has Come Today" in 1967. [13]
The song has appeared in many films. Director Hal Ashby used the full 11-minute track as the backdrop to the climactic scene when Captain Robert Hyde ( Bruce Dern) "comes home" to an unfaithful wife ( Jane Fonda) in the 1978 Academy Award–winning film Coming Home.
It has also been used in the following films: [19]
The song has also appeared in the following television episodes: [19]
In TV commercials:
Anthony Bourdain said, in 2010, that this song "saved his life". [20]
The song was also featured in the trailer for the 1995 film Kiss of Death and the 2017 science fiction film Geostorm.
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"Time Has Come Today" | ||||
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![]() Cover of the 1968 French single | ||||
Single by The Chambers Brothers | ||||
from the album The Time Has Come | ||||
B-side |
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Released | December 1967 | |||
Recorded | August 1967 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 2:37 (original single version) 3:05 (hit single version #1) 4:45 (hit single version #2) 11:06 (LP version) | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Songwriter(s) |
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Producer(s) | David Rubinson | |||
The Chambers Brothers singles chronology | ||||
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The Chambers Brothers singles chronology | ||||
|
"Time Has Come Today" is a hit single by the American psychedelic soul group the Chambers Brothers, written by Willie & Joe Chambers. The song was recorded and released as a single in 1966 by Columbia Records. [1] It was then featured on the album The Time Has Come in November 1967, and released again as a single in December 1967. The 1967 single was a Top 10 near-miss in America, spending five weeks at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the fall of 1968. [2] In Canada, the song reached No. 9. [3] It is now considered one of the landmark rock songs of the psychedelic era. [4]
The song has been described as psychedelic rock, [5] [6] psychedelic soul [7] [8] and acid rock, [9] and features a fuzz guitar twinned with a clean one. [10] Various other effects were employed in its recording and production, including the alternate striking of two cow bells producing a "tick-tock" sound, warped throughout most of the song by reverb, echo and changes in tempo. The long version quotes several bars from " The Little Drummer Boy" at 5:40.
Writer Chuck Eddy includes the song in a list of examples of "pre- dub dub metal". [11]
The original version of the song, hastily recorded in late 1966, [12] [13] was rejected by Columbia. [14] [15] Instead, the more orthodox single " All Strung Out Over You" b/w "Falling In Love" (Columbia 4-43957) was released on December 19, 1966, and became a regional hit. The success of "All Strung Out Over You" gave them the opportunity to re-record "The Time Has Come Today" in 1967. [13]
The song has appeared in many films. Director Hal Ashby used the full 11-minute track as the backdrop to the climactic scene when Captain Robert Hyde ( Bruce Dern) "comes home" to an unfaithful wife ( Jane Fonda) in the 1978 Academy Award–winning film Coming Home.
It has also been used in the following films: [19]
The song has also appeared in the following television episodes: [19]
In TV commercials:
Anthony Bourdain said, in 2010, that this song "saved his life". [20]
The song was also featured in the trailer for the 1995 film Kiss of Death and the 2017 science fiction film Geostorm.
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