♫ Time Of The Season ♫

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A few years ago, rawgod mentioned this song and the band, the Zombies.  I’m reduxing it tonight because … do I really need a reason to redux a good song?

The song was written by Zombies keyboard player, Rod Argent.  Says he …

“‘Time of the Season’ was the last thing to be written (for the album). I remember thinking it sounded very commercial. One of my favorite records was George Gershwin’s ‘Summertime;’ we used to do a version of it when we started out. The words in the verse – ‘What’s your name? Who’s your daddy? Is he rich like me?’ – were an affectionate nod in that direction. The album title’s slightly high-flown, isn’t it? As is the quote from The Tempest on the back. It was a very flowery time in all sorts of ways. Me and Chris (Chris White bassist and co-songwriter) shared a flat with a guy called Terry Quirk who was a very talented artist and he came up with this beautiful, florid cover that we adored. We didn’t notice that the word odyssey was spelt wrongly, to our eternal embarrassment. For years I used to say, ‘Oh that was intentional. It was a play on the word ode.’ But I’m afraid it wasn’t.”

The song peaked at #1 in Canada, #3 in the U.S., but did not chart in the UK.

Time of the Season
The Zombies

It’s the time of the season
When love runs high
And this time, give it to me easy
And let me try with pleasured hands

To take you in the sun to (promised lands)
To show you every one
It’s the time of the season for loving

What’s your name?
Who’s your daddy?
(He rich) Is he rich like me?
Has he taken, any time (any time)
(To show) to show you what you need to live

Tell it to me slowly (tell me what)
I really want to know
It’s the time of the season for loving

What’s your name?
Who’s your daddy?
(He rich) Is he rich like me?
Has he taken, any time (any time)
(To show) to show you what you need to live

Tell it to me slowly (tell me what)
I really want to know
It’s the time of the season for loving

Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Rod Argent
Time of the Season (Re-Recording) lyrics © Marquis Songs Usa

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25 thoughts on “♫ Time Of The Season ♫”

  5. A real piece of classic rock, and still one of my all time favourites. I’ve never understood why they did so poorly in our charts, and I think the record company must have decided their money was better spent promoting the band over there. I don’t think this was a single here, and to compound their crime CBS included it instead on the first of their budget priced sampler albums, The Rock Machine Turns You On. That’s how I got it – real value for money!

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  6. Just because last time people only spoke of one other Zombies hit (She’s Not There), I just had to play a different one for you today.

    I’m actually surprised I did not tell you of seeing The New Zombies play in about 2005 in a small town in South-West Alberta called Fort MacLeod (where, I say this only because the Academy Award winning movie Brokeback Mountain was filmed there,) was its big claim to fame. The New Zombies consisted of Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone, along with Jim Rodford and his son Steve, who joined on drums, with Keith Airey joining the band on guitar. They sounded just as good that night as they did in their heydays. One more note,: Rod Argent teamed up with my favourite vocalist Eric Burdon for a number of tours in the 70s/80s, but as far as I know they never played in Canada so I did not get to see them live.

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      • Argent (the band with Rod Argent’s name) did a song, “Hold Your Head Up”, that got me through a hard year the year it was on Top 40 radio. I knew of and had heard The Zombies on radio, but didn’t know anyone’s names until we started getting “The Midnight Special” on TV on Friday nights; Wolfman Jack spent a tiny bit more time with people than Dick Clark was able to on Saturday mornings. lol. Fun tidbits from youth!

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        • I hadn’t heard of Argent until I played this one and several people commented about him/the group! And I only knew a few of Zombie’s songs … I’m not very culturally astute, am I? But when you said “Wolfman Jack” … OH YEAH!!! That brought the memories flooding back! I used to listen to him on my transistor radio under the covers late at night when I was supposed to be sleeping! Ahhhhh … the good ol’ days! And Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand” … that was where I first knew of many of the bands I would come to love! To me, MTV never held a candle to “American Bandstand”!

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