Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes (with Sandy Denny)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2015
- There are many versions of this song, this is the finest, with vocals by the songwriter Sandy Denny herself. Finally, she got to do the song the way she wanted. Timeless, beautiful.
Other versions:
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Eva Cassidy
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Nina Simone
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Richard Thompson
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10,000 Maniacs
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Kate Rusby
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I am having to read your words through teary eyes. A stunning presentation of a beautiful song John, thank you.
Thank you so much. I plan to more - so many great songs have wonderful stories behind them.
yes,she was utterly sublime.
A really fine visual presentation from beginning to end, thanks for your marvelous creation, as who knows where the time goes.
Peter Telford - me too - I'm still bleary eyed as I write this. RT did an acoustic version of Who Knows Where the Time Goes at Brighton last year and it brought tears to my eyes then.
honeychurchgipsy6 Had the same effect on me when he did it in Liverpool.
Sandy Denny died at age 31. So much done in a few years. So much more she could have done. Who knew where her time would go.
at 73 and having lost too many people in 2023 I admired and loved this favourite song is poignant for me.
So sorry for your losses. Thanks for sharing here.
Hi Christinedennett, well, I'm 73 also, and I too have lost people dear to me, in more ways than one, and this piece of music, even though I love it, just brings tears to my eyes, in a way that nothing else can, and it makes you realise that life is a lot shorter than you think, and you just don't have time to bring back the people that you've lost, because of the stupid choices that you've made 😔 Who knows where the time goes.....
I have Stage 4 colon cancer.
Now is not the time for a sad song.
Now is the time to live.
But this is so great.
Like everyone else, I can remember the first time I heard this song, in the Summer of 1969, I was 12 and can never forget it.
Now I just look at the cover of the album and it breaks me...Who knows where the time goes? 54 years ago really doesn't seem like so long ...
She found a pathway to every human's heart
I hope you're doing well.
I was just wandering down the street I walked at 16, on the way to school, listening to FP, Sandy's beautiful voice. I'm 67, my mom died last year and most of my old friends are gone. Thinking I would like this played at my funeral, before I saw other's saying the same. Who knows where the time goes? Take care.
Take care, my best friend loved Fairport Convention, SandyDenny was his favourite singer
Sending some magic to you
Same here I was 12years young in 1969...I still listen to it....❤
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Never heard this song until tonight. I'm 64 years young. What beautiful times the 60's and 70's were. Thank you 🙏
Better than Elvis Presley!!!!
Better late than never
@@NorryJones-kg1se That's not hard ;-)
Culturally, yes.
The West's bloody imperialist wars - then as now, utterly repugnant.
One beautiful summer night in 1991, I had a job doing some investigative engineering on the San Diego Bay Bridge. We were working on a barge. Judy Collins was performing about a quarter mile north of us, in Embarcadaro Park. I can remember this song floating out across the warm water of the bay. It washed over me like the breath of God, and it was the most beautiful thing I have ever heard.
Judy Collins made it the title track on one of her albums. That's how good it is.
Thank you for sharing that. What a lovely, evocative picture you paint. Sometimes life is so unexpectedly sublime.
Poetry!
Wow! What a fabulous and precious memory to have. I can just imagine what that was like.
Judy Collins is incomparable IMHO.
if only the young generation had a clue - sublime -
I'm 25 and I love Fairport Convention !!
I agree. Get them listening to a pure singer. No auto tune, plays instruments. A voice from heaven. Still being listened to after all these years. Can't say the same of these new Entitled, dear diary life is so unfair or I identify as an Aardvark! 🤔 Pure music, beautiful lyrics. Bless Sandy.
One of the greatest songs ever written and sung.
One of the greatest vocal recordings ever made ... there should be at least a billion clicks on this thing. People just don't know what they are missing ...
Aye I know, and who's got a billion clicks, Butt-stain Boober.
Beautiful song, always loved Sandy Denny singing this. .The best version by far.
@@susankent2005 It should be it is the original album version.
Her airiness, tone and vibrato really are unique - kinda draws you in. I wished I'd listened to my college friend back in the 70s who said she was remarkable and 50yrs later here I am dammit
For me, Sandy Denny was the finest singer in the folk/folk rock genre. Something about her voice, I can't describe it, utterly sublime. This, for me, is the best version of this song. Richard Thompson in particular is superb. He's playing lead guitar virtually the whole way through the song, but it's so subtle. Absolutely brilliant. One of the all-time greatest songs ever written.
Sandy wrote this song when she was sixteen .
This is one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
it ain't all that....
despite the sour puss, I agree with you.
When you know where to look, there are many most beautiful songs ever written. But yes, this is one.
He said “0ne of” and he’s not wrong.
'I have no fear of time....'.....beautiful.
As a student Fairport convention were playing in Liverpool university . I asked Sandy to play it , it was probably I n the set but she gave a beautiful smile when she said yes
I've been listening to Sandy Denny sing this song since I was in my early 20ties and now in my middle 70ties and it has even more meaning beauty and power. Sandy was delivering messages that she was receiving .. so grateful that we can still hear her voice and send her our gratitude and love.
I'm coming next 80te but still feel my my were dint the time go
I agree; in my 70’s now, but this makes me feel younger and so nostalgic
Me too, 77 and counting!
@@derrickhambleton3874 72 and crying her loss.
"20ties" lol
The older I get, the deeper it cuts. Wonderful.
A contender for the most beautiful vocal and folk song of all.
Count me as one of the old timers who marked poignant times in my life with certain songs and artists. My musical journey began in 1962 with songs of Surfing USA, then the Beatles and on to folk and psychodelia. But songs like this one just filled my soul back then as it still does to this day. RIP Sandy Denny. You are missed.🙏
this is a hidden jewel fro my youth that didn't get the attention it deserved.
Played at Mums funeral....discovered this masterpiece waking in the night on the radio....
Thank you for the informative biography. I had never heard of the group nor Sandy. I was led here from hearing Eva Cassidy's version. ❤
Sandy Denny was a gift to us all.
It is 2023 and this is the very first time I have listened to this song. I must say it captures the heart and commands one to listen much more than just hear. A sad masterpiece of notes and the human voice. Wonderful.
I wish I knew folks….but I’m glad I’m old enough now to have been young enough back then…A musical deliverance never to be repeated.
God bless Sandy.
WHO KNOWS WHERE THE TIME GOES
I got goosebumps listening to Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention.
And then the tears started rolling.
As I realised that a whole generation of mine had gone
Never to return . Except in my grieving head.
Day before yesterday, my mother’s last bhua died.
We cremated her exactly in the same spot where we’d cremated my mum last October.
Mum and she were like sisters ... ( Mum being the eldest of her father’s children, and her Bhua being the youngest of her father’s sisters, they had just about six seven years age difference between them )
Back then , the families were large and different generations quite intermingled in their age groups.
I remember my dad ( who was the youngest born in his family)... he’d tell me his mother was pregnant and carrying him when his eldest sister was being wed.
And there were so few of us left standing out there at the cremation.
There was me, my this mum’s bhua’s only surviving son( his other brother had died ten odd years back in an accident), there was my other mum’s bhua’s surviving daughter( her brother, the one who was the closest to me had died also about ten years back)...
A Neice of my mum’s bhua ( from my bhua’s husbands side ) was there...
My mum’s sister, my massi ( who was also very close to this bhua of my mum) , she couldn’t make it because she was not well... she and I that night would talk for hours on the phone remembering this last bhua of my mum and hers... we were all that was left of that glorious generation of my grandparents and their huge joint families ( brothers sisters children grandchildren, cousins aunts , nephews nieces ... laughter, anger, fights, and above all so much love for each other )
and as I write this, my dad sleeps next to me on the bed, he’s 96... and he doesn’t remember much ...
and I’m 59 years, and I look back at this glorious family of mine ... and I remember just yesterday we were all together...this great family of love and laughter and stories of their past and more stories of their present, their hopes and their dreams and their achievements and their values and their hurts ... all now just memories in my head ...
And now here I am , with my dad, just the two of us left...
I wonder how long all these memories shall remain in my head where then as I age they too shall fade away ...
And then I will not even be able to say
Who knows where the time goes...
Because by then I would have forgotten everything...and it will be then that all these people who still live in my head , would have finally gone away with the passing time
PS: incidentally even Sandy Denny, she too died too young, just 31, back in the 1970s, in 1978.
Around the same time when my sister too had died, in 1976.
Photos:
Too many to write about. Those who know them will know them.
And shall laugh and cry with them .
( incidentally, the first photo is mum with her bhua who just died.
And the Second photo is mum with her and her other older bhua, who died probably six years back...and the third photo is my this mum’s bhua with her husband and her two sons, the elder one was the one who lit her pyre
And yes, as Sandy Denny sang, while my mums bhua pyre burned and turned to ashes and dust the birds were singing and the canopy of trees were green and swaying in the breeze and the hot day turned to cool as the monsoon clouds rolled in and made everything so gentle and so at peace..
Do listen to that song I’ve linked in my comments and you’ll feel what I felt
me too!
Thank you for pouring your heart out here, Guneet ji. Sandy's voice is truly so beautiful and helps us feel really big kinds of grief, not just for people who are gone but an entire time that won't come back.
Incredible guitar playing by Richard Thompson.
What I love about this song: First, it's a song about time. That in itself is appealing to me. Second, the singer (Sandy Denny) repeats that she has no thought about time, that she isn't leaving, that she doesn't fear time. At the same time, the song itself is so slow and lumbering...as though the song ITSELF doesn't care about time. I absolutely love it.
For decades I only knew Judy Collins's lovely version; songwriter Sandy Denny's version is now my favorite. It's the best!
Sandy had the voice of an angel & with Richard Thompson & those great players during her time with Fairport were pure magic. She is missed . A very fine presentation here to one of earths best singers & musicians.
Yes, I put her in the beautiful voice category with Joan Baez, Eva Cassidy, Astrud Gilberto (though different: pure with no vibrato)
She was simply beautiful, inside and out. And she left a ghost of that beauty behind for us in her music.
❤
Oh, that is such a beautiful way to say it..... that brings me to tears
Yes,but she also had an alcohol addiction - indirectly it costed her her health, and later her life….
@@travelfreak2 Is it really necessary to point her frailties ? A lot of accomplished artists have
Sorry, getting used to this phone. I just don’t understand why that sort of thing has to be said,particularly about someone deceased who has no chance to defend themselves…
Timeless tune, Sandy is (IMHO)the best singer this country has ever produced!
I love this song - as much for Richard Thompson's guitar work as Sandy's vocals - it is a true classic.
Richard Thompson's guitar work on this recording is brilliant!
What a voice...so pure and with such feeling...will always love you and your music Sandy.
After all these years it's still a stunning recording that seems as fresh as the day they recorded it. Magnificent.
What a beautiful Voice! And the lyrics mean more to me now than 50 years ago.
Yes, where did that 50 years go?
Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson made the ultimate version of this song. Emotions and feelings all through.
Tripped across this today thank God I grew up in the 60/70 I will never forget hearing this for the first time it blew my mind
Greetings from Dublin Ireland brothers and sisters
After nearly 50 years of loving this song, it still sends shivers down my spine and tears to my eyes.
Amen to that...
Totally agree! Haunting!
Me too
Who knows where the time goes? All the birds are leaving. How can they know it's time to go?
Sad deserted shore, all your friends are leaving. Who knows where the time goes?
It still is as painful as it is Beautiful.......
I used to be a roadie for her band 'fotheringey' along with Bob & the 'Noz'. Magical unrepeatable times down in the farmhouse in Birdham, Sussex ! Indeed, where does it all go ! RIP Sandy.
Magnificent....this song should have been a massive hit....Sandy's voice is ace as is Thommo's restrained guitar....
If your not moved by this song your soul is dead.
I must add that this version hits you right in the tear ducts...
what a great response!
Absolutely
Brings the adventure and happiness of the 1960's back. Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention brought London to life then and made us all believe we were part of an awakening of the human family to the power and timelessness of love. Soooooo philosophical . I feel young again every time I hear it. Thanks
Still gives me goose bumps. Haunting melancholy.
Melancholy is dripping from every note. How'd she do that?
Sandy was "the Lady" which is written on her headstone at Putney Valle Cemetery. Sad, that Sandy's parents both died after the death of poor Sandy in 1978 and her brother in 1980.
Listen to Rufus wainwright and Brandi Carlisle version
John wherever Sandy thought the time goes. I think we all feel that this her most beautiful ballad will forever remain timeless!
Rest in Peace Sandy. Your voice so beautiful ... A timeless song Who knows where the time goes !!!! Magic. !!
A timeless classic. Best listened to on a cold winter's evening beside a log fire with the sun setting and a bottle of red wine close at hand.
I saw her live as a student in 1968 and instantly fell in love. Such a shame she was taken away at such a young age. She had the lovliest voice ever.
I saw her live the first time in July 1968 at Sheffield University Union Ball. Been a fan ever since. Marvellous singer, great song, amazing band.
If I had to choose only one artist to listen to for the rest of my life it would be Sandy Denny. No one else comes close.
One of the best songs ever written, it never fails to bring tears to my eyes. And this is certainly the ultimate and definitive performance by Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson and the other members of Fairport.
Thanks for giving a brief history behind this amazing musician. Like so many others, IMHO she & Fairport Convention never got the recognition they deserved. Just the same, her star rose very high indeed, even if it was obscured and out of view for the mainstream. She was truly in a league of her own with a moving, compelling, outstanding voice. Sandy Denny singing at the peak of her powers stirs & moves the listener in a way few, if any, other vocalist ever could. She sang with Led Zeppelin on Battle of Evermore, on their 4th album. That acoustic song is & remains a masterpiece, that couldn't have been without Sandy Denny. She left this world all too soon. RIP Sandy, you'll not be forgotten.
I'm kind of a hard bitten guy, not easily given to emotion.... but will some kind soul please play this at my funeral. It is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
This is my favourite song of all time....I'm 65, and in all these years, I've yet to find any song more poignant, magical and evocative than this. Timeless, faultless and definitely her best ever. Thank you Sandy for your amazing musical legacy.❤
This is to my mind the greatest song ever written or sung. Blessed, glorious Sandy, always in my heart.
Bellissima voce di Sandy Danny!!! ❤
Sono d'accordo!
I was 17 and 18 when first saw her with FC at Hull City Hall and then with the Strawbs. Couldn't believe a single voice could generate so much wholesomeness. I always felt good after hearing her gigs.
Just gorgeous. Life affirming stuff...nice one Sandy girl. Gone too soon. Thank you. XXX
Sandy had had beautiful voice and what a fantastic song it is
I have had this C/D in my truck for almost a year. I always put it on this song. Actually listen to This Group often. One of the greatest from the Era. Musicians play so tasteful and melodic.
RIP Sandy , you left us 40 years ago... but I have no sense of time....
Wow....thanks for introducing me to this dad!
After all these years I still miss her. The beauty of this song can't be duplicated, the beauty of her voice can't be replaced.
When you think of someone like this dying so early, you have to wonder what amazing songs did not get made.
Thank you, Tom. :) I'm off to listen...
Still deadly after all the years Sandy Denny was my introduction to real music...
Greetings from Dublin Ireland brothers and sisters. ..
I would always stop when I heard this touching song on the radio. Did not know who it was but it left it’s mark. Our narcissistic father would say all folk, rock, pop, was crap and was not allowed but I managed to listen to some anyway haha.
You made my day with this! Thank you! It brought tears to my 72 year old eyes!
It's been said by others, but she had the voice of an angel
sheer magic
WHAT A Voice !!!WHAT A GUITAR PLAYER !!!JUST SEBLIME 😁😁😁😁g
A time when alternative FM stations brought you great music instead of a computerized formula playlist. WMMR in Philly brought me into a world I cherish foreverMusic truly is a time machine.
This was my sister's favourite band and this track was chosen by her to be played at her own funeral when she succombed to cancer - it will always have a very personal resonance to me.
So sorry for you your loss. Your sister must have been a very discerning lass. What a warm and very spiritual piece of music to be remembered by.
respectful wishes and heartfelt stmpathy
😢
Oh my goodness Mike, I am tearful reading your comment. How incredibly poignant, making one's journey to the next life, to this wonderful song. Bless you and your family.
I am so sorry for your loss, your sister had impeccable taste in music. I hope you find comfort when listening to this.
We've spent a lifetime together, my love, my life, my breath...... Through the joys and tears, fears and triumphs and countless millions of moments in between, that make up a life.
For so many years the love of my life, the one who holds my heart in theirs has fought against the odds and beaten them, when doctors could offer at best, only tempered optimism. I poured myself, my dreams, hopes, energy, faith, my breath, into to them, refusing to let anything come between us --- Our life together.
Now, together as always, we've begun the journey towards what lays just beyond this mortal plane........ Tears and sadness are not welcome on our journey, there's room only for my love and I and the precious time we have *now*.
At the back of my heart, when the night is still or when I watch as he sleeps, there's a grieving. Because while he may come and go between the here and now and the shadowed halls of old memories, my heart is *here*. And now I can truly understand the deeper the love, the deeper the grieving when you're too aware of where this journey will lead us.
There is also a sense of something more ............ Gratitude. Grace.That we are deeply blessed to have found each other, to know without doubt or hesitation that always, always have this life, this love, that is complete and unconditional.
*And I am not alone while my love is near me*
*I know it will be so until it's time to go*
*So come the storms of winter and then*
*The birds in spring again*
*I have no fear of time*
*For who knows how my love grows?*
*And who knows where the time goes?*
Nia the Gulf Gypsy d
And Richard Thompsons marvellous guitar.
God bless Sandy Denny - and all of us.
I saw Fairport Convention as they opened for Jethro Tull , Stand Up tour at the Santa Monica Civic . What a great show . Sandy Denny was wonderful and Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull blew the roof off the place .
Leaves me speechless everytime I hear it - enough said 😢
Sandy went too early, too soon and too young. But her legacy will stay here. I always sing this song in winter on the deserted beach, watching the birds.....timeless. Thank you John
Always will be one of my top 10 all-time favourite songs and recordings.
This is a song for the ages sung by an angel.
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This is so beautiful, perfect singing by Sandy, but also wonderful guitar by Richard, bass by Ashley and drumming by Martin. They were such a group.
I was lucky enough to have heard Fairport way back and then to see Richard Thompson during an out door concert in the pouring rain at the Edmonton Folk Festival. not a soul moved.
Beautiful song beautifully sung by the legendary Sandy Denny.
I don't believe Sandy Denny knew just how amazing she was! This is such a beautiful heart and soul song, with such meaningful lyrics.
Have you read the book No More Sad Refrains. Interesting insight into an amazing talent. Dave Swarbrick made a insight into her when I met him a few years back. Obvious there was love there, because when I mentioned Sandy's name his eyes lit up,and you could see the memories come back to him. No they are reunited,and I hope they are in peace,and singing in unison as in the past...
Who Knows Where The Time Goes...❤❤❤❤❤
Steph Herringtonio h - Hi there, no I haven't read the book but I will look out for it, thanks for that. I saw Dave Swarbrick play a few times, what a lovely chap. All those amazing wonderful musicians- singers are on that other plain now, still singing I'm sure. Have a lovely day.
@@Jackmack365 Thanks for such a lovely reply! ☮☮☮☮ Take care,S
Steph Herringtonio h - you're very welcome.
@@Jackmack365 Have you only got the one pussy cat? I have a hooligan as well! Now winter is going to be coming,he is eating more!(Or is that just Mr. Monkey?(My cat!)💜🎸☮
She reminds me of Eva Cassidy. Love the voice. Came up in the same manner, through the bars, coffee houses and small local venues.
Eva covered this song.
Just utterly stunning,,,, as so many early Fairport songs were ,,,, xx G
Time doesn't go anywhere, it simply transitions into eternity. You want to be on the right side of the believer's fence come that day. If this song came out in '69 I would have been 20. I haven't heard it for decades but knew it well back then. Sandy's voice reminds me of Joni Mitchell's - rare and lovely. Oh well, bring on the future; it too will slide under the bridge and we'll meet again on the other side - hopefully in glory. Cheers from Aus guys.
Utterly.....achingly timeless!!!
When all the planets align and mortals too only then can this come to you. Thank you for this ‘‘tis greatness I insist xx
Beautiful song, sung by a great voice..............So timeless.
So poignant. Almost too much to bear. RIP. Thank you so much for sharing this.
This is by far my favourite version of this timeless piece of wonder. I never fail to cry every time I hear it after first hearing it soon after my father died.
Painfully beautiful. It's a song that exists in its own world.
I used to listen to FC a lot 30 odd years ago and this song wasn;t paid attention to much...now in my mid 50's it hits much MUCH harder.
As a young boy growing up in London and treating all of London as our playground, we found ourselves in regents park one summers evening possible 77 / 78 anyway Fairport Convention where holding a gig deep in the park, we heard the beautiful sounds first than scrambled under some scrubs to find ourselves in the audience, I loved those summers as a young boy, you never knew what you would stumble across, Done the same at 18 in NYC as Simon and Garfunkle where playing in Central Park ....
After 50 years it still goes directly to my soul.
Aside Sandy's angelic vocal this is one of the best guitar parts ever recorded. Richard Thompson, there's nothing to add...
Don't Cry, she was splendid and floored as we all are
When Sandy sings the word "winter" I well up every time.😢 Absolutely majestic.
Sandy Denny was one of the alltime bests. I still listen to her every week. She died way too early. I miss you, Sandy.