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"Time Has Told Me" Nick Drake Joe Boyd Five Leaves Left: 1969 [8] "Time of No Reply" † Nick Drake Joe Boyd Frank Kornelussen Time of No Reply: 1987 [7] "Time Piece" † Nick Drake – Family Tree: 2007 [5] "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" † Bob Dylan ‡ – Family Tree: 2007 [5] "Tow the Line" † Nick Drake Joe Boyd Made to Love Magic: 2004 [22]
Though Drake had sold relatively few albums by his death in 1974, [21] his work began to attract critical and commercial attention by the end of the 1980s. A 1989 retrospective assessment of Five Leaves Left by Len Brown in NME awarded the album 9/10 and stated that it "remains a masterpiece of English melancholy; a moving work that first revealed Drake's remarkable talent to communicate his ...
Song Year Album Notes Ref "Time Has Told Me" 1969 Nice Enough to Eat: From Five Leaves Left [35] "Hazey Jane I" 1970 Bumpers: From Bryter Layter [36] "One of These Things First" 1971 El Pea [37] "Road" 1994 Folk Routes: From Pink Moon [38] "Three Hours" 1995 Troubadours of British Folk, Vol.2: Folk into Rock: From Five Leaves Left [39] "Pink ...
On 5 August 1969, Drake pre-recorded four songs for the BBC's Night Ride show presented by John Peel ("Cello Song", "Three Hours", "River Man" and "Time of No Reply" ), which were broadcast after midnight on 6 August. Nick subsequently recorded "Bryter Layter" for another BBC radio broadcast, in April 1970.
"Blues in the Night" is a popular blues song which has become a pop standard and is generally considered to be part of the Great American Songbook. The music was written by Harold Arlen , the lyrics by Johnny Mercer , for a 1941 film begun with the working title Hot Nocturne , but finally released as Blues in the Night .
Stylistically, "Somebody told Me" has been cited as alternative rock, [3] new wave, [4] dance-rock, [5] and disco. [6] The song is in the verse-chorus form. The intro of the song is a B ♭ m chord, leading into the first verse, which consists of a B ♭ m–E ♭ m–B ♭ chord progression repeated twice, followed by a pre-chorus of G ♭ –A ♭ –B ♭ m chord progression repeated twice.
Released as a single in early 1969, Laine's version of the song was a hit single for the 55-year-old singer on U.S. singles charts. It peaked at #24 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in March of that year, remaining in the Top 40 for seven weeks, [2] and was the final Top 40 hit of Laine's long career.
The song, or its title, has been the subject of a wide variety of cultural references and allusions: The romantic metaphor "a rose without a thorn" was popularized by the song. [29] It was subsequently much used, a recent example being by the singer-songwriter Nick Drake in his song "Time has told me". [29]