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"Funny How Time Slips Away" is a song written by Willie Nelson and first recorded by country singer Billy Walker. Walker's version was issued as a single by Columbia Records in June 1961 and peaked at number 23 on the Hot C&W Sides chart. [ 2 ]
You Don't Think I'm Funny Anymore; You Dream About Me; You Left Me A Long, Long Time Ago; You Memory Won't Die; You Ought To Hear Me Cry; You Took My Happiness Away; You'll Always Have Someone (co-written With Hank Cochran) Your Country Boy; You Wouldn't Cross The Street
It contains remakes of his best known compositions up to that time, such as “Night Life” and “Funny How Time Slips Away,” as well as newer songs like "Healing Hands of Time." Nelson later said of "One Day at a Time" and "It Should Be Easier Now," "These are songs of a very personal nature, but everyone can apply them to their own ...
All tracks composed by Willie Nelson, except where indicated. "Funny How Time Slips Away" - 5:30 "Crazy" - 3:30 "Night Life" (Paul Buskirk, Walter Breeland, Nelson) - 3:56 "Healing Hands of Time" - 3:45 "(How Will I Know) I'm Falling in Love Again" - 4:14 "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 2:51
The Essential Willie Nelson (2003) Songs (2005) The Complete Atlantic Sessions ... My Own Peculiar Way - 3:38; Funny How Time Slips Away [feat. Francine Reed] - 4:11;
He was one of the first artists to record a Willie Nelson song; [1] and although his 1961 version of "Funny How Time Slips Away" only reached No. 23 on Billboard's country singles chart, it helped establish Walker's national reputation. [6] In 1962, he topped the chart with "Charlie's Shoes", the only No. 1 single of his career. [1]
Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson at a benefit concert in Nashville in 2013. “If you just take the music part of it and go back to, you know, Waylon and Kris and John and, you know, all of us ...
While playing with Price and the Cherokee Cowboys, other of his original songs became hits for other artists, including "Funny How Time Slips Away" (Billy Walker), "Pretty Paper" (Roy Orbison), and, most famously, "Crazy" by Patsy Cline. [6] Nelson signed with Liberty Records and was recording by August 1961 at the Bradley Studios. [7]