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Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (Sandy Denny album)

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Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
Compilation album by
Released1985
Recorded1967 – 1977
Genrefolk rock
Length182:55
LabelUK: Island
ProducerTrevor Lucas & Joe Boyd
Sandy Denny chronology
Rendezvous
(1977)
Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
(1985)
Sandy Denny and the Strawbs
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Q[4]
Rolling Stone[2]

Who Knows Where the Time Goes? is a retrospective compilation of the work of English folk rock singer Sandy Denny issued in 1985. It is a four-LP boxed set released on the Island Records label in the UK and Germany and on Hannibal/Carthage Records in the US, later reissued as a three-CD set. It includes released and previously unreleased recordings from 1967 to 1977, live performances, outtakes and demos from Denny's solo career, and with Fairport Convention, Fotheringay and Strawbs.

The set included a twenty-page booklet featuring many photographs of Denny, her family, and friends, as well as lyrics of most of the songs, and instrumental credits.

Reception

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AllMusic praised the album, describing it as "[a] magnificently produced ... complete portrait of Sandy Denny", Denny herself as "the haunting singer, the melodic, mournful songwriter", and summed up the collection as "[t]he album makes the case for Denny as a major folk artist."[5]

Rolling Stone magazine's David Fricke described the set as "worthy of her largely unrecognized talent... (and) has captured her finest hours for all time"[6]

Track listing

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All songs are credited to Sandy Denny except where noted.

Side one

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  1. "The Lady" – 5:08 – recorded live in London(during what would end up being Sandy's last concert), 1977
  2. "Listen, Listen" – 3:57 – from Sandy
  3. "Next Time Around" – 4:23 – from The North Star Grassman and the Ravens
  4. "Farewell, Farewell" (Richard Thompson) – 2:38 – from Liege and Lief (Fairport Convention)
  5. "The Music Weaver" - 3:04 - demo recorded 1972
  6. "Tomorrow is a Long Time" (Bob Dylan) – 3:56 – from Sandy

Side two

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  1. "The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood" (words: Richard Fariña) – 5:58 – unreleased track by Fairport Convention
  2. "The Pond and the Stream" – 3:16 – from Fotheringay
  3. "One Way Donkey Ride" – 3:34 – from Rendezvous
  4. "Take Away the Load (Sandy's Song)" – 1:36 – demo recorded 1976
  5. "One More Chance" – 7:52 – from Rising for the Moon (Fairport Convention)

Side three

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  1. "Bruton Town" – 4:47 – BBC recording 1972
  2. "Blackwaterside" – 4:15 – from The North Star Grassman and the Ravens
  3. "Tam Lin" – 7:10 – from Liege and Lief (Fairport Convention)
  4. "The Banks of the Nile" – 8:06 – from Fotheringay

Side four

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  1. "Sail Away to the Sea" (Dave Cousins) – 3:25 – from All Our Own Work (Sandy and The Strawbs)
  2. "You Never Wanted Me" (Jackson C. Frank) – 3:08 – BBC recording 1968 (Fairport Convention)
  3. "Sweet Rosemary" – 2:40 – demo recorded 1972
  4. "Now And Then" - 3:45 - demo recorded 1968
  5. "Autopsy" – 4:19 – from Unhalfbricking (Fairport Convention)
  6. "It'll Take a Long Time" – 5:14 – from Sandy

Side five

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  1. "Two Weeks Last Summer" (Dave Cousins) – 3:50 – unreleased track by Fotheringay
  2. "Late November" – 4:31 – from the Island sampler El Pea (Fotheringay)[7]
  3. "Gypsy Davey" (Traditional) – 3:53 – unreleased track by Fotheringay, 1970
  4. "Winter Winds" – 2:10 – from Fotheringay
  5. "Nothing More" – 4:56 – recorded live in Rotterdam, 1970 (Fotheringay)
  6. "Memphis, Tennessee" (Chuck Berry) – 4:00 – recorded live in Rotterdam, 1970 (Fotheringay)

Side six

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  1. "Walking the Floor Over You" – 4:17 – unreleased track 1971/73
  2. "When Will I Be Loved?" (Don and Phil Everly) – 3:10 – from The Bunch (duet w/ Linda Thompson)
  3. "Whispering Grass" (Doris Fisher and Fred Fisher) – 3:56 – from Like an Old Fashioned Waltz
  4. "Friends" - 3:31 - from Like an Old Fashioned Waltz
  5. "Solo" – 5:01 – recorded live in Los Angeles, 1974 (Fairport Convention)
  6. "After Halloween" – 2:57 – unreleased track, 1972

Side seven

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  1. "For Shame of Doing Wrong" (Richard Thompson) – 3:42 – from Rendezvous
  2. "Stranger to Himself" – 2:50 – from Rising for the Moon (Fairport Convention)
  3. "I'm a Dreamer" – 4:43 – from Rendezvous
  4. "John the Gun" – 5:11 – from Fairport Live Convention (A Moveable Feast)
  5. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (Bob Dylan) – 4:30 – recorded live in Los Angeles, 1974 (Fairport Convention)

Side eight

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  1. "By the Time it Gets Dark" – 3:20 – demo recorded 1974
  2. "What is True?" – 3:44 – demo recorded 1973
  3. "The Sea" – 5:25 – from Fotheringay
  4. "Full Moon" – 4:30 – unreleased track, 1976
  5. "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" – 6:37 – recorded live Los Angeles, 1974 (Fairport Convention)

CD release

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The tracks on the 1991 CD release were in the same order as on the original vinyl discs:

  • Disc one : Sides one & two and tracks one and two of Side three,
  • Disc two : tracks three and four of Side three, Sides four and five, and track one of Side six
  • Disc three : the rest

4CDs release

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  • Disc one : Same as CD release
  • Disc two : Same as CD release
  • Disc three : Same as CD release
  • Disc four
  1. "It'll Take A Long Time" - 05:43 – live 1 February 1974 at Los Angeles (Fairport Convention)
  2. "John The Gun" - 05:39 – live 1 February 1974 at Los Angeles (Fairport Convention)
  3. "She Moves Through The Fair (Trad. / Words by Padraic Colum)" - 03:27 – live 1 February 1974 at Los Angeles (Fairport Convention)
  4. "Autopsy" - 04:25 – demo recorded 30 December 1968
  5. "Take Me Away" - 03:57 – home demo recorded 1977
  6. "One Way Donkey Ride" - 04:11 – home demo recorded 1977
  7. "Still Waters Run Deep" - 03:57 – home demo recorded 1977
  8. "By The Time It Gets Dark" - 03:30 – alternate demo recorded 1977
  9. "By The Time It Gets Dark" - 03:38 – run through recorded 1977
  10. "By The Time It Gets Dark" - 04:06 – alternate take recorded 1977
  11. "All Our Days" - 03:37 – home demo recorded 1977
  12. "Full Moon" - 04:28 – home demo recorded 1977
  13. "Losing Game (James Carr & Denny Weaver)" - 03:14 – alternate take recorded 4 April and 18 June 1977 (duet /w Jess Roden)
  14. "Silver Threads And Golden Needles (Dick Reynolds & Jack Rhodes)" - 04:29 – unreleased take by Fotheringay
  15. "Moments (Bryn Haworth)" - 03:43 – the last recording of Sandy Denny recorded 20 May 1977
  16. "No More Sad Refrains" - 03:05 – home demo recorded 1977

Issue history

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1985: (UK) 4 LPs - Island SDSP 100
1986: (US) 4 LPs - Hannibal 100/CD - Hannibal HAN5301
1991: LP/CD - Hannibal 5301
1991: CS - Hannibal HNBC-5301
2009: 4CDs – Universal Japan UICY94090

References

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  1. ^ Ruhlmann, William (2011). "Who Knows Where the Time Goes [Box Set] - Sandy Denny | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 1 September 2011.
  2. ^ March 27, 1986 David Fricke Rolling Stone review[dead link]
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  4. ^ Q, May 2007, Issue 250.
  5. ^ "Who Knows Where the Time Goes - Box Set". Retrieved 5 June 2008.
  6. ^ "Who Knows Where The Time Goes". 27 March 1986. Retrieved 5 June 2008.[dead link]
  7. ^ this is actually incorrect; the track was an alternate version, but different from the El Pea version.[1]