JUDY COLLINS - "Who Knows Where The Time Goes?" 2000

[greenbluekites06]

6 people with no idea about music

[foreilly1958]

This is a rare case of Ms. Collins not doing justice to a wonderfully artistic piece. Unfortunately, her creative license does not work with this incredibly sensitive work.

[roxylila]

Absolutly wonderful voice....♥

[63RobWanders]

she is such a great artist and singer. and this song is my favourite of her. i just love the melody and lyrics and Judy's voice suits it so perfectly!

[susanmarty26]

When I was in high school, I had a music teacher who showed us that certain notes that Judy Collins sings could shatter a glass and that it did. Every time I hear her voice I get chills. What beauty; she sings like an angel.

[susanmarty26]

What a beautiful song done by one of the greatest folk singers the world will ever know. Thank you Judy for such beauty that you have brought to my life and many others. 

[Paulsdottir]

I was 16 and this is song is as beautiful now as then and means even more. Literally brings me to tears, her voice is better than ever.

[Gerryofcalifornia]

I fell in love with the album and the song when it came out in 1969, but I had no idea the song could someday become a great timeless classic, after more than 40 years people still love listening to it, they even play it in Starbucks now...I'm sure Sandy Denny is smiling in heaven, thanks to Judy...

[downhill34]

This is my funeral song....she is amazing saw her live this year and was stunned and the song is perfect.

[missmarionk]

I wish I could hit the like button a million times

[odisseus20dx]

Watching her show must be out of this world...

[048LIB]

who the hell could dislike this song????????????

[bobhedstrom]

There is hope after all! Unbelievable! I'm crying in my coffee. Thank you Judy Collins. just boB

[sheriwine1950]

I bought this albumn in high school and still own it and play it..She's amazing!

[sookiestackhouse2u]

judy is magical and so is this song ...

[relnak9]

Billy, do you have to be so cruel and self righteous in the discussion of such a haunting song of loss and revelation that one is still surrounded by loved ones! Get over yourself man!

[43anoyes]

would love to hear Farewell Tawathie" (spelling) with the whales singing in the background.  So beautiful

[Clayton1949]

I had a record player in my hootch in Viet Nam in 1969, and we would play this song to close the evening

[MaelFilms]

I saw Judy Collins sing this last night. Beautiful is not a phrase that comes near enough to describing how the whole night was....

[marcogozzaz]

Always moving and touching

we´re seaguls in the sky .. it´s sunset... soon a new day will come.......

we do not count the time...

BEAUTIFUL... ALWAYS!!

[RustyTrawler101]

@cocochanelleke Judy seems to have sold out - in this clip she sound and looks as schmaltzy as Barbra Streisand! What next for Judy - duets with Barry Manilow?

[cocochanelleke]

@RustyTrawler101

Mayhap ;(

[mmedefarge]

@cocochanelleke What do you want her to wear, a house-dress with high top shoes, wear her her in a bun, sit in a rocker? It's just a pantsuit for chissakes. Though I'm nearly her age, I haven't worn a pantsuit since the 60's. If anything it dates her. Be glad she didn't choose a low-cut mini-dress; now that really would be mutton dressed as lamb. Anyway her voice is as haunting & beautiful as ever.

[suerisk]

@mmedefarge Re styling- singers often research and use fashion statements to depict some of theoriginal karma of whatever musical document. here I feel she is depicting a lady whose love and faithfulness surpassed her difficulties.

[TheTwelly]

Pure silk. Love it.

[folkmusicgirl]

Besides Sandy herself, Judy Collins has done a magnificent arrangement of this song. What a voice! I remember her early version and I still have that vinyl album from which this song is on. Judy's vocals; purest of crystal clear soprano is stunning!

[LeeMike233]

Judy brings back so many great memories. What a great lady!!! 1969 was a great era and Judy only made it greater. So many outstanding performers and such a great time to tell your children what a great era it was.

[rosemarston]

my mother passed 6 months ago today. She loved Judy Collins and had several of her albums. I played this song over and over the last day of her life and then we played it at her ash ceremony in the mountains. a butterfly came and landed on the flowers atop off her cremains...this is how i knew my mother approved of the ceremony ( and my choice of song). Thank you for posting this.

[kocean1]

What a great voice and and even better song--great post thanks

[12wsatye]

2 people are very miserable. sad to be them!!!!

[jimk47]

Great version but still only a fine 3rd after Sandy Denny and Nina Simone.

[HotFuss]

@jimk47 Check out Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet's version of it, Susanna's vocals are at their best!

[jimk47]

ggreat version but still a fine 3rd after Sandt Denny and Nina Simone.

[barakacafe1]

YES I WENT TO SEE HER 1976.... PEOPLE LIKE HER CAN STILL GIVE US THE SWEET TASTE OF A GOOD LIFE AND DAYS OF INNOCENCE IN USA. ALAS ALAS

[MrReeseRideout]

@barakacafe1 I don't know where you were in 1976, but that period, nor Judy, are emblematic of a time of innocence. In fact, Judy came to the fore in the very turbulent late 60s and 70s—the JFK, RFK, MLK assassinations and Vietnam war years—and was part of the flower-child (or hippie) movement, which celebrated peace and embraced free-wheeling sex and drug use.

No judgments, just saying that to call it "days of innocence" is way off base.

[asbpab1966]

@MrReeseRideout I traveled to Canada and Mexico many times in the 60's and 70's without needing a passport. I flew many times without having to get to the airport 2 hours early for security and could take just about what I wanted on the plane. By 1972, the war was winding down and the draft was being abolished. 1974 was a bit hairy with Watergate and the so-called energy crisis, but it came out OK. Continued on next comment.

[asbpab1966]

@MrReeseRideout The only conservative to run for President, Barry Goldwater, was perceived as an extremist and trounced in 1964. Today, we have candidates far to the right of Goldwater, who want to undo the New Deal and take us back to 1929 or earlier. Compared to 2011, 1976 -- or 1966 was a time of innocence.

[ocnarfeara]

Beautiful.That's the third version of this song I've listenned sung by Judy Collins. They are all fantastic.My favorite still is The Best Of album version. Thanks for this great post.

[susantyrellfans]

If you have never heard Sandy Denny...please do.

[carrotjuse]

I love this woman.  Like fine wine and old diamonds she just gets better with age.

[mickigoe]

This is great at the beginning - my favourite American 60's singer ( with Grace Slick ) praising my favourite ever English girl - the exquisite Sandy. Both these ladies share a very high soul - and have both greatly enriched the existence of this poor plodder.

[Greenockianx]

One word: PURE.

[dianadollarable]

I was 7 years old in 1969...too young to realize the genius of this song...the writer and the singer. I do now! ~ It ALWAYS brings me to tears. Great, great song...

[susanmarty26]

@dianadollarable 

[julieannemichelle]

this is such a meaningful and timeless song!

[ModeRecords]

Why not buy the record or the track off of iTunes? Artists do need support too, you know.

[oremi33155]

Ahhhh the Sixties!I was young and full of hope,I saw the sun rise and it's warmth filled me with joy.Today I still like to watch the sunrise but remain sad.Judy's voice brings back so many memories!!!!!

[Tommigril]

Happy Belated birthday Charlie...one of "your songs" RIP my love

[zipper179]

I listen, and, I recall how especially beautiful San Francisco is.. It's autumn, just before the holidays..Its just after 7 in the evening, and the fog has already rolled in..A lady and I have just taken a seat, in either, 'Vesuvio's', or, 'Spec's', in North Beach.. Who Knows Where The Time Goes.. And who cares..?

[ebennett7]

Look at her! Who else can wear a pink metallic suit and look tasteful? What a beautiful tribute and a wonderfully written song!

[tomasperry]

I wouldn't trust anyone in a shiny pink suit to sing this song properly. It's far too slow and dragged out, as if to say 'what a beautiful song and how beautifully I sing it". Kitsch.

[raleighsquare]

What a great song. How fortunate to have Judy Collins sing it. Heard it after so many years, in the movie A Walk on the Moon with Diane Lane..

[sexybutterflybabe]

@raleighsquare I actually want to go watch that movie just to hear that version.

[7nmesa]

I loved when this song was played on the tv show the Wonder Years when the sister was leaving the house when she turned 18 and the dad was looking out the window, very moving scene.

[PsychLion]

Sometimes this song is too heart wrenching for me to listen to. Especially Sandy Denny's version.

[sasylatin]

Yesterday was the 1st time I ever hear the voice of Judy Collins. I was watching, "The subject was roses", one of the best movies i've ever seen. I love her voice, its so relaxing and enchanting :)

I wish I could find the song "Albatross" on youtube though!

[12wsatye]

i was flicking between channels while wathing monday night football, and heard a angels voice sing. it was judy singing this most beautiful song. it was at the begining of the movie "the subject was roses" a old movie on the nostolgic movie channel. i ended up watching the whole thing. the power of music!!! r.i.p. sandy denny....

[helenakhoo]

Wowww,simply amazing...as good a version as my favourite Nina Simone.This tune always leaves me mesmerize everytime I listen to it.

[drlupinful]

Judy Collins is the standard

[db5481940]

Judy Collins is the best.

[maryleighton]

SWEET

[SpamWarrior3000]

I grew up listening to her rendition of this on her Colors of the Day CD, and it reminds me so much of childhood it almost hurts. Judy's one of only a very small handful of singers whose voice seems to only get better with age. Someone once described her voice as liquid silver, and they weren't wrong.

[jac2623]

Judy's version is very good, but listen to Eva Cassidy sometimes. Her voice is angelic and, like Sandy Denny, she died at 32.

[66root]

This song makes me think back on my life this song is about life to me........

[willrothfuss]

Boy, this brings back some real deep memories.

[anandanaga999]

best not spent in jail.

[mbrand19971]

I agree someone needs to put out the studio version Judy did in 69 which hopefully Warner will allow it cause this one of Judy's best vocal performance on the album or any other album she's done.

[vincentkerruk]

IF ONLY WE KNEW.

[lusciousgirl8]

This song makes me cry when I hear it in the movie A Walk on the Moon. Its played in a scene between Diane Lane and Viggo Mortenson. Its like if her character, Pearl, hadn't gotten married so young, she would have probably been with Walker James instead.

[nervetech]

Great performance, but she slips up with the words, they are / I have no thought of time / I do not count the time /I have no fear of time / a fine progression she does not deliver. Well we all get old.....who knows where the time goes...

[mindheartspeak]

beautiful! sooooo beautiful!!! Logn live Judy Collins!I am just so awed...

[westpalmscott]

It was Judy's version of this that pointed me toward Sandy Denny and Fairport. It opened me to a genre that had escaped me until then. Collins always has a way of making a song hers and she wears this one well and at the same time keeps it close to Sandy's original flavor. One of the best songs from the late 60's

[aliorjenk94]

Fantastic song sung beautifully,have always loved this one.

[DEOO100]

fabulous I have been searching for one or any of her dvds, no luck yet, such a beautiful voice.

[llieber100]

Thanks for posting this!! Yes, I second what the earlier poster said it would be great if someone would upload that 1969 Judy Collins album of that same title.

[desertra1]

She was an amazing beauty and a singer that transformed lives.

[sookiestackhouse2u]

genes are a crazy thing. here's this woman today at her age still sounding like an angel and she was an alcoholic her entire adult life? apparently it never affected her vocals. now you have joni mitchell and barbra streisand who sang like angels as well but sound like hell today? go figure ....

[psaviano]

@sookiestackhouse2u Hi there. Well, Judy went into rehab in 1978, at age 39. So, not a drinker her entire adult life. In the mid-1970s, she did have trouble with her voice. Also important is that she quit smoking in her early 30s, that made a big difference. She also had many, many years of voice lessons and serious training, and remains very disciplined about her health. Last year, she performed 110 concerts. Look up her review in last weeks NY Times for an update on her remarkable voice.

[sookiestackhouse2u]

@psaviano ... thanks for the info / update on judy. i just love her. ;-)

[westpalmscott]

Collins has maintained her voice so well over the years. My God, she was 61 here

[SweetieGord]

this gorgeous track chokes me up every time...thanks for posting it!!

[DAToDATonian]

Sandy Denny must be smiling in Heaven to hear this wonderful presentation of her song. Many thanks betahifi !!!

[billyguns2]

This song always moves me to tears and brings back so many memories....Judy's 1969 version has never been surpassed, and I do wish someone would upload it to YouTube; it is scandalous that it is not available here!

[betahifi]

@billyguns2 Help me out, here. You are looking for the audio track of the song, off the 1968 album? But there wouldn't be video with it.  Are you using YouTube as a sort of radio station, where you get to pick the songs you want to hear yourself??

Just curious . . .

Phil in Boston

[billyguns2]

@betahifi There are many examples of audio only upl;oads on YouTube, and often the uploaders have still pictures or videos of an appropriate nature to accompany the audios that were made without video; surely you are aware of that! I have over 2,000 YouTube videos saved, an eclectic mix of video only, audio only, or a hybrid such as the one I described. I dip into them whenevr I feel like it; I like CHOICE.

[betahifi]

@billyguns2 Thanks for the feedback. I'm aware of some audios without video, but it never occurred to me that people are here actually looking for just audio of songs, without video to go along with it. I've been working hard building this channel, and I'm interested in knowing what people think and how they are using it.

By the way, I saw Judy in concert last Friday night, and she sang "Who Knows Where the Time Goes."

[stenesk]

@betahifi I'm so grateful for your efforts, dear "betahifi"! To the discerning mind seeing, smelling, in every way sensing the musician performing her art and WORK will always add to even the most enthralling listening experience. Love and peace from Denmark.

[folkfan2]

@betahifi I have to say, I'm more interested in videos with music, not just audio. I'm disappointed when I find audio with a single still; even a slideshow of stills is not quite what I'm looking for. Audio-only reminds me of the "Yule Log" TV program that ran during the holidays years ago. Remember that? Holiday tunes played continuously against an image of burning logs in a fireplace! Forget the artifice of the fireplace for a moment, but an unchanging image defeats the purpose of video.

[gramule]

@betahifi couldn't agree more bethafi, billyguns2 you could be an empowered youtuber and upload it!

[MITCHWILD]

@billyguns2 Have you not heard the original by Sandy Denny?

[musigny59]

@billyguns2 I just play the vinyl

[haltmusic]

Thank you Judy for remembering the great Sandy Denny at the beginning, it's amazing to think that Sandy was only 19 when she wrote this.... You do it justice!

Bellissimo!

[dryad85]

this song is always with me...

[OL8Twho]

After leaving L.A. in '73, I sat up on the mountain in Oregon and sang this song many long, lonely days. Now the time has gone by and I wonder, Who knows where the time goes?

[7Odyssey]

No one can touch Sandys version-but this comes nearest to it!

[banatlala]

As we get older , song gets stronger and stronger,

and we get it , but still , where does the time goes ?, and so so fast . I think Nina Simon interpretation may be just best.

[om92555]

Judy's voice is still pristeen as ever. The song is so lovely.

[silgen]

Nice tribute to the great Sandy Denny at the beginning, it's amazing to think that Sandy was only 19 when she wrote this....

Lovely version...

[rosesredvioletsblue]

Such a beautiful song! Thank you,

for posting. Lyrics are amazing!

thank you

[bonajee]

Simply Awsome!

[PsychLion]

I can't listen to Sandy Denny anymore because it just causes me heart to ache. I can barely listen to this version without tearing up lol.

[rkhobo]

Such a beautiful voice and beautiful son. When I hear it, it sends chills up my spine and always makes me think deeply of a particular, special time in my past....

[luckypenny482]

Like Alison Krauss, this woman Judy Collins was sent to Earth for the express purpose of filling the air with song. What a magnificent voice.

[MsBlynn]

gorgeous! Thank you!

[yourHRexpert]

I cannot ever listen to this song sung by Judy without shedding tears.... it crystallizes an entire life.... thanks so much for posting it.

[bosskat57]

lovely .

[99DaysOFBlackSun]

One of my favorite songs, thanks for sharing this video.