Time Is On My Side

Album: 12 x 5 (1964)
Charted: 62 6
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  • Time is on my side, yes it is
    Time is on my side, yes it is
    Now you all were saying that you want to be free
    But you'll come runnin' back (I said you would baby)
    You'll come runnin' back (like I told you so many times before)
    You'll come runnin' back to me, yeah

    Time is on my side, yes it is
    Time is on my side, yes it is
    You're searching for good times but just wait and see
    You'll come runnin' back (I said you would darling)
    You'll come runnin back (spend the rest of life with ya baby)
    You'll come runnin' back to me

    Go ahead baby, go ahead, go ahead and light up the town
    And baby, do anything your heart desires
    Remember, I'll always be around
    And I know, I know like I told you so many times before
    You're gonna come back
    Yeah you're going to come back baby
    Knockin', yeah knockin' right on my door, yeah

    Time is on my side, yes it is
    Time is on my side, yes it is
    'Cause I got the real love, the kind that you need
    You'll come runnin' back (I knew you would one day)
    You'll come runnin' back (baby I told you before)
    You'll come runnin' back to me, yeah

    Time, time, time is on my side, yes it is, I said
    Time, time, time is on my side, yes it is, I said
    Time, time, time is on my side Writer/s: Jerry Ragovoy, Norman Meade
    Publisher: Royalty Network
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Comments: 18

  • Rob from Philadelphia, PaMany years ago my grandfather was friendly with a Philadelphia-based eye doctor known as Dr. Ragovoy. When he visited my grandparents, Dr. Ragovoy would occasionally bring his young son to hang out with the teenager who would later become my mother. Dr. Ragovoy's son was named Jerry.
  • Richard from Puyallup, WashingtonA great blues tune by a great band - the Stones.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 21st 1965, the Rolling Stones and Roy Orbison arrived at the Sydney Airport*, it was the beginning of a 16-date tour of Australian and New Zealand...
    At the time the Stones had two records on the Kent Music Report chart; at #4 was "The Little Red Rooster, while at #16 was "Time Is On My Side" (the week before "The Little Red Rooster" had peaked at #2 for one week}...
    Just over six weeks later on March 6th Roy Orbison's "Goodnight" reached #6 {for 3 non-consecutive weeks} on the Australian chart...
    * An estimated 3,000 screaming fans greeted the Stones & the Big 'O' at the airport.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn October 11th 1964, "Time Is On My Side" by the Rolling Stones entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #80; and on November 29th, 1964 it peaked at #6 {for 3 weeks} and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100...
    It reached #4 in Australia and #10 in the Netherlands...
    It was their fourth Top 100 record and the first make the Top 10.
  • Jojo from Baton Rouge, LaKai Winding and Irma Thomas versions send chills down your spine, where has that music gone? Youtube them.
  • Lucas from Heerlen, NetherlandsMy dog said he wrote this song with his band :')
  • Matt from Elgin, United KingdomHas anybody heard of the band from Chester called The Jade 5? A backing group around in the 60's apparently.
  • Matt from Elgin, United KingdomMy dad said he wrote this song with his band The Jade 5.
  • George from Redlands, CaIrma Thomas had a great version of this song. Supposedly, she stopped doing this song because she was unhappy that the Rolling Stones even used the same arrangement.
  • Marcus from Columbus, OhThere are two verisons of the song. The first one was the organ verison that reminds me of a vacant Victorian Manison on 510 E.N. Broadway that was vacant from 1961 till it was torn down in 1966. I recalled the organ verison playing on my local rock & roll station & later the gituar verison would be played and take over the organ verison. I was 9 when the organ verison of "Time Is On My Side" By The Rolling Stones. The opening with the organ playing reminds me of a dream I had where I went to school at night and came home early & when I rode home in the bus, in the early morning the street lights turned off and the song would be played and met some old friends that lived during the 1964-65 School year & got bit by a small gator & woke up sick & stayed home from school but not from The 1964 Edition of Trick & Treat. There is one radio station that plays oldies and plays the gituar verison of "Time Is On My Side" until October and the early part of November & plays the organ spooky verison of the Stones' cover song. I got both verisons in my CD collection. My personal favorite verison of The song "Time Is On My Side" is the organ verison by The Rolling Stones.
    Marcus Brainard, Columbus, Ohio
  • Walter from Antwerp, BelgiumThe vocal group on the 1963 Kai Winding original might well be The Gospelaires (Dionne Warwick, DeeDee Warwick and Cissy Houston). For the Irma Thomas cover the next year, some lyrics were added. It would make sense that Jimmy Norman wrote these, but why then does he credit only Jerry Ragovoy (aka Norman Meade) and not himself on his 2004 CD 'Little Pieces' ?
  • Mike from Berkeley, CaThis recording of the song is pretty good, but Irma Thomas's original (not the one available now) was 10 times better.
  • Z from Montreal, CanadaI prefer the Irma Thomas version (from 1964) much better than the Rolling Stones version. The Irma Thomas version has a strong gospel style.
  • Matt from Newport, Walesin the denzel washington film Fallen the antichrist mentioned by jed from somersets true name is Azazel
  • Dave from Greenville, ScJimmy Norman wrote the lyrics to this song and just happend to play a very sweet version of it not to long ago on N.P.R.
  • Simon from Brno, Czech RepublicIan Stewart (1938-1985) played in this song the organ.
  • Jed from Somerset. Uk, EnglandThe song was used as a very important part of the Denzil Washington film "Fallen". It was the song the condemned man sang to the detective as he shook his hand before he went to the electric chair and was to recur throughout the film as the Anti-Christ was passed on.
  • Fred from Summit, NeIt was actually Kai Winding who recorded the song first, prior to Irma Thomas, in 1963 on Verve Records. The label notes a Vocal Group (un-named). Very much soul oriented.
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