Song 178: “Who Knows Where the Time Goes?” by Fairport Convention, Part Two: “I Have no Thought of Time”
6/23/20250 min
For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted, songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the second part of a two-episode look at the song “Who Knows Where The Time Goes?” by Fairport Convention, and the intertwining careers of Joe Boyd, Sandy Denny, and Richard Thompson. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.
Patreon backers also have a forty-one-minute bonus episode available, on Judy Collins’ version of this song.
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[upbeat music] A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs by Andrew Hickey. Song 178, Who Knows Where the Time Goes by Fairport Convention. Part two, I Have No Thought of Time. Before we begin, this episode contains reference to alcohol and cocaine abuse and medical neglect leading to death. It also starts with some discussion of the fatal car accident that ended last episode. There's also some mention of child neglect and spousal violence. If that's likely to upset you, you might want to skip this episode or read the transcript. One of the inspirations for this podcast when I started it back in 2018 was a project by Richard Thompson, which appears, like many things in Thompson's life, to have started out of sheer bloody-mindedness. In 1999, Playboy magazine asked various people to list their songs of the millennium, and most of them, understanding the brief, chose a handful of songs from the latter half of the 20th century. But Thompson determined that he was going to list his favorite songs of the millennium. He didn't quite manage that, but he did cover 740 years, and when Playboy chose not to publish it, he decided to turn it into a touring show in which he covered all his favorite songs from Summer Is a Comin' In from 1260.
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[singing] Summer is a coming in. Summer is a coming in. So let's sing cuckoo. Blow wind blow