Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
"Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" is a song written and sung by Robert Lamm and recorded by the group Chicago. It was included on their 1969 debut album Chicago Transit Authority and released as a single in 1970.
"Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?"
"Listen"
October 1970
January 27/30, 1969
4:36 (album version)
3:20 (single version)
2:54 (radio edit)
Composition[edit]
Right after the free form piano solo, the time signature of the fanfare preceding the trumpet solo is, per bar, , , , , and , then transitions to a section in for 6 bars, then goes into for one bar. The song stays in after that.
Reception[edit]
Cash Box said of the song that Chicago's "exciting arrangements and superb material add up to an aural outburst that should blossom as a flowering chart entry."[6] Record World said that it's a "winning cut" and a "natural hit if ever there was one. "[7]