Single:
No Time entered the Australian singles chart* on 6 April 1970 and peaked at #43.
Album:
Two versions of the song were included on the band’s 1969 album Canned Wheat and their 1970 album American Woman.
Songwriters:
Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings
Producer:
Jack Richardson
Record label of Australian release:
RCA Victor
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
The original 1969 version:
The better-known 1970 version that charted in Australia:
On The Midnight Special, NBC, 3 January 1975:
Songfacts:
This song about moving on and finding your true calling was written by Guess Who guitarist Randy Bachman and lead singer Burton Cummings.
In a Songfacts interview, Bachman explained that musically, the song was inspired by two tracks on the Buffalo Springfield Again album: Rock & Roll Woman and Hung Upside Down. Neil Young of Buffalo Springfield (a fellow Canadian) played an acetate of the album for Cummings and Bachman when his travels took him to Winnipeg. They loved the country-rock sound and set out to write something like it. “That was our country-rock song,” Bachman said. “Me and Burton trying to be like Neil and Stephen Stills.”
According to Randy Bachman, the guitar lick on this song is an inversion of what Stephen Stills played on the Buffalo Springfield track Hung Upside Down.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/the-guess-who/no-time
Lyrics:
(No time left for you)
On my way to better things
(No time left for you)
I’ll find myself some wings
(No time left for you)
Distant roads are calling me
(No time left for you)
Mm-da, mm-da, mm-da, mm-da, mm-da
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