It's Just About Time
| "It's Just About Time" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two | ||||
| A-side | "It's Just About Time" "I Just Thought You'd Like to Know" | |||
| Released | November 1958 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | Sun 309 | |||
| Songwriter | Jack Clement[1] | |||
| Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two singles chronology | ||||
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| Music video | ||||
| "It's Just About Time" (audio only) on YouTube | ||||
"It's Just About Time" is a song originally recorded by Johnny Cash. It was written for him by Jack Clement.[2][3]
The song was recorded by Cash in July 1958 during his final sessions for Sun Records,[2][3] and released as a single (Sun 309, with "I Just Thought You'd Like to Know", another song from the same sessions,[4] on the opposite side)[5][6][7][8] in November.[9]
Musical and lyrical content
[edit]"It's Just About Time" is a solid Jack Clement ballad with a honky-tonk flavor. Just about the time the singer thinks it's over for him and his careless love, he starts missing her.
— John M. Alexander. The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash[2]
Release and reception
[edit]John M. Alexander notes in his Cash biography that Sun "rush-released" "It's Just About Time" as a single to cash on the success of Cash's second single for Columbia, "Don't Take Your Guns to Town".[2] The trick didn't quite work. While the Columbia single was surrounded by a lot of attention, "It's Just About Time" reached only No. 30 on Billboard's country chart and no. 47 on the pop one.[2]
Peter Lowry, as well, notes (in his book I've Been Everywhere: A Johnny Cash Chronicle) that "compared to recent singles this could be seen as a flop chartwise, with a stay of just one week in the [country] charts at the start of 1959."[9]
The flip side, "I Just Thought You'd Like to Know," reached #85 on the Billboard Hot 100[10] and didn't enter the country chart at all.
Charts
[edit]| Chart (1958–1959) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Billboard Hot 100[11] | 47 |
| US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[12] | 30 |
References
[edit]- ↑ "It's Just About Time / I Just Thought You'd Like To Know". Discogs. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
- 1 2 3 4 5 John M. Alexander (16 April 2018). The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash. University of Arkansas Press. pp. 41–. ISBN 978-1-61075-628-0.
- 1 2 John L. Smith (1 January 1999). Another Song to Sing: The Recorded Repertoire of Johnny Cash. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-3629-7.
- ↑ John L. Smith (1 January 1999). Another Song to Sing: The Recorded Repertoire of Johnny Cash. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-3629-7.
- ↑ Joel Whitburn (2002). Top Country Singles, 1944 to 2001: Chart Data Compiled from Billboard's Country Singles Charts, 1944-2001. Record Research. ISBN 978-0-89820-151-2.
Joel Whitburn (2005). Joel Whitburn's Top Country Songs: 1944-2005, Billboard. Record Research. ISBN 978-0-89820-165-9. - ↑ Tim Neely (2004-05-01). Goldmine Records & Prices. Krause Publications. ISBN 978-0-87349-781-7.
It's Just About Time Just Thought You'd Like to Know Sun 309.
- ↑ Colin Escott; Martin Hawkins (1980). Sun Records: The Brief History of the Legendary Recording Label. Quick Fox. ISBN 978-0-8256-3161-0.
It's Just About Time I Just Thought You'd Like to Know.
- ↑ George Albert (1984-01-01). The Cash Box Country Singles Charts, 1958-1982. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-1685-5.
- 1 2 Peter Lewry (2001). I've Been Everywhere: A Johnny Cash Chronicle. Helter Skelter. ISBN 978-1-900924-22-1.
- ↑ "Johnny Cash I Just Thought You'd Like To Know Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
- ↑ "Johnny Cash Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
- ↑ "Johnny Cash Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
