Songs about “time” and the several distinct meanings associated with the word. Although the dictionary gives the basic definition of time as “a non-spatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present,” it also lists over twenty other applications, including “an interval marked by similar events (hard times)”; “one of several instances (knock three times)”; “the present with respect to prevailing conditions (change with the times)”; “the meter of a musical pattern (three-quarter time)”. We have already selected several songs about “time” for our first program from among the many possibilities: "Time After Time", "Just In Time", "Baby, Baby All the Time", "Coffee Time", Summertime", "Moonlight Savings Time", "Twilight Time", "The Time The Dream's On Me", and "As Time Goes By".
| | Swingtime In The Rockies(1936) | B. Goodman/J. Mundy (m) |
| | Time On My Hands(1930) - introduced in Smiles | G. Mack/H. Adamson (w), V. Youmans (m) |
| | Some Other Time(1945) - introduced in On The Town | B. Comden/A. Green (w), L. Bernstein (m) |
| | Bidin' My Time(1930) - introduced in Girl Crazy | I. Gershwin (w), G. Gershwin (m) |
| | Now's The Time(1945) | C. Parker (m) |
| | A Time For Love(1966) - introduced in An American Dream | P. Webster (w), J. Mandel (m) |
| | Just In Time(1956) - introduced in Bells Are Ringing | B. Comden/A. Green (w), J. Styne (m) |
| | Time After Time(1947) - introduced in It Happened In Brooklyn | S. Cahn (w), J. Styne (m) |
| |
| Featured composers, lyricists, creators |
| |
| |
Harold Adamson Harold ArlenIrving Berlin Leonard Bernstein Irving Caesar Sammy Cahn Betty Comden Raymond B. Egan Arthur Freed George Gershwin Ira Gershwin Benny Goodman Adolph Green Oscar Hammerstein II Lorenz Hart Herman Hupfeld Irving Kahal Jerome Kern Alan Jay Lerner John Jacob Loeb Frederick Loewe Carmen Lombardo Gordon Mack Johnny Mandel Johnny MercerJimmy Mundy Clarence Muse Al Nevins Charlie Parker Cole PorterBuck Ram Leon René Otis René Harry Richman Richard Rodgers Jule Styne Bobby Troup Jimmy Van HeusenHarry WarrenPaul Francis Webster Richard Whiting Vincent Youmans |