It’s Time – THE GUESS WHO***

Alright/And She’s Mine/As/You Know He Did/Baby Feelin’/Clock On The Wall/Don’t Act So Bad/Believe Me/Seven Long Years/One Day/Gonna Search/Guess I’ll Find A Place

It’s Time was the debut album from the Canadian pop rock group The Guess Who consisting of several own compositions and a few covers. It would be three years before their big hits would start to roll.

“This first LP by the well known Canadian band is worth listening for Clock On The Wall, a perfect garage pop song. Rest of the album is very correct and energetic garage pop.”

“Its Time is the hardest rocking album of their early years, and the first to feature Burton Cummings as second lead vocalist and keyboard player, and also the final recordings with original leader Chad Allan. This collection fits nicely in any garage-rock collection. From the opening bars of Alright, this album shows The Guess Who as a hungry band, with new blood to show off, adopting a harder R & B edge.”

“One of the many bands making derivative records such as this, The Guess Who were by this point one of the best of such acts, both as musicians and writers. If that sounds like damning with faint praise, it's not meant to. Even if this isn't as original as the best British and American groups of the time, or indeed as The Guess Who would later become, it's still respectable and at times quite exciting.” ,p> “The original material shows the band's songwriting skills growing in leaps and bounds, but their influences are still obvious. This album clearly shows the struggle between the pop influences of Allan and harder edged R & B from Cummings. It's Time is a must have for every Guess Who fan.”

“Though this Canadian LP was issued under The Guess Who name, the group still hadn't quite completed its evolution from its prior incarnation as Chad Allan & The Expressions. Indeed Allan himself was still in the band during sessions for the recording, writing one of the tracks, Guess I'll Find A Place. But a couple of covers excepted, almost every song was written by Randy Bachman. Even more crucially, much of the material went in a decidedly harder-rocking direction than what the group had previously cut, with newcomer Burton Cummings injecting a raunchiness into the material on which he sang lead vocals."