Time of the Season
Song by Zombies
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Sep 16, 2026
Brian BHOST
Okay, go on.
Brian BHOST
Time of the season.
Brian BHOST
Wow.
Brian BHOST
The Zombies.
Andrew RichHOST
And, uh, what's crazy to me is, you know, not only did the band break up before the album even came out, but similar to Pet Sounds, it took a while for the album to, you know, get the praise that it gets.
Andrew RichHOST
Like, nowadays it's considered to be a masterpiece, and you have songs like Time of the Season and Care of Cell 44.
Andrew RichHOST
Um, but when it came out, it was just like, "Eh, whatever," you know? So it's, it's really mind-boggling to think about that, I think, uh, Mike.
Mike SpearsGUEST
Yeah, I really feel like, um, a- as it goes for, like, baroque pop, that this, it has become one of the, uh, the bands and one of the acts that I kind of find myself, uh, really ...
Andrew RichHOST
And, you know, because the band had broken up when it came out, they didn't get to play these songs for decades.
Andrew RichHOST
Like, I think it was the, the 40th anniversary tour that all the surviving members came together and played the album in its entirety for the first time together on stage, which is wild.
Andrew RichHOST
And what's also pretty crazy is that, um, when Time of the Season eventually became a hit, you know, the band's broken up, so this promotions company created fake versions of The Zombies to go out on tour, and one of those fake Zombies had Dusty Hill and Frank Beard of ZZ Top in it.
Andrew RichHOST
Um, there's a whole Buzzfeed article about it, the whole thing, and there's a photo of, like, the Texas Zombies in cowboy hats.
Andrew RichHOST
Nowadays, it's considered to be a masterpiece.
Andrew RichHOST
And you have songs like Time of the Season and Care of Self 44.
Andrew RichHOST
But when it came out, it was just like, eh, whatever.
Andrew RichHOST
So it's really mind-boggling to think about that, I think, Mike.
Andrew RichHOST
Like I think it was the 40th anniversary tour that all the surviving members came together and played the album in its entirety for the first time together.
Andrew RichHOST
on stage, which is wild.
Andrew RichHOST
And what's also pretty crazy is that when Time of the Season eventually became a hit, the band's broken up, so this promotions company created fake versions of the zombies to go out on tour.
Andrew RichHOST
And one of those fake zombies had Dusty Hill and Frank Beard of ZZ Top in it.
Joshua ConkelHOST
... um, "What's your name? Who's your daddy?" That song.
Joshua ConkelHOST
[laughs] Time of the Season, that's what it's called.
Joshua ConkelHOST
[laughs]
Drusilla AdelineHOST
"Of the season"
David Ray SkinnerHOST
When I turned 17 in the summer of 1969, I was playing music again with Johnny Armstrong, and we both were really immersed in the songs that were hitting the airwaves.
David Ray SkinnerHOST
Songs like Bad Moon Rising, The Boxer, Get Together, Time of the Season, Sweet Caroline, These Eyes, Spinning Wheel, and the terrifying In the Year 2525, and Crystal Blue Persuasion, which was a song Tommy James wrote about his conversion to Christianity, although we didn't know that at the time.
David Ray SkinnerHOST
And those are just a few of what came to be classic rock.
David Ray SkinnerHOST
I loved reading Rolling Stone magazine, and I anxiously awaited every issue.
Big Jay OakersonHOST
Yeah.
Big Jay OakersonHOST
It was gonna be this or uh, Time of the Season by The Zombies.
Big Jay OakersonHOST
It's my, um, swinging, heavy tits song.
Big Jay OakersonHOST
It's a song where I picture...
Daniel RalstonGUEST
The Zombies change their sound in '67 and make an album called Odyssey and Oracle that completely bombs in the UK.
Daniel RalstonGUEST
And then as a last-ditch effort, their US label decides to release the song Time of the Season as a single in 1967.
Josh DeanHOST
[Time of the Season playing] You definitely know this one.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What's your name? (What's your name?) Who's your daddy? (Who's your daddy?)
Josh DeanHOST
Time of the Season would become a massive single, released basically as a last hurrah, almost a coda to a band that had basically had it with rock and roll.
Daniel RalstonGUEST
The band was in such bad shape that they had actually broken up.
Daniel RalstonGUEST
Like, they had no money.
Daniel RalstonGUEST
The only one who had any money was the guy [laughs] who wrote the songs.
Andreas ArnemarHOST
If you have time and you can find it, check it out.
Andreas ArnemarHOST
This is Time of the Season.
Colin BlunstoneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's the time of the season.
Colin BlunstoneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
high in this time give it to me easy and let me try with pleasure hands to take you in the sun to promised lands to
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
show you everyone it's the time of the season for love
Colin BlunstoneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
What's your name? Who's your daddy? Is he rich like me? Has he taken any time to show you
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
what you need to live? Tell it to me slowly.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Tell you why I really want to know.
Kyle LongHOST
But first, let's hear a classic example of his work.
Kyle LongHOST
From 1968, this is The Zombies with Time of the Season.
Colin BlunstoneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's the time of the season When love runs high In this time, give it to me easy And let me try with pleasured hands To take you in the sun to promised lands To show you everyone It's the time of the season for love
Kyle LongHOST
That was the Zombies with Time of the Season off their 1968 album Odyssey and Oracle.
Kyle LongHOST
That track featured Colin Blundstone on vocals.
Kyle LongHOST
And Colin will be performing in Indiana on September 23rd at the Brown County Music Center.
29 MINS LATER
Kyle LongHOST
I mentioned all the unique archival footage.
Kyle LongHOST
One thing that really shocked me watching the film, I knew about this, but I never dreamed there would be footage.
Jeff Skin WadeHOST
It's an amazing song.
Jeff Skin WadeHOST
Time of the Season by The Zombies.
Jeff Skin WadeHOST
Now, when I, when Ben and I were kids, they used to sell these things called Time Life books, and they would be these book series that you would buy, and they would tell you the history of a decade, and it's, it's an, a comprehensive history of a decade.
Jeff Skin WadeHOST
And the one on the '60s that they used to run during all the syndicated programming that we ran, that we watched, when they would show the '60s one, this song was playing.
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