1962
WHAT TIME IS IT * JIVE FIVE * BELTONE 2024 * USA
The group, Jerome Hanna, Thurmon "Billy" Prophet, Richard Harris And Norman Johnson, led by Eugene Pitt, first recorded as the Jive Five for Les Cahan's New York independent Beltone label in 1961. While the title of this cut could be mistaken for a rhetorical, philosophical question, or perhaps a work in the manner of the Argentinean writer Borges A new refutation of time, it is in fact a hedonistic and basic boy-waiting-to-meet-girl love song, that captures the, possibly universal, thoughts and emotions of somebody experiencing the build up to their new date, a series of sublime moments (full of potential) to savior almost as much as the date itself.