I've posted this song before by the Chambers Brothers, but I feel the need to post it again,

[George McGovern]

4. Time Has Come Today Recorded In One Take.

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One of the very best all-time tunes MarineCombatEngineer! Thanks especially for giving us this eleven minutes plus recording, from which the hit single was edited.

According to band member, Willie Chambers, Columbia Records wasn't going to record the song. Their producer thought differently.

He told the band, "When we get our recording date, you guys show up an hour early, we’re going to go in the studio, we’re going to turn on the tape, we’re going to play it live, we’re going to do it like a live performance. We’re going to record it and whatever we get we’re going to have to live with it. We can’t play back, we can’t overdub, we can’t splice, we can’t fix something if there’s a mistake, we’re just going to have to live with it.’ He says, ‘I’m probably going to lose my job, but that’s how important it is to me to record this song.’

Willie Chambers — "When we got our moment, we went in the studio and did it in one take. ‘Time Has Come Today’ was done in one take. There was no listening back – we couldn’t listen back. When we came to the end of it, we had no idea where it was going to go. Once we ended it, we shut down the machines and then we left the studio and came back at the time we were supposed to."

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