The Eight Minutes

Time for a Change

1972 · Jay Pee 125 · Chicago, Illinois

Time for a Change – The Eight Minutes (Label)

Artist
The Eight Minutes
Title
Time for a Change
Release
Oh Yes I Do / Time For A Change
Year
1972
Label
Jay Pee # 125
Format
7" · Single
Language
English
Country
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Songwriter
Jim Porter
Genre
Soul, Gospel & Funk · Funk · Soul
Primary theme
Peace, Protest & Anti-War

Annotation — Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs

Time for a Change (Eight Minutes, The) Funk / soul protest: "stop the soldiers from dying"

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

7" 45 RPM mono. Conductor, Arranged By – Jim Porter; Producer – 'Jay Pee' (Jim Porter); Written-By – J. Porter. Recorded at P.S. Recording Studios. Published By – Toby-Nic Pub. Co. (BMI). Pressed by Musical Products, Inc., Chicago. Label/runout: A 'JP 53' / 'LP-53'; B 'J.P.60' / 'JP-60'. A re-recording (3:03, J. Porter) is on the LP 'An American Family' (Perception PLP 27, 1972). Jay Pee 125, blue label with silver print; label code J.P.60. [From the record label]

About the artist

Chicago kiddie-soul group formed in 1967 as the Soul Impacts, made up mainly of the Goggins and Sudduth families plus Juwanna Glover and Carl Monroe; they recorded for S.I.M., Jay Pee and Perception and split in the early 1970s. [Source: Funky16Corners; Dark Jive]

Themes

Anti-War · Protest

In collections

Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years] · Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs

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