Time of the Season - wikipedia Time of the Season `` Time of the Season '' Single by The Zombies from the album Odessey and Oracle B - side `` I 'll Call You Mine '' ( UK ) Friends of Mine ( US ) Released March 1968 ( 1968 - 03 ) Format 7 - inch single Recorded August 1967, Abbey Road Studios, London Genre Psychedelic rock Length 3 : 34 Label CBS Songwriter ( s ) Rod Argent Producer ( s ) The Zombies The Zombies singles chronology `` Butcher 's Tale ( Western Front 1914 ) '' ( 1968 ) `` Time of the Season '' ( 1968 ) `` Imagine the Swan '' ( 1969 ) `` Butcher 's Tale ( Western Front 1914 ) '' ( 1968 ) `` Time of the Season '' ( 1968 ) `` Imagine the Swan '' ( 1969 ) `` Time of the Season '' is a song by the British rock band The Zombies, featured on their 1968 album Odessey and Oracle. It was written by keyboard player Rod Argent and recorded at Abbey Road Studios in August 1967. Contents 1 Song information 2 Usage in pop culture 3 Chart history 3.1 Weekly charts 3.2 Year - end charts 4 Cover versions and samples 5 References 6 External links Song information Several other songs from Odessey and Oracle were released as singles prior to `` Time of the Season ''. Columbia Records supported the album and its singles at the urging of new A&R representative Al Kooper. One of the singles issued on Columbia 's Date label was the non-commercial - sounding `` Butcher 's Tale '', which Columbia thought might catch on as an anti-war statement, at the time a popular trend. `` Time of the Season '' was only released at Kooper 's urging, initially coupled with its original UK B - side, `` I 'll Call You Mine '', without success. After previous singles flopped, Date re-released `` Time of the Season '' backed with another UK flop single, `` Friends of Mine '', and it made its breakthrough in early 1969, over a year after the band split up. It reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March, topped the Cashbox chart, and reached number 1 in Canada. It did not chart in the band 's native Britain, despite being rereleased twice, but it later found fame there with Rod Argent saying that it became `` a classic in the UK, but it 's never been a hit. '' In mid-1969, it peaked at number 2 on the South African hit parade. The song extensively uses ( call and response ( music ) call - and - response ) vocals interweaved with the voice of lead singer Colin Blunstone and fast - paced psychedelic improvisation keyboards. In 1998, Big Beat Records released a CD reissue of Odessey and Oracle containing both the original stereo and mono versions of `` Time of the Season ''. It also featured a newly remixed alternate version containing instrumental backing underneath the vocals during the entire chorus. These instrumental backings had been mixed out on the original 1968 stereo and mono versions to create a cappella vocal sections. Music critic Antonio Mendez called it one of the sublime songs on Odessey and Oracle. Milwaukee 's Third Coast Daily.com called the song `` something of a counterculture anthem ''. In 2012, NME named the track the 35th - best song of the 1960s. Usage in pop culture `` Time of the Season '' is frequently used in pop culture to represent the era of its release. In that sense, it is featured in the films 1969, Awakenings, A Walk on the Moon and Riding the Bullet, all of which depict 1969, The Conjuring, which depicts 1971 and in All the Money in the World, which depicts in 1973. The Zombies and `` Time of the Season '', as well as `` She 's Not There '', are intensively used in Thomas Vinterberg 's Dear Wendy ( 2006 ). It has been used as incidental or scene - setting music during many episodes of many television programs and has been featured in several TV commercials, such as a 1999 Tampax ad set at the Woodstock Festival, a 2005 Fidelity Investments commercial, and a 2006 ad for Sprite. It was also used in the advertising campaigns of Nissan Tiida in Japan ( 2004 ), Greece ( 2007 ), Russia ( 2008 ) and Toyota RAV4 ( 2013 ) in Russia. It was also used in a season three episode of `` Friends. '' During the 2006 playoffs, the song was played in Shea Stadium as the home team New York Mets took the field. Chart history Weekly charts Chart ( 1969 ) Peak position Australia ( Kent Music Report ) 43 Canada Top Singles ( RPM ) Netherlands ( Single Top 100 ) 14 US Billboard Hot 100 US Cash Box Top 100 Year - end charts Chart ( 1969 ) Rank Canada 19 US Billboard Hot 100 39 US Cash Box 15 Cover versions and samples The song has been covered many times by other bands in recordings, including : In 1969, Thyme covered `` Time of the Season '' for A-Square records. Argent released a live version from a 1974 concert on their 1976 compilation album The Argent Anthology - A Collection of Greatest Hits. Brent Bourgeois covered `` Time of the Season '' on his eponymous self - titled album in 1990. In 1997, Kurt Elling and Cassandra Wilson for Elling 's second album The Messenger. In the following year, The Scofflaws released an instrumental cover of the song on their fourth album Record of Conviction. In 1999, Big Blue Missile and Scott Weiland recorded the song for the soundtrack of Austin Powers : The Spy Who Shagged Me. In 2001, it was recorded by Larry Goldings for Goldings ' ninth album As One. In 2003, Ben Taylor recorded the song for his album Famous Among the Barns, later featured in the horror film Prom Night ( 2008 ). In 2005, The Guess Who released a cover of the song in the compilation album Let 's Go. Dave Matthews Band had the song on the CD - DVD Weekend on the Rocks ( 2005 ) and Live Trax Vol. 9 ( 2007 ). In 2006, Sage Francis covered the song for his live album Dead Poet Live Album. In March 20, 2007, it was performed by Blake Lewis, the runner - up on the sixth season of American Idol, and included on later recordings. Also in 2007, it was recorded by Tommy Shaw ( of Styx ) and Jack Blades ( of Night Ranger ) for their album Influence. America remade `` Time of the Season '' for their 2012 release Back Pages a cover album. In 2013 Eminem used the song as the chorus to his song Rhyme or Reason from the album The Marshall Mathers LP 2 In 2017, it was recorded by Haley Reinhart for Reinharts ' third album What 's That Sound ?. It has been sampled many times, including in 2005 on the Necro album The Sexorcist in the opening track `` Who 's Ya Daddy ? '' ; in 2009 by Melanie Fiona in her single `` Give It To Me Right '' ; in 2011 on the ScHoolboy Q album Setbacks in the bonus track `` Rolling Stone '' ; and on Eminem 's 2013 album The Marshall Mathers LP 2, in `` Rhyme or Reason ''. References Jump up ^ `` The Zombies - Time Of The Season ''. Discogs. Retrieved 15 May 2017. Jump up ^ `` The Zombies - Time Of The Season ''. Discogs. Retrieved 15 May 2017. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2011 ). Joel Whitburn 's Top Pop Singles. Menomonee Falls, WI : Record Research Inc. p. 1,002. ISBN 0898201888. Jump up ^ Hoffmann, Frank ( 1983 ). The Cash Box Singles Charts, 1950 - 1981. Metuchen, NJ & London : The Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 661. Jump up ^ `` Rod Argent of The Zombies : Songwriter Interviews ''. www.songfacts.com. Retrieved 2017 - 03 - 23. Jump up ^ Mendez, A. ( 2007 ). Guía del pop y el rock 80 y 90 : Aloha poprock ( 2nd ed. ). Editorial Visión Libros. p. 413. ISBN 9788498215694. Jump up ^ `` The Zombies return to Milwaukee, this time at the Pabst ''. Urban Milwaukee Dial. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2015. Jump up ^ `` 100 Best Songs of the 1960s - # 35 The Zombies - Time Of The Season - NME.COM ''. NME.COM. Retrieved 19 April 2015. Jump up ^ `` Top RPM Singles : Issue 5923. '' RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Jump up ^ `` Dutchcharts.nl -- The Zombies -- Time of the Season '' ( in Dutch ). Single Top 100. Jump up ^ `` The Zombies Chart History ( Hot 100 ) ''. Billboard. Jump up ^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, March 29, 1969 Jump up ^ http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.6104&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=mhe12pta2k83e08udtq66ot062 Jump up ^ Musicoutfitters.com Jump up ^ Cash Box Year - End Charts : Top 100 Pop Singles, December 27, 1969 Jump up ^ `` 45 Discography for A-Square Records ''. Globaldogproductions.info. Retrieved 2 October 2016. External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Preceded by `` Dizzy '' by Tommy Roe RPM Canadian Singles Chart number - one single March 31, 1969 Succeeded by `` Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In '' by The 5th Dimension The Zombies Rod Argent Colin Blunstone Soren Koch Steve Rodford Tom Toomey Keith Airey Paul Arnold Paul Atkinson Hugh Grundy Jim Rodford Darian Sahanaja Sebastian Santa Maria Chris White Albums Begin Here Odessey and Oracle New World As Far as I Can See... 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Question: who sang its the time of the season
Answer: the British rock band The Zombies