Making Time
{{Short description|Song by English rock band The Creation}}
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{{Infobox song
| name = Making Time
| cover = Making Time.jpg
| alt =
| caption = 1966 Denmark issue
| type = single
| artist = The Creation
| album = We Are Paintermen
| B-side = Try and Stop Me
| released = {{Start date|1966|06|17|df=yes}}
| recorded = 18–19 May 1966
| studio = IBC Studios, London
| venue =
| genre = {{hlist|Freakbeat|garage rock}}
| length = {{Duration|m=2|s=58}}
| label = Planet/Philips
| writer = {{hlist|Kenny Pickett|Eddie Phillips}}
| producer = Shel Talmy
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = Painter Man
| next_year = 1966
}}
"Making Time" is the debut single by English rock band the Creation, released in 1966. It was written by Kenny Pickett (lead singer) and Eddie Phillips.{{cite web|last=Discogs|title=Creation, The (2) – Making Time / Try And Stop Me|website=Discogs |date=June 1966 |url=http://www.discogs.com/release/1090319|access-date=12 December 2012}} The lyrics portray the experience of working in a clock factory while co-workers listen to their favourites on the radio.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}} The song features an electric guitar played with a violin bow.{{Cite web|title=Making Time - The Creation|url=http://www.makingtime.co.uk/creation.html#.YMcwo3bcY0E|access-date=14 June 2021|website=www.makingtime.co.uk}}
Cover versions
The song has been covered by Das Damen, Little Free Rock, Television Personalities, Circle Jerks and Green Bullfrog. You Am I released a version of the song on "Beat Party!", a bonus disc that came with initial copies of their album Hourly, Daily.
The single's B-side "Try and Stop Me" was covered by The Radiators from Space on their 1979 "Let's Talk About the Weather" single.
Use in other media
It was featured on the soundtrack of the 1998 film Rushmore and in an Xfinity TV commercial in 2017.{{cite web|url=https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wwS0/xfinity-xfi-cant-live-without-it-song-by-the-creation|title=XFINITY XFi TV Commercial, 'Can't Live Without It' Song by The Creation|website=iSpot.tv|access-date=8 July 2017}} In the film The Reader (2008) it stood for a time shift from 1958 to the mid sixties playing as background music.{{Citation |title=The Reader (2008) - Soundtracks - IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0976051/soundtrack/ |access-date=2023-04-22 |language=en-US}} It was also used in an Audi USA commercial in 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.ispot.tv/ad/d2z4/summer-of-audi-sales-event-promote-yourself-song-by-the-creation|title=Summer of Audi Sales Event TV Commercial, 'Promote Yourself' Song by The Creation|website=iSpot.tv|access-date=18 July 2018}} Since 2017, it has been the theme song of The Great Pottery Throw Down.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08d6ddy|work=BBC iPlayer|title=The Great Pottery Throw Down, Series 2 Episode 1|date=28 March 2017}}
The mid-1980s band Makin' Time was named after the song.{{cn|date=January 2025}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.discogs.com/release/1090319 "Making Time" at www.discogs.com]
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Category:The Creation (band) songs
Category:Song recordings produced by Shel Talmy
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