"Time" is a song released in 1981 as a single by

the Alan Parsons Project The Alan Parsons Project was a British rock band active between 1975 and 1990, whose core membership consisted of producer, audio engineer, musician and composer Alan Parsons and singer, songwriter and pianist Eric Woolfson. They were accompanie ...

. It was from their 1980 album ''

The Turn of a Friendly Card ''The Turn of a Friendly Card'' is the fifth studio album by the British progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project, released in 1980 by Arista Records. The title piece, which appears on side 2 of the LP, is a 16-minute suite broken up in ...

''. In the U.S., the song peaked at No. 15 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. On the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart, "Time" peaked at #10. In addition, "Time" spent two weeks at #14 on ''

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'', making it the group's second most successful single ("

Don't Answer Me "Don't Answer Me" is a 1984 song by the Alan Parsons Project from the album '' Ammonia Avenue''. It reached number 15 on the ''Billboard'' charts in the United States and was the final ''Billboard'' Top 20 hit for the group. It also reached numb ...

" from 1984 also reached No. 15 on the Hot 100, but reached No. 17 on Cash Box). ''Cash Box'' ranked it as the 94th biggest hit of 1981. Outside the US, the song peaked at #30 in Canada. The song was the first Alan Parsons Project song (and single) to feature

Eric Woolfson Eric Norman Woolfson (18 March 1945 – 2 December 2009) was a Scottish songwriter, lyricist, vocalist, executive producer, pianist, and co-creator of The Alan Parsons Project. Together with Parsons they sold over 50 million albums worldwide. F ...

as lead vocalist, and one of the group's few songs in which

Alan Parsons Alan Parsons (born 20 December 1948) is an English audio engineer, songwriter, musician and record producer. Parsons was involved with the production of several notable albums, including the Beatles' ''Abbey Road'' (1969) and ''Let It Be'' ( ...

's own voice can be heard singing (background/counterpoint vocals).

Chart history

Weekly charts

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* 1980 songs 1981 singles 1980s ballads The Alan Parsons Project songs Arista Records singles Rock ballads Song recordings produced by Alan Parsons Songs written by Alan Parsons Songs written by Eric Woolfson {{1980s-single-stub