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"Until It's Time for You to Go" is a song from the 1965 album '' Many a Mile'' by American singer-songwriter
Buffy Sainte-Marie Buffy Sainte-Marie (born Beverley Jean Santamaria; February 20, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and social activist. Sainte-Marie's singing and writing repertoire includes subjects of love, war, religion, and mysticism, and h ...
. Sainte-Marie included a
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reworking of the song, "T'es pas un autre", on her 1967 album '' Fire & Fleet & Candlelight''. French translation was made by Quebecer songwriter Claude Gauthier.
The song has been recorded by many other singers.


Background

The lyrics concern an ordinary man and woman who love each other, but cannot stay together because they come from different worlds. The singer asks their lover: "Don't ask why / Don't ask how / Don't ask forever / Love me now." According to Sainte-Marie, the song "popped into my head while I was falling in love with someone I knew couldn't stay with me."


"The Flower and the Apple Tree"

Featured as a B-side to the Sainte-Marie's single release of "Until It's Time for You to Go" is the rarity "The Flower and the Apple Tree", an original song that was exclusive to the single.


Notable cover versions

*It was a UK Top 20 hit for British group
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in 1965. *Also in 1965,
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(under the moniker of "Michael Blessing") recorded a version of the song produced by Bob Krasnow, released on
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' record label Colpix Records. *In 1969,
Glen Campbell Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) was an American country musician and actor. He was best known for a series of hit songs in the 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting ''The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour'' on CBS television from ...
on his studio album "
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" *In 1970, after having released a cover in 1969,
Neil Diamond Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling musicians of all time. He has written and ...
went to #11 on the US
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chart and #53 on the US Hot 100. ''
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'' said that "Neil Diamond has done a beautiful job" with the song. ''
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'' called it "one gem of a performance". ''
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'' called it "a splendid reading with the velvet style polished by '
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' and ' Caroline. *In 1970, on her album Chapter Two (Roberta Flack album), Roberta Flack included a cover of the song, which appears on side two as the album's sixth track. *In 1972,
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released the song, which peaked at #40 on the US
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, and #9 on the US Easy Listening chart. *In 1973,
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featuring future Supremes member Susaye Greene recorded a version of the song, which peaked at #21 on the US Hot Soul Singles chart.


References

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