Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is - Chicago (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is (Chicago, 1970). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-01-16. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"

"Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is" was Chicago's 4th entry onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart; the song reached the #7 position on the chart in 1970 (Whitburn, 2013). According to writer of the song Robert Lamb, "I was a teenager walking down the street in Brooklyn, New York where I grew up. I walked by a movie theater and there was an usher standing outside taking a cigarette break. I said to him, 'Hey man, what time is it?' and he said, 'Does anybody really know what time it is?' I remembered that when I was trying to write this sort of Beatle-esque shuffle and just explore the idea of 'Does anybody really know what time it is?'" (The Chris Isaak Hour, songfacts.com, 2022). This was the first song that Chicago recorded in the studio together (songfacts.com, 2022). The song is found on their first album when the band was called "Chicago Transit Authority" (chicagotheband.com, 2021); however, the the city of Chicago's "Chicago Transit Authority" objected to them using the agency's name, so the group shortened their name to "Chicago" (W. Ruhlmann, allmusic.com, 2022) to avoid possible legal actions (W. J. Wright, grunge.com, Mar 22, 2021).

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