It's Five O'Clock (song)

"It's Five O'clock" is a song by the Greek band Aphrodite's Child from their 1969 studio album It's Five O'Clock. It was also released as a single (in 1969 or 1970 on Mercury Records).

"It's Five O'clock"
Single by Aphrodite's Child
from the album It's Five O'clock
Released1969 or 1970
Format7" vinyl single (45 RPM)
LabelMercury
Composer(s)Evangelos Papathanassiou
Lyricist(s)Richard Francis

Background and writing

The song was written by Evangelos Papathanassiou and Richard Julian Francis.[1]

Commercial performance

The song reached no. 6 in Switzerland and no. 11 in the Netherlands.[1]

Track listings

7" single Mercury 6033 001 (1969, Greece)
7" single Mercury 132 508 MCF (1970, Germany, Netherlands, France, Belgium)
7" single Polydor 56791 (1970, UK)
7" single Mercury 132 508 MCY (1970, Italy)
7" single Mercury 51 32 508 (1970, Spain)
7" single RTB S 53592 MER (1972, Yugoslavia)

A. "It's Five O'Clock" (3:28)
B. "Funky Mary" (4:11)[1]

7" EP Mercury 26 017 MCE (1970, Portugal)

  1. "It's Five O'Clock" (3:20)
  2. "Good Time So Fine" (2:44)
  3. "Take Your Time" (2:30)
  4. "Annabella" (3:20)[1]

7" single Philips 6060 320 (1982, Belgium)

A. "It's Five O'Clock" (3:29)
B. "I Want to Live" (3:51)[1]

Charts
Chart (1970) Peak
position
France 1
Italy[2] 1
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[3] 6
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[4] 11
Chart (2015) Peak
position
France (SNEP)[5] 177*
* After Demis Rousses's death in 2015

Milva version

Italian singer Milva in 1981 released a German-language version titled "Kennst du das auch?" and a French-language version titled "Le drapeau de l'humanité".

Demis Roussos version (1987)
"It's Five O'Clock"
Single by Demis Roussos
from the album The Demis Roussos Story
Released1987 (1987)
LabelBR Music
Demis Roussos singles chronology
"Marie Jolie"
(1987)		 "It's Five O'Clock"
(1987)		 "Prier"
(1988)

A new studio version by ex-Aphrodite's Child vocalist Demis Roussos was included on his 1987 album The Demis Roussos Story on the label BR Music.

The recording was also released as a single from that album (in 1987 on BR Music).[6]

See also

References
  1. "spanishcharts.com - Aphrodite's Child - It's Five O'Clock". Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  2. "Hit Parade Italia: I singoli più venduti del 1970". Hit Parade Italia. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  3. "Swisscharts.com – Aphrodite's Child – It's Five O'Clock". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  4. "Dutchcharts.nl – Aphrodite's Child – It's Five O'Clock" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  5. "Lescharts.com – Aphrodite's Child – It's Five O'Clock" (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  6. "Demis Roussos - It's Five O'clock (Vinyl) at Discogs". Retrieved 2017-10-28.
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