Song · Willie Nelson
“Funny How Time Slips Away” by Willie Nelson
From the album …and Then I Wrote (1962)
“Funny How Time Slips Away” by Willie Nelson appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2020. It was first released in 1962 on the album …and Then I Wrote. Its best result is #1776 on the WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,600 indie & aaa song of all time.
Willie Nelson wrote "Funny How Time Slips Away", words and music, but Billy Walker was the first to cut it, and Columbia put Walker's version out as a single in June 1961. Nelson's own reading came out on …and Then I Wrote in September 1962, with Joe Allison producing. It turned up again on his 1965 album Country Willie: His Own Songs, and by then other singers were already lining up to take their own shot at the song.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1776 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
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