| It's Five O'Clock | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Aphrodite's Child |
| Album: | It's Five O'clock |
| Released: | 1969 (promo), 1970 |
| Label: | Mercury |
| Composer: | Evangelos Papathanassiou |
| Lyricist: | Richard Francis |
"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 February 1970, on Mercury Records.
The song was written by Evangelos Papathanassiou and Richard Julian Francis.[1] The song reached no. 6 in Switzerland and no. 11 in the Netherlands. 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".
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 . The recording was also released as a single from that album (in 1987 on BR Music).[2]
7-inch single Mercury 6033 001 (1969, Greece)
7-inch single Mercury 132 508 MCF (1970, Germany, Netherlands, France, Belgium)
7-inch single Polydor 56791 (1970, UK)
7-inch single Mercury 132 508 MCY (1970, Italy)
7-inch single Mercury 51 32 508 (1970, Spain)
7-inch single RTB S 53592 MER (1972, Yugoslavia)
A. "It's Five O'Clock" (3:28)
B. "Funky Mary" (4:11) 7-inch EP Mercury 26 017 MCE (1970, Portugal)
7-inch single Philips 6060 320 (1982, Belgium)
A. "It's Five O'Clock" (3:29)
B. "I Want to Live" (3:51)