The haunting melody, with the chorus bridge of “Time, oh time, where did you go? Time, oh good good time, where did you go?,” was delivered by a then unknown singer from the equally new-to-audiences folk group by the name of The Pozo-Seco Singers. The 1966 national release of the song, “Time,” would put an end to the singer, Susan Taylor, and the group’s (Spanish for “Dry Well”) anonymity … for the better or the worst.
MVD Entertainment Group will be teaming up with Susan Taylor’s — best known to her fans as Taylor Pie, or simply Pie — indie recording label, Puff Bunny Records, on Dec. 13 for the DVD debut of documentary filmmaker Elizabeth Ahlstrom’s award-winning film, Nobody Famous, the story of Susan Taylor (Pie) and The Pozo-Seco Singers.
By the age of ten, Pie had mastered playing the guitar and was a regular amateur performer on local television in Tulsa … and then the family moved to Corpus Christi, Texas and as a teenager she, along with other local musicians with the same interests, formed The Corpus Christi Folk Music Society.
By the fall of 1964, Pie had teamed-up with locals Don Williams (who would go on with his own solo career after the group disbanded) and Lofton Kline and formed The Pozo-Seco Singers. During Christmas of that year, Pie’s former high school sweetheart returned home from college and gave her a new song that he had written, “Time.”
Ahlstrom’s film, Nobody Famous, follows the story of Susan Taylor and The Pozo-Seco Singers from their beginnings, their indie-produced hit record, the signing by Columbia Records, the group’s interaction with manager Albert Grossman (other clients included Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan and Gordon Lightfoot) and all that followed. A piece of time (pun intended) that is both fascinating … and infuriating over how artists were treated by the machine.
Bonus goodies included with the DVD release of Nobody Famous on Dec. 13 include performance videos of “Time,” “'Morning Momma Memories” and “'Til You Hear Your Momma Call.”
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