The greatest election advert ever made. You just had to be living in Australia when this aired for the first time on TV. It's effect was immediate and resonated with the electorate in way that no political advert ever has since. And it won Gough Whitlam the 1972 general election. I was 9.
I just saw a comment on the Reagan “it’s morning again in America” that called that “the greatest political advert ever”. I thought BS, It’s Time is a zillion times more effective.
Yes, it is one of the greatest political ads ever made. Over 50 years later, I still get chills watching it and I'm not from Australia--living in Massachusetts at the time.
I was 14 in1972, too young to vote, parents who voted Lib. This song, the Ad & the sheer force of Gough Whitlam's personality made politics exciting for a young person. 23 years of Menzies was like sheep overdosing on valium - Boring. Watching this now still gets the hair up on the back of the neck, thrilling stuff.
The greatest political ad ever! Fit for purpose past, present and future. I immigrated to Australia in 1991....self interest dictates I vote Liberal...I never did and will never do. Labour, for all their faults, are nation builders...education, health, superannuation, fair IR, championing the causes of the underprivileged class. This song encapsulates all....go Australia......best country in the World and I should know as I travelled widely and lived on 12 countries throughout my life.
To those born well after 1972, on this day, the 49th anniversary of Whitlam's PM swearing in: It's quite impossible to not exaggerate the optimistic sense that this 'cry' gave to those of us who were there (even if I was a small kid), to those later born generations who were not, and this as it concerns the feeling which it instilled in us - one that Donald Horne neatly came to call, 'Time of Hope'. I feel genuinely sorry for those who never got to experience a true leader like Whitlam (despite his faults) - even if a later generation had a kind of Whitlam redux with Keating - while Gough's vision for Australia (and one that hopefully still lives on!) is the total antithesis of the smug 'lifestyle' aims which the current mean and miserable post neoliberal excuse for a 'government' is the apologist for! If anything, Gough challenged us to 'grow up' and take our place as a responsible member of the international community, while Scomo's 'bugger the world' and beaches and barbies 'vision' is about 'non-growth', with that conceited 'aspiration' being a further stage 'petit bourgeois revisited' throwback to Howard and Abbott!
The greatest political ad there ever will be. 50 years later it still makes the hair on the back of the neck stand up and brings tears of pride to the eyes of this Labor voter who was just one year old when it came out.
One of the greatest songs of change of our generation. I was 12 when this song was first aired on TV and it got the whole house standing up and singing along. I still like to sing it today.
So proud of my father for writing and producing this...... So sad for the loss of such great transcendent figures like Gough and of course my dad. RIP, The memories will live on through us
I agree, I was ten years at the time and my grandfather was one of the ruling Liberal Party’s biggest backers. My father was a Liberal member of the NSW upper house. I was only ten years old , But If I could have voted , I would have voted ALP largely because of the ad. McAnn Erickson Sydney’s greatest work!
So you’re proud that you were part of a large team of simpletons who fell for a propaganda campaign designed by a pack of long lunching crooks, are you.
When this song was released for Gough Whitlams Labor party, I couldn't wait to vote for the first time. Ever since then that excitement to vote for any political leader in Australia, is no longer there, except for Bob Hawke a sayer and a doer. Australia has been in the political wilderness since the Hawke and Keating days have passed. Today you won't ever get Australian celebrities of this calibre coming together. It took a war for Australians to vote for a government bringing back our soldiers from Vietnam. RIP Gough.
The embarrassing thing ... I can still remember and name most of the performing participants, including most of the cast from Bellbird. Pure nostalgia {Sniff} {Sniff}
I understand that this was a jingle for the ALP, but I find it sad that a lot of the comments here focus on politics rather than acknowledge the incredible talent Alison MacCallum was. One of the best female voices Australia has produced.
It was an election like none since when you see what the dog's breakfast that the LNPand it's subsidiary Pauline Hanson represent,unaustralian australians
She was right with us, baby. Whenever complimented, her response was to credit the importance of the work. You can hear her sheer commitment in her voice.
Lead singer Alison McCallum. The chorus comprising a "Who's Who" of Australian entertainment and sport personalities, including Tony Barber, Barry Crocker, Lynette Curran, Chuck Faulkner, Jimmy Hannan, Brian Henderson, Col Joye, Graham Kennedy, Dawn Lake, Bobby Limb, Little Pattie, Bert Newton, Terry Norris, Hazel Phillips, Judy Stone, Maggie Tabberer, Jack Thompson, Jacki Weaver, Kevin Sanders, Ade and Rob Dames, among others.
I despise ALL politicians of ALL the major parties but my God, this song just grabs me all the time. I’d love to see it remastered (without the political spin on it) coz the words are still so very fitting for today’s crazy world! Yes, it’s certainly time.
Time for scomo to go and find some more coal...bye mate thanks for your help during the fires and floods..and the deaths of two of my Close mates through robodept...
well done allison- yes one of the most powerful political songs written that i beleive hit the record charts back in 72 as a favourite ever to be recorded as a political motivator- cast of australian tv icons -terry norris - cop shop- jack thompson, many many more- and ironically allsion was a Kiwi!
It's Time..to get Don Willisee to sign the 1975 UN Lima agreement..And begin the handover of Australia's manufacturing base to developing countries like China..What Labour started Liberals continued..
I remember Bobby Limb saying in an interview a few years later, that he regretted being a part of this ad. He said that he received so much negative comment and abuse that it just wasn’t worth it. Judy Stone said she was blacklisted from Clubs and others had garbage thrown on their lawns. The artists said their careers had suffered.
It’s time again with Chris Minns! Time for old folks, time to love them! Time for children, time to teach them! It’s time to make it free! It’s time for loving, time for caring! Time for freedom! Time for moving, it’s time to begin!
The song "It's Time" has a similar uplifting feeling to another song from the era "Join Together" by the Who. BTW, I was too young to remember Gough Whitlam as PM but I am thankful as an Aussie that he made modern Austalia what it is. If only modern political leaders (Morrison, Albanese, Black Wiggle, etc ) would show the same leadership we would be in a better situation now.
he was ahead of his time the people didnt understand unfortunately actualy the whole party was as it was a genuine party based on research and developement and science in those days
I'm a Labor voter and I like Whitlam but some of the Labor hagiography around him is embarrassing especially when people give him credit for things Menzies already initiated
Our new National anthem, upon breaking from the Comm0on Wealth, must be this! At least for a few years. Then we, Australia, reinvent ourselves as something else. we rock! There is no better country.
" after some 40 years of Conservative government." 1983 -1993 = ALP That is right in the middle of the time frame 1972 - 2012, then there were 4 other instances of ALP governance. Your math is wrong. Now if we take the statement correctly it would be 40 years before 1972. Where there was 20 years (not 40 years) of a Liberal/National government. (1949-1969)
@@Hazza4257 Gough's greatest legacy was this song and scrapping the draft. Both parties also support selling out Australian interests to the UN which is somerthing else the gough started.
Yeah Nah... You just want our corrupt politicians to rewrite the constitution making a shit tonne of loopholes so we will be kissing their arse. I get you don't care about our history and the beautiful System of government that we have, but I do.
Unfortunately this song was the high point of his government - he barely lasted two and a half years. By the end Australia was so broke he had to hire a dodgy middleman to go around the middle east begging for loans. And the ALP were bailed out by a donation from the Iraqi socialist party aka Saddam
The greatest election advert ever made. You just had to be living in Australia when this aired for the first time on TV. It's effect was immediate and resonated with the electorate in way that no political advert ever has since. And it won Gough Whitlam the 1972 general election. I was 9.
I wish I was!
Maintain the rage! RIP Gough
I just saw a comment on the Reagan “it’s morning again in America” that called that “the greatest political advert ever”. I thought BS, It’s Time is a zillion times more effective.
Some music just resonates with events and the time period. This was one.
Yes, it is one of the greatest political ads ever made. Over 50 years later, I still get chills watching it and I'm not from Australia--living in Massachusetts at the time.
I was 14 in1972, too young to vote, parents who voted Lib. This song, the Ad & the sheer force of Gough Whitlam's personality made politics exciting for a young person. 23 years of Menzies was like sheep overdosing on valium - Boring. Watching this now still gets the hair up on the back of the neck, thrilling stuff.
The greatest political ad ever! Fit for purpose past, present and future.
I immigrated to Australia in 1991....self interest dictates I vote Liberal...I never did and will never do.
Labour, for all their faults, are nation builders...education, health, superannuation, fair IR, championing the causes of the underprivileged class.
This song encapsulates all....go Australia......best country in the World and I should know as I travelled widely and lived on 12 countries throughout my life.
The song is a bunch of meaningless platitudes. It gives no real reason to vote Labor. That you were so impressed by it reflects on you.
RIP Gough. What a life. This is a song I never forgot, or never will. Hope you and Margaret are enjoying the quiet life out there wherever you are..
Amen
To those born well after 1972, on this day, the 49th anniversary of Whitlam's PM swearing in:
It's quite impossible to not exaggerate the optimistic sense that this 'cry' gave to those of us who were there (even if I was a small kid), to those later born generations who were not, and this as it concerns the feeling which it instilled in us - one that Donald Horne neatly came to call, 'Time of Hope'. I feel genuinely sorry for those who never got to experience a true leader like Whitlam (despite his faults) - even if a later generation had a kind of Whitlam redux with Keating - while Gough's vision for Australia (and one that hopefully still lives on!) is the total antithesis of the smug 'lifestyle' aims which the current mean and miserable post neoliberal excuse for a 'government' is the apologist for! If anything, Gough challenged us to 'grow up' and take our place as a responsible member of the international community, while Scomo's 'bugger the world' and beaches and barbies 'vision' is about 'non-growth', with that conceited 'aspiration' being a further stage 'petit bourgeois revisited' throwback to Howard and Abbott!
The greatest political ad there ever will be. 50 years later it still makes the hair on the back of the neck stand up and brings tears of pride to the eyes of this Labor voter who was just one year old when it came out.
One of the greatest songs of change of our generation. I was 12 when this song was first aired on TV and it got the whole house standing up and singing along. I still like to sing it today.
Long before "Do They Know it's Christmas" and "We are the World", there was "It's Time".
So proud of my father for writing and producing this...... So sad for the loss of such great transcendent figures like Gough and of course my dad. RIP, The memories will live on through us
+ozscience The last and only Prime Minister to put Australian interests ahead of the Criminals in Washington.
well said mate! Long gone are the days of our once great "democracy"
Taken down by the CIA - read the book or watch the movie, "The Falcon and the Snowman"
What did your dad think of Hawke? and why is the recording speed different from the ad speed?
ozscience it was my dad not yours
I met Gough Whitlam and Margaret at the Ipswich Civic Centre back in the 70's.
You couldn't wish for better people than them two.
I agree, I was ten years at the time and my grandfather was one of the ruling Liberal Party’s biggest backers. My father was a Liberal member of the NSW upper house. I was only ten years old , But If I could have voted , I would have voted ALP largely because of the ad. McAnn Erickson Sydney’s greatest work!
Your grandfather's media empire actually backed the ALP in this election
It’s time again. Rise against the corrupt Liberal party
@Mark Bradley har har. LOL. you really changed my mind there buddy
@Mark Bradley look who won the popular vote. It sure wasn’t LNP lol
Decades on, still The BEST political ad ... still our BEST PM. Maintain the rage.
Hyped because he was removed by Kerr, and defeated in an electoral landslide a month later.
It still gives me goose bumps. I was getting ready to vote for the first time. (22 years old)
So you’re proud that you were part of a large team of simpletons who fell for a propaganda campaign designed by a pack of long lunching crooks, are you.
And the wonderful voice of Alison McCallum.
When this song was released for Gough Whitlams Labor party, I couldn't wait to vote for the first time.
Ever since then that excitement to vote for any political leader in Australia, is no longer there, except for Bob Hawke a sayer and a doer.
Australia has been in the political wilderness since the Hawke and Keating days have passed.
Today you won't ever get Australian celebrities of this calibre coming together.
It took a war for Australians to vote for a government bringing back our soldiers from Vietnam.
RIP Gough.
I was 19, just about to have to my name in for National Service then Gough and the lABOR pARTY GOT IN, GREAT DAYS
To hell with National Service and the parasites who demanded it of us.
God help you, you were only 19.
The embarrassing thing ... I can still remember and name most of the performing participants, including most of the cast from Bellbird. Pure nostalgia {Sniff} {Sniff}
50 years later, it’s time once again.
It sure is ...
We did it
I understand that this was a jingle for the ALP, but I find it sad that a lot of the comments here focus on politics rather than acknowledge the incredible talent Alison MacCallum was. One of the best female voices Australia has produced.
The whole vibe of the song is amazing even when you disregard the political intent.
well it is an ad for the alp
It was an election like none since when you see what the dog's breakfast that the LNPand it's subsidiary Pauline Hanson represent,unaustralian australians
@@dashaB-sl4pu Pity Gough the grub was one of the biggest traitors Australia produced.
She was right with us, baby. Whenever complimented, her response was to credit the importance of the work. You can hear her sheer commitment in her voice.
Those Aussies in the choir along with
the lead vocal organist sure had SOUL! Who'd ah thunk it!!!
I was 15 when this came out and everything changed when I saw it. I felt like I could fly! Thanks to everyone, just....everyone.
They should have kicked Howard out not Whitlam!
Lead singer Alison McCallum. The chorus comprising a "Who's Who" of Australian entertainment and sport personalities, including Tony Barber, Barry Crocker, Lynette Curran, Chuck Faulkner, Jimmy Hannan, Brian Henderson, Col Joye, Graham Kennedy, Dawn Lake, Bobby Limb, Little Pattie, Bert Newton, Terry Norris, Hazel Phillips, Judy Stone, Maggie Tabberer, Jack Thompson, Jacki Weaver, Kevin Sanders, Ade and Rob Dames, among others.
Thank you for supplying the names for us clueless Yanks! Happy anniversary (in the words of a different Australian band).
@@andrewweber9461 Thanks mate
Great spotting, thanks 👋
We need to bring back more great bass lines and the Hammond Organ in our political jingles!
I concur!
i just played this and noticed the bass line #sogood
I despise ALL politicians of ALL the major parties but my God, this song just grabs me all the time. I’d love to see it remastered (without the political spin on it) coz the words are still so very fitting for today’s crazy world! Yes, it’s certainly time.
Thanks for posting this! It inspires me every time!
Fear not my followers, I am back and it is time once more!
It would be great if the ALP Brought this song back for the next Election it would destroy any hopes Scott Morrison had of being PM Again.
I'm British, this is absolutely fantastic 👏.Gough Whitlam, what a man?
Our best PM !!!
Born in 1977 in Australia so this was before my time. I heard several times in documentaries in retrospectives and it stuck...very different times.
We need this song for the UK and our General Election next year, all right, so it is Keir Starmer but the song is still a hit!
God Bless You Gough Witlam May You Rest In Peace
It's kind of ironic that at1:47 you see Gough Whitlam standing under a portrait of the Queen... given the events of November 11th, 1975
I heard "It's Time" was released on 45, Presumably RCA, which Alison McCullum was recording for at the time.
Time for scomo to go and find some more coal...bye mate thanks for your help during the fires and floods..and the deaths of two of my Close mates through robodept...
well done allison- yes one of the most powerful political songs written that i beleive hit the record charts back in 72 as a favourite ever to be recorded as a political motivator-
cast of australian tv icons -terry norris - cop shop- jack thompson, many many more- and ironically allsion was a Kiwi!
I really hope it's time again
It’s time
It's Time again :)
It is once again, time.
It’s time.
It's got me vibing and I'm not even Australian
Intressting Song! Thanks for this one
God's soundtrack...
Awesome ...When the Labor Party actually had its true meaning ....today the party is a shadow of yesterday..
Amazing. First time I've learned of this/🇸🇪
The song is beautiful! 1972 was the year of hope and dreams. In 1975 and 1977 they would have been singing "Get the Fuck Out!" by Skid Row.
Resurrect this .... NOW !!!!!!!!
Notice the conspicuous absence of David Stratton who refused to participate due to the shaky handheld camerawork.
How'd we go from this to "there's a hole in your budget etc etc". Truly proof of the decline of Australia
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It's Time..to get Don Willisee to sign the 1975 UN Lima agreement..And begin the handover of Australia's manufacturing base to developing countries like China..What Labour started Liberals continued..
Yep one of the best traitors Australia produced but this song was good.
cough... darwin port .... cough
I was shocked to see so many of my favourite Artists singing out the praises for the Labor Party
I remember Bobby Limb saying in an interview a few years later, that he regretted being a part of this ad. He said that he received so much negative comment and abuse that it just wasn’t worth it. Judy Stone said she was blacklisted from Clubs and others had garbage thrown on their lawns. The artists said their careers had suffered.
if this song is not blasted out at a party i leave
😂
I was 17 when 'instant Goughy' and his Labor team shot to power. Heady days.
Hello. Cool. I wish someone would digitally restore and remaster this vid in 4K ultra hi-def.
I wish we had ads like this in the states
I was 11, still the greatest political campaign ever❤
It’s time again with Chris Minns!
Time for old folks, time to love them!
Time for children, time to teach them! It’s time to make it free!
It’s time for loving, time for caring!
Time for freedom! Time for moving, it’s time to begin!
The song "It's Time" has a similar uplifting feeling to another song from the era "Join Together" by the Who.
BTW, I was too young to remember Gough Whitlam as PM but I am thankful as an Aussie that he made modern Austalia what it is. If only modern political leaders (Morrison, Albanese, Black Wiggle, etc ) would show the same leadership we would be in a better situation now.
he was ahead of his time the people didnt understand unfortunately actualy the whole party was as it was a genuine party based on research and developement and science in those days
I'm a Labor voter and I like Whitlam but some of the Labor hagiography around him is embarrassing especially when people give him credit for things Menzies already initiated
Geez, you guys are worried.... trying to rewrite history again!
Like what egghead? All he initiated was more sheep to England.
IT’S TIME. 2022!
Our new National anthem, upon breaking from the Comm0on Wealth, must be this! At least for a few years. Then we, Australia, reinvent ourselves as something else. we rock! There is no better country.
IT’S TIME FOR CHANGE AUSTRALIA
It's time! GO ALBO!
Please let it be time
GOUGH THE MAN OF GOD
Can't believe the lead singer is only 21 years old in this - she looks much older, at least 30.
The last great Labor Prime Minister
Considering there was never a good Liberal Prime Minister and still isn't
You are kidding aren’t you?
Ah come on. Apart from Latham and Rudd they were all pretty good.
the first good modern labor pm*
and Bob Hawke
And catchy
It's Time is a much better ad than that failed there's a hole in my budget ad
Never realised that Tim Brooke-Taylor (00:46) was a Whitlam fan...
1972-2012 is 40 years
It sounds strange after listening to the Clive Palmer version
There's a Clive Palmer version????
@@inikainika1523 there is (don't know if it's still up or not)
This little jingle seems apt for Victoria’s reopening after such a long lockdown
It's Time....for Albo to Go, 2025. Let that limp lettuce leaf go and work on his combover in private life.
give it up peter, you're never gonna be PM
Alright, it's a very nice song, very upbeat; now give me an actual reason why should I vote Labor?
9 people apparently were not with the time.
It’s time for.......Albanese?
Sadly, no.
@@AndyJK45 might be if Morrison keeps on upsetting people
@@AndyJK45 Agree.
Where did you get this video from?
Filmed at Blacktown Council hall
It’s time
" after some 40 years of Conservative government."
1983 -1993 = ALP
That is right in the middle of the time frame 1972 - 2012, then there were 4 other instances of ALP governance.
Your math is wrong.
Now if we take the statement correctly it would be 40 years before 1972. Where there was 20 years (not 40 years) of a Liberal/National government. (1949-1969)
Kevin 07
It's time today
Alright this time I mean it
They should update this for the 2013 Election.
Celebs always help me to make my mind up.
lol, what mind?
yeah but 1949-1972 is 23 years
*Well may we say 'It's Time', because nothing will 'Stop the Clock'*
And then came the Lima Declaration
Time for free enterprise Not Communism!
Whitlam initiated quite a bit of economic liberalisation
0:58 Looks a bit like John Simm / The Master.
It's David Frost.
It was Jimmy Hannan
Although I'm not a fan of Labor, this song is awesome!
Even still, Gough’s greatest legacy has to be universal healthcare - an idea that has the support of both major parties today.
@@Hazza4257 Gough's greatest legacy was this song and scrapping the draft.
Both parties also support selling out Australian interests to the UN which is somerthing else the gough started.
23 years not 40
It's time to stop kissing the Queens arse and acting like second generation British. Time to become a republic
+sliat1981 Agreed!!!
Yeah Nah... You just want our corrupt politicians to rewrite the constitution making a shit tonne of loopholes so we will be kissing their arse. I get you don't care about our history and the beautiful System of government that we have, but I do.
julia gillard 40 yrs ago :)
I’m still in love with the idea of Gough .... the reality not so much.
Your reading comprehension fails. "Coming to power after some 40 years" would mean 1932-1972.
Unfortunately this song was the high point of his government - he barely lasted two and a half years. By the end Australia was so broke he had to hire a dodgy middleman to go around the middle east begging for loans. And the ALP were bailed out by a donation from the Iraqi socialist party aka Saddam
Yawn.