Time Makes a Wine

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"Time Makes a Wine"
Time Makes a Wine, Ardijah.jpg
Single by Ardijah
from the album Ardijah
B-side "Jammin"
Released1987
Genre Funk [1]
Length5:07
Label WEA
Songwriter(s) Ryan Monga
Producer(s) Ryan Monga
Ardijah singles chronology
"That's The Way"
(1987)
"Time Makes a Wine"
(1987)
"Watchin' U"
(1988)

"Time Makes a Wine" is a song by New Zealand music group Ardijah. It was released through WEA in 1987 [2] [3] as the third and final single from their debut album Ardijah (1987), reaching the top 50 of the New Zealand charts. [4] [5] The song was featured in the 1986 film Queen City Rocker alongside Ardijah themselves. [6]

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Release

The release of "Time Makes a Wine" was accompanied by a partially animated music video [6] which received airplay on MTV in Australia, though the song did not chart outside of New Zealand. [5] Irene Cara wanted to record a reworked version of the track but these plans did not come to fruition; it was later reworked by Ardijah themselves and included with the release of the group's third album, Time (1999). [5]

Track listing

7-inch New Zealand single [2] [3]

  1. "Time Makes a Wine" (Ryan Monga)
  2. "Jammin" (Monga)

Personnel

Credits adapted from single sleeve. [3]

Charts

Chart (1988)Peak
position
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [4] 41

References

  1. Bourke, Chris (1 October 1987). "Shake Summation". Rip It Up. Retrieved 18 November 2024 via Papers Past.
  2. 1 2 "Time makes a wine [sound recording]; Jammin / R. Monga; [performed by] Ardijah". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 Time Makes a Wine (7-inch single sleeve). Ardijah. New Zealand: WEA Records. 1987. AJAH2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  4. 1 2 "Ardijah – Time Makes A Wine". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
  5. 1 2 3 Perrott, Alan (8 November 2018). "Ardijah - part two". AudioCulture. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
  6. 1 2 "Time Makes a Wine". NZ On Screen. Retrieved 18 November 2024.