"Good Timin'" was a number-one single in the UK Singles Chart during 1960, written by Fred Tobias and Clint Ballard Jr., and performed by Jimmy Jones.

[2] The song extrapolates the historical encounters between David and Goliath and between Columbus and Isabella as reason enough for a boy to meet a girl.

"Good Timin'" was later covered by Kyu Sakamoto in Japanese.

Australian band Ol' 55 covered the song on their album The Vault (1980).

UK band Showaddywaddy also covered the song and released it as a single in 1981, but it failed to reach the charts.