bob dylan turned 76 today. in light of this occasion, i am sharing with you a little nugget i found today. ‘tomorrow is a long time’ is a song he wrote in the december 1962 as a demo for witmark and sons, his publishing company. it was also released as a live version from a concert in 1963, and he made a studio version for ‘new morning’ but it didn’t make the final cut for that album. the first two versions inspired odetta to include it on an all dylan cover album she did in 1965. charlie mccoy, a nashville studio musician who had played with dylan on ‘blonde on blonde’, introduced elvis to the odetta album while recording a session with him. he became smitten with this particular song and recorded it during the sessions for his 1966 release ‘how great thou art’. at one point dylan was quoted as saying it was the favorite cover of his songs, and that it was ‘his most treasured recording’.

i give you the king: