Artist: Ian & Sylvia
Author: Bob Dylan
Label: Vanguard
Year: 1963
On their second album Four Strong Winds. Written for them, according to Sylvia (see footnote though).
Covers:
Bob Dylan [live at Town Hall, released in '71 on his lp More Greatest Hits; his Witmark demo (from December '62) came out on The Bootleg Series Vol 9]
Elvis Presley [Dylan's favorite cover version]
Nick Drake [shelved until '07]
Randi Hansen [Norwegian version as Hvor Godt Det Ble A Vakne]
Rosalie Sorrels [on A Nod To Bob]
Dylan wrote it after the break-up with Suze Rotolo (the girl on the Freewheelin' cover). His oldest recording was made on tape by his friend Tony Glover in Minneapolis, MN in August '62 and came out on Through The Open Window - Bootleg Series Vol 18 ('25).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
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B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Belgium