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Your Love's Been a Long Time Coming
Words & Music:
Rory BourkeThe first time I saw you I knew I was hooked on somebody elder than me
The first time I held you, your soft lips and blue eyes
Were as far as my eyes could see
Yes here in my arms I knew I had found the reason that I'm living for
And I felt a feeling, such a wonderful feeling
That I'd never felt before
Baby, your love's been a long time coming
Baby, your love got a hold on me
Baby, your love sure got me humming
Baby, your love's been a long time coming
Deep in my heart there's a feeling I never knew
Until I saw a love that was very new
I'm gonna tell everyone what good love can do
Baby, your love's been a long time coming
Baby, your love got a hold on me
Baby, your love sure got me humming
Baby, your love's been a long time coming
Baby, your love's been a long time coming
Baby, your love got a hold on me Recorded:
1973/12/15, first released on
Promised LandReactions
Yet another song with the wrong words on this site. Definitely the lyris is "....other than me". Although a little monotonous, Elvis does a great job on this, however, the udubbed versions are infinitely better. Deserves to be much better known.
Features on my wedding DVD. Great song as a lot of the 70's songs were that have really gone unnoticed by the general populace.
I like this song and the LP a lot. 5 stars for both of them.
A solid album track that helps makes side B of the LP "Promised Land" a real treat. Every track on this side of the LP is four stars are better (I would give this one four stars). This was the last LP of Elvis' career to have a side with so many quality recordings (side B of "From Elvis Presley Boulevard is very good as well; but side B of "Promised Land" is better). I think there are a couple of lyric corrections. Line 1 should read "somebody other than me" not "somebody elder than me". Also, "a love that was very new" should be "a love that was there in you". I could be wrong with the second correction; but I am almost positive I am correct on the first line.
Hello people, I emailed Rory Bourke and asked him about this song. Elvis DID record the original version just as I thought. Here's what he wrote:
"The Song was written about My Daughter Allyson,shortly after her birth...I'm sure Elvis thought he was singing about a woman;he did a wonderful Job...it was the first and so far the only recording. After Elvis singing your song who could do it better. I never met elvis but knew his producer Felton Jarvis and Lamarr Fike...Felton definitely got that song recorded. My publisher Henry Hurt pitched that song to Felton...we were not contacted by his management".
So there you have the story :-)
Ok as an album song, a full Lp of these i could listen to, but not suitable as a single. Promised Land was the correct single release, did well getting to Uk #9, deserved a #1 spot.
This is a decent song and would have worked well live. Why did he stick with the boring Newton-John covers, My Way, and the overused Mountain for all those tours? Here he had a good original song on a new LP. Yes he was in a concert rut just like the movies years rut.
Good song, one of the better ones from that LP but a major hit? Probably only in the country field which was where Elvis was making the most impact on the charts after Burning Love.
I love this song, from the "Promised Land" Album. Hey, I thought the line in the song was "The first time I saw you, I knew I was hooked, on somebody other than me". Today, I find out, the Lyrics are, "somebody elder than me". Who knew? I'll have to relisten to the song.
Invisible because there was a reaction to someone else
i also like the rehearsal version of this superb song from sunset to las vegas cd(fdt)..thier is also a good outtake version on the 1998 RCA/BMG cd "Rhymtm and country".
I've got a list of songs that should have been performed live on stage by Elvis..This is one of them..like this song very much.
Great song...should have been performed on stage !
this is one of the greatest songs to me from his later days. and by no means an album filler.
Yeah this is a really great song from the mid seventies from my favouite album. It's easy to listen to once or twice and dismiss it as nothing more than one of the ok songs from Stax but repeated listens to this and the whole Promised Land album will find you singing it to yourself when you leats expect it. Five stars. :)
This is one of the best songs Elvis recorded in the 70's. Don't know why it wasn't a hit though, as far as I know Elvis recorded the original version. The composer, Rory Bourke, also co-writed Patch It Up and The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (Charlie Rich) + a bunch of other great songs.
I liked it when I heard it for the first time, but now I just think it´s ok. Not the best song on that album, just an album filler in my mind.
I think this song could of been a country hit back in the 70's.
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