Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Back1972 - Written by Ewan MacColl 1957
Folk singer Ewan MacColl wrote this in 1957 for his wife, Peggy Seeger**. She was in a play and phoned him for suggestions on a song for a romantic scene. MacColl wrote this song in less than an hour, and taught it to her over the phone - Source Songfacts
Roberta's reworked version first appears on her 1969 album "First Take", it was then popularized by Clint Eastwood in his 1971 directorial debut "Play Misty for Me", resulting in it being shortened to a four minute single and released by Atlantic Records in 1972
It reached number fourteen in the UK and stayed at number one in the United States for six weeks, which led to Roberta winning the Record of the Year Award, and Ewan the Grammy Award for Song of the Year.
Roberta Flack Home Page
jwbos1388 has uploaded the MacColl/Seeger Version
Also check out the "nusound" Video Response where (Producer) Joel Dorn - talks about Roberta Flack & Clint Eastwood
** There's a discrepancy in web accounts as to whether Peggy Seeger was his wife, lover and/or mother of his child when he wrote this song. Also Kirsty was born two years later but I believe her mother was his 2nd and earlier wife.
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Uploaded: September 18, 2007 at 1:34 am
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Video Comments:
Ntxawgvwj (November 19, 2008 at 12:56 am)
Roberta's blessed with a great voice and how she expresses this song with so much passion deserves nothing close to good, she's the best.
bridgeat (November 18, 2008 at 8:11 pm)
back in '72 - this song bored me to tears. (hey, i was 13 , hehe). Now i can relate to it - and i can't seem to hear it enough.
sw640 (November 18, 2008 at 5:47 pm)
probably the most beautiful song of all time, truly a gift from God.
jetrussell (November 18, 2008 at 1:00 am)
one song I can listen to all day long
smile4mejmarie (November 17, 2008 at 11:51 pm)
The moon and the stars were the gifts you gave to me.............
OoMASEoO (November 17, 2008 at 9:14 pm)
beautiful*
bornn68 (November 17, 2008 at 2:24 am)
is a 1957 folk song written by Ewan MacColl for his wife Peggy Seeger. It was popularized by Roberta Flack
hardcorehouse (November 16, 2008 at 4:36 am)
Good but not the best version of this great song.
Markcrouix (November 15, 2008 at 4:28 pm)
when ever i think of my only true girlfriend this song always come to mind, it gives me some tiny butterflies in my tummy
harrisonjford (November 15, 2008 at 1:58 am)
I hope she leave this very nice video, music scumbags don' remove, because it might be enough to go out and buy the CD assholes, oh dirty cocksuckers, maybe you wash dirty cocks before sucking, laugh, BUT great music, whoever posted this, ;-)
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