HJP The song my employer played to death … But Flack’s version is now only listened to in times of fortitude, when I know it won’t leave me on the floor in a pool of emotions, the variations of which I’m not always sure of. I love it so much that I could never banish it entirely, and a workaround is to listen to other great recordings: Johnny Cash’s typically husky take (slightly too much reverb, but nothing is perfect) or Gordon Lightfoot’s zigzagging rearrangement. This makes it difficult for me now to hear Flack’s stunning version, which in my opinion is also one of the greatest songs of all time. It is quite natural for people to have a certain song perennially tied to their first love, but a track attached to a relationship runs the risk of being ruined if that love ends less than amicably. And that is, of course, Roberta Flack’s 1972 one (though recorded in 1969). In particular, the version most of us love best. I can’t quite remember the first time ever I heard it, but it remains indelibly linked to a certain person in my mind. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face was written by Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger, who went on to marry him (well you would, wouldn’t you?).
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