That song, always, makes me cry as that was, exactly, how I felt the first time I met my husband to be. My roommate insisted I meet her fiance's best buddy who had just arrived back from two years in Australia having been playing there & just returned to the states. I fought tooth & nail with my roommate that I did not do blind dates, but, when I met him the 1st time & saw his smile, I knew he was the one. I told him I was going to marry him on our 3rd date, I think. We married, many happy years together & he died 7 yrs. ago & I miss him, terribly. This song is the most beautiful song I have ever heard & does, indeed, stir up those wonderful memories.
Hearts that are united through the medium of sorrow will not be separated by the glory of happiness. Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful. ~ Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Love
'Journey of Souls' by (the late) Dr Michael Newton, is about our 'life between lives' which many of us believe is our real home where we return to reside with our loved ones.
What a beautiful love story, Meta! And I'm so sorry that you lost your husband -- it can be such a tough journey, and hopefully those wonderful memories of your life keep a glow in your heart now. The song just takes my breath away. This version and Roberta Flack's version are amazing and they conjure up so many intense feelings and memories.
Yes--Julie--the first time, still haunts this 77-year-old man to this day--RIP dear one. This song brought a tears to my eyes. Can't wait to I see you again--and that beautiful smile.
In 1966 I was 15 years old and working as an usher at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City Mo. Peter Paul and Mary were playing a concert and my best friend and I were asked to take soft drinks to their dressing room before the show. When we entered the room to set the tray of drinks down PP&M were playing & singing a song, I assume they were warming up before the performance. Mary was sitting facing the door. She looked at me and smiled. What a beautiful lady she was!
Apparently there are 1.3K people whom are either deaf, don't appreciate amazing voices, or are jealous! I loved Peter, Paul, and Mary. They take me back to the better, more innocent days, of America... when music touched your soul.
There is no way to count the numbers of people who were born without a sense of great music. Those are the ones who think getting stoned and vomiting at Kiss concerts is the way to go
Fue mi inspiracion. Inolvidable voz. Tuvo lo que se define como "un oído absoluto" para ejecutar cada nota musical exactamente, la precisa y no otra, cuando se canta a tres voces. Algo especialísimo reservado a muy pocos. Yo tambien lo tuve. Mary: digna de memoria eterna. Gracias.
Mary's voice was the voice of an angel. She melted my soul. So sweet, with such feeling. What a beautiful song, what a beautiful arrangement, what a outstanding performance! I love everything they ever did--never a off song. How wonderful is that?! How can ANYONE not love this?!! Some of the most perfect harmony ever created by human voice! My soul soars with the beauty of everything they ever sung.
@@virgorising7388 OMG. Small world. I lived in Brewster NY from '71-72 just 8 miles from Danbury. I saw all three of them here in Madison, WI at the Performing Arts Center. Great experience, eh?
Jodie, I am sure you will see him again and please carry with you this love he has for you. Please live your life to the fullest, this I think is what he wants you to do before you reunite with him. ❤ Sending you love, Melanie
@@vatrweaver5169 , and "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"...another godless liar. @JodieFawcett-v7p , the Father of all spirits is able and willing to answer your prayer, in Jesus' name and for his sake, being "patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance."
Peter, Paul, and Mary❤️😭❤️😭❤️ They don’t make love songs like this anymore. They were such an amazing group. Active in social justice and incredible musicians.
My thoughts exactly! Loving, peaceful, respectful, beauty,: I miss those traits in music and mostly in the human race. We can be saints and/or sinners, or both, fighting inside: feed the saint, love the sinner, hate the sin. We can be so much more than we think...if only.
De acuerdo en lo dicho. Era una voz excepcional, sus armonizaciones tambien lo fueron. Sin duda fueron una leccion de buena música para todos y un auténtico placer escucharlos. Gracias por aquellas bellisimas interpretaciones.
I love this rendition. It just flows like two people totally in love. Hand in hand looking into each others' eyes. I'll be married 42 years this month and I still feel this way about my wife. I get chills when she comes in.
Long lasting passion and love, my love and I will be married 45 years in April.i know exactly how you feel, I still have butterflies and blush, I love you Gregory.congrats to you and your lucky wife 💕
Wow... not many can say that. P.s. That feeling when she comes in... she hasn't wired your chair to the mains has she? Muttering "the twats still here!" as she flips the switch in the kitchen, ;-)
Awww! That is so sweet! I hope you tell her in words how she makes you feel. We have been married 49 years, and my husband is very good to me, but I long to hear loving words from him, and not just loving actions. 👍❤️
I saw them, past mid life, at Roy Thompson Hall, in Toronto ON, Canada. A friend and I sat in choir loft, behind them.. Mary did not disappoint~ she was in bare feet as she kept the beat! (She left our planet , shortly after, I felt even more privileged! Thx ISSER!)
If you are 15-20 years old and here listening to this song, congratulations you have my respect. We need young people like you so that our real music can continue to exist. May 2020
20 years old and wishing I'd been alive in the 60s to appreciate Peter, Paul and Mary in their prime! Replaying this video will have to suffice. Their work will forever touch people :)
@@flavianna3241 Their music is available on many streaming services. However CDs are the way to go for me. I originally had all of their albums on phonographs, but it is difficult to find record players anymore. Amazon has their CDs.
Ewan MacColl used a similar phrase in his beautiful and descriptive song "Sweet Thames Flow Softly" "At London Yard I held her hand At Blackwall Point I faced her At the Isle of Dogs I kissed her mouth And tenderly embraced her" It's a story of a man falling in love as he makes his way down the river with his new found love, only to see the love gently slip away as the river meets the tide and heads off to sea!! ruclips.net/video/zmn5pOxb2iM/видео.html
The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes And the moon and stars were the gifts you gave To the dark and the empty skies my love To the dark and the empty skies The first time ever I kissed your mouth I felt the earth move in my hand Like the trembling heart of a captive bird That was there at my command my love That was there at my command The first time ever I held you near And felt your heartbeat close to mine I thought our joy would fill the world And would last till the end of time my love And would last till the end of time
When my baby daughter died I left the hospital and just drove my car for the longest time. This played on the radio and branded its way into my brain. If I ever hear this song it freezes me cold. 38 years later its still the same. God bless your soul Tara, 'til we meet again.
I just read your reply and I am profoundly moved to tears. I do not know you, but will always think of you and your precious baby daughter Tara when I hear this beautiful song. I am still crying.
@@leslieberinger2606 Thanks for your sympathy. But I'm just grateful to Ewen McColl to write such a powerful ballad that can take me back all those years to instantly remember. The greatest sadness would to be for me to forget her.
Mary Travers wasn't the lead singer. She was an add-on brought in to broaden the duo's appeal. She had trouble singing with Peter and Paul at first because unlike them she wasn't a trained singer. When she first joined the group all she did was backup vocals. She was brought in at first mainly for her appearance.
Very sad world we live in, we only get a short time on this earth, we go through enough pain in our lifes with our close family and our past friends who have passed away, why oh why can't we just live life in peace, and do away with all the suffering of war, so sad, seems it will never change.
Only sad when we focus on the bad things and cling to the past - we are surrounded by beauty and love, my friend. Embrace them every chance you get and hold tightly. I send you a big, virtual hug, Glen.
Rest in peace Mary Travers, we all miss you. Thank you Noel & Peter for giving us this terrific performance with Mary which will long be your legacy together. I am glad I got to meet and interact with the three of you in New Orleans 30+ years ago. That was a night my wife and I will never forget.
Wow I noticed there's a lot of people who put thumbs down . I can only imagine that those people , don't have a clue about music , possibly can't play or think they can do better ! When they don't understand about the time it was sung . Nor the true feeling of song ! Thanks Peter , Paul and Mary . How beautiful to hear class
My first record album was peter, paul & mary and I found them an inspiration for the folk guitar and harmonies. Now, 54 years later, I forgive those who can not understand that lyrics, music and harmony fly high above the tripe offered as music today.
@@patrickjensen9824 I love most music , love the music a little more , because there was more heart and meaning ! Not just made up because of something meaningless that happened in there life . Look up Courtney hadwin on RUclips . I believe you will appreciate her brilliance . Thanks for your comment . Have a good day
@@julianlawrence-ball2279 well you obviously must have put thumbs down . Don't there are people who have no idea !! I'm sure there's some crap music that you think is good !! Like at kinda . That's fine , quality isn't for everyone . Enjoy your music
We though we would b liver! Now that the end is near. How far wenhave have travelled! She is still with me after all these years and trials. God bless her!
This takes me back to the night I fell in love with my former wife. After the all the loves of my life, she's still the one. Sadly, it ended after 2o years. I miss her now at 75 years old.
How sad we don't see it at the time. The one person ... we pick fights over silly things and lose them.... many many years later we understand ... had we just been a little more patient .. a little more understanding .. a little less selfish ... we too may have seen our days out in the company of that one ... and only one ... most wonderful person
Surprised that they sanitized MacColl's lyrics in verse 3. According to SIng Out! Magazine, the original is "The first time ever I lay with you..." while PPM sing "The first time ever I held you in...."
Three voices. That were are pure magic I saw them in small clubs and Carnegie hall and peace marches. They could perform with mikes and still sound wonderful
If cameron ever reads this, know that I'll always love you no matter what. you are a gift beyond measure, a precious soul connection that I cannot bear thinking of being without. you are mine and I am yours, my love. I will always be yours, and I pray you will always choose to be mine.
Mary was taken from all of us too, too early! What a special folk trio! Thank you PP and M for all your music through the years ... time moves forward and your music with time!!
When this song came out on a PP & M album, my friend and I "back engineered" it and deduced all the guitar chords and the actual guitar parts and then wrote down the harmonies for each voice for the three verses. When it came to actually doing the song it was so beautiful and emotional I would often get a lump in my throat singing the words. I still have all that in my archives and I still love this song. Such a sensitive rendition.
I use to sing this to my baby as well as John Denver's "Annie" she is now 33 and having her first baby. Those moments when I held her in my arms and rocked her to sleep were our wonderful memories together that know will ever take from us.
He was actually born and raised in England by Scottish parents. He is also the father of Kirsty McColl and wrote Dirty Old Town, made famous by The Pogues.
Today is The First Time. I’ve ever heard this version, always thought it was a Roberta Flak song.... actually brought me to tears , loved it❤️👍 1st Of January 2021
Mary was just so beautiful. She sounded like an angel from heaven. So clean so pure. So soft and so womanly. There is a kindness and sentiment in those eyes. A true woman and so absolutely rare these days.
I saw Peter, Paul, & Mary in concert a few times, and I was lucky enough to see what turned out to be the last concert they ever gave, not long before Mary Travers passed away. Always loved them.
I was walking with a friend in Manhattan about 1971. We spotted Mary Travers around 65th St. and decided to see where she went. We followed her to her Townhouse near Ave. A, not far from the East River. There was a small brass tag on the door which had her name. We walked across the street and chatted with a doorman and said to him, “ Mary Travers lives there” or something like that.he said yes, look up to the 3rd floor through the windows you can see gold records hanging on the wall. Sure enough we could see maybe 3 gold records. True story.
2:45 this is my first time hearing this version of Peter Paul and Mary do this song... I have to say that my first favorite singer though is Roberta Flack.. her version of the song kills me. This has its own sweet, folk-y flavor to it.. which is beautiful in its own right..❤
Mary T. makes any song she sings in live, breathe, take on a life of its own, & become magical, majestic , heavenly... thx for all the songs & memories Mary T... *R.i.P.*
I had the pleasure of escorting Peter Yarrow for an afternoon when he was a guest speaker at a conference in Long Beach many years ago. When he meets someone, you can be friends for life. He gave me his address in NYC and I called him a couple of times after our encounter. A classy man and loves to perform for an audience. Such a good memory.
They were the sounds of my youth as my mother played guitar and sang all their songs and my cousins came up from Newton ma and played on holidays. Folk music was the thing back then and Mom played beautiful guitar and sang wonderful. Gosh I cherish those memories.
Thank you Peter, Paul & Mary for your beautiful "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." Thanks also to Jan Hammer for posting this vid. Gratefully, Robert S.J. Hu May 9, 2020.
Powerful. The first time.... I got off that C-130 in Grenada, WI. On Army duty. I saw him across the airfield... and it was instant. .... Just his body language... did it. And then the face, the kiss, the love. 35 years together.... 31 of them with his massive stroke handicaps, but still NO man will ever ever come near who and what he is as a man, a human and a soul. My SGM Special Forces, Scuba, HALO and Jumpmaster!
Pure talent. No costumes, no dancing, no gimmicks, no special effects. Just talent.
Thanks Linda for checking in.
electricity, microphones amd speakers, aww, i don't care........loved them.
I agree
That song, always, makes me cry as that was, exactly, how I felt the first time I met my husband to be. My roommate insisted I meet her fiance's best buddy who had just arrived back from two years in Australia having been playing there & just returned to the states. I fought tooth & nail with my roommate that I did not do blind dates, but, when I met him the 1st time & saw his smile, I knew he was the one. I told him I was going to marry him on our 3rd date, I think. We married, many happy years together & he died 7 yrs. ago & I miss him, terribly. This song is the most beautiful song I have ever heard & does, indeed, stir up those wonderful memories.
Hearts that are united through the medium of sorrow
will not be separated by the glory of happiness.
Love that is cleansed by tears
will remain eternally pure and beautiful.
~ Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Love
Those who change us never leave us. God bless you Meta.
'Journey of Souls' by (the late) Dr Michael Newton, is about our 'life between lives' which many of us believe is our real home where we return to reside with our loved ones.
An eternity of waiting in life, so it seems, to be reunited forever afterwards. The sweet addiction of the brightest light, true love.
What a beautiful love story, Meta! And I'm so sorry that you lost your husband -- it can be such a tough journey, and hopefully those wonderful memories of your life keep a glow in your heart now. The song just takes my breath away. This version and Roberta Flack's version are amazing and they conjure up so many intense feelings and memories.
Yes--Julie--the first time, still haunts this 77-year-old man to this day--RIP dear one. This song brought a tears to my eyes. Can't wait to I see you again--and that beautiful smile.
I remember, last there! ❤️💛💚👊🏼
In 1966 I was 15 years old and working as an usher at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City Mo. Peter Paul and Mary were playing a concert and my best friend and I were asked to take soft drinks to their dressing room before the show. When we entered the room to set the tray of drinks down PP&M were playing & singing a song, I assume they were warming up before the performance. Mary was sitting facing the door. She looked at me and smiled. What a beautiful lady she was!
Your story gave me chills. Awesome
I attended that concert
The most beautiful of songs. Growing up in the sixties was good. Nothing better
Apparently there are 1.3K people whom are either deaf, don't appreciate amazing voices, or are jealous! I loved Peter, Paul, and Mary. They take me back to the better, more innocent days, of America... when music touched your soul.
There is no way to count the numbers of people who were born without a sense of great music. Those are the ones who think getting stoned and vomiting at Kiss concerts is the way to go
I so agree with you. They were incredible, singly and as a group.
If only that where so/Petter yarrow the covert pedophile rapist/its a lovely head in the sand thought/but not true!
Ye, I feel kinda honored to have grown up with this music playing.
No smoke and mirrors, just brilliance and class.
real three-part harmony, and a belief in the message
The last time I saw them, M, wasn't looking so good, but the energy was still there.
I so appreciate this. I was too young when it was popular, now I get to appreciate the art and talent. So beautiful!
Debra Miller: We need more brilliance and class like that now plus less smoke and mirrors!!
Smoke & mirrors are used in place of talent & passion...
No computer nonsense, just pure magic. Lovely voices blended together, a gift to us all.
Love when cash sang it also
yup, no auto-tune
Fue mi inspiracion. Inolvidable voz. Tuvo lo que se define como "un oído absoluto" para ejecutar cada nota musical exactamente, la precisa y no otra, cuando se canta a tres voces. Algo especialísimo reservado a muy pocos. Yo tambien lo tuve. Mary: digna de memoria eterna. Gracias.
You nailed it in so few words.
Mary's voice was the voice of an angel. She melted my soul. So sweet, with such feeling. What a beautiful song, what a beautiful arrangement, what a outstanding performance! I love everything they ever did--never a off song. How wonderful is that?! How can ANYONE not love this?!! Some of the most perfect harmony ever created by human voice! My soul soars with the beauty of everything they ever sung.
I saw Mary Travers at the Danbury Mall in Connecticut.
@@virgorising7388 OMG. Small world. I lived in Brewster NY from '71-72 just 8 miles from Danbury. I saw all three of them here in Madison, WI at the Performing Arts Center. Great experience, eh?
Saw many rock concerts > from NYC , Saw Peter Paul and Mary in 1991 at queens college. One of the best concerts i saw
and she's not cute like most chicks she a beauty
Such a beautiful articulation of the impact Mary and the group had on my life l Thank you, Michael.
My Dad said this is how he felt about me when I was born and he died a month ago I can't wait to be with him again. I love you Dad ❤
Jodie, you will see him again - but no hurry, he will wait for you while you enjoy your time here
You won't see him again. You will go to another road, wonted, or not.
Jodie, I am sure you will see him again and please carry with you this love he has for you. Please live your life to the fullest, this I think is what he wants you to do before you reunite with him. ❤ Sending you love, Melanie
@@vatrweaver5169 , and "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"...another godless liar. @JodieFawcett-v7p , the Father of all spirits is able and willing to answer your prayer, in Jesus' name and for his sake, being "patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance."
@@vatrweaver5169Nasty comment.
I am so glad that RUclips allows us to remember such wonderful music.
Peter, Paul, and Mary❤️😭❤️😭❤️
They don’t make love songs like this anymore.
They were such an amazing group. Active in social justice and incredible musicians.
Hello,how are you doing?
You're right, I think. Sincerity can't be manufactured; it's honest and undiluted by life's experiences.
Social justice is a scourge upon our land.
A commie snake. Like D , etc..
Wake up!
I’ve been married to my wife for nearly 60 years and I still think of her when I hear this song.
My lovely Jo died 21 years ago and this song always reminds me of the first time we met in 1997. I still miss her.
You are very fortunate to still have such love and to have had this for 60 years thus far!
That’s lovely!
Married to my husband for 37 years and together as a couple for 40 years. So blessed and grateful to have such a love in my life.
People were just gentler then, so elegant and low key chic. What a pure, beautiful song and such lovely humans.
Where do you live? The old good days 😉Our parent had them, we got them, our kids get them. Thats life👍🥂🇦🇺
Urm.... we were making nuclear bombs 😕
My thoughts exactly! Loving, peaceful, respectful, beauty,: I miss those traits in music and mostly in the human race. We can be saints and/or sinners, or both, fighting inside: feed the saint, love the sinner, hate the sin. We can be so much more than we think...if only.
Yes it is always nice to have RUclips 🧁 and emojis 🍁
Mary is gone now ; we shall never see her again ;; Her music will live on for ever;; RIP my dear;;
My long gone youth!!! I love them...
Statements like yours seem final.very sad.i often think like that.i agree with you.
There is a spirit world so you will see her again
Whose we?
The "Mary Travers" queue in the spirit world is bound to be long..
this is one of the most beautiful love songs i have ever heard. just a perfect song.
Wasn't she BEAUTIFUL!! And one of the most haunting clear voices of the 20th century. (Another being Karen Carpenter) Both of whom Rest in Peace!
yes her and Karen Carpenter were possibly the greatest singers of a generation
KyranI an Geraghty my two favourites, both bring me to tears with their hauntingly beautiful voices.
I can't believe she was ever that small, from that point her weight exploded beyond control, bad diet and on the road all those early years.
GoatDriver Ram she looks like Niko
On the one hand, I am happy to hearing it, on the other hand, I am so sad for the artists passed away...
Roberta Flack made something completely different out of this song , but they're both exquisitely done. Wow
Iris Gross I thought the same. I’d never heard this version.
Roberta’s version is exquisitely haunting
@dbltrplx thanks. I didn't know.
And Celine so which one do you like the best?
@MusicMadMaurice Ah
She had wonderful contralto voice, almost a tenor. A most beautiful female vocal range! I grew up with these recordings in the 60's
De acuerdo en lo dicho. Era una voz excepcional, sus armonizaciones tambien lo fueron. Sin duda fueron una leccion de buena música para todos y un auténtico placer escucharlos. Gracias por aquellas bellisimas interpretaciones.
Beautiful song. It reminds me of the first time ever I saw my wife to be face.
Listening to Peter Paul and Mary Stunning voices and talented people ❤️ Where have all they gone. Long time passing ❤
Simple, clear music lost in the wind. Thank God for the purified music. Praise the Lord.
Thanks for checking in with us.
Sixty plus years later and it does't get much better than this.
One of the best folk singing groups ever in my opinion.👍👍
I love this rendition. It just flows like two people totally in love. Hand in hand looking into each others' eyes. I'll be married 42 years this month and I still feel this way about my wife. I get chills when she comes in.
Long lasting passion and love, my love and I will be married 45 years in April.i know exactly how you feel, I still have butterflies and blush, I love you Gregory.congrats to you and your lucky wife 💕
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Truly mate, you are blessed. Thanks for sharing.
Wow... not many can say that.
P.s. That feeling when she comes in... she hasn't wired your chair to the mains has she? Muttering "the twats still here!" as she flips the switch in the kitchen, ;-)
Awww! That is so sweet! I hope you tell her in words how she makes you feel. We have been married 49 years, and my husband is very good to me, but I long to hear loving words from him, and not just loving actions. 👍❤️
Not enough things soothe the soul in 2022. This absolutely does. Thank you PP+M.
I wanted to post a comment, but yours spoke perfectly to how this performance makes me feel. No need to add anything.
This group marked my childhood with its marvelous melodies, its poetic lyrics and at the same time of protests.
Thanks Arnaldo for visiting the channel.
I saw them, past mid life, at Roy Thompson Hall, in Toronto ON, Canada. A friend and I sat in choir loft, behind them.. Mary did not disappoint~ she was in bare feet as she kept the beat! (She left our planet , shortly after, I felt even more privileged! Thx ISSER!)
If you are 15-20 years old and here listening to this song, congratulations you have my respect. We need young people like you so that our real music can continue to exist. May 2020
20 years old and wishing I'd been alive in the 60s to appreciate Peter, Paul and Mary in their prime! Replaying this video will have to suffice. Their work will forever touch people :)
@@flavianna3241 congratulations !
@@flavianna3241 Their music is available on many streaming services. However CDs are the way to go for me. I originally had all of their albums on phonographs, but it is difficult to find record players anymore. Amazon has their CDs.
I just can't get enough of these songs. It brings back memories of when I was just 7 yrs old and listening to them on a record player. 54 now in 2024.
The first time I heard this MASTERPIECE was in 1972 (52 years ago). I was awed by Roberta Flack's flawless delivery, simply awed.
This is first time I've heard this rendition..Roberta does it beautifully..but I must say the harmonies are also beautiful..
In those days singers could sing and musicians could play. Peter, Paul and Mary epitomized this musicianship.
Thanks for tuning in.
“the first time ever I kissed your mouth” is such a beautiful expression of love. Wonderful.
Losing someone through death , this is such an emotional declaration of memories and love.
No smoke and mirrors, just brilliance and class.
That line made me wonder as a young boy, what kissing Mary Travers would be like. It’s a thought still with me though I’m nearly 70.
I totally agree. At age75 I still think of kissing Mary Travis
Ewan MacColl used a similar phrase in his beautiful and descriptive song "Sweet Thames Flow Softly"
"At London Yard I held her hand
At Blackwall Point I faced her
At the Isle of Dogs I kissed her mouth
And tenderly embraced her"
It's a story of a man falling in love as he makes his way down the river with his new found love, only to see the love gently slip away as the river meets the tide and heads off to sea!! ruclips.net/video/zmn5pOxb2iM/видео.html
For anybody born this century - This is what you can talent. No gimmicks.
The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and stars were the gifts you gave
To the dark and the empty skies my love
To the dark and the empty skies
The first time ever I kissed your mouth
I felt the earth move in my hand
Like the trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command my love
That was there at my command
The first time ever I held you near
And felt your heartbeat close to mine
I thought our joy would fill the world
And would last till the end of time my love
And would last till the end of time
What an epic trio they were.. thank God for their beautiful harmonies..
Simply breathtaking. The harmony, the lyrics, the music. This is what music should be.
A truly beautiful woman singing a beautiful song.... Nothing else needed!
When my baby daughter died I left the hospital and just drove my car for the longest time. This played on the radio and branded its way into my brain. If I ever hear this song it freezes me cold. 38 years later its still the same. God bless your soul Tara, 'til we meet again.
I just read your reply and I am profoundly moved to tears. I do not know you, but will always think of you and your precious baby daughter Tara when I hear this beautiful song. I am still crying.
@@leslieberinger2606 Thanks for your sympathy. But I'm just grateful to Ewen McColl to write such a powerful ballad that can take me back all those years to instantly remember. The greatest sadness would to be for me to forget her.
God Bless
Leonard Froud , And you will see your baby again, God Bless You 👵🏼❤️👶🏻
Leonard Froud Oh, what can I say, I am crying for you.
Great song and great group! Like the Seekers, the female is the lead singer and the key singer! Mary Travers was marvelous!
Mary Travers wasn't the lead singer. She was an add-on brought in to broaden the duo's appeal. She had trouble singing with Peter and Paul at first because unlike them she wasn't a trained singer. When she first joined the group all she did was backup vocals. She was brought in at first mainly for her appearance.
And both Peter and Paul take the lead on some songs. Do any of the Seekers men do so?
@@robertewalt7789 Yes! Bruce Woodley was the lead singer n some of the songs.
Very sad world we live in, we only get a short time on this earth, we go through enough pain in our lifes with our close family and our past friends who have passed away, why oh why can't we just live life in peace, and do away with all the suffering of war, so sad, seems it will never change.
Only sad when we focus on the bad things and cling to the past - we are surrounded by beauty and love, my friend. Embrace them every chance you get and hold tightly. I send you a big, virtual hug, Glen.
Rest in peace Mary Travers, we all miss you. Thank you Noel & Peter for giving us this terrific performance with Mary which will long be your legacy together. I am glad I got to meet and interact with the three of you in New Orleans 30+ years ago. That was a night my wife and I will never forget.
The quality speaks for itself. Side note and personal opinion: Damn, Mary was beautiful!!!
So beautiful, RIP Mary.
Now, THAT was music...😍😍😍
Hi Uta💐💐
God bless you Mary thanks for the memories I had just joined the navy when this came out thank you for the memories 🙏🙏❤️
Mary Travers' voice is so beautiful. And the 3 of them together just perfect.
She had the most powerful voice of any woman ever. A sad day when we lost her. So happy I got to see them live.
Wow I noticed there's a lot of people who put thumbs down .
I can only imagine that those people , don't have a clue about music , possibly can't play or think they can do better !
When they don't understand about the time it was sung . Nor the true feeling of song !
Thanks Peter , Paul and Mary . How beautiful to hear class
willy Wilson you are so very right! They never heard of the “Hungry I”
My first record album was peter, paul & mary and I found them an inspiration for the folk guitar and harmonies. Now, 54 years later, I forgive those who can not understand that lyrics, music and harmony fly high above the tripe offered as music today.
@@patrickjensen9824 I love most music , love the music a little more , because there was more heart and meaning !
Not just made up because of something meaningless that happened in there life .
Look up Courtney hadwin on RUclips . I believe you will appreciate her brilliance .
Thanks for your comment . Have a good day
It’s probably because Roberta Flack absolutely owns this song. This is a pretty piss poor version
@@julianlawrence-ball2279 well you obviously must have put thumbs down . Don't there are people who have no idea !! I'm sure there's some crap music that you think is good !! Like at kinda .
That's fine , quality isn't for everyone . Enjoy your music
P.S. : I still grieve the loss of Mary Travers. She had a voice like no other. Brilliant !
Mary had it all. This trio plays it as well as it can be done. A word for the bass player also, who really compliments the song. Fantastic.
Such a beautiful song. ❤
Timeless and classic talent.
Thanks for checking in with us.
We though we would b liver!
Now that the end is near. How far wenhave have travelled!
She is still with me after all these years and trials. God bless her!
Timeless, simply amazing and oh so beautiful! Loved this trio!❤️❤️❤️
Thanbks Naomi for checking in with us.
Beautiful
This takes me back to the night I fell in love with my former wife. After the all the loves of my life, she's still the one. Sadly, it ended after 2o years. I miss her now at 75 years old.
So sad my heart goes out for you l hope you will be okay God bless you ❤
Look after your self that wants in portent👍
There are some people we miss forever. Keep well
How sad we don't see it at the time. The one person ... we pick fights over silly things and lose them.... many many years later we understand ... had we just been a little more patient .. a little more understanding .. a little less selfish ... we too may have seen our days out in the company of that one ... and only one ... most wonderful person
My story even to the length of the marriage.
Surprised that they sanitized MacColl's lyrics in verse 3. According to SIng Out! Magazine, the original is "The first time ever I lay with you..." while PPM sing "The first time ever I held you in...."
Lovely.
Hi Brenda💐💐
Peter Paul and Mary had such great harmonies. To bad such music is not done today.
By FAR the best rendition of this song! SOOO, mellow.
There will never be a group like Peter Paul and Mary that excited and involved their audiance when they performed.
Three voices. That were are pure magic
I saw them in small clubs and Carnegie hall and peace marches. They could perform with mikes and still sound wonderful
The Seekers
The Seekers
Life was easy then. Blessed to have lived then.
How lucky to have met this song writer
If cameron ever reads this, know that I'll always love you no matter what. you are a gift beyond measure, a precious soul connection that I cannot bear thinking of being without. you are mine and I am yours, my love. I will always be yours, and I pray you will always choose to be mine.
The all time best version of this song. The guitar accompaniment is exquisite and the harmonies just perfect.
This is good, but the definitive version must be by Roberta Flack.
The version by Gordon Lightfoot with just an acoustic guitar and voice is my favorite.
I thought they f*d it up pretty good. Essholes
@@Rob-fs8vq F yeah man, no comparison with these freaks
No chance . Roberta owns this. Nothing comes remotely close to it. You need to sort your ears out.
Mary was taken from all of us too, too early! What a special folk trio! Thank you PP and M for all your music through the years ... time moves forward and your music with time!!
When this song came out on a PP & M album, my friend and I "back engineered" it and deduced all the guitar chords and the actual guitar parts and then wrote down the harmonies for each voice for the three verses. When it came to actually doing the song it was so beautiful and emotional I would often get a lump in my throat singing the words. I still have all that in my archives and I still love this song. Such a sensitive rendition.
Thanks Peter for sharing your experience with this song.
Paul is playing the bass line?
I use to sing this to my baby as well as John Denver's "Annie" she is now 33 and having her first baby. Those moments when I held her in my arms and rocked her to sleep were our wonderful memories together that know will ever take from us.
RIP to music icon Ms. Olivia Newton John. . .From the Philippines
I've never seen them before. Gorgeous and skilful harmonies. Mary is a beauty too.
She was to her last performance!! Those eyes! That blonde mane!❤
RIP beautiful Mary, your wonderful music will live on!
i never knew she died..damn
What a lucky woman to have someone write a song like that for you.
Never in my life did I ever suspect that, Roberta Flacks most memorable and most iconic songs was written, by a Scottish song writer !!! WOW.
He was actually born and raised in England by Scottish parents. He is also the father of Kirsty McColl and wrote Dirty Old Town, made famous by The Pogues.
@@michaelcowen1000 thought the name was familiar. Flacks version is indeed iconic but this is a damn good version to
This is beautiful music of the 60, and 70, they don't,make music like this no more.
Hello,how are you doing?
the greatest trio of all time no one even close
Today is The First Time. I’ve ever heard this version, always thought it was a Roberta Flak song.... actually brought me to tears , loved it❤️👍 1st Of January 2021
Ditto!!
Feb. 10, 2021...
The song was written by Ewan McColl about Peggy Seeger.
I keep forgetting how wonderful this group was. Thank you for putting this on RUclips!
This song is so beautiful I was unable to focus on the words.
Yes, they really were that good.
Even as a little kid I always had a crush on Mary. Almost 70 and still do.
Ditto, my friend.
Mary was just so beautiful. She sounded like an angel from heaven. So clean so pure. So soft and so womanly. There is a kindness and sentiment in those eyes. A true woman and so absolutely rare these days.
eloquently put! I agree
I saw Peter, Paul, & Mary in concert a few times, and I was lucky enough to see what turned out to be the last concert they ever gave, not long before Mary Travers passed away. Always loved them.
Hello,how are you doing?
I was walking with a friend in Manhattan about 1971. We spotted Mary Travers around 65th St. and decided to see where she went. We followed her to her Townhouse near Ave. A, not far from the East River. There was a small brass tag on the door which had her name. We walked across the street and chatted with a doorman and said to him, “ Mary Travers lives there” or something like that.he said yes, look up to the 3rd floor through the windows you can see gold records hanging on the wall. Sure enough we could see maybe 3 gold records. True story.
I miss my father 3ys passed mother plays this and Cry. But not of lost but of love I'd like to believe.
Mary's voice is so calming, so beautiful.
History repeats itself
Special lyrics! .... Always beautiful!
Wonderful... Hard to describe the yearning to times when -- singing was real.
I agree, but Miley's song flowers is the best I've heard for some time. She can sing.
Interesting hearing this. It´s kind of halfway between the very trad folk McColl original and the sultry soul version immortalized by Roberta Flack.
saw them in 1990 in Queens college, Saw lots of hard rock concerts in 70 and this was the best concert I ever saw
2:45 this is my first time hearing this version of Peter Paul and Mary do this song... I have to say that my first favorite singer though is Roberta Flack.. her version of the song kills me. This has its own sweet, folk-y flavor to it.. which is beautiful in its own right..❤
Mary T. makes any song she sings in live, breathe, take on a life of its own, & become magical, majestic , heavenly... thx for all the songs & memories Mary T...
*R.i.P.*
This soulful rendition is a revelation! So gentle, so harmonious.
Mary, I love your voice, your passion, and your hair. Rest in peace, beautiful lady.
I had the pleasure of escorting Peter Yarrow for an afternoon when he was a guest speaker at a conference in Long Beach many years ago. When he meets someone, you can be friends for life. He gave me his address in NYC and I called him a couple of times after our encounter. A classy man and loves to perform for an audience. Such a good memory.
They were the sounds of my youth as my mother played guitar and sang all their songs and my cousins came up from Newton ma and played on holidays. Folk music was the thing back then and Mom played beautiful guitar and sang wonderful. Gosh I cherish those memories.
Thank you Peter, Paul & Mary for your beautiful "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." Thanks also to Jan Hammer for posting this vid. Gratefully, Robert S.J. Hu May 9, 2020.
This is exactly how I felt about the love of my life. We didn't last until the end of time, but my love for him will.
So sorry to hear that. :'(
Thanks Ann for visiting The Hammer Works.
One of the most beautiful songs and the best version
The best version, without doubt, is Roberta Flack's 1969..
You could always tell that Mary loved performing with the band.
Powerful. The first time.... I got off that C-130 in Grenada, WI. On Army duty. I saw him across the airfield... and it was instant. .... Just his body language... did it. And then the face, the kiss, the love. 35 years together.... 31 of them with his massive stroke handicaps, but still NO man will ever ever come near who and what he is as a man, a human and a soul. My SGM Special Forces, Scuba, HALO and Jumpmaster!