Roberta Flack - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (REACTION) with my wife
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"I felt the earth move in my hand, like the trembling heart of a captive bird" One of the most beautiful lines ever written.
A MUST HEAR Classic,, Roberta Flack
"Killing Me Softly" ❤
100%
@@82ndAirbornesoldierofchrist Thank you for your service & Your like. 🇺🇸 👍
Seconded!
@@happymethehappyone8300 Thank you, you are so kind.
Roberta Flack was a school teacher whose students encouraged her to try singing professionally.
This song stunned people when it was released. So beautiful.
Quite possibly the finest love song ever.....beautiful ❤
In my 60ish years of paying attention to music, I've heard only a few performances that can match the pure beauty of this one.
This is a beautiful song! Thank your for your heartfelt reaction. Next check out Killing me Softly by Roberta Flack!
My god…..so beautiful. Live no auto tune. I got a little choked up.
The best version of this gorgeous song. And Roberta Flack's voice? No ostentatious vocal gymnastics - just pure, smooth beauty. ❤
Wonderful song....real quality music from an accomplished pianist and singer back in the early 70s. Thanks for playing.
One of the greatest performances ever, thank goodness it was recorded for all to see "until the end of time". Makes this 61yr old rock n roller tear up everytime it plays on my playlist. She is so beautiful as she sings it also...just amazing. She is 87 now and i hope still feeling those feelings that she obviously felt while performing here.
Today’s music is no match to yesterday’s music. They had beautiful lyrics, beautiful voices. Just pure talent.
I love how emotional you get ! A real man ,and a good man I bet .👍🇬🇧you two suit each other perfectly 100% 🍻
Beautiful song, beautifully performed. Perfect
"Folk singer Ewan MacColl wrote this in 1957 for his lover, Peggy Seeger. She was in a play and phoned him for suggestions on a song for a romantic scene. MacColl wrote this on the spot in less than an hour, playing it over the phone for his wife to use in her play."
I believe he didn’t like any copy of his version unfortunately
Good thing Roberta did. She has a beautiful voice. @@TheJohnnywbred
Ewan McColl won the 1972 Grammy for Song of the Year, and Roberta Flack won for Record of the Year.
WOW?
@@TheJohnnywbred Typical Ewan , bless him
Made me cry, so beautiful, a true love song.
And just remember that was a live performance !!!!
Always enjoy watching you guys reacting to music that bring out emotions.., happy or sad... I can tell you appreciate beautiful songs that tug at your heart.. thanks., keep those reactions coming....
What an incredible voice and her interpretation will never be matched. Thank you guys, I will always believe this is one of the most beautiful love songs of all time. Love, Peace and Blessings to all.
That is a truly beautiful song from Roberta Flack. She has an incredible voice and has many other beautiful songs like "Killing Me Softly," and she also had songs with James Ingram. My wife and I will soon be married for 50 years, and we have been blessed to have known this type of love, although there have been hardships like the loss of our oldest daughter to cancer. We had each other and our love to unite us through those very dark, difficult times. Love is the key to everything. Without love, there is nothing worthwhile. I love your beautiful reaction to this classic love song.
It is one of the most pure, beautiful declarations of love ever produced in popular music. What can you say? Pure artistry and expression. Even though we have many progressions in society like awareness of mental health and movements for equality, people are afraid to be vulnerable like this anymore. Everything now is about posturing and performing. True vulnerability scares many people.
You want to hear an angelic voice, just listen!
You would love Johnny Rivers' "Slow Dancing Swayin' to the music"
Her voice hits you right in the heart. Just an incredible performance
Take a moment and enjoy the feeling of her voice. So smooth and relaxing! ❤
One of the greatest voices . . . ever.
I cried. It's been quite a few years since I've hear this beautiful song. You are so right that it stirs incredible emotions: for some, blissful joy, and others an aching longing to feel love.
Your reaction was pure just like the song, luv y'all
One of the most beautiful voices ever.😊
The first time ever I heard this song, I felt the earth move and shift, making way for a new favorite love song. And how fortunate that it be sung by North Carolina's own Roberta Flack! Her hometown college, Black Mountain College, produced some of the greatest artists, dancers, architects and thinkers as well. My own now departed folks would spend every summer or autumn. A special world you would love. Thanks for sharing this world treasure.
You struck gold with Roberta Flack.
🇬🇧 "Killing Me Softly" by Roberta Flack is another beautiful song that you should react to.
Andrei, you are such a beautiful human being. You are too Dominica but in a man, those qualities are not on show, (or at least, the males i know aren't!) Dont get me wrong, they're not horrible, they just dont show their emotions. Anyhoo what I'm really saying is... Never stop being you, you are both perfect in every way. ❤🎶🎼✨💖🩵
Roberta Flack, in my opinion, is the best female vocalist of all time......her tone is, simply put, stunning......
The first time I heard this song was in the soundtrack of the movie "Play Misty For Me". Beautiful song. Roberta's cover of "Killing Me Softly" is also outstanding.
Yes Clint Eastwood promoted the song.
The reason you don't hear music like this today is because everything is just a swipe or click away. It's a 60-second sound bite. People are not satisfied with what they've got. And so they are searching for the next best thing.
Songs like these take time to develop. Now, if you noticed she's with one guy. And not singing about multiple partners or a "situational" relationship. A relationship is very serious.
Ya..... today, you can have a woman for the price of a happy meal. But back then, a man had to earn the Wright to even hold her hand.
This modern way of thinking has led to 16,000,000 single mother households in the United States. It's all about getting the bag and having a roster.
Not to criticize any contemporary artists. But her performance was so pure, beautiful without embellishment
One of those all time classic easy listening songs. Still as good today as it was back then.
The irony is that her version of this beautiful love song is anything BUT easy to listen to because of the emotional response it invokes inside of the listener. It touches every feeling, every emotion. It makes your body hyper sensitive to to even the air around you. Its as close to perfect that we will ever experience on this big blue dot.
"Killing Me Softly" Roberta Flack, is a must hear.
A beautiful song sung very well by Roberta.
Smooth as butter! True!
One of my favor songs, great lyrics. She does it great credit.
Her voice is just like butter!
Roberta Flack is one of my all-time favorite female artist. However, this version the temple was a little rushed. The studio version is the best and slower. Good reaction.
Beautiful, Everytime
First dance song at my wedding. Thank you for reaction. Just beautiful.
This performance is so powerful yet tender and I always end up weeping. And all the more so today listening to you and your reaction. Surely you do have the pure love for each other that was conveyed in this song. Your appreciation for classic music like this is heart-warming.
Unmistakably beautiful
Beautiful words...Beautiful voice. No one could have done it better. I haven't heard it in so long it brought tears to my eyes.
Andre! Just kiss her! We know that you want to!❤
Incredible Vocal Stylist of Robert Flack saturated our airwaves then. She makes my breath slow down and it’s the anticipation of her next line that creates such satisfaction , gorgeous warmth . There will always be artists, & romantics ,whether the media pays attention, but I love watching younger people discovering humanity music that came before their time. Just as the artists of the times before this ,we learn that there is more to us than the current situation. Our yearning has always been with us . Humans repeat - the styles change ,but at our core we are emotional beings. Music gives us a language that connects and expresses our complexity ☮️
Wow,the 10 year old boy fell in love with this song.52 years later, I still am moved to the core by this masterful beautiful song. She is an amazing artist.
one of the greatest live performances ever captured on film
You would like a song called, A Song For You, sung by Donny Hathaway. Beautiful piano throughout.
Her most famous song was Killing Me Softly. She wrote it about Don McLean (American Pie and Vincent).
Andre', I couldn't agree with you more! Todays music is so superficial, contrived, designed to make a hit. There are those that write from personal experience whether from tragedy, loss or, a love "in the moment", but, there are no composers like this anymore. Sad.
She wasn't really that popular, then Clint Eastwood put her song in the first movie he ever directed, *"Play Misty for Me"* and her fame soared. Of course she always had talent, she just needed to be heard. Back then it was hard to break though via songs like this.
You guys are quickly becoming my favorite channel. ❤
SOLITAIRE by Carpenters please......
Life is steadily becoming more technological and less human /
You guys touch my heart with your reactions and how you love the music so much. I love how you are able to recognize the value of the feelings, the passion and compassion in these songs. There is a depth to them that is just not present in today's music. Thank you for sharing this music of my generation with everyone who really needs to hear it.
I agree 👍 I don't think the romance of this song or expressed in this song will not be in this kind of live today.
We are listening here to something from before the ending of our civilization, to what was still there of it in the last century. Whoever does not see and hear this is probably just too young to understand it.
One of the most beautiful voices ever.
You are absolutely right, there is nothing like these songs these days 😔
Written by Ewan MacColl, a British folk singer-songwriter and had been a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. He is still very popular and influential artist. Oh his third wife was American folk singer Peggy Seeger, who he worked with, but he was banned from entering the USA because of his political associations.
He also wrote Dirty Old Town, two very disparate songs.
@@bengazeley9730 sung memorably by The Pogues.
❤🎵🎶Great reactions.I just love you two ,you have some much love & respect for one another ...it's refreshing to see.💕
I agree with everything you two said. 🫶😌 Loved your reaction!❤
My partner of 26 years passed away almost a year ago, and I had this beautiful song played at his funeral. It really says everything about first love, and I felt this every day of those 26 years.
One notable cover was by George Michael, but another was by a Swedish singer named Peter Joback.
WOWWWWWWWW….
I’ve always thought this is the most ROMANTIC song I’ve ever heard, but I never heard her sing it live.
…One of the BEST (and FUNNIEST) reactions I’ve seen.🥰
She turned 87 years old in february. Unbelievable how time flies .. beautiful song.
My favorite female vocalist!❤ I love her
I saw her at the Montreal Jazz Festival several years ago. She sang songs from her catalog but at the end of the show she said we are at a jazz festival and to me jazz is everybody taking a turn. She introduced each band member, each one a virtuoso and she introduced her keyboardist as her musical director and arranger. He was surrounded by keyboards and instead of taking a keyboard solo he started scat singing. His voice went to the low registers and he arched his back looking straight up and hit incredibly high notes. Roberta was beautiful and gracious, makes me emotional just recalling that show.
I was lucky to get to see her in concert several years ago when she came to Australia. She was 73! She was suffering from pollen allergies and arthritis but still managed to captivate the audience. She was AMAZING!
I REMEMBER THIS ONE FROM 71?I WAS 8 I LOVE THIS ONE!!!!!
Voice as clear as a bell
Beautiful song, Roberta Flack is a legend, song's like this are missing in this new generation. Sad!
Roberta Flack’s voice finds the connection between her soul and the void in our hearts filling that void and providing that space to be touched by Love!
They don't even try any more.
Written by Englishman Ewan MacColl. Surprisingly, he apparently disliked this version.
I've been married 54 yrs..Not all has been perfect..But I till think he is my handsome Marine..And I still love him so much...(My Husband)
There's a link between this and Bridge Over Troubled Water . First Time Ever I Saw Your Face was written by an Anglo-Scottish folk singer , Ewan McCall , for his wife , a famous ( American ) folk singer herself , Peggy Seeger . They were instrumental in the British folk revival of the 50's and 60's , ran a famous folk club and would accommodate visiting folk singers in their house . Including Paul Simon when he was travelling the UK as an aspiring musician ( Paul wrote Homeward Bound during this time ) . Peggy's version of First Time... is very good , too as you might expect , given that it is written for and about her but Roberta knocks it clean out of the park and into orbit . One of the , if not the very best of all song covers . By the way , other aspiring musicians who were guests at Ewan and Peggy's home included Gerry Rafferty and the comedian Billy Connelly ( he started out as a folk musician ) , amongst many others . It is worth mentioning Ewan's other most well known song , Dirty Old Town which, perhaps because of its association with Irish bands like The Dubliners , is often assumed to be about Dublin or Belfast or Derry . In fact , it describes Salford , near Manchester in England . Two of the most extraordinary love songs of all time but their tone and mood are almost opposite in their romantic expression . Genius everywhere
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An interesting story: In 1972 this song won the Grammy for Song of the Year. It beat out another huge hit - "American Pie" by Don Maclean. Then in 1973, Maclean was nominated for Song of the Year for "Vincent." Roberta Flack won again, this time for "Killing Me Softly," which was about the songwriter's reaction to Maclean at one of his concerts.
Oh, and the Maclean song that the songwriter reacted to was "Empty Chairs" a beautiful heartbreak of a song about a breakup. So.... 4 more songs I'd love to see you react to.
I was born in the 50s (yeah, I'm that old). As a child and young adult, life was about inventing things, coming up with fresh ideas, writing, singing, playing musical instruments and building 'stuff'. Along with calculus and physics, schools incorporated shop classes into their curriculum. Photography, art, woodworking, autoshop, etc... were all part of our development. We exercised the right side of our brains; the side responsible for creativity. That's not the case anymore. Hobby shops, stores that deal in electronic parts, sewing notions, woodworking tools, and arts & crafts supplies are dwindling. Sure, there are box stores where you can buy stuff, but knowledgeable salespeople are nonexistent.
On-the-job training and vocational education have given way to useless degrees that look good on paper but have little value in the real world. Some companies hire anybody with a degree whether it's job related or not. Image is everything I guess.
From reselling items online to 'sampling' music, people have gotten used to feeding off the work of others. There seems to be a lack of risk takers and people willing to live a modest life doing what they know or love. These days it's about instant fame and instant riches. Success is now measured by the number of 'hits' or 'likes' one receives.
If you want to influence people, write a song, a poem, a book. Create some art, some music, a screenplay. Build stuff, break stuff, fix stuff. Know how stuff works. Learn something new, learn to live with your failures and then learn to improve and eventually succeed.
Who do you blame for today's lack of creativity; recent generations or those who raised them?
Andrei & Dominika: you MUST listen to another heartfelt, love song: "At This Moment" by Billy Vera, please look it up.
This song is incredibly beautiful … ❤
There's a genre that even today makes meaningful music, and that's folk and (some) adult contemporary music. Not the kind of love songs like this, generally, but still songs with meaning. Brandi Carlile is a good example. Try The Joker or Table for One, just incredible, or The Story for a modern-day love song.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s, and we had so much great music that we were spoiled forevermore.
I just started watching your channel this morning, and I've been binging your reactions.😊 This song will make your feelings show, for sure❤ I was lucky to be able to see her in concert in 1979 or 80. Beautiful.
Loved this song way back when it came out! Andrei, you often talk about music now vs. then... I wonder if there are singers who perform similar songs today but production companies who don't see the value in promoting them. Cynicism? The almighty dollar (at least in the U.S.)? Hmmmm.
Listening to the Peggy Seeger live version and this, I see how the whole song has, by slowing down the tempo, introducing orchestration (the bass line adds so much), and, I think, singing one octave lower, establishes more depth for the song. Each version has their beauty and appeal. For me, though, this song is wonderful in either genre, fold or modern ballad, perhaps a characteristic of a great song.
Special mentions: George Michael's version and Miley Cyrus' version. The sound quality of Angelina Jordan's version, accompanied by acoustic guitar only, diminishes what would also be an excellent version.
Good review.
Her duets with Donny Hathaway are incredible. My favourite, but probably not the top of most lists, is I (Who Have Nothing). It takes hold of you & slowly swoops & soars then deposits you gently back, and like all the best music, slightly changed.
This was my wife's and my song at our wedding when we first danced as man and wife 😅
You two are such absolutely 100% romantics. I know Andre is. But, yes, you are too Dominique. I love it. And this, of course, is a perfect song to touch deep human love for real couples. And Andre, I agree that many people miss the simple beauty of a warm relationship and a heart-centered life. Too much obsession with fame, fortune, power, and toys.
Written by a Manchester man Ewan Mccoll folk singer protest singer allround talent..he wrote the song about his wife whom he was missing whilst she was on tour she was Peggy Seeger Americanfolk singer... he was also Kirsty Mccolls father .....top bloke!
Beautiful reaction, yes the world would be a better place. Older music, especially the love songs were more “other centered” and emotional. Today’s music is more self centered and physical. IMO
There is a slower, gentler version on her "First Take" album. I encourage you to listen to it to hear the differences. In any event, both renditions are exquisite. Such a voice!
A classy lady with a wonderful voice. Hope you check out her 2nd big hit, "Killing Me Softly".
Well Andre you are right. I’m 65 years old and I’ve never had a love like this song conveys. Maybe that’s why I ended up crying my eyes out. But I still love your reactions. Give Domenica a kiss
*A suggestion: ALWAYS listen to the studio recording to you reaction. Most often that is the version on which the artist (s) invested most of their creative energy. So sad you didn't listen to Roberta's Grammy winning performance.
Your reactions were everything that I hoped they would be....and more. Jack
Check out the song To Be Loved by Jackie Wilson and Lonely Tear Drops