About the singer: Roberta Flack (1937) is an American singer, who scored a string of USA No. 1 singles in the seventies. She recorded twenty studio albums and is the only solo artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year on two consecutive years. Roberta Flack currently has one song in my list of about 200 best pop/rock songs of all time.
About the song: The first time ever I saw your face is a track from her 1969 debut album First take, an astonishing slow and sensual cover of a 1957 folk song written by British political singer/songwriter Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger. As a single release it made the number one spot in the USA in 1972 after it was used in the Clint Eastwood movie Play Misty for me. Run time 4:18.
