| 词条 | The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face | ||
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| name = The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = Roberta Flack | album = First Take | B-side = Trade Winds | released = {{Start date|1972|3|7}} | format = 45" single | recorded = 1968 | studio = | venue = | genre = {{flatlist|
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| label = Atlantic 2864 | writer = Ewan MacColl | producer = Joel Dorn | prev_title = Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow | prev_year = 1972 | next_title = Where Is the Love | next_year = 1972 }}{{listen |filename=The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Flack) sample.ogg |title="The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" |description=Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" from First Take |filetype=Ogg}} "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is a 1957 folk song written by British political singer/songwriter Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger, who later became his wife. At the time, the couple were lovers, although MacColl was still married to Joan Littlewood. Seeger sang the song when the duo performed in folk clubs around Britain. During the 1960s, it was recorded by various folk singers and became a major international hit for Roberta Flack in 1972, winning Grammy Awards for Record of the Year[1] and Song of the Year. Billboard ranked it as the number one Hot 100 single of the year for 1972. HistoryThere are two differing accounts of the origin of the song. MacColl said that he wrote the song for Seeger after she asked him to pen a song for a play she was in. He wrote the song and taught it to Seeger over the telephone.[2] Seeger said that MacColl, with whom she had begun an affair in 1957, used to send her tapes to listen to whilst they were apart and that the song was on one of them.[3] The song entered the pop mainstream when it was released by the Kingston Trio on their 1962 hit album New Frontier and in subsequent years by other pop folk groups such as Peter, Paul and Mary, The Brothers Four, and the Chad Mitchell Trio, and by Gordon Lightfoot on his debut album Lightfoot! (1966). MacColl made no secret of the fact that he disliked all of the cover versions of the song. His daughter-in-law wrote: "He hated all of them. He had a special section in his record collection for them, entitled 'The Chamber of Horrors'. He said that the Elvis version was like Romeo at the bottom of the Post Office Tower singing up to Juliet. And the other versions, he thought, were travesties: bludgeoning, histrionic, and lacking in grace."[4] Roberta Flack version
The song was popularised by Roberta Flack in 1972 in a version that became a breakout hit for the singer. Flack knew the song from the Joe & Eddie version which appeared on that folk duo's 1963 album Coast to Coast (as "The First Time"), Flack's friend singer Donal Leace having brought the track to Flack's attention.[7] Having taught the song to the young girls in the glee club at Banneker High School (Washington D.C.), Flack would regularly perform "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" in her set-list at the Pennsylvania Avenue club Mr Henry's where Flack was hired as resident singer in 1968. In February 1969 Flack would record the song for her debut album First Take, her rendition of which was much slower paced than Seeger's original, Flack's take running more than twice the two and a half minute length of Seeger's.{{citation needed|date=January 2013}} Flack would recall that while she made her studio recording of "The First Time[6][8] Flack's slow and sensual version was used by Clint Eastwood in his 1971 directorial film debut: Play Misty for Me to score a love scene featuring Eastwood and actress Donna Mills. Flack would recall how Eastwood, who had heard her version of "The First Time[9] phoned out of the blue to her Alexandria (Virginia) home: (Roberta Flack quote:)"[Eastwood said:] 'I'd like to use your song in this movie[10] Flack in fact has also recalled that during the First Take sessions her producer Joel Dorn had suggested re-recording "The First Time(Roberta Flack quote:)"Joel said: 'Okay you don’t care if it's a hit or not?' I said: 'No sir.' Of course he was right for three years, until [after] Clint got it" - as the attention Flack's "The First TimePlay Misty For Me did persuade Atlantic Records to issue the track as a single - trimmed by a minute - in February 1972: the track became a smash hit single in the United States, reaching No. 1 for six weeks on both the Billboard Hot 100 and easy listening charts in the spring of 1972, with a No. 4 R&B chart peak.[11] Reaching No. 14 on the UK Singles Chart,{{citation needed|date=January 2013}} Flack's "The First TimeRPM magazine. The song was also played as the wake-up music on flight day 9 to the astronauts aboard Apollo 17, on their last day in Lunar orbit (Friday, 12/15/1972) before returning to earth, thus ending the first manned explorations of the Moon. The use of the song was most likely a reference to the "face" of the moon below the spacecraft.[12] In 2014, two films featured the song: Flack's version was heard twice in the superhero film Days of Future Past, set largely in 1973, while a "cover" of it was performed by one of the protagonists in The Inbetweeners 2 for comic effect.[13] Flack's version was used as the outro in episode 88 of the television series Mad Men in 2015; in 2016 the same version was featured in the finale episode of the HBO series The Night Of and played in the background of Episode 3 of the FX Cable TV Miniseries American Crime Story. A version by UNKLE is played over the closing credits of the 2014 film Shelter. Other recorded versions{{Div col|colwidth=18em}}
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References1. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/roberta-flack |title=Record of the Year - The 15th Annual Grammy Awards (1972) |publisher=The Recording Academy |year=1972 |accessdate=May 15, 2018 |deadurl=no}} 2. ^{{cite book |title= Cigar Box Banjo|last1 = Quarrington|first1 = Paul| last2 = Doyle | first2 = Roddy|year = 2010 |publisher= Greystone Books| page= 89 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=YQQHd9sLULUC&pg=PA89&dq=peggy+seeger+the+first+time+ever+i+saw+your+face#v=onepage&q=peggy%20seeger%20the%20first%20time%20ever%20i%20saw%20your%20face&f=false|accessdate=August 21, 2011|isbn = 9781553656296}} 3. ^{{cite book | last = Picardie | first = Justine| contribution =The first time ever I saw your face | title =Lives of the great songs | editor-last =De Lisle | editor-first =Tim | publisher =Penguin | year =1995 | location =London | pages =122–26 | isbn =978-0-14024957-6}} 4. ^{{Citation | first = Michael | last = Brocken | title = The British Folk Revival, 1944–2002 | publisher = Ashgate | year = 2003 | isbn = 978-0-7546-3282-5 | page = 38}}: quoting MacColl's daughter-in-law, Justine Picardie. 5. ^1 {{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/11717262/Roberta-Flack-Nows-a-good-time-to-love-music.html|title=Roberta Flack: 'Now's a good time to love music'|first=Sarah|last=Carson|date=July 16, 2015|accessdate=January 8, 2019|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph}} 6. ^1 The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) 11 November 1983 "Blues pops singer Roberta Flack should be right at home in Arts Center's classical environs" by Elinor J. Precher p.7-8 7. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.superseventies.com/1972_8singles.html|title="The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" - Roberta Flack|website=Superseventies.com|accessdate=January 8, 2019}} 8. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.wisconsingazette.com/entertainment/roberta-flack-takes-on-the-beatles-canon/article_ff42790a-0b52-5ad8-8aa2-0a33a65e97fb.html|title=Roberta Flack takes on the Beatles’ canon|first=Gregg|last=Shapiro|newspaper=Wisconsin Gazette|accessdate=January 8, 2019}} 9. ^{{cite news |last=Daly |first=Sean |url=https://www.tampabay.com/features/music/feel-the-love-with-roberta-flack/1212632|title=Feel the love with Roberta Flack|date=January 27, 2012|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times|accessdate=January 8, 2019 |deadurl=no }} 10. ^{{cite web |last=de Yampert |first=Rick |url=http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/20120120/roberta-flack-serenades-daytona |title=Roberta Flack serenades Daytona |newspaper=The Daytona Beach News-Journal |publisher=GateHouse Media |date=January 20, 2012 |accessdate=September 10, 2018 |deadurl=no }} 11. ^{{cite book |title= Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2002 |publisher=Record Research |page=93}} 12. ^{{Cite web |url=https://history.nasa.gov/wakeup%20calls.pdf |title=Chronology of Wake-Up Calls |last=Fries |first=Colin |date=March 15, 2015 |website=Nasa.gov |publisher=NASA |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060104072330/https://history.nasa.gov/wakeup%20calls.pdf |pages=6,7 |archivedate=January 4, 2006 |accessdate=September 27, 2018 |deadurl=no }} 13. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/x-men-days-of-future-past-original-motion-picture-soundtrack-mw0002649232 |title= John Ottman - X-Men: Days of Future Past [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=February 9, 2019 |deadurl=no }} External links
| title = Awards for "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" | titlestyle = background: lightblue | list1 ={{Grammy Award for Record of the Year 1970s}}{{Grammy Award for Song of the Year 1970s}} }}{{Billboard Year-End number one singles 1960–1979}}{{DEFAULTSORT:First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, The}} 20 : 1957 songs|1972 singles|2000 singles|Songs written by Ewan MacColl|Roberta Flack songs|Celine Dion songs|The Kingston Trio songs|Peter, Paul and Mary songs|We Five songs|Andy Williams songs|Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles|Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one singles|Number-one singles in Australia|RPM Top Singles number-one singles|Grammy Award for Record of the Year|Grammy Award for Song of the Year|A&M Records singles|Pop ballads|Vocal jazz songs|Richard Marx songs |
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