The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

I never liked this droning song and I'm absolutely fine.

Beautiful song. Reminds me of my first partner.

It puts me to sleep. Or it would if I ever listened to it again, which I won’t.

R1 , R3- Pointless Bitchery strikes again.

I only ever liked it when Clint Eastwood used it to creepy effect in Play Misty for Me.

One of my favorites. Roberta's rendition is superb, the best. For years, I thought she had written it. She didn't.

The writer’s stage name was Ewan MacColl. He also wrote Dirty Old Town (recorded by the Pogues)..

He was married to a half-sister of Pete Seeger.

His daughter was Kirsty MacColl, who sang on the Pogues’ Fairytale of New York.

R4 = insecure control freak strikes again

Kirsty MacColl met a sad end, if I’m thinking of the right person.

It’s an absolutely gorgeous song, astonishingly pure and direct, which demands an interpretation to match said qualities. Roberta Flack’s is my favorite version. I’ve never found it soporific, but rather hypnotic. She doesn’t need histrionics to sell the song; she leans in on the quietness, her forté, and reveals the sublime beauty of the composition.

Johnny Cash did an excellent version while he was working with Rick Rubin. He sounds elderly and frail, with a funereal organ accompanying him, all of which add to the lyrics’ power, and I imagine him singing it to an ailing June and June alone.

R9 Yes, Kirsty's music is awesome, but she was sadly killed by a speedboat on vacation in Mexico.

Funny thing about Roberta Flack......she's dead.

Ugh. If I never hear it again that's fine with me.

OP Check out Love Letters (Straight From Your Heart) by Ketty Lester 1962.

Or the later version from Alison Moyet.