Posted on 06/22/2008 9:09:42 PM PDT by cardinal4
Take a break from Obamafest 2008, and dig on this stunning video I found on Youtube. This has always been one of my favorite songs, and she performs it beautifully live..
(Excerpt) Read more at artoriuscastus.blogspot.com ...
I heard that this song was in tribute to her cat.
Apparently she didnt write it. I didnt know that, either..
Also used in the Clint Eastwood movie Play Misty For Me. IIRC it is played while Clint and Donna Mills make love in the great outdoors.
"One of my friends in Washington was a folk entertainer named Donal Leace," Roberta continued, "and one day he turned me on to a record by the team of Joe and Eddie. It was 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.' A British folk singer, Ewan McColl, wrote it in 1963 for his wife, Peggy Seeger, who was also a folk singer and the sister of Pete Seeger. I thought it was just beautiful and had to add it to my first album.
"A lot of people ask me what I was thinking about while I was recording that song. Actually I was thinking about a little black cat that someone had given me, named Sancho Panza. I had just gotten back from being on the road for the first time, and I discovered that he had been killed. I only had one pet, and when I went into the studio, two days later, he was still on my mind.
Good find..
No, it was dedicated to me...so was “Close to you” (Karen Carpenter)
LOLOLOLOLOL
Well, at least it wasn’t about Jesse Jackson, with whom she reportedly had a relationship.
Of course it's about a little kitty..........
The first time ever I kissed your mouth
And felt your heart beat close to mine
Like the trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command, my love
That was there at my command.
I was probably about thirteen, listening to Casey Kasem hoping for a new number one each week....
It does not bring back any fond memories for me.
Which David Cook covers in stunning fashion in competition here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVjkx7fi1hI
I was very pleasantly surprised here - he showed tremendous range and tenderness. Best Idol champion in a while, perhaps best to date.
Yeah, I know. There are songs that everyone likes that I want to run screaming from, too. Like that Georgia Satellites song, the change in the pocket one? Man, I hate that, but my lovely wife cranks it up every time its on..
Excellent, thank you for posting this.
Good post. That song was a favorite of mine back in the very early 70’s. It brings memories of sipping cold beer on the ledge outside the window of my barracks room on warm summer evenings at NATTC Memphis.
I watched a colorized 4D ultrasound of a six month old in utero baby with this song in the background ... it is a most moving experience!
Thank you!
What a moving, and smoothing, song.
Thank you for posting it on your blog, Jeff.
Happy baby girl!
Thank you, cardinal, for posting it.
I love that song.
Nope...”Close to you” was dedicated to ME. ;o)
WOW!
That must have been an awesome experience!
What was the song she did for Don McLean?
Oh yeah, that was ‘Killing Me Softly’.
Nevermind....
Brought tears to these old eyes don’tchaknow! ... It still astonishes me that we have a powerful political party which has staked their empowerment upon the slaughter of alive sensing unborn little ones.
One of my favorite songs, I think it is beautiful!
I saw Roberta Flack perform it at the El San Juan Hotel and Casino in Puerto Rico in either 1973 or 1975. I was there for some time in both years.
Not long after that, I read that she had a debilitating disease, like Muscular Dystrophy or something similar. I was unable to find anything about that in a Google search but did read that she took a ‘hiatus’ in that time period.
I made a webpage of “Killing Me Softly”, one of my favorite ‘story songs’.
Also had a ringside table at a dinner show to see Barbara Eden perform at another hotel in San Juan during that time. I got to talk to her later and pose for pictures and she was excited that her young son was coming to visit her there.
Life has it’s terrible twists and turns, her son died of a drug overdose [I believe] many years ago now. I have a picture on the wall of her in her silver sequin dress and one of my best compliments ever was when a visitor thought it was me!! Lol - I wish.
Meanderings of the mind....
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