"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is a 1957 #folkSong written by British political singer-songwriter #EwanMacColl for #PeggySeeger, who later became his third wife. At that time, MacColl was still married to his second wife, Jean Newlove. During the 1960s.
Attended a brilliant #U3A session on music this morning. It theme was the sea, & it included works by #Debussy, #CyrilTawney, #Britten, #EwanMacColl, #Sibelius, among others. University of the Third Age is such a stimulating, heart-warming program. ❤️U3A!
A vinyl record leaning against a record cleaner in full swing, titled "The World of Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger" with photos of the artists and an audience on the cover.
The World of Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger. Notable for Dirty Old Town and the much covered but definitive version of The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, MacColl’s love song to Seeger. #folk #EwanMacColl #PeggySeeger #vinyl #xp
A close-up of a vinyl record with a blue label by Folkways Records and Service Corp. Partially visible inside a record cleaner.
Cover of a vinyl record with a black and white image of a stone house and church spire. Title: "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Child Ballads)".
Back cover of a record titled "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Child Ballads)," featuring a list of ballads and author notes.
New inners and outers have arrived so now the cleaning can resume. I’ve only just scratched the folk surface, so onwards with those. This is Ewan MacColl singing the Child Ballads which contains two of my favourite trad folk tunes ever, The Three Ravens and Lord Randall. #vinyl #folk #EwanMacColl
Ted Tocks Covers
The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face
Originally posted April 15/18
Remembering Roberta Flack
The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave"
#EwanMacColl #PeggySeeger #RobertaFlack #GordonLightfoot
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to author Virginia Woolf (1881), musician Ewan MacColl (1915), and poet John Cooper Clarke (1949).
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #virginiawoolf #ewanmaccoll #johncooperclarke
Ewan MacColl, folk singer-songwriter, folk song collector, labour activist and actor, was born on Jan. 25, 1915 (d. 1989). #EwanMacColl
Ewan MacColl - "The Grocer" (Ewan MacColl), a Maggie Thatcher "tribute"
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g62f...
Ewan MacColl, folk singer-songwriter, folk song collector, labour activist and actor, was born on Jan. 25, 1915 (d. 1989). #EwanMacColl
The Pogues - "Dirty Old Town" (Ewan MacColl) (1985)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s11B...
Ewan MacColl, folk singer-songwriter, folk song collector, labour activist and actor, was born on Jan. 25, 1915 (d. 1989). #EwanMacColl
Roberta Flack - "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (Ewan MacColl) (1972)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_f...
LP sleeve of Ewan MacColl accompanied by Peggy Seeger - The Manchester Angel propped behind a turntable which is playing the album.
Now playing Ewan MacColl accompanied by Peggy Seeger - The Manchester Angel
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#NowPlaying
#Vinyl
#EwanMacColl
#PeggySeeger
#HackneyEmpire
#Folk
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Ewan MacColl:
🎵 Nobody Knew She Was There
#6music #EwanMacColl
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Bonus Folk Friday track: Ewan MacColl - Green Island
“No force on Earth can ever trap the wind that shakes the barley.
Nor the sun in the yellow corn.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcrC...
#earworm #folk #FolkFriday #EwanMacColl #PeggySeeger
Tonight’s Folk Friday track: Ewan MacColl - Ballad of Accounting
“Did they teach you how to question when you were at the school?
Did the factory help you grow, were you the maker or the tool?”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eY0...
#earworm #folk #FolkFriday #EwanMacColl #PeggySeeger
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #LateJunction
Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger & Charles Parker:
🎵 The Engine Had Reached the Distant Signal
#BBCRadio3 #EwanMacColl #PeggySeeger #CharlesParker
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I was listening to this song and suddenly another song came to mind (see first reply). They both reference mining, and the melodies are even kind of similar. I wonder if that's deliberate.
#folkmusic #ewanmaccoll
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8t4...
"I met my love by the gas works wall
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
I kissed my girl by the factory wall
Dirty old town
Dirty old town"
#ThePogues #EwanMacColl #Covers #Souvenirs #Zicography
www.youtube.com/watch?v=122i...
PoetryPhotographicPoetry © 2022 by Neil E Clement depicting the lyrics for the song "The First Time (Ever I Saw Your Face)" (1957), words and music by Ewan MacColl, as performed by Peter, Paul & Mary (1965), on a vertical rectangle using black letters on a light green background along with scattered musical notes in darker blue, as follows: The First Time (Ever I Saw Your Face) composed by Ewan MacColl · 1957 As sung by Peter, Paul & Mary 1965 the first time ever i saw your face i thought the sun rose in your eyes and the moon and stars were the gifts you gave to the dark and the empty skies, my love to the dark and the empty skies the first time ever i kissed your mouth i felt the earth move in my hand like the trembling heart of a captive bird that was there at my command, my love that was there at my command the first time ever i held you near and felt your heart beat close to mine i thought our joy would fill the world and would last till the end of time, my love and would last till the end of time "The First Time (Ever I Saw Your Face)" #EwanMacColl #Music #Poetry #PoetryPhotographicPoetry #digitalPhotographybyneileclement Photo © 2022 Neil E Clement, All Rights Reserved
"The First Time (Ever I Saw Your Face)" #EwanMacColl #Music #Poetry #PoetryPhotographicPoetry #digitalPhotographybyneileclement
Photo © 2022 Neil E Clement, All Rights Reserved
I was once told that a sign of a good singer is the ability to sing without accompaniment. And this man wrote ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ and ‘Dirty Old Town’. That’s range!
#EwanMaccoll
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#CrazyCover of the day: Simple Minds with Dirty Old Town. First release was in 1952 by Ewan MacColl, who wrote this song about his hometown Salford in Lancashire.
#CoverSong #MusicSky #CoverMusic #SimpleMinds #DirtyOldTown #EwanMacColl #Salford #Lancashire
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#PeggySeeger at 90 was the theme for #StrangerSongs today on #CKCU. You can hear the show anytime at this link.
cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595...
#EwanMacColl #Kate&AnnaMcGarrigle #RufusWailwright #MikeSeeger #RosalieSorrels #Fourtold #BonnieDobson #LindaRonstadt #Ian&Sylvia #Sheesham&Lotus&Son
The Father's Song
A timely message for Father's Day... and other things. Germane when I wrote it 12 years ago, I had no idea how much more relevant it would soon be.
rustyring.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-...
#DickGaughan, #EwanMacColl, #fathers, #justice, #music, #responsiblity, #Scotland, #video
The Father's Song
A timely message for Father's Day... and other things. Entirely germane when I wrote it 12 years ago, I had no idea how much more relevant it would soon be.
rustyring.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-fathers-song...
#DickGaughan, #EwanMacColl, #fathers, #justice, #music […]
BARBRA STREISAND singing 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' with HOZIER is the healing sound we need in 2025... for a moment one's problems melt away.
@barbrastreisand.bsky.social
@hozier.bsky.social
#barbrastreisand #barbra #streisand #hozier #ewanmaccoll
Roberta Flack
15 April 1972, Roberta Flack started a 6 week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'. The song was written in 1957 by political singer/songwriter Ewan MacColl. MacColl was the father of singer/songwriter Kirsty MacColl. #RobertaFlack #EwanMacColl
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Ewan MacColl:
🎵 Nobody Knew She Was There
#6music #EwanMacColl
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