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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
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 #ChildBallads #xp
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The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face
Originally posted on April 15, 2018
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
To the dark and the endless skies, my love
To the dark and the endless skies
#EwanMacColl #PeggySeeger #RobertaFlack #GordonLightfoot
https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2018/04/15/the-first-time-ever-i-saw-your-face/
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – A fun look back on #EwanMacColl and his critiques of covers of his most famous composition. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #PeggySeeger #RobertaFlack #GordonLightfoot
Up until now the songs I have featured have shared a common trait. Whenever the original songwriter was aware of any cover version they were typically honored by the fact another artist had chosen …
50+ Music"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, it was recorded by various folk-pop singers, including #theKingstonTrio, #WeFive, #TheChadMitchellTrio, #GordonLightfoot, and #PeterPaulAndMary. It became a major international hit for #RobertaFlack in 1972.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_fLu2yrP4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_fLu2yrP4
Roberta Flack - First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 1972
John SpitheadHere comes Jack with his ten months' pay.
https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1569-321c-2172-00b099040179
"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, it was recorded by various folk-pop singers, including #theKingstonTrio, #WeFive, #TheChadMitchellTrio, #GordonLightfoot, and #PeterPaulAndMary. It became a major international hit for #RobertaFlack in 1972.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk-T9rRBTEU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk-T9rRBTEU
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (2020 Remaster)
Andi ChorleyTwo-Way Trip by Peggy Seeger And Ewan Mac Coll, released on Folkways in 1961.
PREFACE by Ewan MacColl
I mostly sing Scots and English songs. The Scots material was part of the background of ray childhood, the English I began to acquire during my adolescence and have gone on adding to my store ever since. The Scots songs are closest to me, with the Liverpool shanties and forebitters running them a close second.
As for American folkmusic, my first contact with it was during the late thirties when I heard some of the Library of Congress recordings broadcast in the first B.B.C. folksong series. I can still remember the tremendous impact they made on me, and still recapture something of the initial excitement that was roused in me by hearing Woodie Guthrie, Blind Willie Johnson. Texas Gladden..
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https://ewanmaccoll.bandcamp.com/album/two-way-trip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdyUqIfGa1Y&list=RDLdyUqIfGa1Y&start_radio=1
#PeggySeeger #EwanMacColl #Folkways #folkmusic #traditionalsongs #ScotishBallads #childeballads #MattyGroves
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Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger & Charles Parker:
🎵 The Engine Had Reached the Distant Signal
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Chorus From The Gallows by Ewan MacColl With Peggy Seeger , released on Topic in 1959.
"MacColl, in collaboration with partner Peggy Seeger, visits a number of traditional ballads of criminal misfortune, the underlying theme here is one of protest against the vagaries of the justice system. Despite the odd attempt of levity, the unremitting darkness of the material is likely to put some listeners off. For all that, this is a vital piece of work from the Celtic\British folk movement of the 1950s - 1960s. Chorus From The Gallows, released in 1960, opens with the tale of Craig and Derek Bentley and closes with "Go Down Ye Murderers," which relates the story of Timothy John Evans, convicted and executed for murders he did not commit, both true and awful stories from the annals of 20th century justice." - celticvitalsigns.blogspot.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiPlqN-TB_s
#EwanMacColl #peggyseeger #timothyevans #derekbentley #brtishfolk #deathpenalty #injustice #murder #hangman
Rusty RingThe 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
The Father's Song
