ROBERTA FLACK
First Take
1971 Canada pressing

I got into an interesting conversation with a friend of mine yesterday; one that drove me to pull this record out.

He had asked me “What song elicits the most emotional response in you? Do you have one of those? A song that just overwhelmingly takes you over any time you hear it?”.

As a matter of fact, I do.

It’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” by Roberta Flack.

One would assume it is related to my beautiful wife of almost 20 years, but no, it is not.

It’s a song that is heavily rooted in the birth of (& love for) my now teenage son.

It’s an achingly beautiful song that I loved LONG before he was born (I first heard it in the film The Best Of Times), but when my son arrived, the lyrics took on new meaning for me.
Oddly, it was also the first song I’d heard after he was born, and it transformed me forever.

Do any of you have a song like that?

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