The definitive version of First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack 1972

Roberta Flack showing how the song should be sung. Roberta made the defining version and the best. It doesn't stray from the delicate tune with vocal gymnastics. Here she is performing it live.

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[estella jackson]

OMG! I never herd the original version of this. seem everyone else slows the tempo. Im loving it this way. lovely and romantic.

[astronut66]

This isn't actually the original version but it is the version that most people seem to emulate. The original version is by Peggy Seeger I believe, written by her husband Ewan MacColl, Kirsty MacColl's father. Which you can also see on my channel.

[ss396rip]

This song is as comforting as a mother reassuring her child. Love you Mom, miss you.

[MrRobertj38]

Brilliant vocal,brilliant piano,....perfection

[MsPurplehaze15]

Perfect

[MegaWayne49]

So pure and from the heart. The most perfect rendition of this classic. No one could perform it better. I've experienced every word so vividly........and lost

[Pat Waalkes]

Absolutely one of the most heartfelt Love song ever sung!!! Ahhhhhhhh!

[Chris Torelli]

WOW what a voice outstanding this song moved ME me old stone hart NICE

[ArtR0001]

I think her version from the 1969 album was slower, and the one everyone want to dance to.  Between this and "Killing Me Softly" she cornered the market on L O V E.

[MegaStarbucker]

Evocative and heartful memories, listening to this ethereal angelic voice echoing softly and drifting from a hundred drive in movie speakers on a warm summer night, everyone hushed to listen. Thanks for bringing it back

[kingerlys]

My Fifty brought me here :3

[Claude Hec]

Love it