Elvis Presley - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face | REACTION
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This is my reaction to Elvis Presley The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. This is also my first time hearing The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face reaction 1971
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wow!!!! Elvis sings this so beautifully!!!!!!
This is my first time hearing this and the Elvis got me again....as soon as I heard his voice I was captivated and when he said "i thought the sun rose in your eyes" wow i had tears.
WE❤U ELVIS.
2nd comment: Song Info: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is a 1957 folk song written by British political singer-songwriter Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger, who later became his wife. At the time, the couple were lovers, although MacColl was still married to his second wife, Jean Newlove. Seeger sang the song when the duo performed in folk clubs around Britain. During the 1960s, it was recorded by various folk singers and became a major international hit for Roberta Flack in 1972, winning Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Billboard ranked it as the number-one Hot 100 single of the year for 1972.
There are two differing accounts of the origin of the song. MacColl said that he wrote the song for Seeger after she asked him to pen a song for a play she was in. He wrote the song and taught it to Seeger over the telephone. Seeger has told the same story and also said that MacColl, with whom she had begun an affair in 1957, used to send her tapes to listen to while they were apart and that the song was on one of them.
Peggy Seeger has said that MacColl had been challenged to write a love song (given that his repertoire was largely political) and this song was his response.
The earliest recording of the song was in 1960 by Bonnie Dobson, released in 1961 on her debut album She's Like a Swallow and Other Folk Songs. The song entered the pop mainstream the following year when it was released by the Kingston Trio on their 1962 hit album New Frontier and in subsequent years by other pop folk groups such as Peter, Paul and Mary, the Brothers Four, Joe and Eddie, the Chad Mitchell Trio, and by Gordon Lightfoot on his debut album Lightfoot! (1966).
MacColl made no secret of the fact that he disliked all of the cover versions of the song. His daughter-in-law wrote: "He hated all of them. He had a special section in his record collection for them, entitled 'The Chamber of Horrors'. He said that the Elvis version was like Romeo at the bottom of the Post Office Tower singing up to Juliet. And the other versions, he thought, were travesties: bludgeoning, histrionic, and lacking in grace."
*Fingers crossed this goes through*
There was a 3rd verse but I don't think I ever heard Elvis sing it:
And the first time, ever I lay with you
I felt your heart so close to mine
And I knew our joy
Would fill the earth
And last, 'til the end of time
My love and it would last, till the end of time, my love. ❤❤❤
Elvis did sing that 3rd verse in December 1976. Birmingham , I think. There is also a duet version this song.
I love this!
Wonderful , brilliant song!❤ELVIS voice is magical!❤ Thank you Seph!
Haunting melody, affording the opportunity for Elvis to showcase his fantastic talent. I absolutely love it. One of his best.
I love this song. Listened to Roberta Flack sing it for years. But this version from EP is sublime. His humming is so good! Powerful vocals, heartfelt, and the instruments just beautiful. Overall a masterpiece!! Nice reaction Seph.🥇🥇🥇BANGER!
Wow,Love this song,Never knew Elvis sang this song,Call me prejudice but any song Evis sings,I get goose bumps ❤
❤️👑👑👑👑👑❤️
Such a different cadence than Roberta Flack’s version. Elvis does it again!!
I gotta say that neither of my parents kissed me on the mouth at least not that I can recall. Kisses on the cheek and forehead and in that case of my Dad on the hand yes.
But the mouth? No.
Hugs happened a lot.
And my paternal grandmother was very affectionate. She'd give us (my sister and I) gentle arm rubs, with her nails just ever so slightly scraping our skin.
It put us both in a catatonic state of uber relaxation as kids.
We became spoiled in that if Grams was sitting on the couch one of us would flop on our back with the head in her lap and blinking up at her with BIG pleading eyes, say in an imploring voice, "Graaammmaaa, can you please rub my arm?"
I don't think she ever said no.
Sometimes she'd even rub our necks and ears and foreheads- which was absolute Heaven.
You'd have to experience it to understand it.
Later on when taking a mandated course in psychology in college I learned that all babies need human touch near constantly in order to develop normally (mentally speaking) and that as adults we are all basically what is called "touch hungry". Some even "touch starved".
Basically, affectionate contact/ touch (of the positive and healthy variety) we receive as babies and as young children serve us well in that it seems to strengthen the neural pathways and communication in our brains.
Anyways, moving on...
Recording Session Info Below:
"The First Time I Saw Your Face" written by Ewan MacColl (more on him later, hopefully).
Recorded at RCB Studio B in Nashville, TN on March 15, 1971 Hours: 6:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m./ 10:00 p.m.- 1:30 a.m.
Producer: Felton Jarvis
Engineer: Al Pachucki
Musicians:
Guitar: James Burton
Guitar: Chip Young
Guitar: Charlie Hodge
Drums: Jerry Carrigan
Piano: David Briggs
Bass: Norbert Putnam
Vibes/ Harmonica: Charlie McCoy
Back Up Vocals: The Nashville Edition:
Dolores Edgin
June Page
Hurshel Wiginton
Joe Babcock
Duet: Ginger Holladay ("The First Time I Saw Your Face")
Take 1: Duet With Ginger Holladay
Takes 2-10: Unavailable
Take 11: False Start 0:36
Take 12: (Master) 3:51 (not used)
Overdub (Master) Vibes Overdub
Overdub (Master) Back Up Vocals on March 18, 1971 (not used)
Dubdown (Master) Elvis's & Ginger's original vocals removed, leaving only the Take 12 rhythm track
Vocal Overdub (Master) 3:18 Vocal Overdub of the Take 12- Duet With Temple Riser on May 21, 1971 (not used)
Vocal Overdub (Master) 3:50 Vocal Overdub of Take 12 track on June 9, 1971- Undubbed Master
Overdub Master: Brass & Strings overdubs on June 21, 1971.
ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS REACTION SEPH!
LOVED EVERY BIT OF IT 😍💖😍💖😍💖😍💖
THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH FOR READING THE LYRICS 🙏📖🙏
AND ALSO FOR SHARING 💐
GOLD STARS, LIGHTNING BOLTS, HEARTS 🌟⚡💛⚡🌟⚡💛⚡🌟⚡💛⚡🌟⚡💛⚡🌟⚡💛⚡🌟⚡💛⚡🌟⚡💛⚡🌟⚡💛⚡🌟⚡💛⚡🌟⚡💛⚡🌟⚡💛⚡🌟
TCB ⚡ & TLC ❤ & peace ✌& blessings 🙏 to you & yours & to one & all here as well 💕
Awwwww what an amazing memory ☺️
The love was real there ❤️❤️
@@SephPlays Yes it was, very much so 💖💖💖💖
Love Elvis's yummy deep voice and all the Oh hoa's hoa's, and woh oh oh's in this song !!!! ♥
Lovely song ❤
I am waiting for the following bangers:
It s only love
Early mornin rain
Rags to riches
We can make the morning
.....
I’ll go with Early morning Rain
I'm more excited for him to get into 1976 and 1977 for Moody Blue, Way Down, and Solitaire.
Really don’t want to know
@@gewoonieko Hahaha, when I read your comment I thought, "How rude", then I remembered the Elvis song! 🤦🏻♀️
@@annmariering6606 Haha, funny.
I love Elvis singing this so beautiful ❤
Love your reaction Steph as always. Elvis sings so beautifully.
Elvis delivered a magnificent, very intimate live performance of this song on December 29, 1976, we can see him rocking and also hear him say "shut up" to the fan's cry.
Beautiful Elvis sang it live and dedicated it to his girlfriend Sheila Ryan can you imagine Elvis singing this to you in a concert hall full of fans oh my god ❤
Sheila ended the relationship shortly after that, right?😨
What a beautiful melodic song ❤performed by Elvis with such warmth and feeling❤🎙🎼🎵🎶🎵🎶Great reaction Seph, thank you😊
If Elvis sang this to me…I’d be putty in his hands😊😊😊! His voice was just so beautiful!
Fire 🔥🔥🔥
Lovely reaction. A very different take than Roberta Flack's hit version of this but I love how Elvis would reinterpret a song so you see something new in it.
This song was written by Kirsty Maccoll's dad!
Yay a triple 💣💣💣 - nice song but not one that I love and have to listen to every day ❤💙
Beautiful Seph! Absolutely Beautiful!! Thank you so much, Sweety! ❤❤❤❤❤❤!
Be even better if you got his name correct 🙂
@@gorse9030 Sorry, I misspelled it! Please forgive me. I have corrected it, Thank you for bringing it to my attention!
And yet another beautiful Elvis song and a wonderful Seph reaction! How strange that you should compare Elvis' lips to marshmallows. I saw an interview with one of his girlfriends where she was asked what it was like to kiss him to which she replied "it was like kissing a giant marshmallow".
I'm no Sammy, but here's a little background info on this song. The writer wrote this for his lover and sang it to her over a crackling transatlantic phone line. She refused to come back to him because he was married at the time. She later became his third wife.
Thats where i got the lips of marshmallows saying from 😄
Beautifully sung by Elvis but it was Roberta Flack's version which went to No.1 after it was featured in the Clint Eastwood thriller
"Play Misty For Me".
Briefly, a romantic fling turns into a creepy psychotic obsession. Similar storyline to Fatal Attraction.
This song was written by Ewan McColl, real name James Henry Miller, a committed British folk singer who was a songwriter, poet and writer. he said Elvis' version was like Romeo singing it to Juliet in the backyard of a post office.
ah thats is beautiful said, his reaction to elvis version.
By the way, I read today that another songwriter has died at june the 8th: Mark James, who wrote Suspicious Minds...
@@thepuma2012 It was not a compliment from the author, he did not like Elvis' version
@@carolinedefoy2215 That makes McColl sound rather classist. Oh, well.
@@senyart890 i guess
One of the songs I never play !!
Right on with your reaction Seph, and IMHO you nailed this great song and performance. Uses the same type of soaring compelling voice as used in The Wonder of You. Sings a live slower sublime version to his last official girlfriend at the end of 1976 - interesting and rollercoaster times to come.
I'm guessing by your reaction that you haven't heard the version of this that was recorded by Roberta Flack in 1969 and became a hit in 1972. Do yourself a favor and stop whatever you are doing and listen to Roberta's version. She has a slower, softer, more delicate interpretation. It's truly stunning.
"That is beautiful. The way that it makes you feel. The way that it stirs the emotions of love. At my command my love. You're at my command, yeah. I don't mind being at your command, Elvis! I don't mind. I could do that! I could do that! I'm sure there's a lot of people out here in the comments who would also do that! It ain't just me! It's everybody else as well!" (5:06) What power this man has. Incredible!
So kissing Elvis is like kissing marshmallows, huh. (6:14)
I bet you are going to get some mothers objecting to the notion that kissing their daughters on the mouth is uncommon. 😉
This is at the top of my list. From the first time ever I heard it.
Yay! first view lol
haha well done :D
There is another version where a lady sings the chorus with him ,but it wasn't used . The sound engineer gave her a copy . In an interview she said she still has it
Gosh!!! 😮❤️💕💖💯
Banger reaction❤
A very beautiful song that was originally written in 1957 by British singer and songwriter Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger. I must admit that I always disliked her version.
In 1971, Elvis recorded it and it was held on the backburner for a year to be released in 1972 as part of "An American Trilogy".
However, Roberta Flack also released it in 1972 as a single and revived the song, doing the lyrics justice. Her version was the No.1 hit for 6 weeks, while Elvis's version was more or less overlooked.
A perfect example for "You snooze, you lose". Had they released and promoted Elvis`s version as a single in 1971, he would have landed a hit.
But good for us. Now we have both versions and one is better than the other :)❤
Your getting closer and closer to a bunch of double and triple banners
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Women that missed Elvis said it was like kissing warm marshmallows😉
Great song regardless. And Elvis does a really nice understated job with it. But to be honest it still comes in behind Roberta Flack's hit.
I really like Elvis's version of this song, he speeds it up a bit, and i love his whoa ho hos ❤ original is too slow for my taste 😊
1971 …. Ouch!
Have you ever heard Elvis version of Old MacDonald, don't let the children hear it though
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Yes 😭
As they say…..to each his own. I know this is a good song, but not a favourite of mine. I never liked Roberta Flack’s version. And of course I always love Elvis”a voice …but this song just doesn’t do it for me. There are many other Elvis songs I’d rather hear ahead of this one.
Not sure why Roberta Flack's version was a hit....prolly 'coz it was featured in a movie. It's not even that great. EP's version is made better by his beautiful voice.... that's about it 💯⚡❤️
Not a fan,boring comes to mind.
DEPECHE MODE SO CRUEL
Eeeeeasie E, no beat,nor melody and the lyrics sucks big time. The Elvis wailing was the only good thing imo. I'm so ready for a really good one, as always they come last.
After reading the comments suggesting listen to Flack's version, I just did, both the studio and a live version and neither of them are any good imo. Some songs I just don't get what the fuzz is all about, this is one of them.
Elvis wailing i don't know why but that made me lol 😂😂😂 beautiful wailing
@WeCanMakeTheMorning Jennifer I really appreciate your honesty.👍
Yes strangely but your really 'good ones ' won't as I see from historic comments here necessarily be mine or theirs. I wonder how many who comment regularly on these lists can put at least 350 songs on their regular playlists