FIRST TIME HEARING Roberta Flack - Killing ME Softly With His Song REACTION
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FIRST TIME HEARING Roberta Flack - Killing ME Softly With His Song REACTION
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Listen to the Fugee's version please
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You need to hear her song, First Time Ever I Saw Your Face ... it's so sweet. It'll make you cry it's sooooo good. It's similar to this one in that she's describing someone who has affected her deeply, and I love it deeply, with my soul !!! Here's a link ... (th-cam.com/video/VqW-eO3jTVU/w-d-xo.html ). It was used in the movie, Play Misty For Me with Clint Eastwood, Donna Mills and Jessica Walters, and it gutted me, then and ever since.
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I wonder whose version you like better for this song. Roberta, AL B. Sure, or the Fugees. Each has a different style on the same song.
Another song by Roberta you should listen to is First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. Listen to the studio version as the live version isn’t as impactful. Love you guys!
Oh absolutely do this. One of prettiest and moving love songs ever.
YES!!! You have got to hear this one. I honestly think it's the best love song ever.
Goosebumps every single time. Yes, they need to hear it.
Yes 👍
YES!!! 💜✌️
Roberta Flack is a beautiful and very intelligent singer, songwriter and pianist. Her style and voice is one of a kind.
The former president knows what he's talking about.
But she did not write this song. She wasn’t the original artist to release it either.
@@drwalker6517 believe it was Lori Lieberman. Sorry if I misspelled her name.
@@jamesbolton9752 yes it was Lori who released it first, wrote it after by seeing artist Don McClean. But Norman Gimbel claims otherwise.
@@drwalker6517 so what does that have to do with her being a songwriter? He didn’t claim that she wrote this one.
"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" always melts my heart and is one of her greatest songs!
Was gonna say this very thing. I would love to suggest to them that they react to it, but I don’t know how/ where to post that.
Yes!!!!
spoiled for me when I realised he sang it down the phone to Peggy Seeger while he was married to someone else
My favorite song by her for sure. Reminds me of growing up in the 70's.
OMG yes! That one makes me cry every time I hear it!
A singer/ songwriter writer, Lori Lieberman, was asked by a friend to come and see this singer she had been hearing about. She was so moved by the man’s performance that she went home and started writing this song, later finishing it with two collaborators. Lori recorded the song, and Roberta Flack heard it played while on a plane flight, and knew she had to record her own version. The singer Lori Lieberman wrote the song about was someone you have reacted to on your show, Don McLean
And the singer was Don McLean, who was WONDERFUL in concert. I got to see him a few times back in the day, when both of us were young. Just a few years after his American Pie superhit.
No, he's not serenading her. She's hearing her life in his song even though he doesn't know she's there. Its about the universality of music!!!
Yes. About her experience hearing Don McLean sing. That he could give voice to parts of her life and her experience as if he knew her intimately when she was just another person in the crowd.
Exactly!
Yes😊 We, who heard it first, understand the context😢
Fkn THANK YOU a year later 😂
Ys! Thank you. He wasn't getting it, even though the lyrics are clear.
To me the Late Roberta Flack was an underappreciated vocalist.
She's still alive! Quite elderly and no longer performing,but still with us :)
@@unseelie63 Oh, my mistake, so sorry.
@@scotttrammell3913 You might be thinking about when the news broke of her retirement due to illness. She announced a chronic conditions that keeps her from performing.
@@Scurvous Possibly.
ONLY Roberta flack can sing this song ....best singer hardly ever mentioned....
Nothing comes close to the original by Lory Lieberman
I cannot believe after all this time, you still have never done a reaction video to Roberta Flack's breakout hit, and quite possibly the most beautiful song ever written: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face."
Roberta Flack’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” is one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded .
My eyes tear up whenever I hear it.Her voice is so pure, and strong
@@christineobrien7707 “…I felt your heart, so close to mine…”
(Gets me every time!)
@@MrSoonerCal Not only is it a great lyric, but her mind blowing, beautiful voice grabs us and doesn't let go.😎👍
@@christineobrien7707 🎯
No guys. He's not serenading her. Read the lyrics. This stranger was singing about her life, revealing all the darkness and pain. She wanted him to stop singing because she felt the whole audience there KNEW! Roberta Flack was amazing. I saw her in concert back in the 70's and she performed this song. Try listening to First time Ever I saw Your Face by Roberta Flack. Beautiful!!
Her voice makes you feel like uou are floating on a cloud❤❤
"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is my ultimate favorite of Ms. Flack, it's absolutely beautiful. give it a listen.
I was lucky enough to see Roberta Flack before she became famous.
Small place in D.C.
She's beautiful.
OMG..I love her. I love this song, but her best song is “First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” It’s A level above this.
Has me in tears every time I hear it. To this day.
I don't agree. I like this song a lot better than "The First Time".
EWAN McCOLL WROTE , First time ever I saw your face,.
"First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is a Roberta Flack song you will love.
He isn't serenading her. He is signing about trials and heartbreak and she is uncomfortable because she feels he is describing her experiences so intimately that she wonders if everyone else "realizes" he is singing about her secrets. Meanwhile, the singer just continues to entertain, oblivious of her. The Killing me softly is how she is reliving the pain he is singing about.
apparently written about Don McLean!
Two duets she did with Donny Hathaway are definitely musts for you two. “Where is The Love” and “ The Closer I Get to You”.
Those are my favorites!!!!
Also 'Back Together Again.'
The writer of this song had gone to a Don McLean concert and wrote it about him. Roberta recorded it and made it into a superb, beautiful, wistful sounding version.
You must also react to her song "First time ever I saw your face" sheer beauty. Much love from England 🏴
I remember this song from back in the 70s, So beautiful! However, the Roberta Flack Song, “the first time ever I saw your face” is truly the love song to beat all love songs. You will both admire this song, no doubt, but Amber, I just know, you will adore everything about it! (As I do!)
The lyrics of this song was written by Norman Gimbel and Lori Lieberman, who was inspired to write the song following a performance by Don McLean. The music was by Charles Fox. The song was written in 1971 and was covered by many but it hit a resonant note with the public in 1973 when Roberta Flack did such a wonderful job of performing it. Just a great song to kick back and enjoy a great relaxing groove...wine or whiskey optional.
Yes and I completely understood the feeling. I remember the first time hearing Don McLean such an emotional ride. Then when this was released and I heard the story behind it… awesome. And Roberta is just wonderful, owned the vinyl back in the day and every thing on the album was wonderful.
I knew this song was inspired by Don mcldawn mcclain but I always assumed that Roberta Flack wrote it and that she was the one who was so moved by him. Thanks for is thanks for setting me straight.
You should listen to Lori Lieberman's version. Her voice isn't as big as Roberta's but you can feel it.
@@izzonj same
@@1tishhead Lori cut that version in 1972. I believe she was 19 or 20 years old at that time but she had such a full and mature voice. I like it but it never caught on.
This song was inspired by Don McLean’s performance of Empty Chairs at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. Singer/songwriter Lori Lieberman was in the audience and had an intense reaction to the song. She cried through the performance and wrote notes on a napkin. Afterwards she called her boyfriend lyricist/manager, Norman Gimbel, and shared her notes. They collaborated with Charles Fox and this beauty was the result❤️
. I thought it was a club in New York City I stand corrected
For some reason I thought it was "American Pie".
I had Lori Lieberman's album. Remember seeing her on the Mike Douglas show.
I thought it was James Taylor?
@@EC-dz3fb I thought it was Bob Dylan...
This version of this song is one of the most beautiful things ever recorded. Roberta Flack, what a legend.
Roberta Flack really owns the song, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face". Her voice is incredible.
A little history:
In 1971 Don McLean’s performance of “Empty Chairs” at the Troubadour sparked an intense emotional experience that would quickly change the path of Lori Lieberman’s life. Lieberman connected so deeply with that performance that she began to write her feelings down on a tear-stained napkin.
After the show, Lieberman called her lover and lyricist/manager, Norman Gimbel to share her inspiration and the bud that was “Killing Me Softly with His Song” began to blossom. Gimbel, Lieberman, and Gimbel’s business partner, Charles Fox, then collaborated on the composition. In a 1973 interview with New York Daily News, Gimbel said: “She told us about this strong experience she had listening to McLean. I had a notion this might make a good song… We talked it over several times, just as we did for the rest of the numbers we wrote for this album and we all felt it had possibilities.” Lieberman’s poetic inspiration was shortly set to music by Fox but supported lyrically by Gimbel. It was Lieberman, however, that paid attention to the lyrical and structural integrity of her first-hand sentimental experience.
Soon after, Lieberman recorded “Killing Me Softly With His Song” on her self titled album for Capitol Records, but was given no credit as a writer, costing her both financial and musical recognition for one of her most well-known works. While recalling her initial relationship with the track, Lieberman explained: “I remember feeling about the song that it was good and I liked it. I don’t think I loved it at all. It almost embarrassed me because I didn’t want anybody to view me as a groupie who had gone to, you know, a concert. I just didn’t want to be seen like that.”
The song continued to gain popularity as it was later covered by Roberta Flack in 1973, earning her multiple Grammys, and the Fugees in 1996, topping the charts internationally. Still, Lieberman received little to no recognition for the track itself, finding her contributions discredited by Gimbel and Fox. Gimbel even went as far as to demand that Don McLean remove a reference to Lieberman’s participation in the song’s composition from his website.
Thank you!
Just so sad and messed up.
I have heard that Don McLean inspired the song.. and I really love DM -- the song: "Vincent" - I asked my Mom to listen to it a year or so ago (b/c' it's so beautiful and I thought she would like it)... and she called my sister and said she was worried about me - that I might be depressed --- LOL -- I had to call my Mom back and say... "if I'm depressed, I won't try to send you a coded message via a 40-yr-old FOLK Song..." --
Yes, this...
Thank you for adding to what I thought all these years how it happened, it became a Chinese whisper I guess.
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face....that should have been your introduction into Roberta Flack's talent It's amazing.
“First Time I Ever I Saw Your Face” was a song at my wedding. Great song by Ms. Flack
Rob, you’re right. Lori Lieberman is confessing to feeling so vulnerable to the lyrics while attending a Don McLean concert in 1971. I love this. It’s so real and so raw.
Sad part is Lori's rendition is very good. But Roberta is the standard
@@theophilussparks5839 Roberta pretty much sings it the way she sang it. As you said, it's sad that it was't a success for her. Still, Roberta Flack is just so good. She was a music prodigy, became a music teacher, and later began doing gigs in the evenings at a local club. As an adult, she didn't do anything badly.
@@theophilussparks5839 Maybe Roberta's version is the standard but only because all those people here who can find TH-cam cannot find Wikipedia (or don't care).
This is a cover of Lori Lieberman's song, which she wrote after hearing Don McClean in concert.
Did not know!
I was about to say the same, that this was written about Don McClean 😊👍🏻
yep I can verify this. So spot on about early Don Mclean. He was one powerful poetic singer songwriter.
Now I remember!
To me it's not a cover when you make it famous, and I don't think of Don McClean when I hear it.
Roberta’s voice is butter. Soft, creamy, and delicious.
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face! I'm just adding my voice to the large chorus who have suggested that beautiful song!
Her voice is so crystal clear it makes bells jealous...
This sentence is the one I have been looking for to describe Roberta's voice.
💙
I love how in this music, there’s no hurry to tell the story, there’s plenty of time for a captive audience
Roberta Flack was the first artist to win the Grammy for Record of the Year, two consecutive years running The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (73) & Killing Me Softly (74). It was accomplished by U2 in 2001 & 2002, and recently by Billie Eillish. Both of Roberta's song also took Song of the Year. The song Killing Me Softly was covered by the Fugees (with Lauryn Hill) in 1996.
Love this as well as Lauryn Hills version
She has another beautiful song with "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" from the early seventies. It is absolutely stunning!
Roberta is a jazz singer, and her song was used in the story about a stalker that wanted Clint Eastwood who was a jazz announcer at the local radio station. Eastwood is a true Jazz lover who introduced Robert Flack and her voice to the world. They had to reissue her album with this song because it was out of issue.
As teachers, you might appreciate that she was a junior high music and English teacher before she gained fame as a singer. I think she was a classical pianist also, earning degrees from Howard University. And at 85, she's still with us. Other songs of hers that I love: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," "Tonight We Celebrate My Love," "The Closer I Get to You" which others are also recommending.
Like others are saying, other great radio hits by Roberta Flack are "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (1972), "Where is the Love?" (1972, with Donny Hathaway), and "The Closer I Get to You" (1977, with Donny Hathaway). The Fugees' hiphop-ish 1996 cover of this 1973 song is also great.
She is amazing! As another commenter noted, "The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face" is SO beautiful!! : - )
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face is astonishingly beautiful. Roberta Flack always lowered my blood pressure. Pop R&B royalty. She was awarded the 2020 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Won the 1973 Grammy Record of the Year for The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.
Her song with Donny Hathaway, “Where Is The Love” is just as beautiful as the one above. 🎧😌
F'n RF!!! Do not forget this woman, musician, story teller, icon, diva, etc.....
Lori Lieberman saw Don Mclean at the Troubadour and heard “Empty Chairs”. She felt Don had “opened her journal” with that tune and so on a tear stained napkin she started writing this song. She would finish it with Norman Gimbel and Charlie Fox. You two listened to Don Mclean’s American Pie a few months ago.
How do you know the napkin was tear-stained?
@@PlumbPitiful Because Lori cried throughout the song and used it to wipe her eyes.
@@charlottemccaig578 Empty Chairs has that effect on me too... 😭
I knew about Don Mclean’s performance of Empty Chairs inspiring this song, but I always thought Roberta Flack wrote this song. Thanks for the info!
Roberta Flack "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"...A MUST HEAR Classic.
And I knew our joy would fill the earth...magical song maybe most single beautiful song of the 70's. Grammy award, winner, BTW. SHE WON TWO YEARS IN A ROW. Other song was Killing Me Softly...
The Fugee's did a cover version of this song in the mid 1990's and it's a beautiful version. Lauren Hill's voice was perfect for it.
I prefer Lauren's version but esp that whole album and Ex Factor.
No they not they did a remix for biggie smalls
Yes! It's my favorite cover of this song
I remember listening to Roberta as a young teenager. She has the voice of an angel.
Roberta Flack released this amazing song in 1973 at a time when rock and folk dominated the mainstream airwaves, and amidst all of that competition took her rightful place and knocked one out of the ballpark with her stunning, hauntingly beautiful voice, along with her sweet, sweet backup singers.
The number one song of 1972….and she had the number 1 song of 1971 with a beautiful love song “ The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.”
If you want to hear Flack really showcase her voice, try "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face".
This one is the Best.
That song is very good. It was a big hit for her.
Agreed. I can't think of a better love song and she sang it so perfectly.
Yes, and make sure it's the original studio version. The live versions are somewhat shortened, and although good, aren't as good as the studio recording.
Yes! Easily one of the most beautiful songs ever! Do the recorded version for the full effect.
In 1971 at the age off 14 I lost my leg because of a run-in with a fast-moving freight train. This song had a calming and healing influence on me during my 3 month stay in hospital. Thank you Roberta Flak, also thank you to Colleen Q. and her friends, whose love and care also helped me tremendously during those difficult days.
Music is a great healer and gets us through the tuff times. Wishing you all the best.
Incredible. God bless you.
one of the best songs ever recorded .....
I lover her voice. My favorite is “The first time ever I saw your face”. Amazing!
What a beautiful voice
Song is about Going to see Don Mclean. Lori Liebermann saw Don McLean in concert at the Troubadour Theatre in Los Angeles, she said she was overwhelmed by the experience and wrote a poem to express how she felt.
I’m a 70s kid !, my sisters used to jam this song on the record player in the front room all day long❤
Written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbal, the song was inspired by Lori Lieberman's account of seeing Don McClean (American Pie/Vincent) in concert in 1972. Lori Lieberman sang the vocal on the songs first recording.
Roberta Flack was one of the best!
You need to listen to more of her! One of the most beautiful voices ever recorded. She never wanted to sing like anyone else. Her own style.
The inspiration for this song was you a young girl attending a Don McClean show. You know, "Bye-bye Miss American Pie, Drove My Chevy To The Levy..." Yes, THAT Don McClean. I don't remember which song he was singing but it resonated with the young girl and she started writing a poem while he was singing. The girl was Lorie Lieberman who did record this song before Roberta but her version of HER SONG was not received well. This was a huge hit for Roberta Flack!
The most pure voice ever.
I describe Roberta this way... If I am ever sick...its Roberta Flack's voice I want taking care of me.
There are about 10 songs by her you need to react to.
This song touches everyone who has felt this way when music literally touches your soul.
My music taste is all over the place. From classic rock, hard rock, new rock, country, old pop, R&B and swing. When I got back to my chu in Iraq I would put on Roberta Flack and un-wound. Thoughts would go away and I could sleep. Will always love her voice and music.
Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a song composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel. The lyrics were written in collaboration with Lori Lieberman after she was inspired by a Don McLean performance in late 1971.
This lady was a great musician. She was awesome.
One of the most beautiful songs ever. So is "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." Just kinda touches the soul with something universal and bittersweet...
I REMEMBER THIS SONG VERY WELL WAY BACK IN 1973 SHE HAS A GREAT VOICE THIS WAS A VERY MOVING SONG VERY TOUCHING
‘The first time ever I saw your face’ stunning song.
You have to listen to her duet with Donny Hathaway “The closer I get to you”. Truly a beautiful song!!
The lyrics to this song is by a young singer, Lori Lieberman who was inspired to write it after watching a performance by Dan McLean, who wrote Vincent, American Pie and others. She felt the experience was so intense that it was as though he were singing about her. Roberta Flack recorded it and it became a big hit. I've always loved it, because it describes how universal music can be. The performers don't have to know you personally because music crosses all boundaries.
Don, not Dan, McLean
Her voice is crystal clear. I love her singing.
Roberta Flack won the 1973 Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, for the single, with Gimbel and Fox earning the Song of the Year ...
Yaaaaaaaaaaaas! When I was growing up, my dad had this album. I'd put on his big, black earphones and listen to this song over and over and over again. I still remember every note to every second. Sang my heart out just now and got a little teary eyed. Please explore more of Roberta's work. She's amazing. She actually went to Julliard.
This song had a cover in the 90s by The Fugees, but Roberta's original version is gold.
Roberta Flack’s version is also a cover
Didn’t know that. I always thought Roberta Flack’s version was the O.G. Next do the Lauryn Hill and the Fugees version.
@@rosemarymagrino772 The original was by Lori Leiberman
The Fugees remake is among the best remakes of any song out there, in my opinion.
Lori Lieberman was a co-writer and singer of this song. A Don McLean show at the Troubadour inspired her feeling in this song. Don was killing Lori with what he sang.
This song is about a girl at a concert sitting in the audience & she thinks the artist is singing directly to her. The lyrics are co-author Lori Lieberman's response to seeing a young Don McLean (American Pie) perform, and the resulting feeling that he was singing directly to her about her innermost thoughts and secrets. I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd
I felt he'd found my letters and read each one out loud
I prayed that he would finish, but he just kept right on...
Listen to it again from that perspective.
“The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” and “ Where Is The Love,” are two others to enjoy…
I took this song to be that she went to listen to this guy perform, and was “shook!” When his song spoke to all her pain so perfectly that she felt so completely exposed and it was killing her to listen, but she couldn’t stop listening. Her voice is so beautiful.
The guy you’re referring to is Don McLean. It was his performance of Empty Chairs that inspired Killing Me Softly. I’d always thought Roberta Flack wrote this song because she sings it with such emotion.
I was fortunate enough to see Roberta live in the early eighties... alone on stage with just a piano- she SLAYED!!!
The lyricist was writing about being at a Don Mclean concert in the early 1970s. "Singing my whole life" is referring to his song "American Pie" and how the it talks about the music scene for years after "the music died". The Fugees did a good cover of it as well.
Roberta Flack was such an outstanding classical piano player that she got a full scholarship to Howard at age 15, and also majored in voice. She was a music teacher in the D.C. area and played jazz clubs at night until she was well-known enough to tour with Marvin Gaye (also from D.C.) and get a record deal. in 1973 she won a Grammy for ""The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and then the next year she won for "Killing me Softly". She also recorded a duets album with legendary soul singer Donny Hathaway, the biggest hit of which was "Where is the Love". '
This song was inspired by Don McLean (of 'American Pie" and "Vincent" fame) singing his heartbreaking song "Empty Chairs" at a show in L.A. in the late 60s.
Roberta is in the top 5 of my favorite female vocalists. Turn on the waterworks with this one ....
I remember the first time hearing this song by Roberta in 1973. It has always been one of my favorites over the years. I so enjoy watching you two react to something I have fond memories of! It often takes me back to a good place. Thanks for that!
'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' will make you weep, melt and swoon.
"First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is a must to get the depth of her style.
This won the Grammy Record of the Year in 1974 and she had won the award just the year before for "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." She has several duets with Donny Hathaway and Peabo Bryson. My favorite with Peabo is "Tonight I Celebrate My Love For You."
And also Maxi Priest.
While "Killing Me Softly with His Song" is great and heart-warming, Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" goes straight to your soul and is amazing.
Can’t believe I can’t find any reactions to Where Is The Love? Please be the first to rediscover this great duet. Major hit in the early 70s.
In the 1974 Grammy a wards, this song won song of the Year, Record of the Year, best solo vocal performances. That’s how great the song and singer is. And she also won in the previous Year for “The first time ever I saw your Face”.
This song was written about Don McClean from American Pie fame.
Was written about him and when she saw him perform the song "Vincent"
@@TucBroder Vincent is an incredible song.
@@harleycontrarian6111 Indeed it is...
I think he was singing Empty Chairs.
Driving home from a night out this song came on the radio . The year was 1973 and I was so blown away that I had to pull over where I just starred at he radio. It was a very emotional moment in my very long life. Few artists have ever done that to me.
How cool!
The way i took the song, she went to a concert and the singer sang a love song that fit her live, the way a lot of love songs do. I think you're like her doing "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face".
'First time I ever saw your face' video not studio. You have to watch her face as she delivers this beautiful song. Amazing, you will love it.
The original was recorded by Laurie Liberman who I believe wrote it. Ms Flack heard it on a plane back in the days when music was "piped in". She loved the song and made it a big hit.
"The Closer I Get To You" is another beautiful song from Roberta.
Ms. Roberta is quite a woman. She graduated from college at 19. Started studying music in grad school, but after her dad passed she had to take a job teaching music. She had her first big hit with The first time ever I saw your face. Clint Eastwood heard the song and chose to use it in a movie he was doing. The movie was a hit and so was the song. She has had other big hits as well, including a number of duets. Brilliant singer and musician.
This is so sweet to hear again. I remember when it was released, and how we were all in awe of Ms. Flack’s beautiful voice. Kudos!
I was lucky & privileged to see Roberta Flack & Johnny Mathis in concert in NYC. They are 2 of the best singers of all time, & 2 of my personal favorites. First she did a set, which included "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face". Then he did a set, including "Misty". It reminded me of the great movie "Play Misty for Me". But, the best part was the 3rd set, which they did together! I enjoyed every minute of it.
Roberta has a deep Archive of music 🎶 never sung a bad song. Her duets with Peobo Bryson are epic
Finally. Been trying to lead you to her talent. Thanks.
This song speaks to me. The imagery of hearing someone you have never met sing a song that encompasses your life, good, bad, or indifferent.
I saw you have reacted to Anne Murray, an accomplished Canadian singer. You might consider her song “a little good news”
An artist I didn’t see on your page, that is powerful, and fun, and sad, that I would recommend is Sawyer Brown “Some Girls Do”, “All these years”, “the Walk”, and “Café on the Corner”. This songs range from fun, to mistakes, to life passing by, to hard times, but in a poignant way. Beautiful music.