This is a song I sang
often before I began trying to write my own. I recorded it in
August 2014.
I had rediscovered the
words written on an old piece of paper when sorting out some equally old
notebooks (see below)
On a day with nothing much
else to do I saw it lying beside my
recording equipment and decided to try it out. It must have been there because
I thought, if the right moment arrived, this might happen. And without any practising
or planning I recorded four takes.
This version is the
fourth. The following day I decided to try to add some further background sounds
using the overdub facility on Audacity.
And I was pleased enough
to send the track in to Geoff Allan of Cava Studios at www.cavasound.com who magically improved it
whilst leaving it - he suggested - with a sort of 'campfire sound'.
The information below is
from Wikipedia
"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 would later become his
wife, to sing. At the time the couple were lovers, although MacColl was married
to someone else. Seeger sang the song when the duo performed in folk clubs
around Britain
