Peter Paul & Mary live 1965 - Early Morning Rain & 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face (ft. Mary) StereoM

Описание: ....now in Color….Live in london September 26th,1965

"Early Morning Rain", sometimes styled as "Early Mornin' Rain", is a song written, composed, and recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. The song appears on his 1966 debut album Lightfoot! and, in a re-recorded version, on the 1975 compilation Gord's Gold.
Lightfoot wrote and composed the song in 1964, but its genesis took root during his 1960 sojourn in Westlake, Los Angeles. Throughout this time, Lightfoot sometimes became homesick and would go out to the Los Angeles International Airport on rainy days to watch the approaching aircraft.The imagery of the flights taking off into the overcast sky was still with him when, in 1964, he was caring for his 5-month-old baby son and he thought, "I’ll put him over here in his crib, and I’ll write myself a tune."[2] "Early Morning Rain" was the result.
The lyrics describe someone down on his luck, standing at an airport fence and observing the thunderous takeoff of a Boeing 707 jet airliner. The general narrative of the song can be taken as a jet-age musical allegory to a hobo of yesteryear lurking around a railroad yard attempting to surreptitiously board and ride a freight train to get home. The song ends with the lyrics, "You can't jump a jet plane like you can a freight train", leaving this jet-age downtrodden man unable to get home.
The version by Ian & Sylvia reached #1 on the Canadian AC charts, August 2, 1965.Peter Paul and Mary's version of the song was recorded in August 1965, reaching No. 39 in Canada, and No. 91 on the Billboard Hot 100.

"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 third wife. At that time, MacColl was still married to his second wife, Jean Newlove. During the 1960s, it was recorded by various folk-pop singers, including the Kingston Trio, We Five, The Chad Mitchell Trio, Gordon Lightfoot, and Peter, Paul and Mary. It 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 accounts of the origin of the song. Ewan MacColl said that he wrote the song for Peggy Seeger after she asked him to pen a song for the play in which she was performing at the time. He wrote the song and taught it to Seeger over the telephone. Seeger has told a similar story: she started an affair with MacColl in London in 1956 but returned to the U.S. to separate herself from MacColl because he was already married with a child. Seeger worked for a radio show in Los Angeles the following year, and she informed MacColl that the show had asked for a "hopeful love song" because all the folk songs she sang were sad. In one of his phone calls to her from England, MacColl sang the song he had written.[5] MacColl also used to send her tapes to listen to while they were apart and that this song was included on one of them.Seeger said that she did not connect the song as between MacColl and her the way MacColl had written it because she was not "in love" with him at the time and sang the song from his perspective instead. Seeger performed the song in Los Angeles and then in Chicago, but MacColl himself never recorded the song after singing it to her.
While Seeger was the first to perform this song live at folk concerts, she did not release her version until 1962. The earliest recording of the song was made in 1961 by Bonnie Dobson and released on her June 1961 debut album She's Like a Swallow and Other Folk Songs.[citation needed] Dobson had first heard Seeger perform the song at the Colorado Folk Festival on October 31, 1960 and learned all of the words after hearing other performers sing it at subsequent folk concerts.

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. The other versions, he thought, were travesties: bludgeoning, histrionic, and lacking in grace."[8] Peggy Seeger said that she disliked the way Roberta Flack sang the song when it became a hit but has since "come to like it a lot".[7]