Hints and tips:
...He is even within touching distance of Roberta Flack’s immaculate version of Ewan MacColl’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”....
...Alexander, Leona Mitchell....
...The studio lights were turned down low as fellow singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell and James Taylor sang backing vocals....
...As a child growing up in prairie towns (the family eventually settled in Saskatoon when Mitchell was 11) Roberta Joan Anderson, who was always known by her middle name, yearned for glamour....
...He said he had a newcomer bidding on the phone for Joan Mitchell’s abstract “Vera Cruz”, which sold for $4m....
...It is also worth remembering that Roberta Flack’s seminal version of the song was first brought to public attention in Clint Eastwood’s creepy Play Misty For Me, in one of those mystifying love-making scenes...
...The Band and Neil Young were debuting, Dusty was in Memphis and Joni Mitchell was in the Clouds....
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