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The song was popularised by Roberta Flack in a version that became a breakout hit for the singer in 1971/1972, albeit as a sleeper hit more than three years after its original 1969 release on her album First Take, due to being included in Clint Eastwood's 1971 directorial film debut Play Misty for Me, ultimately topping the Billboard Year-End ...
Play Misty for Me is a 1971 American psychological thriller film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, his directorial debut. Jessica Walter and Donna Mills co-star. The screenplay, written by regular Eastwood collaborators Jo Heims and Dean Riesner, follows a radio disc jockey (Eastwood) being stalked by an obsessed female fan (Walter).
After lyrics were written for "Misty", Dakota Staton was the first to record the song in 1957. [6] A number of artists also recorded the song, [10] but it was the recording by Sarah Vaughan that drew greater attention to it. Sarah Vaughan recorded the song in a July 1958 Paris session, with an arrangement by Quincy Jones for her album Vaughan ...
His instrumental ballad "Misty", his best-known composition, has become a jazz standard. It was first recorded in 1956 with Mitch Miller and his orchestra, and played a prominent part in the 1971 motion picture Play Misty for Me. [4] Scott Yanow of Allmusic calls him "one of the most distinctive of all pianists" and a "brilliant virtuoso". [5]
After a track from First Take, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", was included by Clint Eastwood in his 1971 film Play Misty for Me, and the song became a number-one hit in the United States, causing the album to reach number one on the Billboard albums chart and Billboard R&B album chart; furthermore, the single topped the chart for the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1972, possibly ...
Her Atlantic recordings did not sell particularly well, until actor/director Clint Eastwood chose a song from First Take, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" written by Ewan MacColl, for the sound track of his directorial debut Play Misty for Me; it became the biggest hit of the year for 1972, spending six consecutive weeks at No. 1 and ...
Donald Trump mocked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after his top minister’s surprise resignation following a clash on how to handle the president-elect’s looming tariffs.
The line "Play 'Misty' for me" contains a double-allusion: to Erroll Garner's 1954 jazz standard "Misty" as well as the 1971 film Play Misty for Me, a thriller about a disc jockey being stalked by a fan, which was directed by Clint Eastwood (whose 1980 film Bronco Billy Dylan had quoted in his 1985 song "Seeing the Real You at Last"). [62]