Clint Eastwood used which Roberta Flack song in his film "Play Misty For Me"?

Flack's slow and sensual version "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", (recorded 1969) was used by Clint Eastwood in his 1971 directorial film debut: "Play Misty for Me" to score a love scene featuring Eastwood and actress Donna Mills.

Flack recorded the song for her debut album, "First Take" (1969). It wasn’t until Eastwood alighted on it to accompany an alfresco sex scene in "Play Misty For Me" that it took flight. The film sparked such a demand that Atlantic records in 1972 released the song as a single (edited down to four minutes from five) that subsequently went to No. 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and easy listening charts for six weeks, with a No. 4 R&B chart peak.

Many fans and music experts have now said, "So perfectly did Flack inhabit the song’s intermingling of longing, lust and love that it was easy to imagine that the song was written either by her or specifically for her." In actuality, the song was 15 years old by the time it reached its mega-popularity in 1972. Ewan MacColl, one of the foremost figures of the British folk music scene, wrote the song for American folk singer Peggy Seeger in 1957. She sang the song when the duo performed in folk clubs around Britain.

It has been Flack who put a definitive stamp on the song. As will happen, the history behind who and why a song has been written can be obscured. Such is the true case with Roberta Flack’s languorous, luscious performance of “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.”