Tom picks a song best known as sung by Roberta Flack in 1972. Clint Eastwood requested that she sing it as part of the soundtrack for the movie, Play Misty for Me. But it was written in 1957 as a folk song by Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger, who later became his wife.
The song entered the pop mainstream when it was released by the Kingston Trio on their 1962 hit album New Frontier and in subsequent years by other pop folk groups such as Peter, Paul and Mary, The Brothers Four, Joe and Eddie, the Chad Mitchell Trio, and by Gordon Lightfoot on his debut album Lightfoot! (1966).
Tom, as usual, provides a wonderful transcription for the baritone ukulele.
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