<P> 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 . And the other versions, he thought, were travesties: bludgeoning, histrionic, and lacking in grace ." </P> <P> The song was popularised by Roberta Flack in 1972 in a version that became a breakout hit for the singer . The song first appeared on Flack's 1969 album First Take . Her rendition was much slower than the original, as an early solo recording by Seeger ran two and a half minutes long whereas Flack's is more than twice that length . </P> <P> Flack's slower and more sensual version was used by Clint Eastwood in his 1971 directorial film debut, Play Misty for Me, during a lovemaking scene . With the new exposure, Atlantic Records cut the song down to four minutes and released it to radio . It became a very successful single in the United States where it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and easy listening charts in April 1972 for six week runs on each list . It reached #14 on the UK Singles Chart . In Canada, it was No. 1 for three weeks in the RPM magazine charts . </P> <P> In 2014, two films featured the song: Flack's version was heard twice in the superhero film X-Men: Days of Future Past, set largely in 1973, while a "cover" of it was performed by one of the protagonists in The Inbetweeners 2 for comic effect . </P>

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