Edward Woodward – Morning Has Broken, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Send in the Clowns

I’ve only recently learned that my late acting hero, Edward Woodward (Breaker Morant, The Equalizer), had a healthy singing career in the 1970s. Here he is giving sacred, Church of England-approval to Yusuf Islam’s “Morning Has Broken” (he was still Cat Stevens back then) and a nicely theatrical version of Roberta Flack’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” tempered with just enough English reserve and stiff upper lip to be awe-inspiring.

Also, dig the mournful harmonica on this ultra-soulful version of “Send in the Clowns“: