Roberta Flack DEAD

[Ellie]

Died softly aged 88

Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer with an intimate style, dies at 88

Roberta Flack has died at 88

www.independent.co.uk

 

[VoR]

I've never gone particularly deep on her oeuvre, but obviously her versions of Killing Me Softly and First Time Ever I Saw Your Face are two of the most beautiful songs ever recorded.

 

[AGinAg (38)]

 

[AGinAg (38)]

I was playing "First Time..." just this morning and had a real moment to it. And then I remembered she was very ill. So double sad.

 

[jyxz]

RIP Roberta (and her imaginary twin Rubina Flake )

‘Uh uh ooh ooh’ is probably my favourite track of hers - quite the house diva!

 

[VV]

Oh no, this is sad. RIP.

 

[Eddie]

 

[lolly]

'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' is quite arguably the best love song ever written to my ears. George Michael's version of it is sublime as well. But as much as I love her generally, Alison Moyet missed the mark entirely with it for me.

I've also got a huge soft spot for 'Making Love' as well.

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

Rest in Peace

I always had a soft spot for this duet she did with Peabo Bryson

 

[Nancy]

I heard she sang a good song

 

[funky]

She's one of the best to ever do it.

Not sure why but her success never really carried over into the modern era the way some of her contemporaries did. Perhaps because, apart from a couple of hits, she didn't really have the 80s comeback that Tina, Aretha, Diana, Chaka and Donna all did at some point. But she was one of the best selling and most respected artists of the 70s.

"First Take" is considered a masterpiece and she is of course responsible for 2 of the most famous, popular and covered songs of all time, which is no mean feat for any singer.

RIP to a legend.

 

[VoR]

'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' is quite arguably the best love song ever written to my ears. George Michael's version of it is sublime as well. But as much as I love her generally, Alison Moyet missed the mark entirely with it for me.

I was hoping Alf would mention it on her podcast series, just because her frequent references to her distaste for ’volume as a signifier of emotion’ or however she kept putting it, seemed so at odds with the way she HONKS her way through that one!

 

[VoR]

I didn't realise she had a top ten hit in the USA as late as 1991. Did nothing in the UK, but got to #6 there.

 

[Sheena]

I didn't realise she had a top ten hit in the USA as late as 1991. Did nothing in the UK, but got to #6 there.

I remember that from Casey Kasem's America's Top Ten. It was that weird period where Maxi Priest suddenly became (bizarrely) huge in the US with four or five hits there. I always felt it rode off the coattails of him.

 

[VoR]

It's a bit dull, innit? Good for her though!

 

[Sheena]

It's a bit dull, innit? Good for her though!

Typical US Adult Contemporary radio fodder of the time.

 

[AGinAg (38)]

Obviously means little but she's #1 and #2 on iTunes.

 

[lolly]