Roberta Flack: Killing Me Softly singer dies aged 88
The star's other hits included The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and Feel Like Makin' Love.
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Roberta Flack, Grammy Award-winning singer, dead at 88
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rushzepfanatic
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johnny cash and gordon lightfoot covered some of her songs.rip
My all-time favorites with Roberta Flack are...
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (1972) AT40 #1 from 1971's Play Misty for Me starring Clint Eastwood and Jessica Walter
Where Is the Love (1972) AT40 #5 with Donny Hathaway
Killing Me Softly with His Song (1973) AT40 #1
Feel Like Makin' Love (1974) AT40 #1
The Closer I Get to You (1978) AT40 #2 with Donny Hathaway
Tonight, I Celebrate My Love (1983) AT40 #16 with Peabo Bryson
Set the Night to Music (1991) AT40 #6 with Maxi Priest
PS-She should be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but has not been inducted or even nominated yet.
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Play Misty For Me!!
BeatleMatt
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I mean, Don McLean has been killing her softly for years.
Thought that was a weird comment so I had to look it up.
Apparently Lori Lieberman was at a McLean concert in 1971 and liked the song 'Empty Chairs' and McLean's set in general so she scribbled down some lyrics that became 'Killing Me Softly' which was cowritten by Gimbel and Fox songwriters ( and her managers) , though they tried to claim later she was not involved with writing it....though she clearly was .
Flack heard Liebermans version of the song from 1972 and later recorded it and it became a huge hit.
The original version.....
recgord27
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R.I.P. Roberta - Thanks for the memories
