The Very Best of Roberta Flack

by Atlantic / Wea

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Release Date:2006-02-07
Label:Atlantic / Wea
UPC:081227333225
Binding:Audio CD
Published By:Atlantic / Wea
ASIN:B000CPH9IY
Category:Music

Tracks on The Very Best of Roberta Flack by Atlantic / Wea

  1. Killing Me Softly With His Song
  2. Where Is The Love – Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
  3. Feel Like Makin’ Love
  4. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
  5. And So It Goes
  6. Tonight, I Celebrate My Love – with Peabo Bryson
  7. The Closer I Get To You – with Donny Hathaway
  8. ‘Til The Morning Comes
  9. Back Together Again – with Donny Hathaway
  10. Making Love
  11. Only Heaven Can Wait (For Love)
  12. Set The Night To Music – Roberta Flack & Maxi Priest
  13. You Are My Heaven – with Donny Hathaway
  14. Oasis
  15. Don’t Make Me Wait Too Long – with Donny Hathaway
  16. And So It Goes (Reprise)
  17. Trade Winds

Editorial Reviews and Product Descriptions

Album Description

An elegant and legendary vocal superstar, four-time Grammy honoree Roberta Flack's unmistakable delivery wraps a timeless R&B sound with beautiful flourishes of jazz, pop and soul. She first climbed to the top of the charts with her definitive version of "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." The very next year, "Killing Me Softly," her first duet with the late, great Donnie Hathaway took the same prize, and also hit #1. Also featuring her hit-making collaborations with Peabo Bryson and Maxi Priest, as well as many selections on which she shines solo, this must-have collection spotlights Flack's masterful song interpretation and rich emotional resonance.

Customer Reviews

Awesome! - Reviewed on 2008-10-01
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I'm actually listening to this right now, and it's a CD that's been on my mind lately as I recently rediscovered her song "'Till the Morning Comes", which I played for my girlfriend the other night because I anticipated it would so greatly resonate with her. I bought this CD really only being aware of Roberta's hits "Killing Me Softly", "Where is the Love", "Feel Like Making Love", and after purchasing realized I was familiar with great tunes like "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love", and "The Closer I Get To You". If someone told me that this was part of her 20 best songs (17/20) then I'd certainly believe it. I've come to enjoy the rest of the songs on the CD, and there's great variety in tone, mood, and actual lyrical content--majorly revolving around love and passion themes that you'd expect from this talented soulful woman, but also contains in part commentary on life like in "Trade Winds", which I'd call Flack's participation in the genre of music like Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues", "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy Me", and "What's Going On". Of the romantic love songs she touches upon many facets to that dynamic tangle that is love. Consider "Only Heaven Can Wait (For Love)", where she shares the confusing and conflicted yearnings that result from a love that's become overripe. This album crosses many other things but I'll try not to flood a mass of information. I highly enjoy this CD, it's one of the one's I'll return to from time to time again and again. Oh one last thing, it's a fantastic mood setter ;)
Roberta Flack cd review - Reviewed on 2008-06-28
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1 customer found this review not to be helpful.
This cd is packed with awesome songs that I never even knew she sang. I love them all! If you love the old songs, this is an awesome pick.
The very best of Roberta Flack - Reviewed on 2008-06-24
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Wonderful to get her music again. She is very relaxing and every song is great.
Sound quality is a problem - Reviewed on 2008-05-17
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I love many of Roberta's early hits and particularly remember the sound quality as being excellent. I am very disappointed in the sound quality of this CD. Would not recommend purchase.
brought a big smile to my lady's face - Reviewed on 2008-03-18
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1 customer found this review helpful, 1 did not.

Heard "The first time ever I saw your face" on the radio. That is our story, truly love at first sight 6 years ago and we have been together ever since (and will be forever). I sent it to her as a surprise and obviously it was a big success. She is a wanna be karaoke singer so she listens to it in her car and sings along. She is a hard working critical care nurse so anything that brings her happiness makes her day a little more tolerable.
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