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Roberta Flack - Softly with These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack Audio CD

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Title: Softly with These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack
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Release Date: 1993-06-22
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 2: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow 3: Where Is the Love? - Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway 4: Killing Me Softly with His Song 5: Feel Like Makin' Love 6: Closer I Get to You 7: More Than Everything 8: Only Heaven Can Wait (For Love) 9: Back Together Again - Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway 10: Making Love 11: Tonight, I Celebrate My Love - Peabo Bryson, Roberta Flack 12: Oasis 13: And So It Goes 14: You Know What It's Like 15: Set the Night to Music - Roberta Flack, Maxi Priest 16: My Foolish Heart 17: Uh-Uh Ooh-Ooh Look Out (Here It Comes) [Steve Hurley's House Mix]

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Relaxing and soothing music
I have always enjoyed Roberta Flack's voice,but somehow I never got around to including two of her biggest hits("Killing Me Softly With His Song" and "Feel Like Makin' Love")in my collection. First,I'd like to take this opportunity to say thank you to Amazon for asking me to express my opinion about this CD. For many years,I've had the song "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and the album that contains it("First Take")as well as her biggest duets with the late Donny Hathaway in my collection and now I have all of these songs on one disc. When I'm feeling in a mellow mood,I've often thought of her songs. There is something truly remarkable about her voice which no other singer possesses. The closest comparison that I can think of is Aretha Franklin,and I'm sure that even the "Queen of Soul" herself must have felt challenged during Ms. Flack's '70s hit-making heyday. Now both stars' moment in the sun has faded and we're left with new performers like Nora Jones. Somehow though,the music of today just doesn't give me the same feeling as that of the past. You know,it's funny:I've often considered myself to be a heavy-metal type of guy,but when I'm in the mood for mellowing out,Ms. Flack's singing really hits the spot. This really is a great overview of her career,but it's not concise. There are several of her lesser known hits missing(which are available on another compilation titled,"The Best of Roberta Flack"),but it's more thorough than any other collection because it contains her most recent recordings(now well over a decade old). While it's unfortunate that her more contemporary recordings aren't of the same caliber as her '70s hits,it is nice to have her biggest recordings all in one place. If you're a fan of her earlier recordings as I am,who knows,you just may be pleasantly surprised by some of her later work. I can certainly appreciate her voice. . . it's just the arrangements that I'm not too crazy about. All in all,this disc is well worth investigating,especially for fans of the Quiet Storm genre.


It doesn't get any better than this.
They did a wonderful job far as putting together this collaboration. You won't find a better selection of Roberta Flack's greatest hits on one disc. I'm really enjoying them.


Soft and passionate
I just love Roberta Flack - her silky smooth voice, and those soft and passionate love songs. Mmmm. This album is indeed some of her best work, and it is a really sensual experience just to listen to it. Every once in a while, we pull out this album, light a fire, and share the couch - watching the flames, listening to the music, and falling in love.

If you want an album of passionate mood music to share with the one you love, then this is definitely the CD to get. We love it, and give it our highest recommendations!

(Review of Softly with These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack).


An insistent infectiousness
They have a certain kind infectiousness that just stays with us. There are certain songs which enter the mind and heart, and then are played over and over within us through our lifetimes. One of those songs for me is Roberta Flack's 'Killing her softly with his song'.
Flack's voice never had for me the kind of distinctiveness of say a Nina Simone, or a Nancy Wilson but it does have a rich and calming pleasantness. I think of her and her best songs, including Jessie I Celebrate My Love For You,The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, as insistent rhythmic songs . And her voice is for me more a pleasant persistence than sensational Streisand or Garland - like emotional rollercoaster.
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