| The Very Best of Roberta Flack | ||||
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| Released | 2006 | |||
| Genre | R&B, soul | |||
| Label | Rhino | |||
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The Very Best of Roberta Flack is a greatest hits album from Roberta Flack, spanning songs from her entire career, and released on Rhino Records in 2006. In his review of the album, Rob Theakston of Allmusic says it "is easily the best retrospective of her work available to date." [2]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Killing Me Softly with His Song" | Charles Fox; Norman Gimbel | 4:47 |
| 2. | "Where Is the Love" (duet with Donny Hathaway) | Ralph MacDonald; William Salter | 2:43 |
| 3. | "Feel Like Makin' Love" | Gene McDaniels | 2:55 |
| 4. | "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" | Ewan MacColl | 5:22 |
| 5. | "And So It Goes" | Roberta Flack; Maya Angelou; Barry Miles | 3:36 |
| 6. | "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" (duet with Peabo Bryson) | Gerry Goffin; Michael Masser | 3:29 |
| 7. | "The Closer I Get to You" (duet with Donny Hathaway) | James Mtume; Reggie Lucas | 4:38 |
| 8. | "'Til the Morning Comes" | Casey Daniels; Ralph MacDonald; William Salter | 3:44 |
| 9. | "Back Together Again" (duet with Donny Hathaway) | Reggie Lucas; James Mtume | 6:51 |
| 10. | "Making Love" | Burt Bacharach; Bruce Roberts; Carole Bayer Sager | 3:41 |
| 11. | "Only Heaven Can Wait (For Love)" (feat. Donny Hathaway) | Roberta Flack; Eric Mercury | 4:02 |
| 12. | "Set the Night to Music" (duet with Maxi Priest) | Diane Warren | 5:19 |
| 13. | "You Are My Heaven" (duet with Donny Hathaway) | Eric Mercury; Stevie Wonder | 4:10 |
| 14. | "Oasis" | Marcus Miller; Mark Stephens | 6:09 |
| 15. | "Don't Make Me Wait Too Long" (feat. Donny Hathaway) | Stevie Wonder | 7:44 |
| 16. | "And So It Goes (Reprise)" | Roberta Flack; Maya Angelou; Barry Miles | 0:59 |
| 17. | "Trade Winds" (Tom Mouton mix) | Ralph MacDonald; William Salter | 6:50 |
| Total length: | 1:17:08 | ||
Roberta Cleopatra Flack is a retired American singer who topped the Billboard charts with the No. 1 singles "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song", and "Feel Like Makin' Love".
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Killing Me Softly is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Roberta Flack, released on August 1, 1973, by Atlantic Records. She recorded the album with producer Joel Dorn for 18 months. The album was dedicated to Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
Every Man Has a Woman is a tribute album to Yoko Ono for her 50th birthday. It contains covers of her songs from the albums Approximately Infinite Universe (1973), Double Fantasy (1980), Season of Glass (1981), and It's Alright (1982). The album was purportedly one of John Lennon's projects, but he died before he could see its completion. The liner notes for the vinyl LP feature an essay by Ono entitled "A Crystal Ball".
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"Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" is a romantic ballad written by lyricist Gerry Goffin with Michael Masser and recorded by Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack for their 1983 album of duets, Born to Love, issued as the lead single. The track—produced by Masser—became a million-selling international hit.
"The Closer I Get to You" is a romantic ballad performed by singer-songwriter Roberta Flack and soul musician Donny Hathaway. The song was written by James Mtume and Reggie Lucas, two former members of Miles Davis's band, who were members of Flack's band at the time. Produced by Atlantic Records, the song was released on Flack's 1977 album Blue Lights in the Basement, and as a single in 1978. It became a major crossover hit, becoming Flack's biggest commercial hit after her success with her 1973 solo single, "Killing Me Softly with His Song". Originally set as a solo single, Flack's manager, David Franklin, suggested a duet with Hathaway, which resulted in the finished work.
"Feel Like Makin' Love" is a song composed by singer-songwriter and producer Eugene McDaniels, and recorded originally by soul singer-songwriter Roberta Flack. The song has been covered by R&B and jazz artists including D’Angelo, Roy Ayers, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Lou Rawls, Isaac Hays, George Benson, Jeffrey Osborne, Larry Coryell, Johnny Mathis, and Marlena Shaw.
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Released in 1975, Feel Like Makin' Love is Roberta Flack's fifth solo album and sixth overall, when counting her duet album with Donny Hathaway, Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway from 1972. It was the first album produced by Flack herself, under the pseudonym Rubina Flake.
Roberta Flack is a 1978 album release by American vocalist Roberta Flack: her eighth album release - including her 1972 Donny Hathaway collaboration - Roberta Flack was the parent album of the #1 Adult Contemporary hit "If Ever I See You Again" which also ranked in the Top 40.
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Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Roberta Flack. Released via Atlantic in March 1980, the album features posthumous vocals by close friend and collaborator Donny Hathaway, who had died in 1979. At the 23rd Grammy Awards in 1981, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. The award, however, went to Stephanie Mills for "Never Knew Love Like This Before."
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Oasis is Roberta Flack's first solo album of newly recorded songs since 1982's I'm the One. Released 1 November 1988, Oasis features the number-one U.S. singles, "Oasis" (R&B), and "Uh-uh Ooh-ooh Look Out ".
Softly with These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack is the third compilation album by American singer Roberta Flack, released in 1993.
Dollars is the soundtrack album to the 1971 movie of the same name, also known as $, Dollar$, $ (Dollars) or The Heist, written and directed by Richard Brooks and starring Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn. The soundtrack, originally issued on Reprise Records, is composed and produced by Quincy Jones, and features performances by Little Richard, Roberta Flack and Doug Kershaw. Throughout the album, the Don Elliott Voices provide harmony vocal background to otherwise instrumental pieces.
Alone Again (Naturally) is the thirtieth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams, released in September 1972 by Columbia Records and mainly consisting of songs originated by other artists. For its release in the UK, the album was titled The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face), and three of the songs were replaced with the 7-inch single tracks "Who Was It?" and "Marmalade, Molasses & Honey" and a recording that was not released on vinyl in the U.S., "If You're Gonna Break Another Heart".
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