Softly With These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack

Product Description
1986 collection, deleted domestically, 11 tracks showcases her biggest ballads. Atlantic/WEA Int.

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Average customer rating: Relaxing and soothing music It doesn't get any better than this. Soft and passionate An insistent infectiousness Remaster

Softly with These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack Roberta Flack Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Quiet Storm | R&B | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Very Best of Roberta Flack Love Songs Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway Chapter Two Killing Me Softly ASIN: B000002IVU Release Date: 1993-06-22

Tracks:

1. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
2. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
3. Where Is The Love
4. Killing Me Softly With His Song
5. Feel Like Makin' Love
6. The Closer I Get To You
7. More Than Everything
8. Only Heaven Can Wait (For Love)
9. Back Together Again
10. Making Love
11. Tonight. I Celebrate My Love
12. Oasis
13. And So It Goes
14. You Know What It's Like
15. Set The Night To Music
16. My Foolish Heart
17. Uh-Uh Ooh-Ooh Look Out (Here It Comes)

Album Description

1986 collection, deleted domestically, 11 tracks showcases her biggest ballads. Atlantic/WEA Int.

Album Details

11 Song Collection from the Former Schoolteacher Turned Pop Star's Great Career.

Customer Reviews:

Relaxing and soothing music.......2007-07-04

First,I'd like to take this opportunity to say thank you to Amazon for asking me to express my opinion about this CD.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.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........2007-05-03

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

Soft and passionate.......2006-09-07

Mmmm. I just love Roberta Flack - her silky smooth voice, and those soft and passionate love songs. 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.......2006-06-18

There are certain songs which enter the mind and heart, and then are played over and over within us through our lifetimes. They have a certain kind infectiousness that just stays with us. 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.

Remaster.......2006-03-30

Roberta Flack deserved a far better remastering of her lovely songs than is represented by this inferior product. The equalization is poor overall, but in Killing Me Softly the bass amplification is a crime. I will be more cognizant of Joe Gastwirt's work on future labels.

Average customer rating:

Softly with These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack Roberta Flack Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Quiet Storm | R&B | Styles | Music ASIN: B000TITOS2 Release Date: 2007-08-21

Tracks:

1. First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
2. Will You Love Me Tomorrow
3. Where Is the Love?
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
10. Making Love
11. Tonight I Celebrate My Love
12. Oasis
13. And So It Goes
14. You Know What It's Like
15. Set the Night to Music
16. My Foolish Heart
17. Uh-Uh Ooh-Ooh Look Out (Here It Comes) [Steve Hurley's House Mix]

Average customer rating: Great music, but no need for costly imports in the U.S.

Softly with These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack Roberta Flack Manufacturer: Wea International ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Quiet Storm | R&B | Styles | Music R&B | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000056H6W Release Date: 2001-01-30

Tracks:

1. First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
2. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
3. Where Is The Love; With Danny Hathaway
4. Killing Me Softly With His Songs
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; With Danny Hathaway
10. Making Love
11. Tonight I Celebrate My Love; With Peabo Bryson
12. Oasis
13. And So It Goes
14. You Know What It's Like
15. Set The Night To Music; With Maxi Priest
16. My Foolish Heart
17. Uh-Uh Oooh-Oooh Look Out (Here It Comes); Steve Hurley's Hou

Album Details

Japanese limited reissue collection with a 36page deluxe booklet with lyrics & additional photos.

Customer Reviews:

Great music, but no need for costly imports in the U.S........2001-05-18

Roberta Flack sings some great songs here, but of course you can get the very same CD at a much cheaper price by simply not getting the one labeled import, as this CD is. That said, "Killing Me Softly," her tribute to Don MacLean, is a stirring number. "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is without question one of the great love ballads of all time. These and other classic Roberta Flack tunes make for a solidly good compilation album.

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