OT: RIP Roberta Flack

[DJ Spanky]

Passed away at 88.

Roberta Flack, singer who had global hits with Killing Me Softly and The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

I remember this from when I was a very little kid:

 

[MadRU]

Damn, grew up listening to her songs. RIP

 

[RULoyal]

Feeling old today.

 

[MADHAT1]

Roberta Flack also was a teacher that taught at Banneker, Browne, and Rabaut Junior High Schools in Washington DC before becoming a star
RIP Roberta Flack , your music stood out from the crowd and that's what made you a star.

 

[RUhasarrived]

The first time that I heard "Face",I had thought that the DJ had the turntable on the wrong speed.
I prefer her other songs.

 

[Source]

"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. Thanks Roberta Flack, just that alone, if nothing else, makes me sad at your passing.

The song was used in the early Clint Eastwood movie "Play Misty for Me."

 

[RUGuitarMan]

RIP to a lovely singer.

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

Ahhh... when the top singers actually knew how to sing. RIP.

 

[Good-Knight]

"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. Thanks Roberta Flack, just that alone, if nothing else, makes me sad at your passing.

I could go on an on about how you really need to know how to play piano to sing that song and it is not over done on any note. It is studied perfection. It contains pain and joy. It is beautiful gift from Roberta that I will always enjoy. Played it on Alexa today with my wife in the kitchen. My wife cried of course. It's one of the songs she plays on the piano but not today. It's not a hard song to play on the keys. It's a hard song to sing...to sing well.

Donny Hathaway wrote many songs with Roberta. He jumped out of the 15th floor of the Essex House in 1978. That's before my time, but people who know say he was the sensitive genius of our age. They connected at Howard U.

 

[coloradoknight]

Great mural of her down the road from me in her birthplace of black mountain nc

 

[RU848789]

What a voice. My wife's father dated Roberta Flack for a couple of months in the mid-70s (after her parents were divorced). He was a huge jazz fan (cofounder of the NJ Jazz Institute in Newark) and hung out in jazz circles, as did RF.

 

[bac2therac]

RIP to a real talent. This was my fave as a kid. Reminded me of drives to the flower/candle store with my mother in the spring

 

[rufeelinit]

beautiful song.

 

[mdk01]

I think it's behind a paywall, but if you can access it or have the paper the WSJ has an excellent obit in today's edition.

 

[MADHAT1]

I think it's behind a paywall, but if you can access it or have the paper the WSJ has an excellent obit in today's edition.

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/music/roberta-flack-who-won-back-to-back-grammys-for-record-of-the-year-dies-at-88-fa6903aa?mod=googlenewsfeed&st=BEUBiq

 

[hoquat63]

She was one of the artists that performed at the Rutgers Jazz Festival held at the stadium in about 1968 or 1969. Was too cheap to get tickets but could hear the music fine outside the stadium

 

[Source]

She was one of the artists that performed at the Rutgers Jazz Festival held at the stadium in about 1968 or 1969. Was too cheap to get tickets but could hear the music fine outside the stadium

It was July 27, 1969. Here was that great line-up back then:

Rutgers Stadium, Piscataway, NJ, USA Concert Setlists | setlist.fm

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[RU89]

Passed away at 88.

Roberta Flack, singer who had global hits with Killing Me Softly and The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

I remember this from when I was a very little kid:

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Hauntingly beautiful song and voice