Music CD - Roberta Flack: The Very Best of Roberta Flack

	Music CD: The Very Best of Roberta Flack Artist: Roberta Flack List Price: $18.98 Our Price: $12.09 Your Save: $ 6.89 ( 36% ) Availability: Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
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Tracks: 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
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0081227333225 Label: Atlantic / Wea Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Atlantic / Wea Release Date: 2006-02-07 Studio: Atlantic / Wea
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Sound quality is a problem Comment: 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. Customer Rating: Summary: A Fool For Love Comment: Ah the April Fool (that would be me perhaps) is Falling in love with love just happily playing the fool. Jester hats all around us, the pursuit of love,of happiness, of freedom, and a beautiful voice to tenderly carry you home. I'm really no lovers fool but, well, like to listen to Roberta Flack sing these tunes almost anytime. Softly... (Even when I should be in the car right now out getting the groceries, PAY DAY!) So start with Killing Me Softly....while my mom talks about seeing her with Peabo Bryson her very favorite singer (her Peabo)when I took her to the Greek theater in LA for her birthday, thinking I could take it. It was almost painful to contrast to listening to the brilliance of Roberta singing this tune...Killing me Softly. I had a few drinks and flushed with embarrassment for her. No way could Roberta explain to me going the way that night did...just so far off this mark. Mom happily singing along. Killing Me Softly is the song that defines my relationship to love. You'll just have to accept it. Pop, folk, it just is woman singing the song of my inside. I love to listen but it pulls me inside out even now, naked in the world with nothing to hold onto. Even if I turn on the TV tomorrow and find it on some commercial for a bath product, even if I see her sing it in a horrible sequined dress, bright shiny babyblue. She owns that song anyway. Do you enjoy "Where Is The Love?" the anthem to those suffering a bout of relationship amnesia. I'm afraid I might sing it differently substituting "you have to let me go" with "you owe me babe" ah...April love song. Where is the love? .......i have song history here, I actually dressed up my younger compliant brother and myself once and we sang "Where is the drug?" I'm sorry to admit this now, but it was long enough ago and it was a spoof. Some of these tunes do almost nothing for me, "Only Heaven Can Wait For Love", nothing...... Making Love still capable of making me scrunch down in a car seat and avert my eyes in the presence of anyone even a day older than myself. In an elevator, it's a sure fire way to fill you with a pretty good idea of what it feels to be about thirteen and having to go through the gym class videos on "family life." Imagine sitting next to you at a CONCERT your really old MOM ( 80 )and listening to "Tonight I Celebrate My Love" and she says "finally", she just aglow and this the woman who told you all your life men were rather "dirty" and that called making love "bodily functions" and I'm sort of giving you a little insight into why I am not taking Mom to another concert. It's a neat song but....mostly I like her early tunes and then just wonder where she wandered....maybe to make it. I can imagine so much more, so much more. But understand "The First Time Ever I saw Your Face" is just such a beautiful piece.Who needs to top it? Singing in that slow, controlled, lovely bell. I love that song. This is my answer to those talking about love....there is a cello in this piece that carries the day. Love sung as a celebration of life, a force that lasts, is elegant, real, a vibration of spirit felt through the being Roberta singing to us with the power of what she did then and held up to be heard. And...to conclude I do love April Fools. Do like Feel Like Making Love.... she bounces along in the happy champagne bubbles of those kisses and nuzzles that make life blossom. Spring love. April Foolishness and a lovely tune to set aglow a day that is soon ending in my carting in a ton of groceries....while listening on my new phone to my tunes and Roberta walk me through a lover's park. I feel like..... Customer Rating: Summary: brought a big smile to my lady's face Comment: 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. Customer Rating: Summary: Love Roberta Flak Comment: this is a very good CD... it's easy to listen too. Has a great ballat edge to it, which is nice for background music while entertaining guests. Customer Rating: Summary: She's still got it Comment: Roberta has always been a favorite female singer of mine. When listening to her music, it's just as if she right here with me. I love the smooth tones, mellow voice and the energy she puts into her songs. She is my girl. Thanks Roberta More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: 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.