Flack's first collection of holiday recordings includes both standards ("Christmas Song," "We Three Kings of Orient Are," "Little Drummer Boy," "O Come All Ye Faithful"),...
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Released in 1977, Blue Lights in the Basement is Flack's follow-up to 1975's Feel Like Making Love. Of course during the space between the two efforts, r&b and pop had...
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Showcases her biggest ballads, including "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," "Feel Like Making Love" and "Killing Me Softly with His Song," as well as her duets with Donny...
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A great album and the release that made Roberta Flack a major soul and R&B artist in the early '70s. She had a soft, compelling, alluring voice, and was able to convincingly...
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Flack retains her jazz sensibilities, but is firmly a pop singer now utilizing very classy arrangements. Here she very overtly celebrates sexuality, predating what disco...
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Capping off a string of early-'70s hits with this album's title track, Roberta Flack would soon take a sabbatical from the spotlight in 1975. And while she would return to...
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Including what would be the hit that three years later would make her career, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," this effort is very diverse, using mostly a small...
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Roberta Flack's debut album, titled First Take in true underachiever fashion, introduced a singer who'd assimilated the powerful interpretive talents of Nina Simone and...
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The apex of what Flack would accomplish, at a middle ground between her jazzy beginnings and the overly polished product that would follow. She was R&B's answer to the...
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The title track was another smash for Roberta Flack, and the album continued in the same tradition as Chapter Two and A Quiet Fire. She made simmering ballads, declarative...
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Quiet Fire proves to be an apt title, as Flack's MOR-informed jazz and gospel vocals simmer just below the surface on the eight sides here. Forgoing the full-throttled...
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This album is comprised equally of cover tunes, like the unfortunate "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," and originals (even though Flack never wrote any of her own...
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A duet classic, and perhaps the most popular album Roberta Flack made. Their single "Where Is the Love" dominated urban contemporary radio for almost the entire year, while...
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