The Roberta Flack Thread

Wish I could post Steve Hurley's House Remix of "Uh-uh Ooh-ooh Look Out (Here It Comes)" (it's referenced upthread) because it pops up in my head every now and then and it came up in a DJ mix I was listening to last week, but it seems to have been erased from YouTube. Hurley's sort-of-dub House of Trix Mix is all there's left.

Roberta Flack to Host Live Charity Listening Party
On Rhino's YouTube Channel
To Benefit Feed The Children's COVID-19 Relief Efforts

Flack's First Take Celebrates 50 Years With Deluxe Reissue Out This Summer
Featuring 12 Recordings Never Heard Before

Broadcast Host And Singer Santita Jackson to Introduce the Set List
For Streaming Event on May 16 at 3:00pm Eastern

details etc. here:
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1103923394056&ca=db998055-a3dd-4a2d-87f3-061a42690e75

1970 show mentioned a few posts ago by me is Flack on Boboquivari so about 1/2 hour of her around teh time of Chapter two. Her on piano with a rhythm section.
Seems quite good. Hadn't realised there was more of a series than the Tim Buckley set . Hadn't realised it was a series.
So would like to know what else is in it if the rest is as good as the 2 I've seen.
Looks like it must be being repeated on some channel since there is on screen text happening , recommendations to listen to shows. thankfully didn't seem to be much in the way of clips across the bottom of the screen

THis was the one clip I could see on youtube from it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlZihXbU91Q

Almost wholly because of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"--one of '70s greatest singles, I'd say, though it actually came out in '69--there's an American Masters on her airing next week.

Meant to attach this link:

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/masters/roberta-flack/#

let's not forget the supposedly-don-mclean-inspired "killing me softly."

speaking of which, there's a new lori leiberman record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_r5V1oknPI

lieberman rather

American Masters special on her is on PBS now (here in DC area and maybe elsewhere)

I PVR'd it to watch later.

It was superb.

86 today!

She has ALS :(

Sorry to hear that.

I fluffed up that post of mine above--what I meant to say was that my interest in the American Masters episode was almost wholly because of "The First Time." Obviously, Flack had many other hits, including two other #1s. If anything, "Killing Me Softly" has become her signature song--it's the one that made a couple of the Rolling Stone Top 500s. I markedly prefer "The First Time," and "The Closer I Get to You" would be next.