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Singer Roberta Flack Dies at 88

Should WBGO do Roberta Flack with Three #1 songs called:

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Killing Me Softly with His Song
Feel Like Makin' Love

and others of her songs very importantly.
 
AlNYC said:
Should WBGO do Roberta Flack with Three #1 songs called:

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Killing Me Softly with His Song
Feel Like Makin' Love

and others of her songs very importantly.
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Can you imagine any station playing The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face these days? All over the radio in the early 1970s, but I haven’t heard it on the air in eons.

The only time I hear Killing Me Softly is the awful Fugees cover version, which sends me to the preset buttons.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Can you imagine any station playing The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face these days? All over the radio in the early 1970s, but I haven’t heard it on the air in eons.

The only time I hear Killing Me Softly is the awful Fugees cover version, which sends me to the preset buttons.
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I have to agree with you on that one.
 
"When Clint Eastwood first heard “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” he found himself “driving off the side of the freeway,” according to Roberta Flack. Enamored with the song, the director used it in a pivotal moment in his film “Play Misty for Me,” and it subsequently gained new fame".
 
"The First Time Ever......." was -and IS -- a GREAT song.....
BUT.....it used to send automation systems into "silence sense" with those soft passages ---
Unless you were quick on the draw and disabled SS before it played....!!;)
A really mellow voice...She will be missed....
RIP, Roberta....
 
Oldie919 said:
"The First Time Ever......." was -and IS -- a GREAT song.....
BUT.....it used to send automation systems into "silence sense" with those soft passages ---
Unless you were quick on the draw and disabled SS before it played....!!;)
A really mellow voice...She will be missed....
RIP, Roberta....
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Back in the 1970s those low passages would also cause the hiss of the noise floor to noticeably increase on FM stations using heavier processing, but never to an annoying degree. Amazing to remember the song also got plenty of airplay on AM.

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face is an incredible example of musical minimalism. It’s as if someone took a Brian Eno composition and added lyrics…ambient music with a vocal accompaniment.
 
My Charlotte Observer called her the singer of "Killing me Softly". I suppose the temptation is there to make a statement about what caused her death using hose words.
 
She was a great singer but I hated First Time. She did a fantastic job with the song but it just wasn't my type of music. However, let's go back a little, shall we? Roberta and Donny Hathaway were sensational on Where Is The Love. The death of Donny is a mystery and one of the possibilities spoken of back then was he was very much enamored by her and she wouldn't have anything to do with him because she was married. He was so broken by that, he committed suicide by jumping from that hotel window.
 
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