| Product Summary | | Label: RHINO / WEA | | UPC: 00081227333225 | | Release Date: 2/7/2006 | | Buy.com Sku: 202141099 | | Item#: M2T3JE | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Killing Me Softly With His Song ~ Roberta Flack |  | | 2. Where Is the Love - (with Donny Hathaway) ~ Roberta Flack | | | 3. Feel Like Makin' Love ~ Roberta Flack | | | 4. First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, The ~ Roberta Flack | | | 5. And So It Goes ~ Roberta Flack | | | 6. Tonight, I Celebrate My Love - (with Peabo Bryson) ~ Roberta Flack | | | 7. Closer I Get to You, The - (with Donny Hathaway) ~ Roberta Flack | | | 8. 'Til The Morning Comes ~ Roberta Flack | | | 9. Back Together Again - (with Donny Hathaway) ~ Roberta Flack | | | 10. making Love ~ Roberta Flack | | | 11. Only Heaven Can Wait (For Love) ~ Roberta Flack | | | 12. Set the Night to Music - (with Maxi Priest) ~ Roberta Flack | | | 13. You Are My Heaven - (with Donny Hathaway) ~ Roberta Flack | | | 14. Oasis ~ Roberta Flack | | | 15. Don't Make Me Wait Too Long - (with Donny Hathaway) ~ Roberta Flack | | | 16. And So It Goes (Reprise) ~ Roberta Flack | | | 17. Trade Winds ~ Roberta Flack | |
| An elegant and legendary vocal superstar, Roberta Flack wraps an unmistakable delivery around a timeless R&B sound laced with beautiful hints of jazz, pop, and soul. Spanning 1969-1991, this single-disc set includes 17 hits and favorites, including "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," "Killing Me Softly With His Song," and "Feel Like Making Love."
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Roberta Flack (vocals, piano, keyboards); Roberta Flack (electric piano); Maxi Priest, Peabo Bryson (vocals); Lee Ritenour , Michael Landau, Paul Jackson, Jr. (guitar); Earl Klugh (acoustic guitar); Gene Orloff, Emanuel Green (violin); Theodore Israel, Alfred Brown , Selwart Clarke (viola); Charles McCracken, George Ricci (cello); Ray Chew (strings, horns); David Sanborn (alto saxophone); Richard Tee (piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Randy Kerber (piano, synthesizer); Robbie Kondor (keyboards, programming); Marcus Miller (keyboards, background vocals); Larry E. Williams, Craig Huntley, Barry Miles, Paul Griffin (synthesizer); Chuck Rainey, Ron Carter (bass guitar); Jim Keltner, John "4 Daddman" Robinson, Buddy Williams , Carlos Vega (drums); Crusher Bennett, Mike Fisher , Paulinho Da Costa, Steve Thornton (percussion); Sammy Merendino (drum programming); Brenda White-King, Dennis Collins, Diva Gray, Gabrielle Goodman, Zack Saunders, Eleanore Mills, Jerry Barnes, Kacey Cisyk, Katreese Barnes, Lani Groves, Vivian Cherry (background vocals); Donny Hathaway (vocals, keyboards); Eric Gale, Hugh McCracken, John Pizzarelli (guitar); Burt Bacharach (synthesizer); Jack Jennings (vibraphone); Ray Lucas, Steve Gadd , Bernard "Pretty" Purdie (drums); Ralph MacDonald (percussion). | | Audio Remasterer: Rick Essig. | | Liner Note Authors: Roberta Flack; David Nathan. | | Recording information: Atlantic Recording Studios, New York, NY; Bell Sound Studio, New York, NY; Conway Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Hit Factory, New York, NY; Master Sound Astoria Studios, Astoria, NY; Paul Serano Studios, Chicago, IL; Right Track Studios, New York, NY; Rosebud Recording Studio, New York, NY; Skyline Studios, New York, NY; Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA; Westlake Audio, Hollywood, CA. | | Photographers: David Redfern; Jack Robinson. | | Arrangers: Roberta Flack; Rubina Flake; Jerry Hey; Barry Miles; Gwen Guthrie; Leon Pendarvis; Luther Vandross; Robbie Kondor. | | It's quite easy to place Roberta Flack near the top of the pile of singer/songwriters who changed the course of pop music, not only soul music, during the '70s. She was fortunate enough to deliver the velvet-smooth ballad "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" to an unsuspecting public, and followed it up with an onslaught of ballads that would keep her on the charts for the remainder of the decade. From start to finish, this greatest-hits compilation is the most comprehensive look at her finest moments available on record. From her legendary string of duets with Donny Hathaway to her duets with Peabo Bryson and Maxi Priest that kept her at the top of the charts through the '80s, they're all here. But it's not just the duets that made Flack such an outstanding performer, as her solo works also rate high in quality. Free of the filler and goofy remixes that can make other greatest-hits collections seem diluted, this is easily the best retrospective of her work available to date. ~ Rob Theakston |
Producer: Joel Dorn; Roberta Flack; Arif Mardin; Ralph MacDonald; Rubina Flake; Jerry Hey; Michael Masser; Barry Miles; Joe Ferla; Eugene McDaniels; Burt Bacharach; Eric Mercury; Marcus Miller; William Salter; Carole Bayer-Sager; Joel Dorn; Arif Mardin; Rubina Flak |
Engineer: Gene Paul; Jimmy Douglass; Daren Klein; Ed Rak; Eric Calvi; Ollie Cotton; Scott Mabuchi; Brad Lee; Richard McKernan; Howie Lindeman; Michael O'Reilly; Richard L. Alderson; William Arit; Bruce Miller; Bruce Swedien; Carla Bandini; Gene Paul; Jimmy Douglass |
| | Artist Overview | | A former nightclub singer, Roberta Flack used her unflappable vocal technique to perfect a nuanced melange of soul, jazz, gospel, and folk music. Her sophisticated approach would reach its commercial and artistic zenith with the 1973 chart-topper "Killing Me Softly With His Song." Although the decades that followed weren't quite as kind to Flack, her work in the '70s remains some of the finest of the era and a huge inspiration to an entire generation of female R&B singers. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 02/07/2006 | | Original Release Date : 2006 | | Catalog ID : 73332 | | Label : Rhino Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00081227333225 |
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| | Bio | | | Roberta Flack Born in Asheville, North Carolina, and raised in Arlington,Virginia, Roberta Flack. discovered her earliest musical influences from the church. The local AME Zion Church gave everyone the opportunity to get out of the house, but, as Roberta recalls, the music "didn't have the raunchy, wide-open, free, spontaneous, full-of-life thing that you could hear at the Baptist Church down the street." Whenever she could, she'd sneak over there to hear such gospel luminaries as Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers. At home, Roberta's father repaired an old upright piano, and she began to pick out tunes while sitting on her mother's lap. When she turned nine, she began taking piano lessons, and also started to listen to a wide range of popular music, R&B, jazz, blues, and pop. While she was thrilling audiences oversees in South Africa, Roberta's accomplishments were being celebrated in America, during the historical five-hour VH-1 program, The 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll. She ranked highly, sharing the company of Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, Madonna, Alanis Morissette and several other trail-blazing female artists.
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