Posted on 02/24/2025 9:43:57 AM PST by Red Badger
Though she didn’t write it, it was written about Don McClean (Bye, Bye Miss American Pie) by Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel and Lori Lieberman............
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Me_Softly_with_His_Song
I read once she wrote it after seeing Elton John in concert.
But I knew she didn’t write it.
So do I. Right now, I’m on Spotify listening to her songs.
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“The First Time Ever I saw Your Face” is currently playing. Love that one too.
RIP Roberta Flack.
She had some great songs with Donny. Always loved his voice...too bad he was nuts.
Always loved his voice...too bad he was nuts.
He sang the theme song to “Maude”.
Our days are fastly counting down.
That is my favorite of theirs too. She outlived Donny by 4+ decades
Quite true. Everything we knew that touched our lives is slowly fading away, the stars blinking out one by one. One day, we will follow them.
I can’t add anything else to all of the praise posted here. Thanks Roberta Flack for the memories, and RIP.
I always loved her song “Ballad of the Sad Young Men”.
Give a listen...
https://youtu.be/JksP1Kc6fjo?si=rZtHTZHYKUQeWLEx
RIP
That was the most shocking part about this.
I'm old enough to remember her when she was still young.
Such a romantic song. Lovely lady. God bless her friends and loved ones dealing with this loss. Hope she was a true believer and is now resting in glory.
Seemed like a good person..wonderful music..she did well with her life...sad that she got a horrible disease. RIP.
Poetry...well done.
I knew her younger lover in st Ann’s Jamaica and Manhattan. In the 80s
A white Jamaican girl
Not always lesbian like flack was
A lifetime Agom
Sad, her big debut was in a Clint Eastwood movie with Jessica Walter as a romantic interest stalker. “Play Misty for me.”
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