or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
or
Amazon Prime free trial required. Sign up when you check out. Learn more
More Buying Choices
FLASH Add to Cart
£9.98
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Available to Download Now
 
Buy the MP3 album for £7.49
  
 
 
 
Softly With These Songs - The Best of Roberta Flack
 
See larger image 

See all 2 customer images
Share your own customer images

Softly With These Songs - The Best of Roberta Flack [CD]

Roberta Flack | Format: Audio CD
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
Price: £5.16 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.
Only 3 left in stock--order soon (more on the way).
Want guaranteed delivery by Wednesday, May 30? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details
Buy the MP3 album for £7.49 at the Amazon MP3 Downloads store.

Shop on Amazon.co.uk, pay with your currency
Amazon.co.uk Currency Converter
Amazon.co.uk allows you to pay for your items in your local currency. Restrictions apply. Learn More.

Amazon's Roberta Flack Store

Music

Image of album by Roberta Flack

Photos

Image of Roberta Flack
›
Visit Amazon's Roberta Flack Store
for 46 albums, 3 photos, discussions, and more.

Frequently Bought Together

Customers buy this with The Greatest Hits ~ Gladys Knight Audio CD £3.89

Softly With These Songs - The Best of Roberta Flack + The Greatest Hits
Price For Both: £9.05

Show availability and delivery details

  • This item: Softly With These Songs - The Best of Roberta Flack ~ Roberta Flack Audio CD

    In stock.
    Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
    This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

  • The Greatest Hits ~ Gladys Knight Audio CD

    In stock.
    Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk.
    This item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Product details

  • Audio CD (7 Feb 1994)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Rhino
  • ASIN: B000002IVU
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 23,186 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Listen to Samples and Buy MP3s

Songs from this album are available to purchase as MP3s. Click on "Buy MP3" or view the MP3 Album.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (LP Version)Roberta Flack 4:20£0.89
Listen  2. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow(Single/LP Version)Roberta Flack 4:07£0.69
Listen  3. Where Is The Love (LP Version)Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway 2:46£0.89
Listen  4. Killing Me Softly With His Song (LP Version)Roberta Flack 4:46£0.89
Listen  5. Feel Like Makin' Love (LP Version)Roberta Flack 2:53£0.89
Listen  6. The Closer I Get To You (Single/LP Version)Donny Hathaway & Roberta Flack 4:40£0.69
Listen  7. More Than Everything (LP Version)Roberta Flack and Peabo Bryson 4:02£0.69
Listen  8. Only Heaven Can Wait (For Love) (Single/LP Version)Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway 4:06£0.89
Listen  9. Back Together Again (LP Version)Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway 9:48£0.89
Listen10. Making Love (LP/Single Version)Roberta Flack 3:44£0.89
Listen11. Tonight, I Celebrate My Love (LP Version)Roberta Flack with Peabo Bryson 3:31£0.69
Listen12. Oasis (LP Version)Roberta Flack 6:09£0.89
Listen13. And So It Goes (LP Version)Roberta Flack 3:32£0.89
Listen14. You Know What It's Like (LP Version)Roberta Flack 4:45£0.69
Listen15. Set The Night To Music (with Maxi Priest) (LP Version)Roberta Flack with Maxi Priest 5:23£0.69
Listen16. My Foolish HeartRoberta Flack 4:41£0.69
Listen17. Uh-Uh Ooh-Ooh Look Out (Here It Comes) (Steve Hurley House Mix)Roberta Flack 5:13£0.69

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review

As an interpreter of other people's material, Roberta Flack was peerless, capable of investing even sugary trifles like "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" and "Feel Like Makin' Love" with a rare warmth and sensuality. And when given something worthy of her talents--"Killing Me Softly With His Song", for example--she positively shone; her reading of Ewan MacColl's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (the undoubted highlight here) ranks as one of pop's most unforgettable moments, a genuinely transcendent masterpiece. But times change, and nowhere is the decline in Flack's artistic fortunes more evident than in her choice of collaborator: from her work in the 1970s with the brilliant Donny Hathaway (who duets here on "Where Is The Love" and "Back Together Again"), through the 1980s, and the wretched Peabo Bryson ("Tonight, I Celebrate My Love"), right up to the obligatory "House Mix" of "Uh-Uh Ooh-Ooh Look Out (Here It Comes)", a moronic slice of euro-disco. Yet despite the paucity of the material, that voice could still melt a glacier. --Andrew McGuire

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
 
(1)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

Customer Reviews

3 star
0
2 star
0
1 star
0
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This collection covers Roberta Flack's work from the late 1960s to the early 90s, with the emphasis not surprisingly being on her hit singles. Covering such a long period in one CD is however inevitably difficult and a double album or box set would do her work much better justice.

What made Roberta distinctive at the start of the 70s was her slow, jazz and classical influenced interpretations of other people's songs, but in the 80s she rather left this style behind and veered towards the territory of disco and anonymous soul-by-numbers sentimental ballads. This change may perhaps have brought her more commercial success, hence the emphasis on this period. However, in my opinion her work in the 70s was far more distinctive and memorable. Six excellent songs from the early days appear - including the full-length version of The first time ever, and the B-side of that 1972 single, a beautiful version of Will you still love me tomorrow - but numerous other great tracks, some of which were singles, are missed - You've got a friend, Don't make me wait too long, Jesse, Just like a woman, and This time I'll be sweeter to name just a few.

In comparison with the above-named, most of the tracks after 1980 are pretty forgettable, even though some were hits. However, for dedicated fans of Roberta, they are still worth hearing just for her beautiful voice.

Was this review helpful to you?
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Goosebumps...... 17 Jan 2006
By Andy
Format:Audio CD
...Thats what I felt when I first heard 'The first time ever I saw your face'. I told my friend who was scanning the tracks at the time, some years ago to leave it and I have been hooked on her ever since. She has an amazing voice.

I totally agree with 'A music fan from London'. There is very little real talent out there nowadays (JK is brill) that I just listen to the real old school now. Great album!!!

Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
All the essentials 30 Mar 2005
By Peter Durward Harris #1 HALL OF FAME TOP 10 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD
Roberta Flack had two monster American number one hits in 1972 with First time ever I saw your face (a cover of a song that Ewan MacColl wrote about his wife, Peggy Seeger) and Killing me softly with his song (a song inspired by a Don McLean concert). These two classics were somewhat less successful in Britain although Roberta made the UK top ten with Killing me softly.

Roberta also recorded some excellent duets with Donny Hathaway, most notably Where is the love and Back together again, but Donny committed suicide in 1979 so their musical partnership ended unexpectedly. Roberta eventually found another partner, Peabo Bryson, with whom she had a major international hit, Tonight I celebrate my love. It was actually her biggest British hit, peaking at number two.

Given the incredible success that Roberta had in 1972, it is perhaps surprising that she had only patchy success thereafter, but the best moments of her career are captured on this outstanding compilation, which contains all the Roberta Flack tracks that most people will ever want.

Was this review helpful to you?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews

Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions
   
Related forums

What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?

› Explore similar items

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject





i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback


Amazon.co.uk Privacy Statement Amazon.co.uk Delivery Information Amazon.co.uk Returns & Exchanges