RIP Roberta Flack

[Vandal]

Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer of 'Killing Me Softly with His Song,' dies at 88

Grammy award-winning singer Roberta Flack, who crooned hits like “Killing Me Softly with His Song” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” has died, a representative confirmed to NBC News.

She was 88.

In November 2022, a representative announced that Flack had ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and could no longer sing.
The progressive disease “has made it impossible to sing and not easy to speak,” Flack’s manager Suzanne Koga said in a news release.
Flack was born February 10, 1937, in North Carolina. The daughter of a church organist, Flack began playing classical piano at a young age.
At the age of 15, her talents earned her a scholarship to Howard University in Washington, D.C.

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop ... -rcna42485

[BackInTex]

I think 1972 was the first year I ever sat by the radio when Kasey Kasem counted down the top 100 songs of the year (was it New Year's Eve or New YEar's Day?) and wrote down every song, in order. I remember being pissed off, because I missed him introducing one song, being confident that I would recognize any song on the Top 100, and came back to the radio in the middle of a song I'd never heard before -- a long-ass, rambling song about a cab driver and the woman he picks up one day. If I've got the right year, the number one song that year was The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face -- Roberta Flack.

I thought about responding to MrK's above quote during LS 2/6/25 but never did. I will now.

I remember that Top 40 show. My dad had taken my brother and I camping somewhere in the piney woods near Bastrop, TX. It was cold. I remember when Casey got to #1, I had never heard the song (that I remembered) before. I wondered how in the world the #1 song was a song I never heard. I listened to top-40 radio all the time. I didn't really care for the song then, so maybe I just tuned it out. I like the song now, because it reminds me of that trip. It was special for several reasons.

[wbtravis007]

I think 1972 was the first year I ever sat by the radio when Kasey Kasem counted down the top 100 songs of the year (was it New Year's Eve or New YEar's Day?) and wrote down every song, in order. I remember being pissed off, because I missed him introducing one song, being confident that I would recognize any song on the Top 100, and came back to the radio in the middle of a song I'd never heard before -- a long-ass, rambling song about a cab driver and the woman he picks up one day. If I've got the right year, the number one song that year was The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face -- Roberta Flack.

I thought about responding to MrK's above quote during LS 2/6/25 but never did. I will now.

I remember that Top 40 show. My dad had taken my brother and I camping somewhere in the piney woods near Bastrop, TX. It was cold. I remember when Casey got to #1, I had never heard the song (that I remembered) before. I wondered how in the world the #1 song was a song I never heard. I listened to top-40 radio all the time. I didn't really care for the song then, so maybe I just tuned it out. I like the song now, because it reminds me of that trip. It was special for several reasons.

I wonder whether I’m the only one here who would be interested in hearing about the several reasons.

[BackInTex]

I wonder whether I’m the only one here who would be interested in hearing about the several reasons.

Boy, just the interest you showed made me think about it. Now it’s an even more important memory. Not because of you but what I thought about because of your comment.