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Additional Information about Killing Me Softly by Roberta Flack (CD, Sep-1995, Atlantic)
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(REMASTERED)
Album Features
UPC: 075678279324
Artist: Roberta Flack
Format: CD
Release Year: 1995
Record Label: Atlantic /BMG
Genre: R&B, Soul


Track Listing
1. Killing Me Softly With His Song
2. Jesse
3. No Tears (In the End)
4. I'm the Girl
5. River
6. Conversation Love
7. When You Smile
8. Suzanne

Details
Producer: Joel Dorn
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)
Recording Type: Studio
Recording Mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: n/a

Album Notes
All tracks have been digitally remastered.Personnel: Roberta Flack (vocals, piano); Eric Gale (guitar); Kermit Moore (cello); Grady Tate (drums); Ralph MacDonald (congas, tambourine, percussion).Recording information: Atlantic Recording Studios, New York, NY; Regent Sound STudios, New York, NY.Photographer: Burt Goldblatt.Arrangers: Roberta Flack; Kermit Moore.Female R&B singers were expected to be forceful, big-voiced divas (like Aretha Franklin) or come-hither seductresses (like Diana Ross), but Roberta Flack had her own unique approach. Flack's voice is vast, deep, and stately--where some singers confuse frenzy with passion, she is confident, majestic, and unhurried, intense in a profound yet reserved manner. Flack's gift is to draw attention to the song, not herself. Title song "Killing Me Softly" was her second number-one hit, establishing her as a major modern R&B stylist. She didn't limit herself by genre, either--Flack gave distinctive interpretations of songs by major folk singer/songwriters Janis Ian ("Jesse") and Leonard Cohen ("Suzanne"), and she played up-tempo tunes when it struck her fancy ("I'm The Girl"). KILLING ME SOFTLY perfectly captures Flack's distinct aesthetic at its most fully formed point.