Reelin’ in the Years 244: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. RIP Roberta Flack
Posted in 1970s, Events dear boy. Events, Reelin' In The Years at 12:00 on 28 February 2025
Singer Roberta Flack died earlier this week. Her signature style was reserve, not flamboyance or over-indulgence, and her records were the better for it.
Not her biggest UK hit (that would be Killing Me Softly With His Song) but her first. An all-but perfect rendering of a song Kirsty’s dad Ewan McColl wrote for Peggy Seeger.
Roberta Flack: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Roberta Cleopatra Flack: 10/2/1937 – 24/2/2025. So it goes.
Tags: Ewam McColl, Killing Me Softly With His Song, Kirsty McColl, Peggy Seeger, Reelin' In The Years, Roberta Flack, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
