But being older we grew up with both,The James Browns ,the Aretha’s and the Supremes and other black women groups wearing lashes and wigs,as well as the Roberta’s,the Minnie’s,Nina’s ,the Dionne’s.We are diverse and always have been but agree these new so called artist who know nothing about artistry,talent,stage presence,a voice period ,I still do not get why they are famous.It is all hype when these new artist would not be able to even be in any stage because they would get booed off,things thrown at them and none of solo artist can sit,play a instrument,stand flat footed and sing.The young folks do not get this whom support these people until they see videos like this if our older artist and you them in the comments flabbergasted at what they see and hear.
@junkrat2269 older songs didn't have a set structure or tempo, which gave them their own flare. But the fugees version is GOLD. Like I said before, Lauryn did with this what Whitney did with I Will Always Love You. Dolly's version was great, but Whitney's version is what the song was begging for
Exactly right my friend, like nearly all the songs in the charts nowadays, just crap that’s pinched lyrics and tunes in bits of them and takes about 30 people 12 months to write the rest of the lyrics too. “ Yeah yeah yeah ! Uha Uha Uha ! Dinger donger, dat biatch need slamming yeah yea yeah ! Uha Uha Uha Boom Boom yaks yaka I got me a fine Gold piece 32cal slut of banger for yo Mumma yeah yeah yeah ! Feel free to use my lyrics any of you budding artists out there. 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
When this song came out was a time when a singer went into a studio they recorded with a full band or orchestra. Today most of the time everything is electronic with drum machines. That's why you don't see musicians in the studio while an artist is recording. Some do but not all. Record companies save money that way today.
U wrote exactly what I was I voicing…I grew up with her n I get goosebumps every time I listen to her and ALL the awesome, great talented singers of her generation ❤❤❤
Was at work with the radio on, softly in the background - she sang & suddenly not a sound was heard in the shop but her voice - when it was over, all of us, all colors, many nationalities, male & female, sat on our stools in stunned silence, hot tears quietly burning our cheeks - was happy to be human, just that once ... thank you ...
@@jonny777bike Agreed. New version seems out of tune and doesn’t have much soul. Just flat. But that’s the risk of doing a remake of an iconic song. Not many can pull it off.
Hola buenas soy Carlos Meneses 👍 saludos desde Puerto Limón el Caribe de Costa Rica central americana 👍, ya no existen esas voces angelicales como la de Roberta flack
One of my favorite emotional songs going back to the 70’s and I was just coming out and would sing it without changing the lyrics. I would sing “his song”
This acapella video of the incomparable Roberta Flack singing "Killing Me Softly" reminded my 73yrs old self why I absolutely fell in love with both her and her gorgeous voice! I hope you are well!
We're close in age, Mike. The music back then was just so perfect. We were so fortunate to be you gvvaand experience this as it happened. Kids now will never experience what we did.
@@gogoma9522 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Sadly no. My dad had all the CDs of the great singers, but I've only ever seen a vinyl player once when I was verrry young (I'm 29) so unfortunately I didn't get to enjoy the songs without hearing remastered versions.
Saw her in 1991 in Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, California. She opened up with this classic number of hers. And she was 6 feet away from me on her piano, and I got to hold her hand for support when she got off the stage. Wow, what a moment it was 💝☺
WOW ! I REMEMBER WHEN THIS SONG WAS BRAND NEW ! AND #1 was in junior high and working at swiss miss (Like Dairy QUEEN ) LISTENING TO THIS SONG ON AMERICAN TOP 40 !! GOOD OLD DAYS BECAUSE THE VIET NAM WAR WAS SOON TO END !! AND EVERYONE WAS SO NICE AND GOOD MANNERS WAS THE NORM !!AND LOTS OF OLD AND NICE RELATIVES !! THERE ALL GONE !! AND THIS , ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL SONG FROM ROBERTA FLACK !!
She closes her eyes and sees the image of the words and phrases she is singing! The emotions of these images wash across her face!!! Do you see it? Oh yah, the perfect pitch of her voice is undeniable!
One of the the most definitive voices ever. Her sound rescues the soul from any despair with a softness and trueness that so believable without any doubt. It's no wonder she paired so perfectly with the great Donny Hathaway. He too took you home in the soul with such passionate heart opening sound and realism. Thank God for these wonderful talents. Amen, amen.
BEAUTIFUL!!!❤❤❤ Her voice is magic, able to invoke so many feelings in one song! Truly a God-given gift, and I'm so thankful she shared it with the world 🥰
Wow! How Fortune smiled on you, to have been right there just steps away from this great singer! I heard this on a flight from Vancouver to Tokyo to Hong Kong. I listened through the whole in-flight recording of other inferior songs (no controls like ffd or rwd, repeat etc), until it came up again and I did this for hours and hours so I could hear it again and again! The flight was over 16 long ours and I was 9 years old. A lifetime has passed yet this angelic voice takes captive of me every time like the first. My heart melts in the beauty of this, the perfect union of music, voice, and words from such beautiful soul. This must be a mere glimpse of heaven, in all of its magnificence! A flawless gift from God, by way of Roberta Flack, his child and our sister! Thank you, Father, and thank you, Ms. Flack, and Thank You too, to each of you who made this possible for the entire world to hear and love! it means so much to me and so many, and I feel too, that it is one on the soundtrack of my life and so much a part of my being, that it will live with me forever, and like love, it will easily survive beyond the end of time itself! Thank you, so very, very dearly, Ms. Roberta, I am sorry to God and to you that the true depth of my gratitude can never be fully expressed. In your honour and the souls of other great composers and musicians I've gone on to study classical voice and music history and theory in university. It was her influence (from hearing her on that flight that onward), without which, I may have never even considered it. Again, I thank you, my true lady and my true God!
I remember seeing Roberta being interviewed in the 80's. She said that she was still taking voice lessons - still perfecting her beautiful voice. That's a true artist!
I created this acapella from a live performance. Her cover was released in 1972. The Fugees released their version in 1996. What’s your favourite?
Her
Flack!
Oba wykonania są bardzo dobre - każdy jak pisałem wcześniej w swoim stylu.
Fugees' cover was good but Roberta's was incomparable!
hers
A time when voices where real. Beautiful. Glad I grew up with this.
no dancers - no sparkles - no shouting - no swearing - no heavy makeup - just a voice. Absolutely beautiful
...thanks for that.
you forgot a few " no's " . no twerking no lesbian kisses. no auto tune. no wardrobe malfunctions. just beautiful singing with style and class.
Now that's music ❤️❤️😍😍
@@greyeye6371 what's wrong with lesbian kisses? You homophobic?
But being older we grew up with both,The James Browns ,the Aretha’s and the Supremes and other black women groups wearing lashes and wigs,as well as the Roberta’s,the Minnie’s,Nina’s ,the Dionne’s.We are diverse and always have been but agree these new so called artist who know nothing about artistry,talent,stage presence,a voice period ,I still do not get why they are famous.It is all hype when these new artist would not be able to even be in any stage because they would get booed off,things thrown at them and none of solo artist can sit,play a instrument,stand flat footed and sing.The young folks do not get this whom support these people until they see videos like this if our older artist and you them in the comments flabbergasted at what they see and hear.
Roberta Flack’s voice is music itself. No other accompaniment needed. What a lovely voice! ❤
*TRUTH!!!* 💕🌹💕🌹💕🌹💕🌹💕🌹
Truer words have never been spoken......I knew in my youth how SPECIAL all this was.
FACTS!
Like a bell!
@@kentburrell3419I
Just beautiful. Makes you want to xry.
Who still here in 2024? Singing along with Mrs. Roberta Flack!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
🙋🏾♀️ME!!!! 😂❤🙏🏾
No one could sing this better, pure feeling.
❤totally agree
Totally agree❤❤
Love her but Lauryn did with this what Whitney did with I will always love you
@@romanarts6645Lauryn hill did it way better can’t lie for example wtf is the tempo in this version
@junkrat2269 older songs didn't have a set structure or tempo, which gave them their own flare. But the fugees version is GOLD. Like I said before, Lauryn did with this what Whitney did with I Will Always Love You. Dolly's version was great, but Whitney's version is what the song was begging for
What an incredible voice!
Amazing and under appreciated.
Something you can really appreciate without the music.
WHAT I TRULY LOVE ABOUT OLD SCHOOL MUSIC; IS THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT IT IS! MUSIC WITH BEAUTIFUL LYRICS!!
Exactly right my friend, like nearly all the songs in the charts nowadays, just crap that’s pinched lyrics and tunes in bits of them and takes about 30 people 12 months to write the rest of the lyrics too.
“ Yeah yeah yeah ! Uha Uha Uha !
Dinger donger, dat biatch need slamming yeah yea yeah !
Uha Uha Uha Boom Boom yaks yaka I got me a fine Gold piece 32cal slut of banger for yo Mumma yeah yeah yeah !
Feel free to use my lyrics any of you budding artists out there.
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
@@PoombaCaka ITS OH SO VERY DISRESPECTFUL DISGUSTING DISCOMFORTING AND DISCONCERTING! IN OTHER WORDS IT NEEDS TO BE DISCONTINUED AND QUICKLY!
Love the music in the 70s …. Wish we could go back there! This world has gone mad!
When this song came out was a time when a singer went into a studio they recorded with a full band or orchestra. Today most of the time everything is electronic with drum machines. That's why you don't see musicians in the studio while an artist is recording. Some do but not all. Record companies save money that way today.
That truly Gods talent ! Long before rappin s $$$ Just a real woman.
Her voice is a clear day, sun on your face just beautiful
Great description and metaphor! Perfect!
Beautifully said, it hurts 😢 she is very sick now.
Did Roberta write the lyrics, too?
@@adamaprimo9023 no she was 2nd or 3rd to record, but the most famous. 😊
Beautifully said ❤
Oh she takes me back 55 years when I had my whole life ahead of me, not.
Behind. Most beautiful heart wrenching song.
Beyond fabulous a masterpiece 40 something years later brings tears to my eyes still
The fact it's 50 years brings a tear to my eyes.... but beautiful.
Today, it's been 51 years ago.
no suto tune hrre
Goosebumps!!! Beautiful woman, voice and song!
That is a voice. So softly and gently..
Me tooooo with goosebumps! For real!
Suze Fuller-Taylor. I think you are a fan of Roberta Flack. She is an amazing artist. Her voice is awesome.
U wrote exactly what I was I voicing…I grew up with her n I get goosebumps every time I listen to her and ALL the awesome, great talented singers of her generation ❤❤❤
How right u are..💜
Was at work with the radio on, softly in the background - she sang & suddenly not a sound was heard in the shop but her voice - when it was over, all of us, all colors, many nationalities, male & female, sat on our stools in stunned silence, hot tears quietly burning our cheeks - was happy to be human, just that once ... thank you ...
Oh my...
Thanks for taking me there.
Yes thanks for that beautiful picture.
I felt that ❤
Beautiful recollection. Thankyou. I was there in spirit.
I visualized your description! Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.❤️
Her voice is so beautiful it's haunting. She's one of the best R&B singers of ALL TIME.
She sure is!
that voice is a national treasure
Makes me miss the good old days.😢😢😢😢
A true LEGEND!!! Roberta, you don't get the recognition you deserve...#ICON🎶👌🏾👍🏾🙏🏾❤️
I can listen to this version I can not listen to The Fugees version of it.
@@jonny777bike Agreed. New version seems out of tune and doesn’t have much soul. Just flat. But that’s the risk of doing a remake of an iconic song. Not many can pull it off.
@@jonny777bike I get what you mean but I like the original
Not her song to begin with. The original artist got no recognition for writing it for decades, even from Flack.
Classic song from a very classy and soulful singer
Roberta Flack’s an absolute QUEEN..
This song played on the radio so often it was the backdrop to my childhood.
Raven Blue - yes 🤗
This so THIS...⬆️⬆️⬆️
@@tfdzona7363 asome no one can do this like her!!!
Such a magnificently angelic voice...Listened to it no less than 30 times my first run...
This was her magic song...
That key change vocal chord at the end...
Magic...
A great song . nostalgic with memories 💖
Its a 6 chord.
First Take🎉🎉🎉🎉
What an elegant cadence! What a magnificent way of singing! What a “softly” invitation to imagination!
Hola buenas soy Carlos Meneses 👍 saludos desde Puerto Limón el Caribe de Costa Rica central americana 👍, ya no existen esas voces angelicales como la de Roberta flack
It is still to this day a very emotional ballad. I can not say I'm tired of this song anymore that I can say I'm tired of breathing.
CHRISTINE VERY WELL SAID !!!
One of my favorite emotional songs going back to the 70’s and I was just coming out and would sing it without changing the lyrics. I would sing “his song”
Her voice is just like butter. So smooth.
This acapella video of the incomparable Roberta Flack singing "Killing Me Softly" reminded my 73yrs old self why I absolutely fell in love with both her and her gorgeous voice! I hope you are well!
We're close in age, Mike. The music back then was just so perfect. We were so fortunate to be you gvvaand experience this as it happened. Kids now will never experience what we did.
i hope she is kept in comfort till the end. she is loved.
that voice that voice that voice !
Roberta Flack, this the ultimate version.
When you can sing a capella.... says all. Gifted. Beautiful.
Goosebumps here too....beautiful..❣
So soothing.
Sosoothing.
Sonhar não tem preço.
52 years ago.
We were traveling to California listeni g to this song all the way. Love this song.
Exellent voice
So pure.
Beautiful ❤️ I was obsessed with Roberta Flack once upon a time. I'm going to find my old CDs and reminisce
CDs? Not vinal?🤣🤣🤣
I had this on a 45...
There were a few songs that formed the anthem of my youth. This one was way up there from the first time.
@@gogoma9522 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Sadly no. My dad had all the CDs of the great singers, but I've only ever seen a vinyl player once when I was verrry young (I'm 29) so unfortunately I didn't get to enjoy the songs without hearing remastered versions.
Saw her in 1991 in Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, California. She opened up with this classic number of hers. And she was 6 feet away from me on her piano, and I got to hold her hand for support when she got off the stage. Wow, what a moment it was 💝☺
What a beautiful voice. One of my favorite songs. ❤❤
Oh Wow lucky you ❤️
WOW ! I REMEMBER WHEN THIS SONG WAS BRAND NEW ! AND #1 was in junior high and working at swiss miss (Like Dairy QUEEN ) LISTENING TO THIS SONG ON AMERICAN TOP 40 !! GOOD OLD DAYS BECAUSE THE VIET NAM WAR WAS SOON TO END !! AND EVERYONE WAS SO NICE AND GOOD MANNERS WAS THE NORM !!AND LOTS OF OLD AND NICE RELATIVES !! THERE ALL GONE !! AND THIS , ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL SONG FROM ROBERTA FLACK !!
I always loved the simplicity of her voice , she never overdo it with a bunch of unnecessary runs ... Absolutely beautiful voice
Absolute Classic 🤗❤
She closes her eyes and sees the image of the words and phrases she is singing! The emotions of these images wash across her face!!! Do you see it? Oh yah, the perfect pitch of her voice is undeniable!
Damn, that voice went right through me. 😭👏👏👏❤️🌹
Do you know if she was signing about an actual person? Who?
Talent like that is a gift to humanity. Beautiful
Melodically Magnificently Perfect With Its Song.........
I LOVE THIS SONG❤!!!❤
Beautifully and hauntingly stunning. Never heard such vocal pureness and absolute perfect pitch, so effortless.
One of the most unique voices that truly captures the definitive of ones soul reaching out almost rescuing you from any dis
Her voice has always been one of favorites since I was a little girl.
Oh How beautiful!!! Thanks a lot for sharing!!!
So perfectly beautiful in all ways
WOW! Nothing is like the original. True talent 👏
What a moment in time!
What a wonderful singer!
What a human being!
What a age!
Her voice was magic. This and “The Closer I Get To You” were and still are classics
She was great
Love this song!
Exquisite without the orchestration. Look at Roberta pouring Her Heart & Soul out into this Song- Masterpiece ♥️♥️♥️🏆🏆💐💐🌹🌹🌹🙌🏾🙌🙌🏾🙌🥰🎤🎼🎶🎵
You said it right!!
She sang with her❤️
and Soul!!! and Tota
lly delivered the "Me
ssage!!"...👩🏽🦱🎙️🎶💌💞👏🏾👏🏾
One of the the most definitive voices ever. Her sound rescues the soul from any despair with a softness and trueness that so believable without any doubt. It's no wonder she paired so perfectly with the great Donny Hathaway. He too took you home in the soul with such passionate heart opening sound and realism. Thank God for these wonderful talents. Amen, amen.
You're welcome 2
BEAUTIFUL VOICE! ❤❤❤❤❤
La voz de Roberta tan.clara y musical, me sigue emocionando como décadas atrás. 😊😊😊😊😊
BEAUTIFUL!!!❤❤❤ Her voice is magic, able to invoke so many feelings in one song! Truly a God-given gift, and I'm so thankful she shared it with the world 🥰
Brings back so many great memories. 1968-78 great music, Classic, Class , She was a force to be reckoned with in her day !
I love her voice it’s so soothing!!!❤️🔥👏🏽💜😘
What a voice! Unforgettable! Soothing!
Roberta Flack, "The Spirit Of '72..."Killin' It!.......
it was beautiful to my ears many years ago, and to my much older ears today...stunning
I was there. Backstage; this her first concert. Backup to Leon Russel. Florida
Amazing!!!!
Wow! How Fortune smiled on you, to have been right there just steps away from this great singer! I heard this on a flight from Vancouver to Tokyo to Hong Kong. I listened through the whole in-flight recording of other inferior songs (no controls like ffd or rwd, repeat etc), until it came up again and I did this for hours and hours so I could hear it again and again! The flight was over 16 long ours and I was 9 years old. A lifetime has passed yet this angelic voice takes captive of me every time like the first. My heart melts in the beauty of this, the perfect union of music, voice, and words from such beautiful soul. This must be a mere glimpse of heaven, in all of its magnificence! A flawless gift from God, by way of Roberta Flack, his child and our sister! Thank you, Father, and thank you, Ms. Flack, and Thank You too, to each of you who made this possible for the entire world to hear and love! it means so much to me and so many, and I feel too, that it is one on the soundtrack of my life and so much a part of my being, that it will live with me forever, and like love, it will easily survive beyond the end of time itself! Thank you, so very, very dearly, Ms. Roberta, I am sorry to God and to you that the true depth of my gratitude can never be fully expressed. In your honour and the souls of other great composers and musicians I've gone on to study classical voice and music history and theory in university. It was her influence (from hearing her on that flight that onward), without which, I may have never even considered it. Again, I thank you, my true lady and my true God!
I have always loved this song, a great childhood memory . She's got a great voice!!!
This is how music moves people.
Absolutely bloody marvellous.
An era we'll never see again. Poetically beautifully sung!🙏
I still feeling chill bumps! This woman OMG! Incredible vocals!
What a gorgeous voice she has. This version is just so beautiful.
Her voice gave me a chill. So emotional and beautiful.
Timeless in so many ways. Another Beautiful Moment in Creation.🥀🌹🥀
She and this song are one. There are no words to describe how much the lyrics touch your soul. Absolutely beautiful.
J'adore nostalgie de vielles chansons qu'on aimerait réentendre dans les stations de radios encore aujourd'hui serait bien ❤️🇨🇦
Moi aussi
It would be good. Maybe the kids today could find some contentment, stop whining about problems they never had.
Legend has it that classical/jazz guitarist Earl Klug who was about 19 years old and playing on this song was the muse/ inspiration for it.
ノスタルジーに浸る。
心が、どこか遠くに連れていかれる様な懐かしい曲です。
I remember seeing Roberta being interviewed in the 80's. She said that she was still taking voice lessons - still perfecting her beautiful voice. That's a true artist!
It's not just a voice, seeing his face feeling the transported words and the sweetness of the feelings that have such an effect on you inside...😮
Absolutamente extraordinaria la interpretación a capella de Roberta Flack. Melodía de mis favoritas.
This song was #1 the week I was born. What great lyrics and voice! Great talent here.
Most Beautiful voice
Goosebumps and memories flooding back! So beautiful!
Acapella.. into the ❤
That song would not ever be the same anywhere else by anyone else. It's pathognemonically hers. So perfect!
I loved this song as soon as I heard it!!!
You have a beautiful voice....
Beautiful. Love this song. How many people said “One time”?
You already know 🥰😊
One More Time!!!
I love this son without instruments.
Yep haha!
She had the gift, she presented it to us like a gift from above..
As we age , the music in our time period was beautiful. The singing is crystal clear and very nostalgic. Roberta has one of those beautiful voices.
Her voice is so clear, stunning and powerful.
What a truly iconic star, and a gem of a hit, an absolute classic.
Great singer , song & era. Wish you could have been there Kid!❤
I WAS ,, AND IT WAS MAGIC ! ESPECIALLY AFTER THE WAR ENDED !! SUCH A FUN TIME !!
Is this what heaven sounds like? This is what heaven sounds like, right? Absolutely beautiful. 💚
My fav.
AWESOME song...
BEAUTYFUL songtress
넘나 좋아한 노래입니다~
라이브라 그런지 감동 100배이네요~♡
Oh How I Love Hearing Roberta Sing, Just About Anything 😅
Clear as a bell...😌
Magical ❤
One of my favs. Goosebumps with or without music. Her voice is so beautiful and crisp!
Beautiful song sung by the beautiful artist, Roberta Flack❤❤❤❤❤❤!!!!!!!!!!
Loved this song for a long time. It continues... 💛
Roberta, Michael or Lauryn, they all slayed the hell out of this song. A beautiful is a beautiful song.
Beautiful ❤
WOW! Voice of an angel. What a legendary singer.
So good to see her again. What an exceptionally sweet and powerful voice.
Goosebumps!, Roberta rules