Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly

Analogue Productions (Atlantic 75 Series)

Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Atlantic Records!

Platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated album featuring the No. 1 smash title track!

180-gram 45 RPM double LP pressed at Quality Record Pressings

Tip-on old style gatefold double pocket jacket by Stoughton Printing

Female R&B singers were expected to be forceful, big-voiced divas (like Aretha Franklin) or come-hither seductresses (like Diana Ross), but, as AllMusic says, 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.

The title song of this 1973 masterful eight track album, "Killing Me Softly," was her second No. 1 hit, establishing her as a major modern R&B stylist.

Killing Me Softly reached No. 3 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape and No. 2 on the Soul LPs chart. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified the album gold on August 27, 1973, and double platinum on January 30, 2006, denoting shipments of 2 million copies in the United States. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, which it lost to Stevie Wonder's 1973 album Innervisions. The album's title track was released as a single and topped the Billboard Hot 100. The title track won the 1974 Grammy Award for Record of the Year.

This deluxe 180-gram 45 RPM 2LP Analogue Productions (Atlantic Series) reissue of Killing Me Softly is a true audiophile gem and a worthy addition to your music collection.

Side 1

1. Killing Me Softly With His Song

2. Jesse

Side 2

1. No Tears (In The End)

2. I'm The Girl

Side 3

1. River

2. Conversation Love

3. When You Smile

Side 4

1. Suzanne

Customer Reviews (5.00 Stars) 4 person(s) rated this product.

Sublime...an outstanding rematering. posted on 11/28/2025 5 Stars 1973 was quite the year in popular music, with so many monumental and pivotal albums released, it may be one of the best years for recording music ever. If you don't know this album, well it is near perfect, and to open the album with the song of the year, is a dramatic and bold statement and it only gets better. The sonic organic chemistry is captured perfectly, and the arrangements of each track that she does is stellar. She covers do much ground on this one, but side 2 is a perfect as you can get, with an amazing horn chart on "No Tears in the End" and the poetic and sad spaciousness of " I'm the Girl." You also hear the tuba on " When You Smile." Remarkable!

Very good mastering and pressing posted on 09/06/2025 5 Stars Exceptionally good sonics. I have always enjoyed Roberta's soft and comforting voice. Especially good is the track Suzanne.

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