Word: flack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wonder topped that off by bringing out three fellow blacks - Sly Stone, Eddie Kendricks and Roberta Flack - for a reprise of Superstition and a rollick ing, hand-clapping, ear-piercing finale...
...critical success. A Case of Rape attracted a record-breaking audience for a realistic, if dramatically ill-resolved, study of the one crime in which the victim can almost count on being further punished by the legal system. Finally, with The Execution of Private Slovik, NBC managed to flack its way into the mightiest flop of the year. Mistaking sober intentions for genuine achievement, the network promoted the film heavily. It turned out to be a long, soggy script about a pathetically masochistic G.I. who became the only American to be shot for desertion in World...
Donny Hathaway. Hathaway is a superb pianist and soul singer whose single "Where Is the Love?" with Roberta Flack only hinted at his talent. Through Sunday, March 17 at Paul's Mall. Call 267-1300 for information...
...KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG, Roberta Flack. Number one for five weeks in February and March--longer than any other record in '73. Fine vocal, with haunting echoes. Much more melodious than Flack's other big success, "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face...
...names and events in the festival included Donny Hathaway, Roberta Flack and Stevie Wonder in soul-oriented concerts in Shea Stadium. In an entirely different vein, the first day of the festival saw a reunion after 30 years of the Benny Goodman quartet, consisting of Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa and Teddy Wilson. Expatriate black author James Baldwin, returning to America from France, narrated his biography, The Life and Times of Ray Charles, in a special tribute. Other special festival recognitions went to Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, the late Art Tatum and the late Louis Armstrong...