Smooth Seventies For Autumn Days

Carole King, Steely Dan, Jon Lucien, Roberta Flack, Bill Withers

1970s Music in 2000

The music of the1970s still rings in our ears. And here in the first of an occasional series we look at records that were re-released in the 2000s. The hits were originally hits in the1970s.

The year is 2000 these were hits all over again..

Imagine by John Lennon

In The 1970s Roberta Flack

Roberta Flack was born in 1937 in the U.S., and during her teenage years she was a very accomplished classical piano player. She later excelled at school and went on to be a teacher in Washington D.D., where she also taught private piano lessons and performed in clubs at the weekends.

In 1968 she was discovered and started to make albums. Her first being First Take that went to No. 1 in the U.S.which had The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face which would later become a huge hit in the 1970s, in part thanks to Clint Eastwood film Play Misty For Me in 1971.

Roberta released several singles in 1970, but all failed to make an impact, although her album Chapter Two made some U.S. charts.