Roberta Flack

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 1995

First Recording: 1969

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

Roberta Flack
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
✅Rolling Stone 500 Albums
✅Rolling Stone 500 Songs
🔲Rolling Stone Cover
🔲Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
✅“Big Four” Grammys
Inducted into Rock Hall Projected in 2039.
R.S. Top 500 Albums (?)RankVersion
First Take4512020
R.S. Top 500 Songs (?)RankVersion
Killing Me Softly With His Song (1973)2732021
Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
First Take (1969)☆☊
Chapter Two (1970)☆☊
Quiet Fire (1971)☆☊
Killing Me Softly (1973)☆☊
Blue Lights in the Basement (1977)☆☊
Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (1969)☆☊
Where is the Love (1971)☆☊
Killing Me Softly With His Song (1973)☆☊
Feel Like Makin' Love (1974)☆☊
The Closer I Get to You (1977)☆☊

Roberta Flack @ Wikipedia

Will Roberta Flack be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
"Musical excellence is the essential qualification for induction."
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The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face * Where Is The Love * Killing Me Softly With His Song * Feel Like Makin' Love * The Closer I Get To You * Tonight, I Celebrate My Love * Set The Night To Music

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 03/30/2013 @ 07:59am

Roberta Flack sang "Together Through The Years" the theme song to the 80s-90s sit-com Valerie's Family/The Hogan Family. There was a Joy Division/New Order thing going on there.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 07/7/2013 @ 07:43am

I'll have to say no, because she was critically panned in her heyday.

Posted by Jared Brown on Wednesday, 09/26/2018 @ 15:30pm

Critics love panning popular women of color, IMO. They can never take away this:

'Flack was the first, and remains the only, solo artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year on two consecutive years: "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" won at the 1973 Grammys as did "Killing Me Softly with His Song" at the 1974 Grammys.' (excerpt form her Wikipedia page)

That's 44 years later now & still true.

Posted by Paul in KY on Wednesday, 09/26/2018 @ 16:13pm

Gonna agree with Paul on Roberta. This is the Hall of Fame - not the “Hall of Acts Critics Like.”

Posted by The Dude on Wednesday, 09/26/2018 @ 16:19pm

What? This must be an oversight. I was surprised to just find out that Donny Hathaway was just inducted without the honor of a ceremony, in 2021 because of COVID. But she should be right there along side him. You are the epitome of grace, style and song. You are my love, heaven make me sing la de dah.

Posted by Melvin Coles on Saturday, 02/5/2022 @ 12:03pm

Shame on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Roberta Flack is dying of ALS. Have the dignity to honour her pioneering spirit before she passes away.

Posted by Valerie Robertson on Thursday, 01/26/2023 @ 02:37am

Long overdue!!! If Kate Bush and Missy Elliott can be inducted into the Rock and roll Hall of Fame why not Roberta flack

Posted by Robert Bowm on Wednesday, 09/27/2023 @ 07:01am

The album "First Take" is such a gem, it should've sent the signal that this was no ordinary singer/ performer. How is she not in the hall? It actually makes me think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame isn't all that special if they exclude such a talent, listen to her catalog man, are you serious? Get it done, NOW!

Posted by Joseph Luciano on Saturday, 03/2/2024 @ 23:43pm

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