Roberta Flack The Closer I Get To You, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Live

Legendary songstress Roberta Flack performs her classic #1 romantic ballads The Closer I Get To You in a duet with Andre Smith followed by The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (3:28) live in 2001 Washington D.C. concert. The Closer I Get to You with Donny Hathaway was a number one gold single on the Hot Soul Singles chart in 1978 and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face was a major international hit for Roberta Flack in 1972, winning the Grammy Awards for Record and Song of the Year. From Roberta Flack's 1969 album First Take, Billboard ranked Ewan MacColl's composition as the number one song of the year for 1972. Roberta Flack's slower and more sensual version has been called the greatest love song ever written. Celine Dion also had major success as a power ballad in 2004. Easy Listening song was first popularized by Clint Eastwood's 1971 movie Play Misty for Me and more recently by X-Men: Days of Future Past and HBO's The Night Of.