What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think back on the making of this album? 1 hits, including “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” “Where Is the Love,” and her very first, a cover of the Peggy Seeger- and Ewan MacColl-penned folk song “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” in 1972.įlack, who knows how the meaning of a song can change throughout life, shared the relevance of Bustin’ Loose today, and explains why she’s listening to newer pop like the Jonas Brothers and Ariana Grande.Īmerican Songwriter: It’s now more than 40 years later and here you are circling back to Bustin’ Loose. Still connected to her journey, Flack, now 85, can reflect on her musical life before Bustin’ Loose, earning 19 No. Flack’s lost opus includes five songs she co-wrote and two instrumentals written by the artist. Out of print for decades, the Bustin’ Loose soundtrack was the lovechild of Flack and her close-knit collaborators Peabo Bryson, co-writing and singing “Ballad for D”-and later recording the R&B hit duet “Tonight, I Celebrate My Love” with Flack in 1983-and Luther Vandross, who worked with Flack since her 1969 debut First Take with Donny Hathaway and co-wrote and duetted with her on the Bustin’ Loose track “You Stopped Loving Me,” a song he would later record for his 1981 debut Never Too Much. A longtime advocate for children, she founded The Roberta Flack Foundation in 2010 to help support children with their education and projects centered around music as well as animal welfare efforts. The storyline of children overcoming adversity was one that stuck with Roberta Flack, who produced, composed, and arranged the nine songs of Bustin’ Loose soundtrack, which was reissued in early 2022. In the 1981 comedy-drama Bustin’ Loose, Richard Pryor stars as a parolee tasked with relocating eight troubled, orphaned kids to rural Washington and ends up teaming up with them to save their future home owned by Vivian, played by Cicely Tyson.
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