{"id":138068,"date":"2025-02-27T12:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T17:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/27\/forever-no-1-roberta-flacks-feel-like-makin-love-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T12:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T17:11:06","slug":"forever-no-1-roberta-flacks-feel-like-makin-love-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/27\/forever-no-1-roberta-flacks-feel-like-makin-love-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Forever No. 1: Roberta Flack\u2019s \u2018Feel Like Makin\u2019\u00a0Love\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tForever No. 1<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a\u00a0Billboard\u00a0series that pays special tribute to the recently deceased artists who achieved the highest honor our charts have to offer \u2014 a\u00a0Billboard Hot 100<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0No. 1 single \u2014 by taking an extended look back at the chart-topping songs that made them part of this exclusive club. Here, we honor Roberta Flack, who died on Feb. 24 at age 88, by looking at the singer\u2019s last of three No. 1 hits as a recording artist: the lilting paean to romance, \u201cFeel Like Makin\u2019 Love.\u201d \u00a0(In case you missed it,\u00a0here\u2019s a look<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0at her first No. 1, \u201cThe First Time Ever I Saw Your Face\u201d and at her second No. 1<\/a>, \u201cKilling Me Softly With His Song.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\tThe year was 1974. President Richard Nixon had resigned and Gerald Ford stepped up to fill the vacancy. Muhammad Ali and George Foreman punched their way through the Rumble in the Jungle in Zaire. Stephen King published his debut novel Carrie, <\/em>while the year also witnessed the birth of future Academy Award winner Leonardo DiCaprio. And alongside various musical moments such as David Bowie launching his Diamond Dogs tour and Dolly Parton releasing the Jolene<\/em> album, Roberta Flack<\/a> set a record as the first female solo artist to reign at No. 1 on the Hot 100 within three consecutive years, 1972-1974, with \u201cFeel Like Makin\u2019 Love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFlack first donned the Hot 100 crown with breakthrough hit \u201cThe First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,\u201d featured on her now platinum-certified 1969 debut album for Atlantic, First Take<\/em>, and in the 1971 Clint Eastwood film Play Misty for Me<\/em>. Coming off the top five pop and R&B chart success of the iconic duets album Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway<\/em>, Flack captured the singles throne once again in 1973 with her career-cementing ballad \u201cKilling Me Softly With His Song\u201d from her multiplatinum, similarly titled fourth solo album, Killing Me Softly. <\/em>Then in 1974 Flack completed the No. 1 trifecta with \u201cFeel Like Makin\u2019 Love,\u201d the first single from the same-titled fifth solo album released a year later.<\/p>\n

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