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Softly with These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack

album by Roberta Flack

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ7554144 ↗
Source-derived summary

Softly with These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack is the third compilation album by American singer Roberta Flack, released in 1993.

Track listing

All track information and credits were taken from the CD liner notes.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Softly with These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack” as album by Roberta Flack. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Softly, These and Songs.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Softly, These and Songs providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Softly with These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack”, the useful work is to connect “album by Roberta Flack” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7554144. The first chronological checks are 1993.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Softly with These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.