45 Years Ago - 1977 Roberta Flack released her sixth album Blue Lights in the Basement.
The album features her duet with Donny Hathaway "The Closer I Get to You." It spent two weeks at #1 on the R&B Chart (the Soul chart at the time) and was a #2 Hot 100 #3 AC hit. This collaboration with Hathaway would be one of his final singles released in his lifetime before his death in 1979. Hathaway had died by the time the music video was shot, so as his verse plays, the camera zooms into a picture of Hathaway located on a table behind Flack's shoulder.
Flack announced that "The Closer I Get to You" would forever be a dedication to Hathaway, and that all money made from the song would be donated to Hathaway's widow and two children.
Also notable on the album is "25th of Last December." This song went to#52 on the R&B chart and #28 AC.
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