Roberta flack songs bustin loose
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Roberta Flack Still ‘Bustin’ Loose’ 40 Years Later
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.
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. 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.
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, w