Roberta Flack - Let It Be Roberta: Roberta Flack Sings The Beatles (2012)

The Beatles' song catalog is one of the best-known and revered bodies of work in the whole of modern music, and the depth, variety, and timelessness of the songs this once-in-a-lifetime band produced make that catalog both a marvel and a treasure. Everyone knows these songs, and everyone knows them in the original Beatles versions. Those versions are there, shining in stone, and even when they show up in remixes like in the recent LOVE mashup, the original recordings echo unshakably in the mind. Roberta Flack knows this. On Let It Be Roberta: Roberta Flack Sings the Beatles, she tackles 12 of the group's songs - 11 written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and one written by George Harrison - and she knows full well that she's dealing with the ghosts of the original versions.