Just months before Donny Hathaway's untimely death, this tender tune for Hathaway and Roberta Flack was a No. 2 hit on the Hot 100 in 1978, but it wasn't the first star turn for a song by the pair. Their 1973 duet "Where Is The Love" won them a Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo Or Group. "The Closer I Get," meanwhile, has gone on to be covered by no less than Beyonce dueting with Luther Vandross in 2003.