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The 1972 Atlantic release Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway is a million-selling duet album by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway produced by Joel Dorn and Arif Mardin.

Flack and Hathaway were both solo artists on the Atlantic roster who'd enjoyed critical acclaim, but Flack had enjoyed limited commercial success. Both had attended Howard University, although Flack's attendance there pre-dated Hathaway's. The singers' careers had overlapped, however: Flack had included Hathaway compositions on her First Take and Chapter Two albums, with the latter also featuring Hathaway as pianist, arranger and background vocalist. It was Jerry Wexler who suggested that a joint venture might consolidate Flack and Hathaway's popularity.

The first single from Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway was a version of 'You've Got a Friend' recorded before the single release of the James Taylor version: both tracks debuted on the Hot 100 dated May 29, 1971 — marking Flack's first chart appearance — and, although Taylor's version reached #1, the Flack/Hathaway duet ascended as high as #29 and was a top ten R&B hit at #8. (The B-side, 'Gone Away,' was a Chapter Two track written by Hathaway.)

The second single from the duets album was a remake of 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' that became a #30 R&B hit, peaking on the Hot 100 at #71.

It was the album's third single 'Where Is the Love' — released in April 1972, almost a year after the album itself — that would be the smash hit, largely due to Flack having had her solo career breakthrough with 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face'.

Although Hathaway had enjoyed more solo success than had Flack prior to their teaming up, his subsequent solo career was desultory, with no high-profile success prior to his re-teaming with Flack for 'The Closer I Get to You' in 1978. Hathaway had recorded two songs for a second duet album with Flack — that became the Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway album — at the time of his death on January 13, 1979.

Track listing[edit]

Side One

1. 'I (Who Have Nothing)' (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Carlo Donida) (5:00)
2. 'You've Got a Friend' (Carole King) (2:34)
3. 'Baby I Love You' (Jimmy Holiday, Ronnie Shannon) (3:24)
4. 'Be Real Black for Me' (Charles Mann, Donny Hathaway, Roberta Flack) (3:30)
5. 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (Barry Mann, Phil Spector, Cynthia Weil) (6:36)

Side Two

1. 'For All We Know' (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) (3:38)
2. 'Where Is the Love' (Ralph MacDonald, William Salter) (2:43)
3. 'When Love Has Grown' (Ralph MacDonald, William Salter) (3:31)
4. 'Come Ye Disconsolate' (Thomas Moore, Samuel Webbe, Sr.) (4:50)
5. 'Mood' (Roberta Flack) (7:00)

References[edit]

1. ^Wynn, Ron (2011). 'Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - Roberta Flack AllMusic'. allmusic.com. Retrieved 13 August 2011.

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What can we say? We’ve heard this one a million times, it sold over a million copies – but it’s still incredible! The record is Roberta’s first, and it features her in a mellow trio format, augmented by some occasional larger arrangements by William Fischer. At most points, though, the sound is incredibly spare – with vocals that are much more soulful than any of Roberta’s other records, and a sound that hints at Nina Simone, but which has it’s own jazzy groove and deep sense of feeling.

Tracks
A1 Compared to What 5:16
A2 Angelitos Negros 6:56
A3 Our Ages or Our Hearts 6:10
A4 I Told Jesus 6:10
B1 Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye 4:09
B2 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face 5:22
B3 Tryin’ Times 5:08
B4 Ballad of the Sad Young Men 7:00

“First Take” is literally just that. Roberta Flack’s debut album captured in one single take that should rank among the great albums of the 60s like “Dusty In Memphis” but unfortunately isn’t so widely acknowledged as such outside a small circle of music fans and critics. It’s about time due recognition was given to this truly classic album by black music’s most underated diva. For a start, “First Take” has lost none of its spontaneity and magic more than 40 years after its release. The liner notes by Les McCann says it all. There are only eight tracks on the album, all of them exceptional and incandescent. From the live sounding opening jazz number (“Compared To What“) to the closing gay anthem (“Ballad Of The Sad Young Men“), Roberta has us under her spell with some of the most spinetingling and inspired singing ever to have been captured on record. Everybody loves or is at least familiar with “First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” (the #1 hit featured in the movie “Play Misty For Me“) but few appreciate just how much better it sounds in the context of the album. On route to it, you would have experienced some of the most passionate and honest music ever made, as evident in the awesome majesty of “Angelitos Negros“, the heartfelt beauty of “Our Ages Or Our Hearts” and the deep deep spirituality of “I Told Jesus“. Roberta’s take on the bluesy lament “Trying Times” is just great and truly definitive, rendering any subsequent attempts at covering it superfluous. In the same way, many artistes have recorded “Ballad Of The Sad Young Men” but none has gotten this close to the heart of the song. Finally, “Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye” shows what transforming powers a great artiste with the right sensibilities can have over any kind of material. If you have a problem with the hissiness (particularly conspicuous on “I Told Jesus”) which even Rhino’s remastering couldn’t eliminate, think of “First Take” as a live take and maybe your problem will go away. A classic 60s album.

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A very hip second effort from Roberta Flack – with arrangements by Donny Hathaway and Deodato, and a sound that expands the intimate groove of Roberta’s first album nicely. The record’s a rich document of the soul underground that was breaking through in the work of Flack and Hathaway (and others) during the early 70s – and it includes loads of great numbers, like “Gone Away”, written by Hathaway, Leroy Hutson, and Curtis Mayfield and “Reverend Lee”, written by Eugene McDaniels.

Tracks
A1 Reverend Lee 4:31
A2 Do What You Gotta Do 4:09
A3 Just Like a Woman 6:14
A4 Let It Be Me 5:00
B1 Gone Away 5:16
B2 Until It’s Time for You to Go 4:57
B3 The Impossible Dream 4:42
B4 Business Goes on as Usual3:30

The album, like its predecessor, is an uncluttered affair, with the singer’s airy evocative vocals and cascading piano upfront. The citified jazz overtones that shimmered on First Take are absent on Chapter Two. Spare folk balladry dominates, and Roberta imbues songs like Bob Dylan’s “Just Like a Woman” and Buffy Sainte- Marie’s “Until It’s Time for You to Go” with a slow-burning gospel intensity. Early on, Roberta linked the eclectic interpretative powers of Nina Simone with the crystal emotionality of Judy Collins.
Her music didn’t neatly fit anywhere. She possessed the shouting power of Aretha but rarely went there. Still, her music retained a certain earthiness. A smart uptown coolness, reminiscent of Dionne Warwick, gave her music an attractive chill. But Roberta radiated warmth even on brutal,icy numbers like “Business Goes on As Usual.” Backed by little more than a marching drum beat, a spare bass and creeping strings, Roberta croons the anti-war ballad with no histrionics: “Business goes on as usual/Except that my brother’s dead/He was 25 and very much alive/But the dreams have all been blasted from his head.” The lines are more disarming as she delivers them in a direct, conversational manner.
Chapter Two plays like a suite of meditative numbers that broods on hard times and the ins and outs of love. The album opens with a saucy song about the seduction of a “very big, strong, black, sexy Southern Baptist minister,” Roberta says in the spoken intro to “Reverend Lee.” Spiced with funky horns arranged by the great King Curtis, it’s the only head-nodding groove on the album. Natalie Cole later remade it, overhauling it with the zest and sass she’s known for. But Roberta’s simmering take is definitive.

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No matter how many times we’d heard Roberta Flack and winced during the 70s, we have to admit that we actually enjoy hearing her quite a bit these days – especially on material like this, pulled from her classic years at Atlantic when she was forging a whole new sound that was a unique blend of soul, jazz, and spiritualism. The album includes the famous title cut, remade by The Fugees years later – plus a version of Leonard Cohen‘s “Suzanne“.

Tracks
A1 Killing Me Softly With His Song 4:46
A2 Jesse 4:00
A3 No Tears (In the End) 4:56
A4 I’m the Girl 4:52
B1 River 5:00
B2 Conversation Love 3:38
B3 When You Smile 3:42
B4 Suzanne 9:45

Calm,soothing and elegant collection of songs that starts with Flack’s magical interpretation of Lori Lieberman’s “Killing me softly” (and do check the original – it’s almost as powerful,in a different way) and from there it just floats in smoke circles.

Flack weaves magic around mostly ballad set,her mellow voice lulling listener into daydreaming – where others would scream and shout,she is 100% soul singer by the virtue of staying composed. The choice of songs is also very interesting because it hints at artists personality – instead of relying on hit-makers or trendy rock & soul covers, she reaches far into classy cabaret songbook (haunting “I am the girl” recorded decades ago by Sylvia Symms) or goes for mock-jazzy, quasi-1930s number “When you smile” that wouldn not be out of place in the movies like “Bonnie & Clyde” or “The Sting”.

Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway - Back Together Again

On the other hand,in the hands of Roberta Flack,Cohen’s “Susanne” turns into hypnotizing,almost new-age dance – this is what covers should be, completely re-intventing originals and bringing a personal touch to them

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