You and I Back Together Again
| Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway | ||||
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| Studio album by Roberta Flack | ||||
| Released | March 1980 | |||
| Recorded | 1979 | |||
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| Genre | R&B, soul, disco | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Producer | Roberta Flack, Eric Mercury, Arif Mardin, Joe Ferla | |||
| Roberta Flack chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Roberta Flack. Released via Atlantic in March 1980, the album features posthumous vocals past close friend and collaborator Donny Hathaway, who had died in 1979. At the 23rd Grammy Awards in 1981, the anthology was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. The award, however, went to Stephanie Mills for Never Knew Honey Like This Earlier.
Overview [edit]
Intended as her second duets anthology with Donny Hathaway (following 1972's Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway), Flack's ninth studio album projection became a Flack solo album with Hathaway as guest due to Hathaway'due south expiry after recording only 2 songs with her. On xiii January 1979 Hathaway and Flack had recorded the duets "Back Together Again" and "You lot Are My Heaven" - the latter the last vocal Hathaway would ever record: after having dinner with Flack at her residence in the Dakota, Hathaway had and then returned to his suite on the fifteenth floor of Essex House, later fatally falling from the window of his suite.
Despite becoming the showtime Roberta Flack album since Serenity Burn (1971) to non yield a Top twoscore hit, ...Featuring Donny Hathaway provided Flack with a substantial commercial comeback following the underperformance of her precedent 1978 cocky-titled anthology, with ...Featuring Donny Hathaway condign a certified Golden album. Also both the duets on ...Featuring Donny Hathaway reached the R&B chart Pinnacle Ten peaking at #viii, with "Back Together Again" reaching #iii in the United kingdom: "Back Together Again" had been written past James Mtume and Reggie Lucas, members of Flack's redundancy band who had previously written the 1978 Flack/ Hathaway hit "The Closer I Get to You", while "You Are My Sky" was a Stevie Wonder co-write (with anthology producer Eric Mercury). Wonder also contributed the vocal "Don't Brand Me Wait Too Long", providing the track'south whispered rap: issued every bit a 3rd single "Don't Make Me Wait..." was not a major mainstream hit, but issued on a 12" single with "Back Together Over again" afforded Flack her first disco nautical chart hit single with a #half-dozen peak.
Flack has mentioned the track "Disguises" as being among her favorite lower-contour songs in her repertoire.[2] ...Featuring Donny Hathaway was also the third sequent Roberta Flack album on which she sang a composition past Michael Masser, who in 1983 would write (with Gerry Goffin) and produce "Tonight, I Gloat My Honey" the million-selling Peabo Bryson duet which would be Flack'due south most successful mail-1970s release.
Rails list [edit]
Side Ane [edit]
- "But Sky Can Look (For Dearest)" (Flack, Eric Mercury) - 4:03
- "God Don't Like Ugly" (Gwen Guthrie) - 4:34
- "You Are My Heaven" (Eric Mercury, Stevie Wonder) - 4:10
- "Disguises" (Stuart Scharf) - ii:24
Side Ii [edit]
- "Don't Make Me Wait Too Long" (Stevie Wonder) - 7:45
- "Dorsum Together Once again" (Reggie Lucas, James Mtume) - 9:45
- "Stay with Me" (Gerry Goffin, Michael Masser) - 3:47
Personnel [edit]
- Roberta Flack – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, arrangements (ane, 2, iv)
- Ray Chew – keyboards, additional horns and strings (6)
- Hubert Eaves III – synthesizers
- Ronnie Foster – synthesizers
- Paul Griffin – keyboards
- Raymond Jones – keyboards
- Ed Walsh – synthesizers
- Harry Whitaker – keyboards
- Stevie Wonder – keyboards (six), drums (half dozen), bankroll vocals (six)
- Hiram Bullock – guitar
- Reggie Lucas – guitar
- Jeff Mironov – guitar
- John Tropea – guitar
- Eluriel "Tinker" Barfield – bass
- Basil Fearrington – bass
- Anthony Jackson – bass
- Nathan Watts – bass (5)
- Howard Rex – drums (1-5, seven)
- Errol "Crusher" Bennett – percussion
- Armando Noriega – string arrangements (1, vii)
- Arif Mardin – basic track arrangements (three, 7)
- Paul Riser – cord arrangements (5)
- James Mtume – arrangements (6)
- Eric Mercury – backing vocals (1)
- Jocelyn Brownish – backing vocals (2, half dozen)
- Gwen Guthrie – bankroll vocals (2, 6), BGV arrangements (ii, 6)
- Yvonne Lewis – backing vocals (2, 6)
- Merle Miller – backing vocals (ii, half-dozen)
- Luther Vandross – backing vocals (two, half dozen), BGV arrangements (ii, 6)
- Brenda White-King – backing vocals (2, half-dozen)
- Revelation – bankroll vocals (2, 6)
- Donny Hathaway – lead vocals (3, 6)
- Eleanore Mills – backing vocals (3)
Production [edit]
- Roberta Flack – producer (1, 2, iv-vii), bones rails producer (3), vocal producer (3)
- Eric Mercury – producer (ane, 2, 4-7)
- Joe Ferla – co-producer (1, 4)
- Arif Mardin – basic rail producer (3), vocal producer (3)
- Howie Lindeman – engineer
- Joe Lopes – assistant engineer
- Pat Martin – banana engineer
- Paul Northfield – assistant engineer
- Gary Olazabal – assistant engineer
- Bobby Warner – assistant engineer
- Jack Adelman – mastering
- Hélène Guertary – cover illustration
External links [edit]
- Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway at Discogs (listing of releases)
References [edit]
- ^ Theakston, Rob. Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway at AllMusic
- ^ "An Interview with Roberta Flack". 21 March 2016.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Flack_Featuring_Donny_Hathaway
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