Donny Hathaway Roberta Flack Back Together Again Lyrics
| 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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| AllMusic |   [1] |
Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway is the 9th studio album by American vocalist-songwriter Roberta Flack. Released via Atlantic in March 1980, the anthology features posthumous vocals by close friend and collaborator Donny Hathaway, who had died in 1979. At the 23rd Grammy Awards in 1981, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Song Performance. The award, yet, went to Stephanie Mills for Never Knew Love Like This Before.
Overview [edit]
Intended equally her second duets anthology with Donny Hathaway (post-obit 1972's Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway), Flack's ninth studio album projection became a Flack solo album with Hathaway as guest due to Hathaway's decease after recording merely two songs with her. On 13 January 1979 Hathaway and Flack had recorded the duets "Dorsum Together Again" and "You Are My Heaven" - the latter the last song Hathaway would e'er record: after having dinner with Flack at her residence in the Dakota, Hathaway had and so returned to his suite on the fifteenth flooring of Essex House, afterwards fatally falling from the window of his suite.
Despite becoming the first Roberta Flack anthology since Quiet Burn down (1971) to not yield a Top forty hit, ...Featuring Donny Hathaway provided Flack with a substantial commercial comeback following the underperformance of her precedent 1978 cocky-titled album, with ...Featuring Donny Hathaway becoming a certified Golden anthology. As well both the duets on ...Featuring Donny Hathaway reached the R&B nautical chart Pinnacle 10 peaking at #viii, with "Back Together Over again" reaching #iii in the United kingdom: "Back Together Once again" had been written past James Mtume and Reggie Lucas, members of Flack's back-up band who had previously written the 1978 Flack/ Hathaway hit "The Closer I Go to You", while "You Are My Heaven" was a Stevie Wonder co-write (with album producer Eric Mercury). Wonder also contributed the song "Don't Make Me Expect Also Long", providing the track's whispered rap: issued as a tertiary single "Don't Make Me Wait..." was not a major mainstream hitting, just issued on a 12" single with "Back Together Again" afforded Flack her first disco chart striking single with a #6 peak.
Flack has mentioned the rails "Disguises" as beingness amongst her favorite lower-profile songs in her repertoire.[2] ...Featuring Donny Hathaway was also the 3rd consecutive Roberta Flack album on which she sang a composition past Michael Masser, who in 1983 would write (with Gerry Goffin) and produce "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" the 1000000-selling Peabo Bryson duet which would be Flack'due south almost successful post-1970s release.
Rails listing [edit]
Side One [edit]
- "Only Heaven Can Wait (For Dearest)" (Flack, Eric Mercury) - iv:03
- "God Don't Like Ugly" (Gwen Guthrie) - 4:34
- "You lot Are My Heaven" (Eric Mercury, Stevie Wonder) - iv:10
- "Disguises" (Stuart Scharf) - two:24
Side 2 [edit]
- "Don't Make Me Look Too Long" (Stevie Wonder) - seven:45
- "Back Together Again" (Reggie Lucas, James Mtume) - 9:45
- "Stay with Me" (Gerry Goffin, Michael Masser) - 3:47
Personnel [edit]
- Roberta Flack – atomic number 82 and bankroll vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, arrangements (ane, 2, 4)
- 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 (half-dozen), drums (six), backing vocals (half dozen)
- 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 King – drums (1-5, 7)
- Errol "Crusher" Bennett – percussion
- Armando Noriega – string arrangements (ane, 7)
- Arif Mardin – basic track arrangements (3, 7)
- Paul Riser – string arrangements (5)
- James Mtume – arrangements (half-dozen)
- Eric Mercury – backing vocals (1)
- Jocelyn Brown – backing vocals (ii, 6)
- Gwen Guthrie – backing vocals (two, 6), BGV arrangements (2, half dozen)
- Yvonne Lewis – backing vocals (2, 6)
- Merle Miller – backing vocals (2, 6)
- Luther Vandross – backing vocals (2, 6), BGV arrangements (2, 6)
- Brenda White-Rex – backing vocals (2, six)
- Revelation – bankroll vocals (2, 6)
- Donny Hathaway – atomic number 82 vocals (iii, 6)
- Eleanore Mills – backing vocals (iii)
Product [edit]
- Roberta Flack – producer (i, ii, iv-7), basic runway producer (3), vocal producer (3)
- Eric Mercury – producer (ane, 2, four-7)
- Joe Ferla – co-producer (1, 4)
- Arif Mardin – basic rail producer (3), song producer (3)
- Howie Lindeman – engineer
- Joe Lopes – assistant engineer
- Pat Martin – assistant engineer
- Paul Northfield – assistant engineer
- Gary Olazabal – banana engineer
- Bobby Warner – assistant engineer
- Jack Adelman – mastering
- Hélène Guertary – encompass illustration
External links [edit]
- Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway at Discogs (list 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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