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Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
S.T.
Style: Soul
Label: Atlantic
Catalog Number: SD 7216
Released: 1972
One of the all time great duet parings in the history of R&B, Donny Hathaway & Roberta Flack released two classic albums together in the ’70s. The pair met while studying music at the prestigious Howard University in Washington. While both would become legends in their own ways, Flack was still at the very start of her solo career when the first duet album was released and Hathaway had released a few albums, but none reached the charts. The collaboration would be a massive success for both artists with multiple million-selling gold singles including “Where Is the Love” and later “The Closer I Get to You.” Sessions for another duet album were set in 1979 (deemed a suicide), but tragically, Hathaway fell to his death from a balcony window after longterm struggles with mental health.
Recommended – Full Listen
Tags: Funk
Tracklist:
A1 I (Who Have Nothing)
A2 You’ve Got A Friend
A3 Baby I Love You
A4 Be Real Black For Me
A5 You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling
B1 For All We Know
B2 Where Is The Love
B3 When Love Has Grown
B4 Come Ye Disconsolate
B5 Mood
Credits:
Arranged By [Horns] – Donny Hathaway (tracks: A4, B3)
Arranged By [Music] – Donny Hathaway, Roberta Flack
Arranged By [Strings] – Arif Mardin (tracks: A1, A2, A5 to B2), Donny Hathaway (tracks: A4, B3)
Arranged By [Woodwinds] – Arif Mardin (tracks: B1, B2)
Drums – Bernard Purdie (tracks: A1, A3 to B4), Billy Cobham (tracks: A2)
Electric Bass – Chuck Rainey
Electric Piano – Donny Hathaway (tracks: A2, A4, A5, B2, B3, B5), Roberta Flack (tracks: A1)
Engineer [Additional Recordings] – Gene Paul
Engineer [Recording] – Jimmy Douglass (tracks: A1, A3 to B5)
Flute – Hubert Laws (tracks: B1, B3), Joe Gentle (tracks: A2)
Guitar – David Spinozza (tracks: A2), Eric Gale (tracks: A1, A3 to B4)
Mastered By [Runout Etch] – GP*
Mixed By [Re-mixed By] – Arif Mardin, Jimmy Douglass
Organ – Roberta Flack (tracks: B4)
Percussion – Ralph MacDonald
Photography By – Jeffrey Blue*
Piano – Donny Hathaway (tracks: A1, A3, A4, B3, B4), Roberta Flack (tracks: A5, B1, B5)
Producer – Arif Mardin, Joel Dorn
Sopranino Saxophone – Joe Farrell (tracks: A5)
Vibraphone – Jack Jennings
Vocals – Donny Hathaway, Roberta Flack
