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First Take (album)

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Recorded
  
February 24–26, 1969

First Take (1969)
  
Chapter Two (1970)

Release date
  
20 June 1969

Label
  
Atlantic Records

Length
  
46:08

Artist
  
Roberta Flack

Producer
  
Joel Dorn

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Released
  
June 20, 1969 (1969-06-20)

Studio
  
Atlantic Studios, New York City

Genres
  
Soul music, Jazz, Rhythm and blues, Vocal jazz

Similar
  
Roberta Flack albums, Soul music albums

Roberta flack compared to what first take


First Take is the debut album by the jazz/soul/R&B singer Roberta Flack. It was released in 1969 on Atlantic Records. After a track from this album, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" was included by Clint Eastwood in his 1971 film Play Misty for Me with the song becoming a #1 hit in the United States, this album became #1 on the U.S. album chart.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Compared to What" (Gene McDaniels) - 5:16
  2. "Angelitos Negros" (Andrés Eloy Blanco, Manuel Álvarez Maciste) - 6:56
  3. "Our Ages or Our Hearts" (Robert Ayers, Donny Hathaway) - 6:09
  4. "I Told Jesus" (Traditional; arranged by Roberta Flack) - 6:09
  5. "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye" (Leonard Cohen) - 4:08
  6. "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (Ewan MacColl) - 5:22
  7. "Tryin' Times" (Donny Hathaway, Leroy Hutson) - 5:08
  8. "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) - 7:00

Personnel

  • Roberta Flack - piano, vocals
  • Bucky Pizzarelli - guitars
  • Ron Carter - bass
  • Ray Lucas - drums, percussion
  • Seldon Powell, Frank Wess - saxophone
  • Charles McCracken, George Ricci - cello
  • Benny Powell - trombone
  • Jimmy Nottingham, Joe Newman - trumpet
  • Emanuel Green, Gene Orloff - violin
  • Alfred Brown, Selwart Clarke, Theodore Israel - viola
  • William S. Fischer - horn & string arrangements, string conducting
    • Technical
  • William Arlt - recording engineer
  • Bob Liftin - remixing engineer
  • Robert Honablue - additional engineering
  • Stanislaw Zagorski - design
  • Ken Heinen - photography

    • Songs

    1Compared to What5:16
    2Angelitos Negros6:56
    3Our Ages or Our Heart6:10

    References

    First Take (album) Wikipedia
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