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Released
  
November 1979

Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway (1979)
  
Live & More (1980)

Label
  
Atlantic Records

Recorded
  
1978-1979

Release date
  
November 1979

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Producer
  
Roberta Flack, Eric Mercury

Artists
  
Donny Hathaway, Roberta Flack

Genres
  
Soul music, Rhythm and blues

Nominations
  
Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance

Similar
  
Roberta Flack albums, Soul music albums

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Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway is Roberta Flack's ninth album, released in 1979. It was intended as her second duets album with Donny Hathaway (following 1972's Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway), but Hathaway only recorded two songs with her ("You Are My Heaven" and "Back Together Again") before his suicide. Flack finished the rest of the record on her own.

Contents

Side One

  1. "Only Heaven Can Wait (For Love)" (Flack, Eric Mercury) (4:03)
  2. "God Don't Like Ugly" (Gwen Guthrie) (4:34)
  3. "You Are My Heaven" (Eric Mercury, Stevie Wonder) (4:10)
  4. "Disguises" (Stuart Scharf) (2:24)

Side Two

  1. "Don't Make Me Wait Too Long" (Stevie Wonder) (7:45)
  2. "Back Together Again" (Reggie Lucas, James Mtume) (9:45)
  3. "Stay with Me" (Gerry Goffin, Michael Masser) (3:47)

Personnel

  • Roberta Flack - lead and background vocals, keyboards, synthesizer (All tracks), musical arrangements (tracks 1-2, 4)
  • John Tropea - guitar
  • Gwen Guthrie - backing vocals (All tracks), background vocal arrangements (tracks 2, 6)
  • Donny Hathaway - lead vocals (tracks 3, 6), piano
  • Luther Vandross - backing vocals (All tracks), background vocal arrangements (tracks 2, 6)
  • Hiram Bullock - guitar
  • Ronnie Foster - keyboards
  • Eric Mercury - backing vocals (track 1)
  • Hubert Eaves III - synthesizer
  • Reggie Lucas - guitar
  • Eluriel Tinker Barfield - bass
  • Errol Bennett - percussion
  • Ray Chew - keyboards
  • Basil Fearrington - bass
  • Anthony Jackson - bass
  • Raymond Jones - keyboards
  • Brenda White-King - backing vocals
  • Howard King - drums
  • Eleanore Mills - backing vocals (track 3)
  • Jeff Mironov - guitar
  • Jocelyn Shaw (Jocelyn Brown) - backing vocals
  • Ed Walsh - synthesizer
  • Nathan Watts - bass on "Don't Make Me Wait Too Long"
  • Harry Whitaker - keyboards
  • Stevie Wonder - backing vocals, drums, and keyboards on "Don't Make Me Wait Too Long"

    • Songs

    1Only Heaven Can Wait4:06
    2God Don't Like Ugly4:38
    3You Are My Heaven4:15

    References

    Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway Wikipedia
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