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Track Listings
| 1. I (Who Have Nothing) |
| 2. You've Got A Friend |
| 3. Baby I Love You |
| 4. Be Real Black For Me |
| 5. You've Lost That Loving Feeling |
| 6. For All We Know |
| 7. Where Is The Love |
| 8. When Love Has Grown |
| 9. Come Ye Disconsolate |
| 10. Mood |
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The song that really cemented the popularity of Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway was Where Is the Love. A molasses-sweet pop song, it was written by Ralph Macdonald and William Salter and originally intended for vocal group The 5th Dimension. It sounds as sweet, breezy and peachy as any of Stevie Wonder’s high-period ballads, and remained on the US charts for best part of a year. It also made the UK top 30 in 1972.
People who bought the album on the strength of that hit were surprised to find a work of great depth and tenderness. A cover of You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling detunes the drama of Phil Spector’s Righteous Brothers original and makes it an anguished urban whisper between lovers. Be Real Black for Me was a perfect anthem for the ‘black is beautiful’ movement, a celebration of African-Americanism.
As it progresses, the album becomes ever more solemn and sombre – it closes with a beautiful rendition of the old sacred song Come Ye Disconsolate which leads into Mood, an astonishing, intimate instrumental seven-minute piano duet that showcased both players’ classical training.
It was during the recording of the album that Flack’s rendition of The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, from her debut solo album, became an enormous hit, giving the public a voracious appetite for Flack and Hathaway’s material. Its mixture of covers and deep, soul-searching tunes, beautifully played and sung, was a one-off.
Flack and Hathaway recorded sporadically together throughout the 70s until Hathaway’s tragic death in 1979. Although Flack has sung with several other singers since, nothing has come close to the special magic they arrived at on this record. Intimate and understated, Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway is an album that needs to be appreciated fully once again.
--Daryl Easlea
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This music takes you right back to the moments of loves sweet tenderness and heartship. Nothing beats the original, but this is one of the rare cases were the remaster is even better.
Just as good as some of the "Beatles" remasters, you can actually hear the effort that has gone into this recording. And I tell you this much: if this technology would have been available 20-odd years ago, those first kisses might have remained for ever what they where: first kisses.
An absolute MUST for oldtimers and those who do not relate romance to standing in opposite corners of the floor, suffering epilepic fits under the stoposkope to machinegunfire and call that dancing.
GET THIS ALBUM IMMEDIATELY!
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