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Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway [Original recording remastered]

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  • Audio CD (30 Oct 1995)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Atlantic
  • ASIN: B000002J5V
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 12,666 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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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BBC Review

One of the best duet albums of all time, Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway was made at the request of Atlantic producer Jerry Wexler. Flack and Hathaway had been friends at Howard University, and Hathaway had played piano on Flack’s early albums. It was Wexler’s suggestion that the duo initially record Carole King’s You’ve Got a Friend. They took the song out of middle-class bohemian bedsits and relocated it to the inner city. Released simultaneously with James Taylor’s version, the two covers vied for US chart space. Flack and Hathaway’s reading is so heartfelt and emotional, it is probably the best cover of King’s original.

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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12 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars You just can't beat it 20 Feb 2002
Format:Audio CD
Good old romantic style - not too sobby and just about weepy enough to make you sigh. Remember those nights in the disco, wanting to talk to her (or him) and being afraid to do so? Remember that first thrill of confusion when you first kissed and realised "this could be it"?
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars wooooooooooooooooo! 13 Nov 2012
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have most ...if not all off there cds ......a match made in heaven !did not have this thou ....sooooo....kooool.......luckeybear x
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4.0 out of 5 stars pass the razor blade 30 Mar 2012
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Warning!!if your depressed DONT play this as it may tip you over the edge excellent as this album is.there are only 2 uptempo tracks here where as the rest are really quite downers but really well constructed esp.i who have nothing and you've lost that loving feeling played like you've never heard it before and both have new life breathed into them.individually all are excellent tracks but i wouldnt recommend playing it all through in one sitting unless youre in self pitying mode (just hide all sharp instruments before hand)
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