Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway

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Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway
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Studio album by Roberta Flack
Released November 1979
Recorded 1978-1979
Genre R&B, soul
Label Atlantic
Producer Roberta Flack, Eric Mercury
Roberta Flack chronology
Roberta Flack
(1978)Roberta Flack1978
Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway
(1979)
Live & More
(1980)Live & More1980
Singles from Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway
  1. "You Are My Heaven / I'll Love You Forever and Ever"
    Released: November 15, 1979
  2. "Back Together Again / God Don't Like Ugly"
    Released: February 17, 1980
  3. "Don't Make Me Wait Too Long / Only Heaven Can Wait (For Love)"
    Released: July 13, 1980
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars [1]

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.

Track listing

  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)
  5. "Don't Make Me Wait Too Long" (Stevie Wonder) (7:45)
  6. "Back Together Again" (Reggie Lucas, James Mtume) (9:45)
  7. "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"

References