Roberta Flack First Take Rare 1969 Original Atlantic Monarch Press Vinyl LP
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First Take Studio album by Roberta Flack Released June 20, 1969 Recorded February 24–26, 1969 Studio Atlantic Studios, New York City Genre Vocal jazz, soul, R&B Length 46:08 Label Atlantic Producer Joel Dorn Roberta Flack chronology First Take
(1969) Chapter Two
(1970) Singles from First Take
- "Compared to What" / "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye"
Released: August 14, 1969 - "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" / "Trade Winds"
Released: January 24, 1972
First Take is the debut album by the American soul singer Roberta Flack. It was released on June 20, 1969 by 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 number 1 hit in the United States, the album reached number 1 on the Billboard album chart and Billboard R&B album chart. In the 2020 edition of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, the album was ranked number 451.
Track listing
- "Compared to What" (Gene McDaniels) – 5:16
- "Angelitos Negros" (Andrés Eloy Blanco, Manuel Álvarez Maciste) – 6:56
- "Our Ages or Our Hearts" (Robert Ayers, Donny Hathaway) – 6:09
- "I Told Jesus" (Traditional; arranged by Roberta Flack) – 6:09
- "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye" (Leonard Cohen) – 4:08
- "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (Ewan MacColl) – 5:22
- "Tryin' Times" (Donny Hathaway, Leroy Hutson) – 5:08
- "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) – 7:00
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