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Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Roberta Flack.Released via Atlantic in March 1980, the album features posthumous vocals by close friend and collaborator Donny Hathaway, who had died in 1979.
The 1972 Atlantic release Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway is a million-selling duet album by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway produced by Joel Dorn and Arif Mardin. Flack and Hathaway were both solo artists on the Atlantic roster who'd enjoyed critical acclaim, but Flack had enjoyed limited commercial success.
British soul singer Mica Paris and American singer-songwriter Will Downing released a cover of "Where Is the Love" in 1989 for Paris' debut album So Good. "Where Is the Love" debuted at number twenty-eight on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number nineteen in its second week before accumulating a total of eight weeks on the chart.
Flack and Donny Hathaway, good friends while attending Howard University, had recorded a self-titled album of duets in 1972. [3] Five years later, the duo collaborated again on "The Closer I Get to You". [4] Roberta Flack, one of the members of the touring band in 1976 "The Closer I Get to You" was not originally written as a duet.
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway: 3 2 — 22 25 — RIAA: Gold [5] 1973 Killing Me Softly: 3 2 — 11 13 40 RIAA: 2× Platinum [5] MC: Gold [6] 1975 Feel Like Makin' Love: 24 5 11 19 37 — 1977 Blue Lights in the Basement: 8 5 — 88 9 — RIAA: Gold [5] 1978 Roberta Flack: 74 37 — — 75 — BPI: Silver [7] 1980 Roberta Flack Featuring Donny ...
In 1972, Flack began recording regularly with Donny Hathaway, scoring hits such as the Grammy-winning "Where Is the Love" (1972) and later "The Closer I Get to You" (1978), both million-selling gold singles. [20] Flack and Hathaway recorded several duets together, including two LPs, until Hathaway's 1979 death.
The Very Best of Roberta Flack is a greatest hits album from Roberta Flack, ... (For Love)" (feat. Donny Hathaway) Roberta Flack; Eric Mercury: 4:02: 12. "Set the ...
Flack won the 1973 Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, for the single, with Gimbel and Fox earning the Song of the Year Grammy. In 1996, a house remix of Flack's version went to number one on the US dance chart. [29] In 1999, Flack's version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. [30]