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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.
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.
Born to Love is a 1983 studio album of duets by American singers Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack. It was released by Bryson's label Capitol Records on July 22, 1983, in the United States. The album yielded the hit single "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love", written by Gerry Goffin and Michael Masser.
Softly with These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack is the third compilation album by American singer Roberta Flack, ... "Where Is the Love" (duet with Donny Hathaway)
"Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" was one of two Michael Masser/Gerry Goffin co-writes produced by Masser for the Born to Love album. Although the Born to Love sessions marked the first time either Peabo Bryson or Roberta Flack had been produced by Masser, Flack had previously recorded two Masser/Goffin co-writes: "Independent Man" (1978 album Roberta Flack) and "Stay With Me" (1980 album Roberta ...
On 13 January 1979 Hathaway and Flack had recorded the duets "Back Together Again" and "You Are My Heaven" - the latter the last song Hathaway would ever record: after having dinner with Flack at her residence in the Dakota, Hathaway had then returned to his suite on the fifteenth floor of Essex House, later fatally falling from the window of ...
Australian singer Rick Price and New Zealand singer Margaret Urlich had a hit on the Australian charts with the song in 1993. In 1995, Jesse & Trina covered the song for the soundtrack to the film Dead Presidents, and this version reached number 40 on the R&B chart. [10] In 1996, Paul Jackson Jr covered the song on the album Never Alone Duets.
Roberta Cleopatra Flack (born February 10, 1937) [2] [3] is a retired American singer who topped the Billboard charts with the No. 1 singles "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song", and "Feel Like Makin' Love".