Roberta Flack - First Take (1969)

Artist: Roberta Flack
Title Of Album: First Take
Year Of Release: 1969
Label (Catalog#) : Atlantic
Country: USA
Genre: Jazz Vocal, Funk, Soul, R&B
Quality: FLAC (*tracks+.cue,log)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 46:12
Full Size: 272Mb(+3%)

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, and the song became a number-one hit in the United States, causing the album to reach number one on the Billboard album chart and Billboard R&B album chart; furthermore, the single topped the chart for the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1972, possibly the only sleeper hit to accomplish this. In the 2020 edition of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, the album was ranked number 451.

Tracks:
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01. Compared to What (5:16)
02. Angelitos Negros (6:55)
03. Our Ages or Our Hearts (6:09)
04. I Told Jesus (6:09)
05. Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye (4:08)
06. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (5:21)
07. Tryin' Times (5:07)
08. Ballad of the Sad Young Men (6:59)

Personnel:
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Roberta Flack – piano, vocals
Bucky Pizzarelli – guitars
Ron Carter – bass
Ray Lucas – drums, percussion
Seldon Powell, Frank Wess – saxophone
Charles McCracken, George Ricci – cello
Benny Powell – trombone
Jimmy Nottingham, Joe Newman – trumpet
Emanuel Green, Gene Orloff – violin
Alfred Brown, Selwart Clarke, Theodore Israel – viola
William S. Fischer – horn & string arrangements, string conducting

All thanks to original releaser