Vinyl Album - Roberta Flack - First Take - Atlantic

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Roberta Flack
Title:	First Take
Label:	Atlantic
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	SD 8230
Date:	Jul 1969
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	25 Own, 2 Want
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Roberta Flack	Compared To What	Gene McDaniels	8.5 Rate
A2	Roberta Flack	Angelitos Negros	Manuel Alvarez Maciste	7.5 Rate
A3	Roberta Flack	Our Ages Or Our Hearts	Daniel Hathaway, Roberta Ayers	7.0 Rate
A4	Roberta Flack	I Told Jesus	Trad. Arr. Roberta Flack	8.0 Rate
B1	Roberta Flack	Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye	Leonard Cohen	8.0 Rate
B2	Roberta Flack	The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face	Ewan MacColl	10.0 Rate
B3	Roberta Flack	Tryin' Times	Donny Hathaway, Leroy Hutson	7.0 Rate
B4	Roberta Flack	Ballad Of The Sad Young Men	Frances Landesman, Thomas J. Wolf, Jr.	7.0 Rate

Notes

BB Aug 2, 1969

Produced by Joel Dorn

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W.B.lbl 13th Oct 2023		Added c.1971-72 Columbia Pitman labels, probably dating to when "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" was climbing up the singles chart.



Bgray1 ● 20th May 2018		Additional back cover added and label variant set from Record Club of America.



HIDEKI WATANABE 2nd Mar 2018		Produced by Joel Dorn Recorded at Atlantic Studios Engineered by William Arlt Strings & Horn Arranged By William Fischer Strings Conducted by William Fischer MUSICIANS Piano, Vocals : Roberta Flack Bass : Ron Carter Drums : Ray Lucas Guitar : John Pizzarelli HORNS on tracks: A1, B3 Tenor Saxophone : Frank Wess Trombone : Bennie Powell Trumpet : Jimmy Nottingham, Joe Newman Baritone Saxophone : Seldon Powell STRINGS on tracks A2 to B2, B4 Violin : Emanuel Green, Gene Orloff Viola : Alfred Brown, Selwart Clarke, Theodore Israel Cello : Charles McCracken, George Ricci



TheDroid 26th Feb 2016		Added alternate label set (LY) from Shelley Products Ltd., Huntington Station, NY. Also added sticker promoting the massively successful single "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" which topped the BB chart for six weeks! The song also earned Grammy Awards for record and song of the year. Billboard ranked it as the #1 song of the year for 1972.



Vinyl Fan 2nd Oct 2015		Added RI PRC Recording Industry Products Richmond Indiana label scans fmc. These labels are from 1974 with Rockefeller address without WB insignia on rim of label.