First Take
by Roberta Flack
- Type: Album
- Released: 20 June 1969
- Label: Atlantic
- Country: United States
- Length: 45:09
- Community rating: 4.22/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Anchored by the devastating, timeless emotional weight of 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face', Roberta Flack's debut is a stunningly mature triumph. 'First Take' is wonderfully warm and intensely passionate, matching deeply sentimental, highly sensual vocal jazz phrasing with remarkably bittersweet, exquisitely paced progressive soul.
Genres
Descriptors: ballad, christian, soulful, piano, vocal, gentle
Tracklist
- Compared to What (5:16)
- Angelitos Negros (6:56)
- Our Ages or Our Hearts (6:09)
- I Told Jesus (6:09)
- Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye (4:08)
- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (4:20)
- Tryin' Times (5:08)
- Ballad of the Sad Young Men (7:00)
Credits
- Roberta Flack - primary artist, piano, vocals, arranged by
- William S. Fischer - arranged by [horns, strings], conductor [strings]
- Seldon Powell - baritone saxophone
- Ron Carter - bass
- Charles McCracken - cello
- George Ricci - cello
- Stanislaw Zagorski - design [cover], design
- Ray Lucas - drums
- Bob Liftin - engineer [re-mix]
- William Arlt - engineer [recording]
- Bucky Pizzarelli - guitar
- George Piros - lacquer cut by
- Les McCann - liner notes
- Ken Heinen - photography by, photography
- Joel Dorn - producer
- Frank Wess - tenor saxophone
- Benny Powell - trombone
- Jimmy Nottingham - trumpet
- Joe Newman - trumpet
- Alfred Brown - viola
- Selwart Clarke - viola
- Theodore Israel - viola
- Emanuel Green - violin
- Gene Orloff - violin
- Eugene McDaniels - written-by
- Manuel Alvarez Maciste - written-by
- Donny Hathaway - written-by
- Robert Ayers - written-by
- Traditional - written-by
- Leonard Cohen - written-by
- Ewan MacColl - written-by
- Leroy Hutson - written-by
- Fran Landesman - written-by
- Tommy Wolf - written-by