First Take (album)

Infobox Album
Name = First Take
Type = studio
Artist = Roberta Flack


Released = Start date|1969|6|20
Recorded =
Genre = R&B/Soul
Length = 46.08
Label = Atlantic
Producer = Joel Dorn
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:aifexqy5ldke link]
*"Rolling Stone" (favorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/robertaflack/albums/album/129894/review/5942043/first_take link]
Last album =
This album = "First Take"
(1969)
Next album = "Chapter Two"
(1970)
Misc = Singles
Name = First Take
Type = studio
single 1 = Compared to What / Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
single 1 date = August 14, 1969
single 2 = The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face / Trade Winds
single 2 date = January 24, 1972

"First Take" is the debut album by the soul singer Roberta Flack. It was released in 1969 on Atlantic Records.

Track listing

#"Compared to What" (Gene McDaniels) - 5:16
#"Angelitos Negros" (Andres Eloy Blanco, Manuel Alvarez Maciste) - 6:56
#"Our Ages or Our Hearts" (Robert Ayers, Donny Hathaway) - 6:09
#"I Told Jesus" (Traditional) - 6:09
#"Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye" (Leonard Cohen) - 4:08
#"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (Ewan MacColl) - 5:22
#"Tryin' Times" (Donny Hathaway, Leroy Hutson) - 5:08
#"Ballad of the Sad Young Men" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) - 7:00

Chart positions

Album

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Personnel

*Roberta Flack - vocals, piano
*Ray Lucas - drums
*Ron Carter - bass guitar
*Bucky Pizzarelli - guitar
*Joe Newman - trumpet
*Jimmy Washington - trumpet
*Frank Wess - tenor saxophone
*Seldon Powell - baritone saxophone
*Benny Powell - trombone
*Alfred Brown - viola
*Selwart Clarke - viola
*Emanuel Green - violin
*Theodore Israel - violin
*Gene Orloff - violin
*Charles McCracken - cello
*George Ricci - cello