Roberta Flack – First Take
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Atlantic – 588204 |
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UK |
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Genre: |
Funk / Soul |
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Soul |
Tracklist
| A1 | Compared To What | 5:15 | |
| A2 | Angelitos Negros | 6:55 | |
| A3 | Our Ages Or Our Hearts | 6:09 | |
| A4 | I Told Jesus | 6:08 | |
| B1 | Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye | 4:07 | |
| B2 | The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face | 5:21 | |
| B3 | Tryin' Times | 5:07 | |
| B4 | Ballad Of The Sad Young Men | 7:03 |
Companies, etc.
- Licensed Through – Atlantic Recording Corporation
Credits
- Arranged By [Horns, Strings] – William Fischer*
- Baritone Saxophone – Seldon Powell (tracks: A1, A4)
- Bass – Ron Carter
- Cello – George Ricci (tracks: A2 to B2, B4)
- Conductor [Strings] – William Fischer* (tracks: A2 to B2, B4)
- Design [Cover] – Stanislaw Zagorski
- Drums – Ray Lucas
- Engineer [Re-mix] – Bob Liftin
- Engineer [Recording] – William Arlt
- Guitar – John Pizzarelli*
- Liner Notes – Les McCann
- Photography By – Ken Heinen
- Piano, Vocals – Roberta Flack
- Producer – Joel Dorn
- Tenor Saxophone – Frank Wess (tracks: A1, A4)
- Trombone – Bennie Powell* (tracks: A1, A4)
- Trumpet – Joe Newman (tracks: A1, A4)
- Viola – Theodore Israel (tracks: A2 to B2, B4)
- Violin – Gene Orloff (tracks: A2 to B2, B4)
Notes
Recorded at Atlantic Recording Studios, New York.
Other Versions (5 of 158)
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| First Take (LP, Album, Stereo, PR - Presswell Pressing) | Atlantic | SD 8230 | US | 1969 | |||
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First Take (LP, Album, Stereo, MO - Monarch Pressing) | Atlantic | SD 8230 | US | 1969 | ||
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First Take (LP, Album, Brown Cover, MO - Monarch Pressing) | Atlantic | SD 8230 | US | 1969 | ||
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First Take (LP, Album, Club Edition, PR - Presswell Pressing, CRC Sticker) | Atlantic | SD 8230 | US | 1969 | ||
| First Take (LP, Album, Club Edition, Stereo, Record Club Of America) | Atlantic | SD 8230 | US | 1969 |
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Reviews
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What an amazing album. So raw and emotive. I’m glad I found my copy by chance, in a bargain bin for $10.
Although made in the UK in 1969, the label on it is blue on top half and orange on bottom half.
Plays mint.
Favorite track: I told Jesus. It’s like we’re privileged to be privy to a conversation between Flack and Jesus.
Anwen Crawford (October, 2020) sums it up like this:
At the centre of First Take is Flack’s arrangement of the hymn “I Told Jesus”. It’s a song about the cost of following one’s conscience. The singer asks Jesus to change her name, and Jesus warns her, “The world will turn away from you, child, if I change your name.” The singer replies that this will be alright, and as the world does exactly what Jesus has predicted – father, mother, brother each turning away – Flack digs into the bass octaves on her piano like a climber finding foothold. Horns and strings rise around her, clouds that skim the summit that she’s seeking. For the final time she vows, “It’d be alright, if He’d change my name.”
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