I'm the One (Roberta Flack album)
I'm the One | ||||
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Released | May 1, 1982 | |||
Genre | R&B, soul | |||
Label | Atlantic | |||
Producer | William Eaton, Roberta Flack, Ralph MacDonald, William Salter except "Making Love": Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager | |||
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I'm the One is an album by Roberta Flack released in May 1982 which reached #59 on the album chart in Billboard whose R&B album chart afforded the album a #16 peak.
The Burt Bacharach/Carole Bayer Sager-produced "Making Love", which appeared in the film of the same name and in the spring of 1982 had afforded Flack her final solo Top 40 hit (#13 on the Billboard Hot 100), was included on the I'm the One album along with eight new tracks co-produced by William Eaton, Ralph MacDonald, William Salter and Flack herself.
The track "I'm the One" given parallel single release with the album peaked at #42 on the Hot 100 where it marked Flack's final solo appearance although she'd return to the Hot 100 in 1983 with the duets "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" (#16) and "You're Looking Like Love to Me" (#58) (both with Peabo Bryson) and again in 1991 with "Set the Night to Music" (with Maxi Priest/ #6).
A third single from the I'm the One album: "In the Name of Love", reached #24 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.
Track listing
- "I'm the One" (William Eaton, Ralph MacDonald, William Salter)
Single 2 A-side
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #42
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 #36[2]
Billboard R&B chart #24
Billboard Adult Contemporary chart #10
Canada Adult Contemporary #4[3] - "'Till the Morning Comes" (Casey Daniels, Ralph MacDonald, William Salter)
Single 2 B-side - "Love and Let Love" (William Eaton, Ralph MacDonald, William Salter)
- "Never Loved Before" (Bobby Caldwell, Henry Grumpo Marx)
- "In the Name of Love" (Ralph MacDonald, William Salter, Bill Withers)
Single #3 A-side
Billboard R&B chart #80
Adult Contemporary chart #24 - "Ordinary Man" Peabo Bryson
- "Making Love" (Burt Bacharach, Bruce Roberts, Carole Bayer Sager)
Single 1 A-side
Billboard Hot 100 #13
Billboard R&B chart #29
Billboard Adult Contemporary chart #7
Canada RPM Top Singles #43
Canada Adult Contemporary #17[4] - "Happiness" (Harriet Schock, William D. Smith)
Single 3 B-side - "My Love for You" (Brenda Russell, William D. Smith)
Personnel
- Roberta Flack - vocals
- Marcus Miller - bass guitar
- Jim Keltner - drums
- Burt Bacharach - synthesizer
- Grover Washington Jr. - baritone saxophone
- Lee Ritenour - guitar
- Paulinho da Costa - percussion
- Richard Tee - electric piano
- Neil Stubenhaus - bass guitar
- Steve Gadd - drums
- Paul Griffin - synthesizer
- Ralph MacDonald - percussion
- Eric Gale - guitar
- Craig Hundley - synthesizer
- Zachary Sanders - backing vocals
- Frank Floyd - backing vocals
- Vivian Cherry - backing vocals
- William Eaton - backing vocals
- Kasey Cisyk - backing vocals
- Diva Gray - backing vocals
References
- ^ I'm the One at AllMusic
- ^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, September 18, 1982 Archived May 31, 2016, at the Wayback Machine #36
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http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.6950&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.6950.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.6950 - ^ RPM Adult Contemporary, August 7, 1982