I'm the One (Roberta Flack album)
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| Released | May 1, 1982 | |||
| Studio | A & R Recording and Rosebud Recording Studio (New York, NY); Westlake Studios (Los Angeles, CA). | |||
| 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[edit]
- "I'm the One" (William Eaton, Ralph MacDonald, William Salter) - 4:05
Single 2 A-side - "'Till the Morning Comes" (Casey Daniels, Ralph MacDonald, William Salter) - 3:54
Single 2 B-side - "Love and Let Love" (William Eaton, Ralph MacDonald, William Salter) - 4:34
- "Never Loved Before" (Bobby Caldwell, Henry Grumpo Marx) - 3:58
- "In the Name of Love" (Ralph MacDonald, William Salter, Bill Withers) - 4:00
Single 3 A-side - "Ordinary Man" (Peabo Bryson) - 4:26
- "Making Love" (Burt Bacharach, Bruce Roberts, Carole Bayer Sager) - 3:43
Single 1 A-side - "Happiness" (Harriet Schock, William D. Smith) - 3:22
Single 3 B-side - "My Love for You" (Brenda Russell, William D. Smith) - 3:22
Personnel[edit]
- Roberta Flack – lead vocals
- Richard Tee – Fender Rhodes (1-6, 7, 8, 9), acoustic piano (7)
- Paul Griffin – Oberheim OB-X (1-6, 8, 9)
- Burt Bacharach – synthesizers (7)
- Craig Hundley – synthesizers (7)
- Eric Gale – guitars (1-6, 8, 9)
- Lee Ritenour – guitars (7)
- Marcus Miller – bass (1-6, 8, 9)
- Neil Stubenhaus – bass (7)
- Steve Gadd – drums (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9)
- Buddy Williams – drums (4)
- Jim Keltner – drums (7)
- Ralph MacDonald – percussion (1-6, 8, 9)
- Paulinho da Costa – percussion (7)
- Grover Washington Jr. – soprano sax solo (5, 9)
- Vivian Cherry – backing vocals
- Kasey Cisyk – backing vocals
- William Eaton – backing vocals, all arrangements
- Frank Floyd – backing vocals
- Diva Gray – backing vocals
- Zachary Sanders – backing vocals
Production[edit]
- William Eaton – producer (1-6, 8, 9)
- Roberta Flack – producer (1-6, 8, 9)
- Ralph MacDonald – producer (1-6, 8, 9)
- William Salter – producer (1-6, 8, 9)
- Burt Bacharach – producer (7)
- Carole Bayer Sager – producer (7)
- Renee Bell – production coordinator
- Janaire Boger – production coordinator
- Jacklyn Brown – production coordinator
- Kirk D. Fancher – production coordinator
- Richard Alderson – engineer (1-6, 8, 9)
- Carla Bandini – engineer (1-6, 8, 9)
- Mike Bradley – engineer (1-6, 8, 9)
- Ollie Cotton – engineer (1-6, 8, 9)
- Ed Rak – engineer (1-6, 8, 9)
- Elliot Scheiner – engineer (1-6, 8, 9), remixing
- Bruce Swedien – engineer (7)
- Kendall Brown – assistant engineer (1-6, 8, 9)
- Eddie Heath – assistant engineer (1-6, 8, 9)
- Anthony McDonald – assistant engineer (1-6, 8, 9)
- Lamont Moreno – assistant engineer (1-6, 8, 9)
- Bob Defrin – art direction, design
- Kinko Y. Craft – illustration
Charts[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
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Year-end charts[edit]
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References[edit]
- ^ I'm the One at AllMusic
- ^ "Roberta Flack Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved April 11, 2021.
- ^ "Roberta Flack Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved April 11, 2021.
- ^ "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 1982". Billboard. Retrieved April 11, 2021.
