I'm the One (Roberta Flack album)

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

1. "I'm the One" (William Eaton, Ralph MacDonald, William Salter) - 4:05 <br>Single 2 A-side
2. "'Till the Morning Comes" (Casey Daniels, Ralph MacDonald, William Salter) - 3:54 <br>Single 2 B-side
3. "Love and Let Love" (William Eaton, Ralph MacDonald, William Salter) - 4:34
4. "Never Loved Before" (Bobby Caldwell, Henry Grumpo Marx) - 3:58
5. "In the Name of Love" (Ralph MacDonald, William Salter, Bill Withers) - 4:00 <br>Single 3 A-side
6. "Ordinary Man" (Peabo Bryson) - 4:26
7. "Making Love" (Burt Bacharach, Bruce Roberts, Carole Bayer Sager) - 3:43 <br>Single 1 A-side
8. "Happiness" (Harriet Schock, William D. Smith) - 3:22 <br>Single 3 B-side
9. "My Love for You" (Brenda Russell, William D. Smith) - 3:22

Personnel

• Roberta Flack – vocals
• Richard Tee – Fender Rhodes (1–6, 7–9), 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 guitar (1–6, 8, 9)
• Neil Stubenhaus – bass guitar (7)
• Steve Gadd – drums (1–3, 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

• 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)
• 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)
• Renee Bell – production coordinator
• Janaire Boger – production coordinator
• Jacklyn Brown – production coordinator
• Kirk D. Fancher – production coordinator
• Bob Defrin – art direction, design
• Kinko Y. Craft – illustration

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References