Roberta Flack - First Take ( 1969 )

Track listing

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

Personnel

• Roberta Flack - piano, vocals
• Bucky Pizzarelli - guitars
• Ron Carter - bass
• Ray Lucas - drums, percussion
• Seldon Powell, Frank Wess - saxophone
• Charles McCracken, George Ricci - cello
• Benny Powell - trombone
• Jimmy Nottingham, Joe Newman - trumpet
• Emanuel Green, Gene Orloff - violin
• Alfred Brown, Selwart Clarke, Theodore Israel - viola
• William S. Fischer - horn & string arrangements, string conducting