# I'm the One (Roberta Flack album)

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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) - 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

* 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 (1-6, 8, 9)
* Neil Stubenhaus – bass (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