First Take (album)
First Take is the debut album by the American soul singer Roberta Flack. It was released on June 20, 1969, by Atlantic Records. After a track from this album, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", was included by Clint Eastwood in his 1971 film "Play Misty for Me" with the song becoming a number 1 hit in the United States, the album reached number 1 on the "Billboard" album chart and "Billboard" R&B album chart. In the 2020 edition of "Rolling Stone"s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, the album was ranked number 451 . In 2019, Flack's website announced that "First Take" would be remastered and re-released as a limited deluxe edition of only 3,000 copies commemorating the album's fiftieth anniversary. The set includes one vinyl LP and two compact discs: one CD is the remastered album and the other contains "rare and unreleased recordings". The set was released on July 24, 2020.