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Thread started 06/23/11 4:27pm

silverchild

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Roberta & Donny - You Are My Heaven

This classic cut has been in constant rotation all day today. It's a shame it was one of the last cuts Donny would ever grace his vocals on and he and Roberta would sing together. Produced by the incomparable Stevie Wonder.

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Reply #1 posted 06/24/11 4:34am

SoulAlive

just last weekend on my vinyl dig,I found this album:

Contains a 10-minute version of their other hit duet "Back Together Again" music

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Reply #2 posted 06/24/11 4:38am

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SoulAlive said:

just last weekend on my vinyl dig,I found this album:

Contains a 10-minute version of their other hit duet "Back Together Again" music

I just love "Back Together Again", "You Are My Heaven" and "Don't Make Me Wait Too Long" from that album. I gonna swipe it up and check out the entire album. Never heard the 10-minute version of "Back Together Again" either. I know it's jumpin'! music

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Reply #3 posted 06/24/11 6:43am

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Never heard the 10-minute version of "Back Together Again" either. I know it's jumpin'! music

here ya go lol

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Reply #4 posted 06/24/11 9:56am

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silverchild said:

Never heard the 10-minute version of "Back Together Again" either.

During the 1980's, some of the local stations would play the long versions and remixes of songs.

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Reply #5 posted 06/24/11 4:47pm

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One of my favorites! music
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Reply #6 posted 06/25/11 2:00am

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According to Roberta Flack, Stevie flew her to California and offered her up to five songs for this album. It was supposed to be another duets album. Stevie is actually singing background on " You Are My Heaven", uncredited of course. The other song from Stevie was " Don't Make Me Wait Too Long", a disco influenced Stevie Jam. The album cover is one of my lasting images Of Donny Hathaway, a deep ,soulful immortal genius genius. Roberta Flack's essay on the back cover concludes with "Donny Hathaway Lives". Amen!
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Reply #7 posted 06/25/11 4:51pm

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One of my favorites! music

Anyone know why Roberta won't release the other tracks with Donny on them?

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Reply #8 posted 06/25/11 8:37pm

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Graycap23 said:

AlexdeParis said:

One of my favorites! music

Anyone know why Roberta won't release the other tracks with Donny on them?

You know what, I don't even think they finished the work they were supposed to do on that album. Sure, there are probably songs with Donny and Roberta deep in the vault, but for the Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway project, it's tremendously unfinished as to what it was supposed to be due to Donny's untimely death.

I heard that there were gonna be some rare Roberta & Donny cuts on the never-released, Donny Hathaway Anthology, that was supposed to come out in 2002...but it never surfaced completely.

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Reply #9 posted 06/25/11 9:22pm

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silverchild said:



Graycap23 said:




AlexdeParis said:


One of my favorites! music

Anyone know why Roberta won't release the other tracks with Donny on them?



You know what, I don't even think they finished the work they were supposed to do on that album. Sure, there are probably songs with Donny and Roberta deep in the vault, but for the Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway project, it's tremendously unfinished as to what it was supposed to be due to Donny's untimely death.



I heard that there were gonna be some rare Roberta & Donny cuts on the never-released, Donny Hathaway Anthology, that was supposed to come out in 2002...but it never surfaced completely.



Check amazon for Donny Hathaway" Someday We'll All Be Free" 4cd French box set. It contains some rare Donny Hathaway gems for all the Hathaway lovers out there.
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