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 Single 2 A-side
 * 2) "'Till the Morning Comes" (Casey Daniels, Ralph MacDonald, William Salter) - 3:54 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 Single 3 A-side
 * 6) "Ordinary Man" (Peabo Bryson) - 4:26
 * 7) "Making Love" (Burt Bacharach, Bruce Roberts, Carole Bayer Sager) - 3:43 Single 1 A-side
 * 8) "Happiness" (Harriet Schock, William D. Smith) - 3:22 Single 3 B-side
 * 9) "My Love for You" (Brenda Russell, William D. Smith) - 3:22

Personnel

 * Roberta Flack – lead vocals
 * Richard Tee – Fender Rhodes (1-6, 7, 8, 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, 2, 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)
 * Renee Bell – production coordinator
 * Janaire Boger – production coordinator
 * Jacklyn Brown – production coordinator
 * Kirk D. Fancher – production coordinator
 * 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)
 * Bob Defrin – art direction, design
 * Kinko Y. Craft – illustration