''I'm the One'' is an album by Roberta Flack released in May 1982 which reached #59 on the Billboard 200, album chart in ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' whose Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, R&B album chart afforded the album a #16 peak. The Burt Bacharach/Carole Bayer Sager-produced "Making Love (song), Making Love", which appeared in the Making Love, 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, ''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 Adult Contemporary (chart), ''Billboard'' Adult Contemporary chart.

Track listing

#"I'm the One" (William Eaton, Ralph MacDonald, William Salter) - 4:05
Single (music), Single 2 A-side and B-side, A-side #"'Till the Morning Comes" (Casey Daniels, Ralph MacDonald, William Salter) - 3:54
Single 2 A-side and B-side, 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 (song), Making Love" (Burt Bacharach, Bruce Roberts (singer), 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 – lead vocals * Richard Tee – Fender Rhodes (1-6, 7, 8, 9), acoustic piano (7) * Paul Griffin (musician), Paul Griffin – Oberheim OB-X (1-6, 8, 9) * Burt Bacharach – synthesizers (7) * Craig Huxley, 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 (jazz drummer), 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

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

{{Authority control Roberta Flack albums 1982 albums Albums produced by Burt Bacharach Atlantic Records albums