Be Real Black for Me

~ Recording by Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.4Be Real Black for Me3:33Roberta Flack & Donny HathawayRoberta Flack & Donny HathawayRoberta Flack & Donny HathawayAlbum
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)SD 7216
1.4Be Real Black for Me3:33Roberta Flack & Donny HathawayRoberta Flack & Donny HathawayRoberta Flack & Donny HathawayAlbum
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)7567-82794-2
1.4Be Real Black for Me3:33Roberta Flack & Donny HathawayRoberta Flack & Donny HathawayRoberta Flack & Donny HathawayAlbum
Rhino Atlantic (digital releases only!)
4.4Be Real Black for Me3:33Roberta Flack & Donny HathawayNever My Love: The AnthologyDonny HathawayAlbum + Compilation
  • XE2013-11-08
ATCO Records, Rhino (reissue label)8122796543
1.4Be Real Black For Me3:33Roberta Flack & Donny HathawayRoberta Flack & Donny HathawayRoberta Flack & Donny HathawayAlbum
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)8122-79628-5
1.9Be Real Black for Me3:34Roberta Flack & Donny HathawayOxford American: Ballads - Southern Music Issue Vol. 25Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
Oxford American (magazine of The South)[none]
4.4Be Real Black for Me3:34Roberta Flack & Donny HathawayWith Her Songs: The Atlantic Albums, 1969–1978Roberta FlackAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2026-02-06
Rhino Atlantic (digital releases only!)
4.4Be Real Black for Me3:34Roberta Flack & Donny HathawayWith Her Songs: The Atlantic Albums, 1969–1978Roberta FlackAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2026-02-06
Rhino (reissue label)R2 728059
1.4Be Real Black for Me3:33Roberta Flack & Donny HathawayRoberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (Club Edition)Roberta Flack & Donny HathawayAlbumAtlantic (Warner Music imprint), BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. (BMG company that owned their direct marketing company/club editions)7216-2, D 102135
(unknown)
1.4Be Real Black For Me3:31Roberta Flack & Donny HathawayRoberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (Manufactured by MMG, Inc. of Tokyo, Japan - a Time Warner company)Donny HathawayAlbumAtlantic (Warner Music imprint)18P2-3086

Relationships

recording engineer:Jimmy Douglass (engineer)
producer:Joel Dorn
Arif Mardin
mixer:Jimmy Douglass (engineer)
Arif Mardin
drums (drum set):Bernard Purdie (from 1971-03 until 1971-10)
electric bass guitar [electric bass]:Chuck Rainey (American bassist) (from 1971-03 until 1971-10)
electric piano and piano:Donny Hathaway (from 1971-03 until 1971-10)
guitar:Eric Gale (from 1971-03 until 1971-10)
percussion:Ralph MacDonald (from 1971-03 until 1971-10)
vocals:Roberta Flack (singer and pianist) (from 1971-03 until 1971-10)
Donny Hathaway (from 1971-03 until 1971-10)
horn [horns] arranger and strings arranger:Donny Hathaway
recorded at:Atlantic Studios (1841 Broadway, New York, 1957–1991) in Midtown Manhattan, New York, New York, United States (from 1971-03 until 1971-10)
recording of:Be Real Black for Me

Be Real Black for Me

writer:Roberta Flack (singer and pianist)
Donny Hathaway
Charles Mann (US soul singer)