Quiet Fire

"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow / Go Up Moses"
Quiet Fire
Studio album by Roberta Flack
Released	November 1971
Recorded	Atlantic Recording Studios, Regent Studios, The Hit Factory; New York City
Genre	Soul, gospel [1]
Length	41:37
Label	Atlantic
Producer	Joel Dorn
Roberta Flack chronology
Singles from Quiet Fire
	"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow / Go Up Moses"; Released: December 7, 1971;

Last updated May 04, 2019

Quiet Fire is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Roberta Flack, released in November 1971 by Atlantic Records.^[1] It was recorded at Atlantic Recording Studios, Regent Studios, and The Hit Factory in New York City.^[2] The album peaked at number 18 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape, and its single "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" charted at number 76 on the Hot 100.^[3]

Roberta Cleopatra Flack is an American singer. She is known for her #1 singles "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and "Feel Like Makin' Love", and for "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You", two of her many duets with Donny Hathaway.

Atlantic Recording Corporation is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson. Over its first 20 years of operation, Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most important American labels, specializing in jazz, R&B, and soul by Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Ruth Brown and Otis Redding. Its position was greatly improved by its distribution deal with Stax. In 1967, Atlantic became a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, now the Warner Music Group, and expanded into rock and pop music with releases by Led Zeppelin and Yes.

The Hit Factory was a recording studio in New York City famous for its clientele. It closed on April 1, 2005; the original building is now the headquarters of American Musical and Dramatic Academy. However, other Hit Factory studio locations remained open, such as in Miami, Florida.

Critical reception

In a contemporary review for The Village Voice , Robert Christgau gave Quiet Fire a "C", writing that Flack occasionally "sounds kind, intelligent, and very likable, but she often exhibits the gratuitous gentility you'd expect of anyone who said 'between you and I.'"^[4] In a retrospective review, The Rolling Stone Album Guide (1992) gave it two out of five stars and claimed it "barely sparks at all".^[5] AllMusic's Stephen Cook was more enthusiastic, giving it four-and-a-half out of five stars and calling it "one of Flack's best". He believed its "varied mix all comes off sounding seamless" while writing: "Forgoing the full-throttled delivery of, say, Aretha Franklin, Flack translates the pathos of gospel expression into measured intensity and sighing, elongated phrases."^[1]

<i>The Village Voice</i> American weekly newspaper

The Village Voice was an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly. Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, John Wilcock, and Norman Mailer, the Voice began as a platform for the creative community of New York City. It still is kept alive online.

Robert Thomas Christgau is an American essayist and music journalist. One of the earliest professional rock critics, he spent 37 years as the chief music critic and senior editor for The Village Voice, during which time he created and oversaw the annual Pazz & Jop poll. He has also covered popular music for Esquire, Creem, Newsday, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Billboard, NPR, Blender, and MSN Music, and was a visiting arts teacher at New York University.

<i>The Rolling Stone Album Guide</i> book

The Rolling Stone Album Guide, previously known as The Rolling Stone Record Guide, is a book that contains professional music reviews written and edited by staff members from Rolling Stone magazine. Its first edition was published in 1979 and its last in 2004. The guide can be seen at Rate Your Music, while a list of albums given a five star rating by the guide can be seen at Rocklist.net.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Go up Moses"	Flack, Jesse Jackson, Joel Dorn	Joel Dorn	5:20
2.	"Bridge over Troubled Water"	Paul Simon	Joel Dorn	7:13
3.	"Sunday and Sister Jones"	Gene McDaniels	Joel Dorn	4:48
4.	"See You Then"	Jimmy Webb	Joel Dorn	3:40
5.	"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"	Carole King, Gerry Goffin	Joel Dorn	3:59
6.	"To Love Somebody"	Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb	Joel Dorn	6:41
7.	"Let Them Talk"	Sonny Thompson	Joel Dorn	3:50
8.	"Sweet Bitter Love"	Van McCoy	Joel Dorn	6:06

Personnel

Musicians

Roberta Flack – piano, vocals
Joshie Armstead – background vocals
J.R. "Jim" Bailey – background vocals
Seymour Barab – cello
David Carey – vibraphone
Ron Carter – bass
The Newark Boys Chorus – background vocals
Joel Dorn – background vocals
Joe Farrell – flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Corky Hale – harp
Hilda Harris – background vocals
Cissy Houston – background vocals
Ted Hoyle – cello
Wally Kane – bassoon
Hubert Laws – flute
Buddy Lucas – harmonica
Ralph MacDonald – percussion, conga
Arif Mardin – background vocals, string arrangements, flute arrangement

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Josephine Armstead, often known as "Joshie" Jo Armstead, is an American soul singer and songwriter. She co-wrote Ray Charles' hits "Let's Go Get Stoned" and "I Don't Need No Doctor", among other songs written with Ashford & Simpson. After a period in The Ikettes in the early 1960s, she also had some success as a solo singer, her biggest hit being "A Stone Good Lover" in 1968.

The cello ( CHEL-oh; plural cellos or celli) or violoncello ( VY-ə-lən-CHEL-oh; Italian pronunciation: [vjolonˈtʃɛllo]) is a string instrument. It is played by bowing or plucking its four strings, which are usually tuned in perfect fifths an octave lower than the viola: from low to high, C₂, G₂, D₃ and A₃. It is the bass member of the violin family, which also includes the violin, viola and the double bass, which doubles the bass line an octave lower than the cello in much of the orchestral repertoire. After the double bass, it is the second-largest and second lowest (in pitch) bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. The cello is used as a solo instrument, as well as in chamber music ensembles (e.g., string quartet), string orchestras, as a member of the string section of symphony orchestras, most modern Chinese orchestras, and some types of rock bands.

Les McCann – background vocals
Hugh McCracken – guitar
Gene McDaniels – background vocals
Kermit Moore – cello
Romeo Penque – flute, soprano saxophone
Terry Plumeri – double bass
Seldon Powell – tenor saxophone
Bernard "Pretty" Purdie – drums
Chuck Rainey – bass, electric bass
George Ricci – cello
William Slapin – flute
Grady Tate – percussion, drums
Richard Tee – organ
Tasha Thomas – background vocals
Sammy Turner – background vocals

Hugh Carmine McCracken was an American rock guitarist and session musician based in New York City, primarily known for his performance on guitar and also as a harmonica player. McCracken was additionally an arranger and producer.

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Eugene Booker McDaniels was an African-American singer and songwriter. He had his greatest recording success in the early 1960s, and had continued success as a songwriter with songs including "Compared to What" and Roberta Flack's "Feel Like Makin' Love".

Production

Rod Bristow – photography
Deodato – horn arrangements, string arrangements
Joel Dorn – producer
William Eaton – horn arrangements, string arrangements
Ira Friedlander – cover design
Lewis Hahn – engineer
Bruce Tergesen – engineer

Eumir Deodato de Almeida is a Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger, and record producer, primarily in jazz but who has been known for his eclectic melding of genres, such as pop, rock, disco, rhythm and blues, classical, Latin and bossa nova.

Joel Dorn was an American jazz and R&B music producer and record label entrepreneur. He worked at Atlantic Records, and later founded the 32 Jazz, Label M, and Hyena Records labels. He called himself "The Masked Announcer".

Charts

Chart (1972)	Peak position^[3]
U.S. Billboard Jazz LPs	5
U.S. Billboard Soul LPs	4
U.S. Billboard Top LPs & Tape	18

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1 2 "Quiet Fire - Roberta Flack : Awards". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
↑ Christgau, Robert (January 20, 1972). "Consumer Guide (23)". The Village Voice . New York. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
↑ Anthony DeCurtis, James Henke, Holly George-Warren (October 27, 1992). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. p. 248. ISBN 0679737294.

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[Cook-1] 1 2 3 Cook, Stephen. "Quiet Fire - Roberta Flack". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation . Retrieved November 30, 2012.

[2] "Roberta Flack - Quiet Fire CD Album". CD Universe. Muze . Retrieved November 30, 2012.

[awards-3] 1 2 "Quiet Fire - Roberta Flack : Awards". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved November 30, 2012.

[Christgau-4] Christgau, Robert (January 20, 1972). "Consumer Guide (23)". The Village Voice . New York. Retrieved November 30, 2012.

[RSguide-5] Anthony DeCurtis, James Henke, Holly George-Warren (October 27, 1992). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. p. 248. ISBN 0679737294.

v t e Roberta Flack
Studio albums	First Take (1969) Chapter Two (1970) Quiet Fire (1971) Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (1972) Killing Me Softly (1973) Feel Like Makin' Love (1975) Blue Lights in the Basement (1977) Roberta Flack (1978) Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway (1980) I'm the One (1982) Born to Love (1983) Oasis (1988) Set the Night to Music (1991) Roberta (1994) The Christmas Album (1997) Holiday (2003)
Live albums	Live & More (1980) At Her Best – Live (2008)
Soundtrack albums	Bustin' Loose (1981)
Compilation albums	The Best of Roberta Flack (1981) Greatest Hits (1984) Softly with These Songs: The Best of Roberta Flack (1993) The Very Best of Roberta Flack (2006)
Singles	"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" "Where Is the Love" "Killing Me Softly with His Song" "Feel Like Makin' Love" "The Closer I Get to You" "If Ever I See You Again" "Making Love" "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" "Oasis" "Uh-Uh Ooh-Ooh Look Out (Here It Comes)"
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