First Take 50th Anniversary Edition

Vinyl LP pressing. First Take is the debut album by the soul singer Roberta Flack. It was released on June 20, 1969 by Atlantic Records. After a track from this album, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", was included by Clint Eastwood in his 1971 film Play Misty for Me with the song becoming a number 1 hit in the United States, the album reached number 1 on the Billboard album chart and Billboard R&B album chart. In the 2020 edition of Rolling Stone's "Top 500 Albums of All Time" list, the album was ranked number 451.