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A1	Compared To What Written-By – Gene McDaniels*	5:15
A2	Angelitos Negros Written-By – Manuel Alvarez Maciste	6:55
A3	Our Ages Or Our Hearts Written-By – Donny Hathaway, Robert Ayers	6:09
A4	I Told Jesus Arranged By – Roberta FlackWritten By – Traditional	6:08
B1	Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye Written-By – Leonard Cohen	4:07
B2	The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Written-By – Ewan MacColl	5:21
B3	Tryin' Times Written-By – Donny Hathaway, Leroy Hutson	5:07
B4	Ballad Of The Sad Young Men Written-By – Frances Landesman*, Thomas J. Wolf, Jr.*	7:03

Companies, etc.

• Manufactured By – WEA Music Of Canada, Ltd.
• Distributed By – WEA Music of Canada, Ltd.
• Copyright (c) – Atlantic Recording Corporation
• Published By – Lonport
• Published By – Peer International
• Published By – Stranger
• Published By – Stormking
• Published By – Don-Pow
• Published By – Empress
• Recorded At – Atlantic Studios
• Remixed At – Regent Sound Studios, New York City
• Mastered At – Customatrix

Credits

• Arranged By [Horn & String Arrangements] – William Fischer*
• Baritone Saxophone – Seldon Powell (tracks: A1, A4)
• Bass – Ron Carter
• Cello – Charles McCracken (tracks: A2 to B2, B4), George Ricci (tracks: A2 to B2, B4)
• Conductor [String Section] – William Fischer* (tracks: A2 to B2, B4)
• Design [Cover Design] – Stanislaw Zagorski
• Drums – Ray Lucas
• Engineer [Re-mix] – Bob Liftin
• Engineer [Recording] – William Arlt
• Guitar – John Pizzarelli*
• Liner Notes – Les McCann
• Photography By [Cover Photo] – Ken Heinen
• Piano, Vocals – Roberta Flack
• Producer – Joel Dorn
• Tenor Saxophone – Frank Wess (tracks: A1, A4)
• Trombone – Bennie Powell* (tracks: A1, A4)
• Trumpet – Jimmy Nottingham (tracks: A1, A4), Joe Newman (tracks: A1, A4)
• Viola – Alfred Brown (tracks: A2 to B2, B4), Selwart Clarke (tracks: A2 to B2, B4), Theodore Israel (tracks: A2 to B2, B4)
• Violin – Emanuel Green (tracks: A2 to B2, B4), Gene Orloff (tracks: A2 to B2, B4)

Notes

Label variations from other WEA Canadian version First Take
- This version has Warner Communications and "W" logo in rim text (so released after June 1974)
- This version has no space before PR in label matrix
- This version songwriters are not in brackets
- This version has no period after SD in Category

On back cover:
Recorded at Atlantic Recording Studios, New York.
Re-mix...Regent Sound Studios, New York.
© 1969 Atlantic Recording Corporation.

Publishing on back cover:
A1: Lonport
A2, A3: Peer International
B1: Stranger
B2: Stormking
B3: Don-Pow
B4: Empress

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Rights Society (B4): ASCAP
• Rights Society (A1 to A3, B1 to B3): BMI
• Matrix / Runout (A label): ST-A-691631PR
• Matrix / Runout (B label): ST-A-691632PR
• Matrix / Runout (A runout): ST-A-691631-1A-2HD º 14
• Matrix / Runout (B runout): ST-A-691632RR-1A-2-H º

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
SD 8230	Roberta Flack	First Take ‎(LP, Album, PR)	Atlantic	SD 8230	US	1969
EU 333	Roberta Flack	First Take ‎(LP, Album)	Taedo	EU 333	South Korea	1969
K 40040	Roberta Flack	First Take ‎(LP, Album, RP)	Atlantic	K 40040	UK	Unknown
8230-2	Roberta Flack	First Take ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM)	Atlantic	8230-2	US	1987
ATL 40 040	Roberta Flack	First Take ‎(LP, Album, TP)	Atlantic	ATL 40 040	Germany	1972