Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway is an album created by American singers Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway. It was released by Atlantic Records in April 1972 and produced by Joel Dorn and Arif Mardin.

Before this collaboration, both Flack and Hathaway were solo artists signed to Atlantic Records and had received praise from critics. However, Flack had not achieved much commercial success. Both artists attended Howard University, though Flack enrolled earlier than Hathaway. Their careers overlapped in some ways: Flack included songs written by Hathaway on her First Take and Chapter Two albums. On Chapter Two, Hathaway also played piano, arranged music, and sang background vocals. Jerry Wexler, a record executive, suggested they work together to increase their popularity.

The first single from the album was a version of "You've Got a Friend," recorded before James Taylor’s version was released. Both songs appeared on the Hot 100 chart around the same time. Taylor’s version debuted on June 5, 1971, and Flack and Hathaway’s version debuted the following week on June 12, 1971. This marked Flack’s first appearance on the chart. While Taylor’s version reached number one, Flack and Hathaway’s duet reached number 29 on the Hot 100 and was a top ten R&B hit at number 8. The B-side, "Gone Away," was a song from Flack’s Chapter Two album written by Hathaway.

The second single from the album was a remake of The Righteous Brothers’ "You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’." It became a number 30 R&B hit and reached number 71 on the Hot 100.

The album’s third and final single, "Where Is the Love," was also released in April 1972. It became a major hit, partly because Flack had previously achieved success with her solo song "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." "Where Is the Love" reached number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won the duo a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 15th Annual Grammy Awards in 1973.

Before working together, Hathaway had greater success as a solo artist than Flack. However, his solo career after the collaboration was not very successful until he reunited with Flack for "The Closer I Get to You" in 1978. At the time of his death on January 13, 1979, Hathaway had recorded two songs for a second duet album with Flack, which later became the Roberta Flack Featuring Donny Hathaway album.

Track listing

• "I (Who Have Nothing)" by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, and Carlo Donida – 5:00
• "You've Got a Friend" by Carole King – 3:24
• "Baby I Love You" by Ronnie Shannon – 3:24
• "Be Real Black for Me" by Charles Mann, Donny Hathaway, and Roberta Flack – 3:30
• "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" by Barry Mann, Phil Spector, and Cynthia Weil – 6:36

• "For All We Know" by J. Fred Coots and Sam M. Lewis – 3:38
• "Where Is the Love" by Ralph MacDonald and William Salter – 2:43
• "When Love Has Grown" by

Personnel

• Roberta Flack – helped arrange the music and sang on tracks 1 through 5, 7, 8, and 9. She also played electric piano on track 1, acoustic piano on tracks 5, 6, and 10, and organ on track 9.
• Donny Hathaway – helped arrange the music and sang on tracks 1 through 9. He played acoustic piano on tracks 1, 3, 4, 8, and 9, electric piano on tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 10, and arranged horn and string parts on tracks 4 and 8.
• Eric Gale – played guitar on tracks 1, 3 through 9.
• David Spinozza – played guitar on track 2.
• Chuck Rainey – played electric bass on tracks 1 through 9.
• Bernard Purdie – played drums on tracks 1, 3 through 9.
• Billy Cobham – played drums on track 2.
• Ralph MacDonald – played percussion on tracks 1 through 9.
• Jack Jennings – played vibraphone on track 7.
• Joe Gentle – played flute on track 2.
• Hubert Laws – played flute on track 8.
• Joe Farrell – played soprano saxophone on track 5.
• Arif Mardin – helped arrange string parts on tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7, and woodwind parts on tracks 6 and 7.

• Arif Mardin – was the producer and handled the mixing.
• Joel Dorn – was the producer.
• Jimmy Douglass – was the recording engineer for tracks 1, 3 through 10 and handled the mixing.
• Lew Hahn – was the recording engineer for track 2.
• Gene Paul – helped with additional recording.
• Jeff Blue – designed the album and took photographs.