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In fact Hathaway's suffering had made it impossible for him to travel from Chicago to New York City to join Flack in the studio to record 'The Closer I Get to You': Flack recorded her part of the song with a session singer as a stopgap duet partner, the track being sent to Chicago for Hathaway to add his vocal and then back to New York City for its final mixing.

But I knew when he sat down at that piano and sang for me it was like it was eight or nine years ago because he sang and played his ass off. I felt this need because I didn't know what to do. That's how we managed to do the song we did last year. The depression also caused mood swings, which adversely affected his partnership with Flack, who, following Hathaway's death, would tell Jet magazine: Hathaway had been suffering from severe bouts of clinical depression at the time, which often forced him to be hospitalized. Flack's manager David Franklin, who had worked with Hathaway in the past, decided to re-write the song to include him.

'The Closer I Get to You' was not originally written as a duet. Roberta Flack, one of the members of the touring band in 1976 Five years later, the duo collaborated again on 'The Closer I Get to You'. Flack and Donny Hathaway, good friends while attending Howard University, had recorded a self-titled album of duets in 1972. Ferla, Flack (as Rubina Flake) and Gene McDaniels produced the track, with Ahmet Ertegun serving as executive producer. They wrote the song between tours and, during the sessions for the album, brought it to Flack's producer Joe Ferla, who played it for Flack.

'The Closer I Get to You' was written by Reggie Lucas and James Mtume, who were members of Roberta Flack's touring band and played on Blue Lights in the Basement. It was eventually certified gold in the United States in May 1978, and became one of their most familiar duets. The song charted in the top ten spots for fourteen weeks in Canada and one week in France. 'The Closer I Get to You' spent two weeks as number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart in April 1978, and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 behind Yvonne Elliman's ' If I Can't Have You' and Wings' ' With a Little Luck'. Originally set as a solo single, Flack's manager, David Franklin, suggested a duet with Hathaway, which resulted in the finished work. It became a major crossover hit, becoming Flack's biggest commercial hit after her success with her 1973 solo single, ' Killing Me Softly with His Song'. Produced by Atlantic Records, the song was released on Flack's 1977 album Blue Lights in the Basement, and as a single in 1978. The song was written by James Mtume and Reggie Lucas, two former members of Miles Davis's band, who were members of Flack's band at the time. ' The Closer I Get to You' is a romantic ballad performed by singer-songwriter Roberta Flack and soul musician Donny Hathaway.

Roberta flack the closer i get to you 320kbps