BILLBOARD TOP 40 HITS 1971: #113: ‘YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND’- ROBERTA FLACK AND DONNY HATHAWAY

You've Got A Friend / Gone Away - Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway | 7inch |  Recordsale

Billboard Top 40 Hits 1971: #113: ‘You’ve Got A Friend’- Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway. June 12, 1971.

  • Single: ‘You’ve Got A Friend’- Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway
  • Record Company- Atlantic
  • Genre: Soul
  • Written by Carole King
  • Time: 3:21
  • B-side: ‘ Gone Away’
  • Album-Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway
  • Grade: B
  • Peaked at #29 12 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.

Roberta Flack’s first Hot 100 hit- her career would take off in 1972 wit the #1 hit “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.’ Donny Hathaway had had a previous Hot 100 hit but this was also his first Top 40 hit. Flack and Hathaway would score with a handful of duet hits throughout the decade.