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Genre: R&B
Release Date: 12/20/1991
Run Time: 71:29

Unfortunately, Atlantic's A Donny Hathaway Collection, one of the few career retrospectives available (and basically the only one in print), isn't quite definitive; it presents a version of Hathaway's career inordinately focused on his commercially successful duets with Roberta Flack, and his slowest, most dirge-like solo recordings. A few of his best up-tempo tracks are represented ("The Ghetto," his live cover of "What's Going On"), but not before haunted material like "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know," and "Giving Up." Admittedly, his duets with Flack are among the best recordings of his career, ranging from the depressed ("Where Is the Love") to the atmospheric ("The Closer I Get to You") to the downright driving ("Back Together Again"). But A Donny Hathaway Collection neglects far too much material from his two greatest solo albums, 1970s Everything Is Everything and 1973's Extension of a Man, to be considered the perfect first choice. It may simply be a matter of embellishing the myth of the tortured artist, but this doesn't present both sides of the Hathaway legend.

~John Bush, All Music Guide

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Roberta Flack - Performer
Donny Hathaway - Piano
Donny Hathaway - Piano (Electric)
Donny Hathaway - Main Performer
Sylvia Rhone - Producer

Extension of a Man
    Donny Hathaway / CD / 1973
The Anthology 1961-1977
    Curtis Mayfield/The Impressions / CD / 1992
Anthology
    The Dells / CD / 1999
Turn Back the Hands of Time [CD Reissue]
    Tyrone Davis / CD / 1970
The Very Best of Marvin Gaye [Motown 2001]
    Marvin Gaye / CD / 2001
20 Greatest Hits
    The Chi-Lites / CD / 2001
The Incredible Soul Collection
    Various Artists / CD / 2003

Release Date: 12/20/1991
Genre: r&b
Run Time: 71:29