Flack would recall having had no preview of the song 'Making Love' prior to recording it: (Roberta Flack quote:)'I just went into the studio, sight-read it, and I love the way it came out.' In the late 1960s Burt Bacharach had regularly visited the Capitol Hill club Mr Henry's to hear a pre-stardom Roberta Flack sing, but 'Making Love' marked the first time Flack had recorded a Bacharach composition: Flack's 1983 duet album with Peabo Bryson: Born to Love, would feature two Bacharach/ Bayer Sager songwriting/ producing collaborations: 'Blame It On Me' and 'Maybe'. Carole Bayer Sager was a frequent lyricist for either Burt Bacharach - whom she married in April 1982 - or Bruce Roberts but all three songwriters only collaborated on occasion: 'Making Love' is the second and most successful of three charting collaborations for the Bacharach/ Roberts/ Bayer Sager songwriting team, subsequent to 'Stronger Than Before' - #30 as recorded by Carole Bayer Sager in 1981 - and preceding the 1986 El DeBarge hit 'Love Always' (#43).
