Daytime Friends
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| Studio album by Kenny Rogers | ||||
| Released | July 1977[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1977 | |||
| Length | 36:33 | |||
| Label | United Artists Records | |||
| Producer | Larry Butler | |||
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Daytime Friends is the title of Kenny Rogers' third solo album for United Artists Records, released worldwide in 1977. It was his second major success following the break-up of The First Edition in 1976 (his first album Love Lifted Me was a minor success, with his second, the self-titled Kenny Rogers, going to Number 1 on the US country charts and crossing over to the mainstream pop charts in many countries).
The album produced two top 10 singles with the title cut reaching #1 on the country singles and tracks chart (and the top 40 in the UK pop charts) and "Sweet Music Man" (Rogers' own composition) reaching #9.[2] Elsewhere on the album is a song called "Am I Too Late" which was not released as a single, despite Rogers later saying it was one of his favorite songs [1].
The album reached #2 on the Country charts.
Track listing
- "Daytime Friends" (Ben Peters) [3:10]
- "Desperado" (Don Henley, Glenn Frey) [3:44]
- "Rock and Roll Man" (Kenny O'Dell) [2:46]
- "Lying Again" (Chips Moman, Larry Butler) [2:41]
- "I'll Just Write My Music and Sing My Songs" (Thomas Cain) [2:55]
- "My World Begins and Ends With You" (Larry Keith, Steve Pippin) [2:43]
- "Sweet Music Man" (Rogers) [4:16]
- "Am I Too Late" (Larry Keith) [3:31]
- "We Don't Make Love Anymore" (Rogers) [3:51]
- "Ghost of Another Man" (Frank Dycus, George Richey, Roger Bowling) [2:57]
- "Let Me Sing For You" (Casey Kelly, Julie Dodier) [4:39]
Personnel
- Kenny Rogers - vocals
- Billy Sanford, Dave Kirby, Jerry Shook, Jimmy Capps, Jim Colvard, Johnny Christopher, Larry Keith, Reggie Young, T.G. Engel - guitar
- Pete Drake - steel guitar
- Bob Moore, Joe Osborn, Mike Leech, Tommy Allsup - bass
- Bobby Wood, Charles Cochran, Edgar Struble, Gene Golden, Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Steve Glassmeyer - keyboards
- Shane Keister - Moog synthesizer
- Bobby Daniels, Jerry Carrigan, Kenny Malone - drums
- Bergen White, Bobby Daniels, Buzz Cason, Don Gant, Gene Golden, Johnny MacCrae, The Jordanaires, Larry Keith, Randy Rogers, Sandy Rogers, Steve Glassmeyer, Steve Pippin - background vocals
- Brenton Banks, Byron Theodore Bach, Carl Gorodetzky, Gary Vanosdale, George Binkley, Lennie Haight, Marvin Chantry, Pamela Sixfin, Roy Christensen, Sheldon Kurland, Stephanie Woolf, Steven Maxwell Smith, Wilfred Lehmann - strings
- Bill Justis - string arrangement
