''Daytime Friends'' is the third studio album by American singer
Kenny Rogers
Kenneth Ray Rogers (born Kenneth Donald Rogers) (August 21, 1938 – March 20, 2020) was an American singer and songwriter. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013. Rogers was particul ...
for
United Artists Records
United Artists Records was an American record label founded by Max E. Youngstein of United Artists in 1957 to issue movie soundtracks. The label expanded into other genres, such as easy listening, jazz, pop, and R&B.
History Genres
In 1958 ...
, released 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 No. 1 on the country singles and tracks chart (and the top 40 in the UK singles chart) and "Sweet Music Man" (Rogers' own composition) reaching No. 9. 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 song Another track "My World Begins and Ends With You" was later recorded by
Dave & Sugar
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, who had a hit single with it in 1979.
The album reached No. 2 on the Country charts.
Track listing
Personnel
* Kenny Rogers – lead vocals
* Bobby Wood, Charles Cochran, Edgar Struble, Gene Golden, Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Steve Glassmeyer – keyboards
* Shane Keister –
Moog synthesizer
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* Billy Sanford, David Kirby, Jerry Shook, Jimmy Capps, Jimmy Colvard, Johnny Christopher, Larry Keith, Reggie Young, T.G. Engel – guitars
* Pete Drake – steel guitar
*
Joe Osborn
Joe Osborn (August 28, 1937 – December 14, 2018Tommy Allsup – six-string bass guitar
*
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* Bob Moore (executive) (1929–2024), co-founder of Bob's Red Mill
* Bob Moore (American football) (born 1949), American football tight end
* Bob Moore (Au ...
– upright bass
* Bobby Daniels, Jerry Carrigan, Kenny Malone – drums
* Brenton Banks, Byron Bach, Carl Gorodetzky, Gary Vanosdale, George Binkley, Lennie Haight, Marvin Chantry, Pam Sixfin, Roy Christensen, Sheldon Kurland, Stephanie Woolf, Steven Smith, Willi Lehmann – strings
*
Bill Justis
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– string arrangements
* Bergen White, Bobby Daniels, Buzz Cason, Don Gant, Gene Golden, Johnny MacRae,
The Jordanaires
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, Larry Keith, Randy Rogers, Sandy Rogers, Steve Glassmeyer, Steve Pippin – backing vocals
Production
* Producer – Larry Butler
* Engineers – Harold Lee and Billy Sherrill
* Remix – Billy Sherrill
* Recorded at American Studios and Jack Clement Recording Studios (Nashville, TN).
* Mastered by Bob Sowell at Master Control (Nashville, TN).
* Art Direction – Ria Lewerke
* Design – Bill Burks
* Photography – Gary Regester