Daytime Friends

Daytime Friends is the third studio album by American singer Kenny Rogers for United Artists Records, 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 songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wtNYLVCxwU. Another track "My World Begins and Ends with You" was later recorded by Dave & Sugar, 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 (on tracks 2 and 5), Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Steve Glassmeyer – keyboards
• Shane Keister – Moog synthesizer (on track 7)
• Billy Sanford, David Kirby, Jerry Shook (on track 9), Jimmy Capps, Jimmy Colvard (on track 1), Johnny Christopher (on track 2), Larry Keith, Reggie Young (on track 1), T.G. Engel – guitars
• Pete Drake – steel guitar
• Joe Osborn, Mike Leech (on track 1) – bass guitar
• Tommy Allsup – six-string bass guitar
• Bob Moore – upright bass (on track 9)
• Bobby Daniels (on track 2), 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 – string arrangements (on tracks 2, 7, 9)
• Bergen White, Bobby Daniels, Buzz Cason, Don Gant, Gene Golden, Johnny MacRae, The Jordanaires (on track 4), 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

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References