Daytime Friends

Daytime Friends
Studio album by Kenny Rogers
Released	25 July 1977 [1]
Recorded	1977 (1977)
Studio	American Sound (Memphis, Tennessee) Jack Clement Recording (Nashville, Tennessee)
Length	36:33
Label	United Artists
Producer	Larry Butler
Kenny Rogers chronology
Kenny Rogers (1977) Daytime Friends (1977) Ten Years of Gold (1978)
Singles from Kenny Rogers
"Daytime Friends" Released: August 1, 1977 "Sweet Music Man" Released: October 10, 1977

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]

Daytime Friends is the third studio album by American singer Kenny Rogers for United Artists Records, released in 1977. ^[4] 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. ^[5] 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 . 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

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Daytime Friends"	Ben Peters	3:14
2.	"Desperado"	Don Henley, Glenn Frey	3:44
3.	"Rock and Roll Man"	Kenny O'Dell	2:46
4.	"Lying Again"	Chips Moman, Larry Butler	2:41
5.	"I'll Just Write My Music and Sing My Songs"	Thomas Cain	2:55
6.	"My World Begins and Ends with You"	Larry Keith, Steve Pippin	2:43
7.	"Sweet Music Man"	Rogers	4:16
8.	"Am I Too Late"	Keith, Jim Hurt	3:31
9.	"We Don't Make Love Anymore"	Rogers, Marianne Gordon	3:51
10.	"Ghost of Another Man"	Frank Dycus, George Richey, Roger Bowling	2:57
11.	"Let Me Sing for You"	Casey Kelly, Julie Didier	4:39

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 Chart (1977–1978) Peak position Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [6] 41 US Billboard 200 [7] 39 US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [8] 2

Year-end charts Chart (1977) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [9] 22 Chart (1978) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [10] 16

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [11]	Gold	50,000^
United States (RIAA) [12]	Platinum	1,000,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

1. "LP Discography: Kenny Rogers". LP Discography. Retrieved June 11, 2011.
2. "Daytime Friends Kenny Rogers". AllMusic. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
3. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 599.
4. Stambler, Irwin; Landon, Grelun (2000). Country Music: The Encyclopedia. St. Martin's Press. p. 420.
5. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 360. ISBN   978-0-89820-177-2.
6. "Top RPM Albums: Issue 5420a". RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved February 16, 2024.
7. "Kenny Rogers Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved February 16, 2024.
8. "Kenny Rogers Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved February 16, 2024.
9. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1977". Billboard. Retrieved July 20, 2021.
10. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1978". Billboard. Retrieved July 20, 2021.
11. "Canadian album certifications – Kenny Rogers – Daytime Friends". Music Canada.
12. "American album certifications – Kenny Rogers – Daytime Friends". Recording Industry Association of America.