{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Daytime Friends | type = studio | artist = Kenny Rogers | cover = Daytime friends.jpg | alt = | released = 25 July 1977<ref name="lp discography">{{cite web |url=http://www.lpdiscography.com/?page=main#?page=discography&interpret=316 |title=LP Discography: Kenny Rogers |publisher=LP Discography |access-date=June 11, 2011}}</ref> | recorded = {{Start date|1977}} | venue = | studio = *American Sound (Memphis, Tennessee) *Jack Clement Recording (Nashville, Tennessee) | genre = Country | length = 36:33 | label = United Artists | producer = Larry Butler | prev_title = Kenny Rogers | prev_year = 1977 | next_title = Ten Years of Gold | next_year = 1978 | misc = {{Singles | name = Kenny Rogers | type = studio | single1 = Daytime Friends | single1date = August 1, 1977 | single2 = Sweet Music Man | single2date = October 10, 1977 }} }} {{music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{rating|2.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Daytime Friends Kenny Rogers |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/daytime-friends-mw0000193746 |website=AllMusic |access-date=15 March 2024}}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' |rev2score = {{rating|1|5}}<ref name="RS">{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=599}}</ref> }} '''''Daytime Friends''''' is the third studio album by American singer Kenny Rogers for United Artists Records, released in 1977.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stambler |first1=Irwin |last2=Landon |first2=Grelun |title=Country Music: The Encyclopedia |date=2000 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |page=420}}</ref> 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.<ref name="whitburn">{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc|date=2008|page=360|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2}}</ref> 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== {{track listing |title1 = Daytime Friends |writer1 = Ben Peters |length1 = 3:14 |title2 = Desperado |writer2 = Don Henley, Glenn Frey |length2 = 3:44 |title3 = Rock and Roll Man |writer3 = Kenny O'Dell |length3 = 2:46 |title4 = Lying Again |writer4 = Chips Moman, Larry Butler |length4 = 2:41 |title5 = I'll Just Write My Music and Sing My Songs |writer5 = Thomas Cain |length5 = 2:55 |title6 = My World Begins and Ends with You |writer6 = Larry Keith, Steve Pippin |length6 = 2:43 |title7 = Sweet Music Man |writer7 = Rogers |length7 = 4:16 |title8 = Am I Too Late |writer8 = Keith, Jim Hurt |length8 = 3:31 |title9 = We Don't Make Love Anymore |writer9 = Rogers, Marianne Gordon |length9 = 3:51 |title10 = Ghost of Another Man |writer10 = Frank Dycus, George Richey, Roger Bowling |length10 = 2:57 |title11 = Let Me Sing for You |writer11 = Casey Kelly, Julie Didier |length11 = 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== {{col-begin}} {{col-2}}
===Weekly charts=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |- ! scope="col"| Chart (1977–1978) ! scope="col"| Peak<br />position |- {{album chart|Canada|41|artist=Kenny Rogers|album=Daytime Friends|chartid=5420a|rowheader=true|accessdate=February 16, 2024}} |- {{album chart|Billboard200|39|artist=Kenny Rogers|rowheader=true|access-date=February 16, 2024}} |- {{album chart|BillboardCountry|2|artist=Kenny Rogers|rowheader=true|access-date=February 16, 2024}} |} {{col-2}}
===Year-end charts=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |- ! scope="col"| Chart (1977) ! scope="col"| Position |- ! scope="row"| US Top Country Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1977/top-country-albums|title=Top Country Albums – Year-End 1977|magazine=Billboard|access-date=July 20, 2021}}</ref> | 22 |}
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |- ! scope="col"| Chart (1978) ! scope="col"| Position |- ! scope="row"| US Top Country Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1978/top-country-albums|title=Top Country Albums – Year-End 1978|magazine=Billboard|access-date=July 20, 2021}}</ref> | 16 |} {{col-end}}
==Certifications== {{certification Table Top}} {{certification Table Entry|region=Canada|type=album|artist=Kenny Rogers|title=Daytime Friends|award=Gold|relyear=1977|certyear=1977}} {{certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=album|artist=Kenny Rogers|title=Daytime Friends|award=Platinum|relyear=1977|certyear=1997}} {{certification Table Bottom | nosales=true}}
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Kenny Rogers}}
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