THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR

Created on 25/04/2006
Latest update on 03/08/2021

Artist: Rod Stewart
Author: Burt Bacharach/Carole Bayer-Sager
Label: WB
Year: 1982

In film Night Shift; composed by husband and wife. Not to be confused with Paul Williams' song, cut by B.J. Thomas in '72 and Deniece Williams' (not related).

Covers:

1982:

Burt Bacharach [as instrumental in same film]

1985:

Dionne Warwick & Friends [n°1 US; these Friends were Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder]

1995:

Conny Vandenbos [as Daar Zijn We Vrienden Voor]

1998:

Günther Neefs

Dionne's n°1 US was first envisioned as a duet between her and Stevie Wonder. Actress Elisabeth Taylor witnessed the recording, listened to the lyrics and as she was an active anti-AIDS activist, got the idea (and songwriter Carole Bayer-Sager's permission) to detour the proceeds to the American Foundation for AIDS Research. That's when Elton John and Gladys Knight were asked and accepted to join in. This hit marked the end of a 10 year hiatus since Burt Bacharach & Dionne Warwick's last successful collaboration (in a series of no less than 33).

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:

Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)

info@originals.be

No Facebook No Twitter