Friends is a studio album by B. B. King, released by ABC Records in 1974. It was available in stereo under the reference ABCD-825 and in quadraphonic sound under the reference CQD-40022. This album maintains the sentimental mood initiated in the previous album To Know You Is to Love You recorded in the same studio by the same producer.
Track listing Details are from the original 1974 vinyl LP. Side A "Friends" (Dave Crawford, Charles Mann, Will Boulware) – 4:44 "I Got Them Blues" (Dave Crawford, Deryll Inman) – 4:31 "Baby I'm Yours" (Van McCoy) – 3:28 "Up at 5 AM" (Dave Crawford) – 3:15
Side B "Philadelphia" (Dave Crawford) – 6:03 "When Everything Else Is Gone" (Will Boulware) – 3:08 "My Song" (Dave Crawford, Charles Mann) – 3:57
Personnel Musical B. B. King – vocals, guitar Dave Crawford & Charles Mann – backgrounds vocals Deryll Inman – guitar Norman Harris – guitar Bobby Eli as Eli Tarkesty – guitar Roland Chambers – guitar Dave Crawford – keyboards Will Boulware – keyboards Ron Kersey – keyboards Larry Washington – congas Vincent Montana Jr. – vibraphone Andrew Love – tenor saxophone Wayne Jackson – trumpet The Memphis Horns – horns Roy Renaldo & Philadelphia Strings – strings Wade Marcus – arrangement
Technical Joe Tarsia – engineer (Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia) Mike Lizzio – engineer (Las Vegas Recording Studio, Las Vegas)
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