Friends in Love (Dionne Warwick album)

Friends in Love

Studio album by Dionne Warwick

Released

April 14, 1982

Pop

Dionne Warwick chronology

Hot! Live and Otherwise
(1981)

Friends in Love
(1982)

Heartbreaker
(1982)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Friends in Love, Dionne Warwick's third studio album for the Arista label, was released in 1982. It was recorded during the winter of 1981-82 and was released that spring. The LP was originally issued as number AL 9585 in the Arista Catalog. The album rose to No. 87 on the Billboard album chart, selling approximately 200,000 US copies.

History

Songs on the album include the title track, a duet with singer Johnny Mathis, which made the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at #38, in addition to charting on the Billboard R&B and adult contemporary charts at #22 and #5, respectively. A follow-up single, "For You", peaked at #14 on the adult contemporary chart. This album also contains the Cynthia Weil / Barry Mann song "Never Gonna Let You Go", which would become a hit the following year for Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"For You"	Jay Graydon, Richard Page, John Bettis	4:55
2.	"Friends in Love" (with Johnny Mathis)	Graydon, David Foster, Bill Champlin	4:02
3.	"Never Gonna Let You Go"	Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil	4:50
4.	"Can't Hide Love"	Skip Scarborough	4:50
5.	"Betcha by Golly Wow"	Thomas Bell, Linda Creed	3:28

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"More Than Fascination"	Tom Snow	4:02
7.	"Got You Where I Want You" (with Johnny Mathis)	Candy Parton, Jim Andron	3:38
8.	"With a Touch"	Stevie Wonder	4:40
9.	"What Is This"	Myra Waters, Graydon	3:58
10.	"A Love So Right"	Gloria Sklerov, Harry Lloyd	3:55

References

↑ "Friends in Love > Review" at AllMusic. Retrieved 29 August 2011.

External links

Friends in Love at Discogs

Dionne Warwick

Studio albums	Presenting Dionne Warwick (1963) Anyone Who Had a Heart (1964) Make Way for Dionne Warwick (1964) The Sensitive Sound of Dionne Warwick (1965) Here I Am (1965) Here Where There Is Love (1966) On Stage and in the Movies (1967) The Windows of the World (1967) The Magic of Believing (1968) Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls (1968) Promises, Promises (1968) Soulful (1969) I'll Never Fall in Love Again (1970) Very Dionne (1970) Dionne (1972) Just Being Myself (1973) Then Came You (1975) Track of the Cat (1975) Love at First Sight (1977) Dionne (1979) No Night So Long (1980) Friends in Love (1982) Heartbreaker (1982) How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye (1983) Finder of Lost Loves (1985) Friends (1985) Reservations for Two (1987) Dionne Sings Cole Porter (1990) Friends Can Be Lovers (1993) Aquarela do Brazil (1994) Dionne Sings Dionne (1998) Dionne Sings Dionne, Vol. 2 (2000) My Favorite Time of the Year (2004) My Friends & Me (2006) Why We Sing (2008) Only Trust Your Heart (2011)

Live albums	Dionne Warwick in Paris (1966) Hot! Live and Otherwise (1981) Christmas in Vienna II (1993)

Compilation albums	The Love Collection (2008)

Singles	"Don't Make Me Over" "Wishin' and Hopin'" "Anyone Who Had a Heart" "Walk On By" "You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)" "A House Is Not a Home" "Reach Out for Me" "Who Can I Turn To?" "Are You There (With Another Girl)" "Message to Michael" "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" "Alfie" "The Windows of the World" "I Say a Little Prayer" "(Theme from) Valley of the Dolls" "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" "This Girl's in Love with You" "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" "Make It Easy on Yourself" "The Good Life" "Then Came You" (with Spinners) "By the Time I Get to Phoenix/I Say a Little Prayer" (with Isaac Hayes) "Only Love Can Break a Heart" "I'll Never Love This Way Again" "Déjà Vu" "No Night So Long" "Heartbreaker" "All the Love in the World" "Run to Me" (with Barry Manilow) "That's What Friends Are For" (with Elton John, Gladys Knight & Stevie Wonder) "Love Power" (with Jeffrey Osborne) "It's All Over" (with Dieter Bohlen as Blue System) "What the World Needs Now Is Love" (with TheHipHopNationUnited)

Record labels	Arista Concord Rhino River North Scepter Warner Bros.

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