That's what friends are for
That's What Friends Are For is a pop song from 1982, written by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager for Rod Stewart as the soundtrack to the film Nightshift .
Cover version by Dionne Warwick
The song is better known for the cover version of Dionne Warwick and Friends, a collaboration with artists Gladys Knight , Elton John and Stevie Wonder . It was released as a charity single in the US and UK . The proceeds from the aid project went to the American Foundation for AIDS Research , totaling over three million US dollars. In January 1986 the song reached number 1 on the American Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 in the annual charts for four weeks .
The Dionne and Friends version won two Grammys at the 1987 Grammy Awards . It was the most popular song of 1986 in the United States. and is ranked 61 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of All time .
Benefit concert 1990
On March 17, 1990, an AIDS benefit concert entitled That's What Friends Are For: Arista Records 15th Anniversary Concert was held at the Radio City Music Hall in New York . A month later, CBS aired the concert on television .
The artists who attended the concert were: Air Supply , Lauren Bacall , Burt Bacharach , Eric Carmen , Chevy Chase , Jane Curtin , Clive Davis , Taylor Dayne , Michael Douglas , Exposé , Whoopi Goldberg , Melanie Griffith , Hall & Oates , Jennifer Holliday , Whitney Houston , Alan Jackson , Kenny G , Melissa Manchester , Barry Manilow , Milli Vanilli , Jeffrey Osborne , Carly Simon , Patti Smith , Lisa Stansfield , The Four Tops and Dionne Warwick . The benefit concert raised another $ 2.5 million.
German version
A German version was titled If you have friends in 1987 by Caterina Valente with Gianni Morandi , Joy Fleming and Edo Zanki recorded and is on the album from Caterina Valente I am ... released.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joel Whitburn : Top R&B / Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004 . Record Research, 2004, p. 610.
- ^ Billboard , December 27, 1986
- ↑ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/specials/hot100/charts/top100-titles-70.shtml ( Memento from September 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )