Friends in Love (Dionne Warwick album)

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.

• Dionne Warwick – lead vocals
• David Foster – Rhodes (1, 4, 7), acoustic piano (2, 4, 7, 10), string arrangements (2, 4), synthesizers (7)
• Steve Porcaro – Rhodes (1), synthesizers (1, 7)
• Jay Graydon – rhythm arrangements, synthesizers (1, 6, 7), guitar (1-4, 6, 7, 8, 10), percussion (3)
• Robbie Buchanan – acoustic piano (3, 6), Rhodes (3, 5), synthesizers (5, 6), synthesizer arrangements (5)
• Michael Boddicker – synthesizers (5, 8, 9)
• Michael Omartian – synthesizers (8, 10), acoustic piano (9), string arrangements (9, 10)
• Stevie Wonder – acoustic piano (8)
• Dean Parks – acoustic guitar (3)
• Steve Lukather – guitar (4)
• Larry Carlton – acoustic guitar (5)
• Marty Walsh – electric guitar (5)
• Michael Landau – guitar (9)
• Abraham Laboriel – bass (1, 4, 7, 10)
• Mike Porcaro – bass (2, 3, 5, 8, 9)
• Steve Gadd – drums (1, 4)
• Mike Baird – drums (2, 3, 5-8, 10)
• Jeff Porcaro – drums (9)
• Victor Feldman – percussion (2, 10)
• Charles Loper – trombone
• Chuck Findley – trumpet
• Gary Grant – trumpet
• Jerry Hey – trumpet, horn arrangements, flugelhorn (3, 7)
• Johnny Mandel – string arrangements (1)
• Jeremy Lubbock – string arrangements (2, 3, 4)
• Assa Drori – concertmaster (1-4, 9, 10)
• Steve George – backing vocals (1), synthesizers (6, 8), Rhodes (8)
• Richard Page – backing vocals (1-9)
• Johnny Mathis – lead vocals (2, 7)
• Bill Champlin – backing vocals (2-9)
• Venette Gloud – backing vocals (2-9)
• Carmen Twillie – backing vocals (6)

• Friends in Love at Discogs