DAYTIME
FRIENDS
KENNY ROGERS
SONGWRITER: BEN PETERS
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: TEN YEARS OF GOLD
LABEL: UNITED ARTISTS
GENRE: COUNTRY
YEAR: 1978
Kenneth Ray Rogers (August 21, 1938– March
20, 2020) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, record producer,
and entrepreneur. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013. Rogers was particularly popular with country audiences but
also charted more than 420 hit singles across various genres, topping the country
and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States
alone. He sold more than 100 million records worldwide during his lifetime,
making him one of the best-selling
music artists of all time. His fame and career
spanned multiple genres: jazz, folk, pop, rock, and country. He remade his
career and was one of the most successful cross-over artists of all time.
In
the late 1950s, Rogers began his recording career with the Houston-based group
the Scholars, who first released "The Poor Little Doggie". After
some solo releases, including 1958's "That Crazy Feeling",
Rogers then joined a group with the jazz singer Bobby Doyle.
In 1966 he became a member of the folk ensemble the New
Christy Minstrels, playing double bass and bass guitar as well
as singing. In 1967, he and several members of the New Christy Minstrels left
to found the group the First
Edition, with whom he scored his first major hit,
"Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition
Was In)", a psychedelic rock song which peaked at number five on the Billboard charts. As Rogers took an increased leadership role in the First
Edition following the success of 1969's "Ruby, Don't
Take Your Love to Town", the band gradually
changed styles to a more country feel. The band
broke up in 1975–76, and Rogers embarked on a long and successful solo career,
which included several successful collaborations, including duets with singers Dottie West, Dolly Parton, and Sheena Easton and a songwriting partnership with Lionel Richie. His
signature song, 1978's "The Gambler",
was a crossover hit that won him a Grammy Award in 1980 and was selected in 2018 for preservation in the National
Recording Registry by the Library of
Congress. He developed the Gambler persona into a
character for a successful
series of television films starting with 1980's Emmy-nominated
Kenny Rogers
as The Gambler.
Rogers' albums The Gambler and Kenny were featured
in the About.com poll of
"The 200 Most Influential Country Albums Ever". He was voted the
"Favorite Singer of All Time" in a 1986 joint poll by readers of both
USA Today and People. He
received numerous awards, such as the AMAs,
Grammys, ACMs,
and CMAs as well as a lifetime achievement award for a career spanning six
decades in 2003. Later success included the 2006 album release Water & Bridges,
an across-the-board hit that hit the Top 5 in the Billboard Country Albums sales charts, also charting in the Top 15 of the Billboard 200. The first single from the album,
"I Can't Unlove You", was also a sizable
chart hit. Remaining a popular entertainer around the world, he
continued to tour regularly until his retirement in 2017.
Rogers had acting roles in movies and
television shows, including the title roles in Kenny Rogers
as The Gambler, the MacShayne series for The NBC
Mystery Movie, and the 1982 feature film Six Pack. He was
a co-founder of the restaurant chain Kenny Rogers
Roasters in collaboration with former Kentucky
Fried Chicken CEO John Y. Brown Jr. Although the stores closed in the United States, they are still a
fixture in Asia.
Daytime Friends is the third studio album by Kenny Rogers for United
Artists Records, released worldwide in 1977. It
was his second major success following the break-up of The First
Edition in 1976 (his first album Love Lifted
Me was a minor success, with his
second, the self-titled Kenny Rogers,
going to Number 1 on the US country charts and crossing over to the mainstream
pop charts in many countries).
The album produced two top 10 singles with
the title cut reaching Nº 1 on the country singles and tracks chart (and the
top 40 in the UK singles chart) and "Sweet Music Man" (Rogers' own
composition) reaching Nº 9. Elsewhere on the album is a song called "Am I
Too Late" which was not released as a single, despite Rogers later saying
it was one of his favorite songs. Another track "My World Begins and Ends
With You" was later recorded by Dave & Sugar,
who had a hit single with it in 1979.
The album reached Nº 2 on the Country charts.
And he'll tell her
he's working late again
But she knows too well there's something going on
She's been neglected, and she needs a friend
So her trembling fingers dial the telephone
Lord, it hurts her
doing this again
He's the best friend that her husband ever knew
When she's lonely, he's more than just a friend
He's the one she longs to give her body to
Daytime friends and
nighttime lovers
Hoping no one else discovers
Where they go, what they do, in their secret hideaway
Daytime friends and nighttime lovers
They don't want to hurt the others
So they love in the nighttime
And shake hands in the light of day
When it's over,
there's no peace of mind
Just a longing for the way things should have been
And she wonders why some men never find
That a woman needs a lover and a friend
Daytime friends and
nighttime lovers
Hoping no one else discovers
Where they go, what they do, in their secret hideaway
Daytime friends and nighttime lovers
They don't want to hurt the others
So they love in the nighttime
And shake hands in the light of day
Daytime friends and
nighttime lovers
Hoping no one else discovers
Where they go, what they do, in their secret hideaway
Daytime friends and nighttime lovers
They don't want to hurt the others
So they love in the nighttime
And shake hands in the light of day
Daytime friends and
nighttime lovers
Hoping no one else discovers
Where they go, what they do, in their secret hideaway.
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