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That's What Friends Are For (Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams album)
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Charts
Year | Chart | Position | Country |
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1978 | Black Albums | 14 | US |
1978 | Pop Albums | 19 | US |
Year | Single | Chart | Position | |
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1978 | "You're All I Need To Get By" | Black Singles | 10 | US |
1978 | "You're All I Need To Get By" | Pop Singles | 47 | US |
Musicians
- Murray Adler - Violin
- Dorothy Ashby - Harp
- Jack AshfordJack AshfordJack Ashford , known to his friends as Jashford, is an African-American musician, widely known as the percussionist for Motown Records' in-house Funk Brothers band during the 1960s and early 1970s. Ashford is most famous for playing the tambourine on hundreds of Motown recordings...
- Percussion - Michael Baird - Drums
- Israel Baker - Violin
- Sidney Barnes - Vocals
- Arnold Belnick - Violin
- Harry Bluestone - Concert Master
- Eddie "Bongo" Brown - Percussion
- Ollie E. BrownOllie E. BrownOllie E. Brown is an American drummer, percussionist and record producer. A prolific session musician, Brown has performed on over a hundred albums in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Brown was also half of the American dance-pop duo Ollie & Jerry, which had a Top 10 hit with "Breakin'.....
- Percussion - Bill ChamplinBill ChamplinWilliam Bradford "Bill" Champlin is an American singer, guitarist, keyboard player, arranger, producer, and songwriter. His performance work is principally associated with the bands Chicago and the Sons of Champlin...
- Vocals - Dyanne Chandler - Vocals
- Ronald Cooper - Cello
- Paulinho Da CostaPaulinho Da CostaPaulinho da Costa is a Brazilian percussionist born in Rio de Janeiro, considered one of the most recorded musicians of modern times. Playing over two hundred percussion instruments, he has participated in thousands of recording sessions, Grammy Award-winning albums, hit songs, soundtracks, radio...
- Percussion - Rollice Dale - Viola
- Douglas Davis - Cello
- Vincent DeRosa - French Horn
- Glen Dicterow - Violin
- Kurt Dieterle - Violin
- Assa Drori - Violin
- David Duke - French Horn
- Scott Edwards - Bass
- Jesse Ehrlich - Cello
- Alan Estes - Percussion
- Larry Farrow - Keyboards
- Charles Fearing - Guitar
- Richard Feldman - Guitar
- Henry Ferber - Violin
- Ronald Folsom - Violin
- David FosterDavid FosterDavid Walter Foster, OC, OBC , is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice Pempengco; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Céline Dion, Toni...
- Keyboards - David Frisina - Violin
- Jim GilstrapJim GilstrapJim Gilstrap is an American singer best known for his work as a session musician and his 1975 solo hit single "Swing Your Daddy", as well as singing co-lead to the theme from the TV series Good Times.-Career:...
- Background Vocals - Endre Granat - Violin
- Bill Green - Flute, Baritone Saxophone
- Ed GreeneEd Greene (musician)Ed Greene is an American drummer and session musician.An early recording in 1971 has him as a member of the Donald Byrd Group, together with Thurman Green Harold Land Bobby Hutcherson Joe Sample and Wilton Felder , among others....
- Drums - Lani Groves - Background Vocals
- Allan Harshman - Viola
- John Heitmann - Flute
- Robert Henderson - French Horn
- Gary Herbig - Saxophone
- Jerry HeyJerry HeyJerry Hey is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, horn arranger, string arranger, orchestrator and session musician who has played on hundreds of commercial recordings, including Thriller and the distinctive flugelhorn solo on Dan Fogelberg's hit Longer....
- Horn - David HungateDavid HungateDavid Hungate is a bass player noted as a member of Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1977-1982. Boz Scaggs's Silk Degrees album of 1976 included Hungate and several other future members of Toto...
- Bass - William Hymanson - Violin
- Larry Jacobs - Vocals
- Plas JohnsonPlas JohnsonPlas John Johnson Jr. is an American soul-jazz and hard bop tenor saxophonist, probably most familiar as the lead on Henry Mancini’s "The Pink Panther Theme"....
- Flute - Dennis Karmazyn - Cello
- Armand Karpoff - Cello
- Ray Kelley - Cello
- Myra Kestenbaum - Viola
- Jacob Krachmalnick - Violin
- Raphael Kramer - Cello
- Ron Leonard - Cello
- Steve LukatherSteve LukatherSteve "Luke" Lukather is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer best known for his work with the rock band Toto. Lukather has played with many artists, released several solo albums, and worked as a composer, arranger, and session guitarist on more than 1,500 albums...
- Guitar - Arthur Maebe - French Horn
- Virginia Majewski - Viola
- Leonard Malarsky - Violin
- Johnny MathisJohnny MathisJohn Royce "Johnny" Mathis is an American singer of popular music. Starting his career with singles of standards, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status, and 73 making the Billboard charts...
- Vocals - Tim May - Guitar
- Don MyrickDon MyrickDon Myrick was a saxophonist.He played alto, tenor and soprano sax and was a member of Earth Wind & Fire's original horn section, The Phenix Horns Esq. from 1975 through 1982. Previously, Myrick had been a member of the musical group The Pharaohs...
- Saxophone - Alexander Neiman - Viola
- Gareth "Garry" Nuttycombe - Viola
- Gene PageGene PageEugene Edgar "Gene" Page, Jr. was an influential conductor, composer, arranger and record producer most active from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s....
- Strings, Horn - Don Palmer - Violin
- Richard Perissi - French Horn
- Greg PhillinganesGreg PhillinganesGreg Phillinganes is an active session keyboardist in Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate of Cass Technical High School, Detroit Michigan....
- Keyboards - Stanley Plummer - Violin
- Jeff PorcaroJeff PorcaroJeffrey Thomas "Jeff" Porcaro was an American session drummer and a founding member of the Grammy Award winning band Toto. Porcaro was one of the most recorded drummers in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions...
- Drums - Mike PorcaroMike PorcaroMike Porcaro is best noted as the bass player in the Grammy Award winning band, Toto.He is the middle brother of Toto members Jeff Porcaro and Steve Porcaro...
- Bass - George Price - French Horn
- Lee RitenourLee RitenourLee Mack Ritenour is an American jazz guitarist who has recorded over 42 albums, appeared on over 3000 sessions, and has charted over 30 instrumental and vocal contemporary jazz hits since 1976. One of his most popular songs was the smash hit, “Is It You” in 1981. Ritenour is considered to be a...
- Guitar - Sylvester Rivers - Keyboards
- Nathan Ross - Violin
- Henry Roth - Violin
- Michel Rubini - Piano
- Sheldon Sanov - Violin
- Harry Schultz - Cello
- David Schwartz - Viola
- Gene Sherry - French Horn
- Jack Shulman - Violin
- Henry Sigismonti - French Horn
- Ralph Silverman - Violin
- Leland SklarLeland SklarLeland "Lee" Bruce Sklar is an American musician, singer-songwriter and film score composer. A prominent bass guitarist, Sklar has contributed to thousands of albums as a session musician...
- Bass - Marshall Sosson - Violin
- Sheridon Stokes - Flute
- Gloria Strassner - Cello
- Julia Tillman Waters - Vocals
- Alexander Treger - Violin
- Tommy VigTommy VigTommy Vig is an award-winning jazz vibraharpist, drummer, percussionist, arranger, big band leader, film, television, and classical concert composer, inventor, author, and educator.- Life and Work :...
- Percussion - David T. WalkerDavid T. WalkerDavid T. Walker is an American guitarist born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to numerous session musician duties since the early 1970s, Walker has issued over twelve albums in his own name.-Career:...
- Guitar - Wah Wah Watson - Guitar
- Ernie WattsErnie WattsErnest James "Ernie" Watts is an American jazz and rhythm and blues musician. He plays saxophone and flute. He might be best known for his work with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and his Grammy Awards as an instrumentalist...
- Tenor Saxophone - Maxine Willard Waters Background Vocals
- Deniece WilliamsDeniece WilliamsJune Deniece Chandler known by her stage name Deniece Williams is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and record producer who achieved success in the 1970s and 1980s...
- Vocals - Stevie WonderStevie WonderStevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
- Harmonica - Robert Zimmitti - Percussion
Production
- Dick Bogert Engineer
- David Foster Producer
- Joe Gastwirt Digital Remastering
- Jack Gold Producer
- Tom Perry Mastering, Mixing
- Gene Page Strings, Arranger, Conductor, Horn
- Glen Spreen Arranger, Conductor