Friends

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Friends is a Gold-plus album recorded by Dionne Warwick, her seventh for the Arista label. It was recorded during the fall of 1985 and was released that December. The LP was originally issued as number AL 8-8398 in the Arista Catalog. It stands as one of Dionne's most successful album. The album was executive produced by Clive Davi. It peaked at #12 on the Billboard album chart in March, 1986. It was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female, at the 29th Gramy Award, eventually selling 900,000 US copie. The album yielded the single "That's What Friends Are For", which became Dionne's biggest career hit, spending four weeks at #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. "On My Own", a song recorded by Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald, was originally written for Warwick (as the writers are Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager). She recorded the song to be released on this album. However, it wasn't included in the final track list. It was later released by the above mentioned singers and it turned out to be a hit. Warwick did sing the song live at a several occasion. .

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