That's What Friends Are For (Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams album)
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Charts

Album – Billboard
Year Chart Position Country
1978 Black Albums 14 US
1978 Pop Albums 19 US

Singles – Billboard
Year Single Chart Position
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 Ashford
    Jack Ashford
    Jack 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. Brown
    Ollie E. Brown
    Ollie 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 Champlin
    Bill Champlin
    William 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 Costa
    Paulinho Da Costa
    Paulinho 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 Foster
    David Foster
    David 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 Gilstrap
    Jim Gilstrap
    Jim 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 Greene
    Ed 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 Hey
    Jerry Hey
    Jerry 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 Hungate
    David Hungate
    David 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 Johnson
    Plas Johnson
    Plas 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 Lukather
    Steve Lukather
    Steve "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 Mathis
    Johnny Mathis
    John 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 Myrick
    Don Myrick
    Don 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 Page
    Gene Page
    Eugene 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 Phillinganes
    Greg Phillinganes
    Greg 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 Porcaro
    Jeff Porcaro
    Jeffrey 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 Porcaro
    Mike Porcaro
    Mike 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 Ritenour
    Lee Ritenour
    Lee 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 Sklar
    Leland Sklar
    Leland "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 Vig
    Tommy Vig
    Tommy 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. Walker
    David T. Walker
    David 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 Watts
    Ernie Watts
    Ernest 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 Williams
    Deniece Williams
    June 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 Wonder
    Stevie Wonder
    Stevland 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
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