Friends (B. B. King album) explained

Friends is a studio album by B. B. King, released by ABC Records in 1974. It was available in stereo under the reference ABCD-825 and in quadraphonic sound under the reference CQD-40022. This album maintains the sentimental mood initiated in the previous album To Know You Is to Love You recorded in the same studio by the same producer.^[1]

Track listing

Details are from the original 1974 vinyl LP.

Side A

1. "Friends" (Dave Crawford, Charles Mann, Will Boulware) – 4:44
2. "I Got Them Blues" (Dave Crawford, Deryll Inman) – 4:31
3. "Baby I'm Yours" (Van McCoy) – 3:28
4. "Up At 5 AM" (Dave Crawford) – 3:15

Side B

1. "Philadelphia" (Dave Crawford) – 6:03
2. "When Everything Else Is Gone" (Will Boulware) – 3:08
3. "My Song" (Dave Crawford, Charles Mann) – 3:57

Personnel

Musical

• B. B. King – vocals, guitar
• Dave Crawford & Charles Mann – backgrounds vocals
• Deryll Inman – guitar
• Norman Harris – guitar
• Bobby Eli as Eli Tarkesty – guitar
• Roland Chambers – guitar
• Dave Crawford – keyboards
• Will Boulware – keyboards
• Ron Kersey – keyboards
• Larry Washington – congas
• Vincent Montana Jr. – vibraphone
• Andrew Love – tenor saxophone
• Wayne Jackson – trumpet
• The Memphis Horns – horns
• Roy Renaldo & Philadelphia Strings – strings
• Wade Marcus – arrangement

Technical

• Joe Tarsia – engineer (Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia)
• Mike Lizzio – engineer (Las Vegas Recording Studio, Las Vegas)

References

1. Book: Danchin . Sebastian . Blues Boy – The Life and Music of B. B. King . 1998 . University Press of Mississippi . 1-57806-017-6. 85.