That's What Friends Are For

That's What Friends Are For is a pop song from 1982, written by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager for Rod Stewart as a soundtrack to the movie Night Shift - The morgue freaks out completely.

Cover version by Dionne Warwick

The song is better known for the cover version by Dionne Warwick and Friends, a collaboration with the artists Gladys Knight, Elton John and Stevie Wonder. It was released in the United States and the United Kingdom as a charity single. The revenue from the relief project went to the American Foundation for AIDS Research, a total of over three million U.S. dollars were taken. In January 1986, the song reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and # 1 in the annual charts for four weeks.

The Dionne - and-friends version was honored at the 1987 Grammy Awards with two Grammys. It was the most popular song of 1986 in the USA. and is available at Billboard's Greatest Songs of all time at number 61

Benefit Concert 1990

On March 17, 1990 AIDS benefit concert was titled That's What Friends Are For: Arista Records 15th Anniversary Concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. A month later, CBS radiated from the concert on television.

The artists who participated in the concert were: Air Supply, Lauren Bacall, Burt Bacharach, Eric Carmen, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Clive Davis, Taylor Dayne, Michael Douglas, Exposé, Whoopi Goldberg, Melanie Griffith, Hall & Oates, Jennifer Holliday, Whitney Houston, Alan Jackson, Kenny G, Melissa Manchester, Barry Manilow, Milli Vanilli, Jeffrey Osborne, Carly Simon, Patti Smith, Lisa Stansfield, The Four Tops, and Dionne Warwick. Through the charity concert another 2.5 million U.S. dollars were taken.

German version

A German version was If you have friends recorded under the title in 1987 by Caterina Valente with Gianni Morandi, Joy Fleming and Edo Zanki and is on the album by Caterina Valente ... I'm published.