Daytime Friends

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{{Infobox album

| name = Daytime Friends

| type = studio

| artist = Kenny Rogers

| cover = Daytime friends.jpg

| alt =

| released = 25 July 1977{{cite web |url=http://www.lpdiscography.com/?page=main#?page=discography&interpret=316 |title=LP Discography: Kenny Rogers |publisher=LP Discography |access-date=June 11, 2011}}

| recorded = {{Start date|1977}}

| venue =

| studio = *American Sound (Memphis, Tennessee)

• Jack Clement Recording (Nashville, Tennessee)

| genre =

| length = 36:33

| label = United Artists

| producer = Larry Butler

| prev_title = Kenny Rogers

| prev_year = 1977

| next_title = Ten Years of Gold

| next_year = 1978

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Kenny Rogers

| type = studio

| single1 = Daytime Friends

| single1date = August 1, 1977

| single2 = Sweet Music Man

| single2date = October 10, 1977

}}

}}

{{music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{rating|2.5|5}}{{cite web |title=Daytime Friends Kenny Rogers |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/daytime-friends-mw0000193746 |website=AllMusic |access-date=15 March 2024}}

|rev2 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

|rev2score = {{rating|1|5}}{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |page=599}}

}}

Daytime Friends is the third studio album by American singer Kenny Rogers for United Artists Records, released in 1977.{{cite book |last1=Stambler |first1=Irwin |last2=Landon |first2=Grelun |title=Country Music: The Encyclopedia |date=2000 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |page=420}} It was his second major success following the break-up of The First Edition in 1976 (his first album Love Lifted Me was a minor success, with his second, the self-titled Kenny Rogers, going to Number 1 on the US country charts and crossing over to the mainstream pop charts in many countries).

The album produced two top 10 singles with the title cut reaching No. 1 on the country singles and tracks chart (and the top 40 in the UK singles chart) and "Sweet Music Man" (Rogers' own composition) reaching No. 9.{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc|date=2008|page=360|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2}} Elsewhere on the album is a song called "Am I Too Late" which was not released as a single, despite Rogers later saying it was one of his favorite songs [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wtNYLVCxwU]. Another track "My World Begins and Ends With You" was later recorded by Dave & Sugar, who had a hit single with it in 1979.

The album reached No. 2 on the Country charts.