Friends

Dick Griffey was executive producer, Bob Brown, Jim Shifflett and Steve Hodge engineered, Hodge mixed at Larrabee Sound and Wally Traugott mastered at Capitol Records Pressing Plant, per the liner-note listing on Session Days. Leon Sylvers III played bass, percussion and keyboards, joined by Wardell Potts Jr. and Ed Green on drums, Foster Sylvers and James Ingram on bass, Joey Gallo, Kevin Spencer, Michael Nash and William Shelby on keyboards, and Ricky Sylvers, Ernest Pepper Reed and Richard Randolph on guitar. Daniel, Hewett and Watley sang.

It reached 6 in the UK, 35 on the Billboard 200 and 1 on the R&B albums chart, and went platinum in the UK and gold in the US. The singles were "I Can Make You Feel Good" (UK 7), "A Night to Remember" (UK 5, US 44), "There It Is" (UK 5) and "Friends" (UK 12). Christgau gave a B-minus; the Boston Phoenix was negative about Hewett's vocals and lyrics. A Sanctuary double CD with Go for It came out in 2002, and a BBR deluxe two-CD edition was reviewed by Kris Needs in Record Collector in May 2013.