“Everyone needs to be loved.“
– Paul Williams
That’s What Friends are For – 1974
Written by Paul Williams
– Sung by Jack Jones
A beautiful song,
and a truly inspired interpretation
by Jack Jones.
That’s What Friends are For
Not to be confused it with that other song by the same name,
That’s What Friends are For was initally sung by B.J. Thomas in 1972.
There are other interpretations, but none come close to
Jack Jones inspired version.
Wikipedia:
Paul Hamilton Williams, Jr. (born September 19, 1940) is an American composer, singer-songwriter, and actor.
He is perhaps best known for popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s including Three Dog Night’s rendition of “An Old Fashioned Love Song”, Helen Reddy’s “You and Me Against the World”, David Bowie’s “Fill Your Heart”, and the Carpenters’ “We’ve Only Just Begun” and “Rainy Days and Mondays”, as well as his contributions to films, such as writing the lyrics to the #1 chart-topping “Evergreen”, the love theme from A Star Is Born, starring Barbra Streisand, for which he won a Grammy for Song of the Year and an Academy Award for Best Original Song; and “Rainbow Connection” from The Muppet Movie. He also wrote the lyrics to the opening theme for The Love Boat, with music previously
composed by Charles Fox, which was originally sung by Jack Jones,
and later, by Dionne Warwick.
He has also had a variety of high-profile acting roles such as Little Enos Burdette in the 1977 action-comedy Smokey and the Bandit, and as the villainous Swan in Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise (which Williams also co-scored, receiving an Oscar nomination in the process), as well as television, theater, and voice-over work for animation.
Beautiful job Jack.
Beautiful song Paul.