Friends and Love


Friends & Love...A Chuck Mangione Concert is a double album recorded live at the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, New York on May 9, 1970, and released by Mercury Records. It features Chuck Mangione on flugelhorn; the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mangione; Don Potter; Bat McGrath; Gap Mangione; Stanley Watson; Marvin Stamm; and Gerry Niewood. Lyrics were written by Bat McGrath; orchestrations and arrangements were by Mangione. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1971.
The album "blended jazz, rock, folk and classical elements." The first track, Hill Where the Lord Hides, was subsequently released as a single and appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971.

Track listing

  1. "Hill Where the Lord Hides"
  2. "The Feel of a Vision"
  3. "Songs from the Valley of the Nightingale"
  4. "And In the Beginning"
  5. "Friends & Love"
  6. "Friends & Love Encore"

    Personnel