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The original soundtrack version remains a hidden gem in Rod Stewart’s deep catalogue. “That’s What Friends Are For” is the major musical legacy of Night Shift. When Rhino Records included the song on its 1998 box set The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection, Rhino followed suit. Arista Records, the artists, producers, publishers and respective unions all donated their proceeds to the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR). “That’s What Friends Are For” by Dionne and Friends (Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder) would be the biggest hit of Warwick’s career, a feather in the cap for Bacharach and Sager, and perhaps most importantly, a major rallying cry and fundraiser for AIDS awareness. “They figured that nobody had heard the song, except the two of them – and Rod Stewart!” Warwick then hit upon the idea of inviting some of her famous friends to join the recording sessions, and a groundbreaking No. She let them know that she wished to cut the song herself. The very next day after hearing “Friends,” Warwick phoned Bacharach and his then-wife and principal lyricist, Carole Bayer Sager. Warwick had recently reconciled with Bacharach after a decade-plus of estrangement the catalyst was producer Aaron Spelling, who wished to have a Bacharach/Warwick collaboration as the theme to his 1984 television drama Finder of Lost Loves. “Friends” set lyrics to Bacharach’s main love theme for the film, and was performed by Rod Stewart. There was no way in the world it could be anybody else’s.” She was speaking of “That’s What Friends Are For,” an all-but-forgotten song written for the 1982 film Night Shift, Ron Howard’s major big screen directorial debut. “I didn’t really pay attention to the names that were going up on the credits,” Warwick recounted, “but I knew that was Burt Bacharach’s melody. Dionne Warwick was home one evening, half-asleep while the 1982 film Night Shift played on her television set. Elton John was an executive producer on It's A Boy Girl Thing, and songs from his back catalog appear on the soundtrack.Fate works in mysterious ways. Neither is comfortable with their sudden gender switch or having to assume the other's personalities, but they quickly realize that until they can find a way to reverse the spell, they have to work together if Nell is to go to Yale and Woody is to get his scholarship and move away from this loutish parents (Sharon Osborne and Maury Chaykin. Nell and Woody are not at all friendly and normally have nothing to say to one another, but one day during a class field trip to a historical museum, the two fall under the spell of an Incan icon and when they awake the next morning, Woody's mind is in Nell's body, and vice versa. Nell (Samaire Armstrong) is a pretty but hopelessly geeky teenage girl who loves Shakespeare and wants little more than to study literature at Yale when she graduates from high school in a few months Woody (Kevin Zegers), who lives next door, is the quarterback on the school's football team, and seems like a sure bet to land a lucrative football scholarship despite the fact he isn't especially bright.

Two kids with nothing in common are brought together in a very unexpected way in this comedy.