To Find a Friend

~ Recording by Tom Petty

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack ArtistRelease TitleRelease ArtistRelease Group TypeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.11To Find a Friend3:24Tom PettyWildflowers (Jewel Case, WE833)Tom PettyAlbum
  • XE1994-10-31
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)9362-45759-2
1.11To Find a Friend3:24Tom PettyWildflowers (with Slipcase, WE833)Tom PettyAlbum
  • XE1994-10-31
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)9362-45759-2
1.11To Find a Friend3:24Tom PettyWildflowers (club edition)Tom PettyAlbum
  • CA1994-11-01
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)W2 45759
1.11To Find a Friend3:24Tom PettyWildflowersTom PettyAlbum
  • US1994-11-01
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)9 45759-2
1.11To Find a Friend3:24Tom PettyWildflowersTom PettyAlbum
WEA International (imprint of WEA International Inc., not likely used since ca. 1990), Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)CDW 45759
2.3To Find a Friend3:23Tom PettyWildflowersTom PettyAlbum
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)9 45759-1
1.11To Find a Friend3:24Tom PettyWildflowers (BMG club release)Tom PettyAlbum
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across), BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. (BMG company that owned their direct marketing company/club editions)9 45759-2, D 106260
1.11To Find a Friend3:24Tom PettyWildflowers (No slipcase, WE830)Tom PettyAlbum
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)9362-45759-2
2.3To Find a Friend3:23Tom PettyThe Complete Studio Albums, Volume 2 (1994–2014)Tom Petty and the HeartbreakersAlbum + Compilation
  • US2016-12-09
Reprise Records1-556451 (KI)
1.40To Find a Friend3:20Tom PettyAn American Treasure (deluxe)Tom PettyAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2018-09-28
Reprise Records
3.7To Find a Friend3:19Tom PettyAn American TreasureTom PettyAlbum + Compilation
  • XE2018-09-28
  • US2018-09-28
Reprise Records9362-49055-6
1.40To Find a Friend (2018 remaster)3:19Tom PettyAn American Treasure (deluxe)Tom PettyAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2018-09-28
Reprise Records
1.40To Find a Friend (2018 remaster)3:20Tom PettyAn American TreasureTom PettyAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2018-09-28
Reprise Records
1.40To Find a Friend (2018 remaster)3:19Tom Petty and the HeartbreakersAn American Treasure (Mastered for iTunes, deluxe)Tom PettyAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2018-09-28
Reprise Records
4.6To Find a Friend3:20Tom PettyAn American TreasureTom PettyAlbum + Compilation
  • US2018-11-23
Reprise Records572282-1
1.11To Find a Friend3:23Tom PettyWildflowers & All the Rest (deluxe edition)Tom PettyAlbum
  • US2020-10-16
Warner Records (2019–present; circle imprint with “Warner Records” next to it)
1.11To Find a Friend3:22Tom PettyWildflowers & All the Rest (deluxe)Tom PettyAlbum
  • XW2020-10-16
Warner Records (2019–present; circle imprint with “Warner Records” next to it)
1.11To Find a Friend3:24Tom PettyWildflowers & All the RestTom PettyAlbum
  • CA2020-10-16
Warner Records (2019–present; circle imprint with “Warner Records” next to it)2 547888
1.11To Find a Friend3:28Tom PettyWildflowers & All the RestTom PettyAlbum
  • US2020-10-16
Warner Records (2019–present; circle imprint with “Warner Records” next to it)093624899112
2.3To Find a Friend3:24Tom PettyWildflowers & All the RestTom PettyAlbum
  • XE2020-10-16
  • GB2020-10-16
  • US2020-10-16
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)093624929291
1.11To Find a Friend3:24Tom PettyWildflowers & All the RestTom PettyAlbum
Warner Records (2019–present; circle imprint with “Warner Records” next to it)093624929284
1.11To Find a Friend3:22Tom PettyWildflowers (Mastered for iTunes / Apple Digital Master)Tom PettyAlbumWarner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)
Withdrawn
1.11To Find a Friend3:24Tom PettyWildflowers (PonoMusic version)Tom PettyAlbum
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)

Relationships

recording engineer:Jim Scott (US recording engineer and producer)
additional producer:Mike Campbell (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist)
Tom Petty
producer:Rick Rubin (American record producer and former co-president of Columbia Records)
assistant mixer:Kenji Nasai
mixer:Richard Dodd (mastering engineer, producer and engineer)
acoustic guitar and background vocals [harmony vocals] and lead vocals:Tom Petty
bass guitar, electric guitar and electric sitar [coral sitar]:Mike Campbell (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist)
drums (drum set):Ringo Starr (The Beatles)
harmonium, recorder [zenon] and tack piano:Benmont Tench
percussion:Lenny Castro
phonographic copyright (℗) by:Warner Bros. Records Inc. (not for release label use, company behind the “WB Records” imprint) (in 1994)
WEA International Inc. (not for release label use! copyrights holder, distributor for the world outside of the US) (in 1994)
mixed at:Andora Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States
recording of:To Find a Friend

To Find a Friend

lyricist and composer:Tom Petty
publisher:Gone Gator Music (ASCAP affiliated)