The Best of the Friends of Distinction (1996)

About this title: It's the summer of 1969, and the whole world is joyfully singing, "Grazing in the grass is a gas, baby, can you dig it!" The Friends of Distinction's debut single was a made-for-radio pop masterpiece that captured the ebullience of that last summer of the '60s in its three minutes of harmonic exuberance. While the group never quite reached those heights again, the Friends did produce a small body of work in their brief lifetime that has held up well. The foursome's two other major hit singles, "Love or Let Me Be Lonely" and "Going in Circles" have joined "Grazing in the Grass" in the ... read more

Tracks:

1. Grazing in the Grass [Elston/Hou]
2. I Really Hope You Do [Peters/Poree]
3. Crazy Mary
4. It Don't Matter to Me
5. Love or Let Me Be Lonely [Peters/Poree/Scarbo]
6. I've Never Found a Girl (Who Loves Me Like You Do) [Floyd/Isbell/Jones]
7. Dying to Live
8. Going in Circles [Peters/Poree]
9. I Need You
10. Long Time Coming My Way
11. Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got) [Lambert/Potter]
12. Jenny Wants to Know
13. Love Can Make It Easier
14. And I Love Him [Lennon/McCartney]
15. Check It Out [Osbourne/Butler]
16. Down I Go
17. I Can't Get You out of My Mind
18. Lonesome Mood [Potter]
19. Time Waits for No One [Sedaka/Greenfield]
20. Great Day [Evans/Love]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.