Friends & People

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Friends & People
Friends&people.jpg
Studio album by
Released1971
StudioRCA's Music Center of the World
(Hollywood, California)
Genre Soul
Label RCA Victor
Producer Jerry Peters, Ray Cork, Jr.
The Friends of Distinction chronology
Whatever
(1970)
Friends & People
(1971)
Love Can Make It Easier
(1973)

Friends & People is the fifth studio album by R&B group The Friends of Distinction, released in 1971 on the RCA Victor label.

Contents

Commercial performance

The album peaked at No. 166 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album features the single "I Need You", which peaked at #28 on the Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 79 on the Billboard Hot 100. [1]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."People" Jule Styne, Bob Merrill 11:30
2."Faces on the Bus"Anita Poree, Jerry Peters 5:20
3."I Can't Get You Out of My Mind"Jerry Peters, Skip Scarborough 3:30
4."Down I Go"Floyd Butler, Jerry Peters3:10
5."Dying to Live" Edgar Winter 4:15
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Oh, How I Miss You"Jerry Peters9:23
7."Jenny Wants to Know"Jerry Peters2:52
8."Let Me Be"Skip Scarborough2:49
9."I Need You"Jerry Peters3:12
10."It's Time to See Each Other"Jerry Peters11:12

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1971)Peak
[1]
U.S. Billboard Top LPs 166

Singles

YearSinglePeak
US
[1]
US
R&B

[1]
1971"I Need You"7928

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "US Charts > The Friends of Distinction". Billboard . Retrieved 22 December 2016.