Love Can Make It Easier

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Love Can Make It Easier
FriendsOfDistinctionLoveCanMakeItEasier.jpg
Studio album by
Released1973
Recorded1973
StudioRCA's Music Center of the World
(Hollywood, California)
Genre Soul
Label RCA Victor
Producer The Friends of Distinction, Ray Cork, Jr.
The Friends of Distinction chronology
Friends & People
(1971)
Love Can Make It Easier
(1973)
Reviviscence: Live to Light Again
(1975)
Singles from Love Can Make It Easier
  1. "The Way We Planned It"
    Released: 1972
  2. "Thumb Tripping (I'll Be Movin' On)"
    Released: 1972
  3. "Easy Evil"
    Released: 1973
  4. "Love Can Make It Easier"
    Released: 1973

Love Can Make It Easier is the sixth studio album by R&B group The Friends of Distinction, released in 1973 on the RCA Victor label. Neither this album nor its singles charted. [1]

Contents

Track listing

Side A
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Love Can Make It Easier" Skip Scarborough 4:39
2."No One's Gonna Be A Fool Forever" Michael Masser, Pam Sawyer 3:13
3."Now Is The Time"Ernie Shelby3:42
4."Believe In Me"Adele Sebastian, Larry Farrow4:19
5."You're Gonna Make It" Skip Scarborough 3:34
6."The Chittlin' Song"Anita Poree, Skip Scarborough3:52
Side B
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
7."Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got)" Brian Potter, Dennis Lambert 3:33
8."The Way We Planned It" George Clinton 4:21
9."Thumb Trippin' (I'll Be Movin' On)"Floyd Butler, Harry Elston, Ray Cork, Jr., Stephanie Black3:40
10."Easy Evil" Alan O'Day 3:50
11."Only Give Love" Jerry Peters 4:34

Personnel

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References

  1. "Radio Album & Pick LPs: Pop Picks". Billboard. Vol. 85, no. 9. Nielsen Business Media. March 3, 1973. p. 72. Retrieved April 6, 2020 via Google Books.