Trackimage | Playbut | Trackname | Playbut | Trackname |
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49955289 | Play | Grazing In The Grass | 00:00 Tools | |
6702675 | Play | Going In Circles | 04:16 Tools | |
49955290 | Play | Love or Let Me Be Lonely | 00:00 Tools | |
6702677 | Play | I Really Hope You Do | 00:00 Tools | |
6702678 | Play | And I Love Him | 00:00 Tools | |
6702680 | Play | I've Never Found A Girl (To Love Me Like You Do) | 00:00 Tools | |
6702681 | Play | Lonesome Mood | 04:48 Tools | |
6702682 | Play | When A Little Love Began To Die | 00:00 Tools | |
6702679 | Play | Grazing In The Grass Anchorman Medley | 00:00 Tools | |
6702683 | Play | Light My Fire | 00:00 Tools | |
6702706 | Play | Love Or Let Me Be Lonely - Digitally Mastered - May - June, 1988 | 03:20 Tools | |
6702692 | Play | Great Day | 00:00 Tools | |
6702690 | Play | Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got) | 00:00 Tools | |
6702689 | Play | Time Waits for No One | 03:25 Tools | |
6702688 | Play | Peaceful | 00:00 Tools | |
6702685 | Play | It Don't Matter To Me | 00:00 Tools | |
6702713 | Play | Let Yourself Go | 00:00 Tools | |
6702687 | Play | Eli's Comin' | 04:13 Tools | |
6702684 | Play | Baby I Could Be So Good At Loving You | 00:00 Tools | |
6702691 | Play | Check It Out | 03:02 Tools | |
6702697 | Play | I Need You | 00:00 Tools | |
6702686 | Play | Crazy Mary | 05:09 Tools | |
6702693 | Play | Dying To Live | 04:48 Tools | |
6702695 | Play | I Can't Get You Out Of My Mind | 00:00 Tools | |
6702698 | Play | Long Time Coming My Way | 00:00 Tools | |
6702700 | Play | Sweet Young Thing Like You | 00:00 Tools | |
6702702 | Play | Love Can Make It Easier | 00:00 Tools | |
6702696 | Play | Down I Go | 00:00 Tools | |
6702701 | Play | It's Sunday | 00:00 Tools | |
6702694 | Play | Help Yourself (To All My Lovin') | 00:00 Tools | |
6702703 | Play | Jenny Wants To Know | 00:00 Tools | |
6702705 | Play | (A) Sweet Young Thing Like You | 00:00 Tools | |
6702699 | Play | Workin' On A Groovy Thing | 00:00 Tools | |
6702709 | Play | We Got A Good Thing Goin' | 00:00 Tools | |
6702704 | Play | Impressions (Dialogue) | 00:00 Tools | |
6702718 | Play | It's A Wonderful World | 00:00 Tools | |
6702711 | Play | Love Me Or Let Me Be Lonely | 00:00 Tools | |
6702708 | Play | Help Yourself (To All Of My Lovin') | 00:00 Tools | |
6702715 | Play | This Generation | 00:00 Tools | |
6702717 | Play | Grazing in the Grass (w/Bob Dylan intro) | 00:00 Tools | |
49955291 | Play | Grazing In The Grass (Can You Dig It) | 02:53 Tools | |
49955292 | Play | the way we planned it | 04:17 Tools | |
6702739 | Play | Lonesome Mood ['In The Mood'] | 00:00 Tools | |
6702720 | Play | Why Did I Lose You? | 00:00 Tools | |
6702714 | Play | I've Never Found a Girl (Who Loves Me Like You Do) | 00:00 Tools | |
6702719 | Play | Why Did I Lose You | 00:00 Tools | |
49955296 | Play | Easy Evil | 00:00 Tools | |
49955293 | Play | Going In Circles (Hocus Pocus - W0:00) | 00:00 Tools | |
49955294 | Play | Gioing In Circles | 00:00 Tools | |
6702733 | Play | It's Just A Game Love - (From the MGM Production "The Split") | 00:00 Tools | |
49955295 | Play | You Got Me Going In Circles | 00:00 Tools | |
6702773 | Play | Grazing In The Grass - Friends Of Distinction | 00:00 Tools | |
6702782 | Play | Rock And Stone | 00:00 Tools | |
6702790 | Play | New Mother Nature | 00:00 Tools | |
6702778 | Play | Impressions | 00:00 Tools | |
6702730 | Play | It's Just A Game Love | 00:00 Tools | |
87046188 | Play | Now is the time | 00:00 Tools | |
49955303 | Play | You're Gonna' Make It | 00:00 Tools | |
6702755 | Play | Goodbye | 00:00 Tools | |
6702757 | Play | My Mind Is A Camera | 00:00 Tools | |
87046190 | Play | Believe in me | 00:00 Tools | |
49955297 | Play | The Train | 00:00 Tools | |
6702767 | Play | Terrie | 00:00 Tools | |
6702721 | Play | Baby, I Could Be So Good At Loving You | 00:00 Tools | |
6702770 | Play | Long Time Comin' My Way | 00:00 Tools | |
6702735 | Play | When I Die | 00:00 Tools | |
6702729 | Play | Just A Little Lovin' | 00:00 Tools | |
6702783 | Play | You've Gotta Tell Him (About You And Me) | 00:00 Tools | |
6702738 | Play | Any way you want me | 00:00 Tools | |
6702765 | Play | Captain Of A Sinking Ship | 00:00 Tools | |
6702758 | Play | I Don't Wanna Be Late (To Say I Love You) | 00:00 Tools | |
76902708 | Play | No One's Gonna Be A Fool Forever | 00:00 Tools | |
6702779 | Play | Love Or Let Me Be Lonely (Karaoke Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
87046189 | Play | Out In The Country | 00:00 Tools | |
49955298 | Play | And I Love Him [Rick Ross & Jay-Z - 'Maybach Music'] | 00:00 Tools | |
6702748 | Play | Only Give Love | 00:00 Tools | |
76902701 | Play | Lady Mae | 00:00 Tools | |
49955299 | Play | The Train (Club Mix Bonus Track) | 00:00 Tools | |
49955300 | Play | Going_In_Circles | 00:00 Tools | |
6702786 | Play | Reviviscence (Part 1) | 00:00 Tools | |
6702788 | Play | Reviviscence (Part 2) | 00:00 Tools | |
6702762 | Play | Grazing In the Grass (Re-Recorded) | 00:00 Tools | |
76902706 | Play | You're Gonna Make it | 00:00 Tools | |
6702777 | Play | Impressions (The Friends of Distinction) | 00:00 Tools | |
49955306 | Play | Didn't We | 00:00 Tools | |
49955301 | Play | Nowhere | 00:00 Tools | |
87046191 | Play | On & On | 00:00 Tools | |
49955311 | Play | Grazing the Grass | 00:00 Tools | |
6702756 | Play | Goin In Circles | 00:00 Tools | |
6702716 | Play | Grazing In The Grass - Performed Live On The Ed Sullivan Show 12/27/1970 | 00:00 Tools | |
89115272 | Play | Reviviscence (Part I) | 00:00 Tools | |
49955304 | Play | I've Never Found A Girl | 00:00 Tools | |
49955308 | Play | You and I | 00:00 Tools | |
49955309 | Play | Honey Baby Theme | 00:00 Tools | |
49955307 | Play | Love Shack | 00:00 Tools | |
89115273 | Play | Love Shack (Opened Up A Shop Called "Love") | 00:00 Tools | |
6702791 | Play | Love Shack (Opened Up A Shop Called Love) | 00:00 Tools | |
87046192 | Play | Willa Faye | 00:00 Tools | |
49955312 | Play | Soulful Anthem | 00:00 Tools | |
6702795 | Play | When a Little Love Began to Die (Funky DL / Don't Even Try It) | 00:00 Tools | |
87046194 | Play | The Chittlin' Song | 00:00 Tools | |
49955310 | Play | Grazing In The Grass/The Friends Of Distinction | 00:00 Tools | |
49955323 | Play | Bring Us A Better Day | 00:00 Tools | |
49955314 | Play | Grazing in the Grass ('69) | 00:00 Tools | |
87046193 | Play | Friends Of Distinction - Grazing In The Grass | 00:00 Tools | |
49955315 | Play | Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got) | 00:00 Tools | |
49955317 | Play | got me going in circles | 00:00 Tools | |
49955326 | Play | Grazing in the Grass (69) | 00:00 Tools | |
49955318 | Play | It Don’t Matter to Me | 00:00 Tools | |
6702745 | Play | Grazing On The Grass | 00:00 Tools | |
49955319 | Play | aint no woman (like the one i've got) | 00:00 Tools | |
49955320 | Play | Ain't No Woman | 00:00 Tools | |
49955321 | Play | People Talkin' And Sayin' Nothin' | 00:00 Tools | |
49955322 | Play | gra | 00:00 Tools | |
49955324 | Play | I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind | 00:00 Tools | |
89115274 | Play | Grazing In The Grass - Rerecorded Version | 00:00 Tools | |
76902705 | Play | I Don't Wanna Be Late (To Say I Love Me) | 00:00 Tools | |
49955325 | Play | Smiling Faces Sometimes | 00:00 Tools | |
89115275 | Play | Thumbtrippin' | 00:00 Tools | |
49955327 | Play | I*’ve Never Loved a Girl (Who Loves Me Like You Do) | 00:00 Tools | |
89115276 | Play | Reviviscence (Part II) | 00:00 Tools | |
49955332 | Play | When a Little Love Began to Die (Don't Even Try It) | 00:00 Tools | |
49955337 | Play | Grazing In The Grass (Trailer Song) | 00:00 Tools | |
6702728 | Play | Eli's Coming | 00:00 Tools | |
49955329 | Play | And I Love Him ['Hope (Original Version)'] | 00:00 Tools | |
49955330 | Play | Love | 00:00 Tools | |
49955335 | Play | Love Or Let Me Be Lonely (Digitally Mastered - May - June, 1988) | 00:00 Tools | |
49955328 | Play | Grazing In The Grass [Can You Dig It] | 00:00 Tools | |
49955331 | Play | Love Or Let Me Be Lonely ('70) | 00:00 Tools | |
49955333 | Play | Ooh Child | 00:00 Tools | |
87046195 | Play | You're Gotta Tell Him (About You And Me) | 00:00 Tools | |
49955334 | Play | Friends Of Distinction - Going In Circles | 00:00 Tools | |
89115277 | Play | The Chitllin Song | 00:00 Tools | |
76902707 | Play | Going In Circles - The Friends of Distinction | 00:00 Tools | |
89115278 | Play | Love Shack (Opened Up A Sop Called "Love") | 00:00 Tools | |
49955338 | Play | My Mind Is A Camera (L.E.G.A.C.Y. - Insomnia) | 00:00 Tools | |
89115279 | Play | Thumb Trippin' (I'll Be Movin' On) | 00:00 Tools | |
6702776 | Play | And I Love Him [Wu Block - 'Guns for Life'] | 00:00 Tools | |
89115280 | Play | Grazing in the Grass - The Friends of Distinction | 00:00 Tools | |
87046196 | Play | And I Love Him [Edo G - 'Neva Die (Boom Bap)' & Maffew Ragazino - 'Never Ran, Never Will'] | 00:00 Tools | |
49955339 | Play | You Got Me Goin' In Circles | 00:00 Tools | |
49955340 | Play | Grazing In the Grass (Performed Live On The Ed Sullivan Show 12/27/1970) | 00:00 Tools |
One of the most likeable and vocally cohesive singing groups of the late 60s and early 70s, the Friends of Distinction are too often forgotten in retrospectives of that era, but their music has continued to live on. Formed by Harry Elston, Floyd Butler, Jessica Cleaves and Barbara Love in 1968, the group had a relatively short life in its original incarnation, but made some of the most memorable pop/soul music of all time. Elston had been singing with the Hi-Fi's in the mid-60s, warming up for Ray Charles in tours across the country. When that group split in 1966, members Marilyn McCoo and Lamont McLemore went on to co-found the enormously successful Fifth Dimension and Elston started the Friends, whose sound was similar to, and often confused with, the Fifth Dimension -- both included tightly harmonizing men and women dressed in late 60s "hip" clothing -- though the Friends' music was generally more soulful. The newly formed Friends of Distinction was managed by football great Jim Brown and signed with RCA Records. Hitting the popular music scene when Motown and Stax were dominating, the Friends arrived with a breezy California pop/soul sound. Great harmonies and crossover arrangements backed the individually strong lead vocals of the group members. Combined with top notch material (both originals and covers), the group, like the Fifth Dimension, sounded like a breath of fresh air on Pop radio in 1969. Their first single, "Grazin' In the Grass," was a Elston-sung vocal remake of a Hugh Masekela instrumental cut, and hit the top 5 on both Pop and Soul charts in 1969. The group's follow-up, "Going In Circles," was a brilliant ballad that also charted high. Love took some time off to have a baby, and Charlene Gibson stepped in and sang lead on the group's third big hit, "Love or Let Me Be Lonely." She also sang on the wonderful album cut, "Crazy Mary." The Friends were quite prolific from 1969-71, releasing 5 albums (a sixth appeared in 1973). They also released a number of great singles, including "Check It Out" (later remade by Tavares) and a terrific cover of Neil Sedaka's "Time Waits for No One." Their best cuts are excellently compiled in The Best of the Friends of Distinction, which was released in 1996. As popular music changed in the mid-70s, the Friends' fortunes declined. Jessica Cleaves was featured with Earth Wind and Fire,first appearance on the"Last Days and Time" release. A grueling touring schedule and the lack of a hit for several years led the group to call it quits in 1975. Elston and Butler continued to write and perform for a few years, then ultimately went their separate ways, taking jobs outside of music. Over the next two decades, there was a rediscovery of the great music that the Friends had made together, and their biggest hits were remade by several artists, with "Going In Circles" charting for the Gap Band and Luther Vandross and "Love or Let Me Be Lonely" for pop artist Paul Davis. Most recently, "Grazin In the Grass" was released by Disney star Raven. In 1990, Elston and Butler decided to bring the Friends back together. Tragically, Butler died (at Elston's side) before the group reunion could be realized. After Butler's death, Elston spent several years forming a new Friends group, ultimately bringing together Geno Henderson, Wendy Bruné and Berlando Drake to sing with Elston. That lineup currently tours and continues to entertain audiences nearly 40 years after the world first heard the Friends of Distinction. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.