Friends & People

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

Friends & People
Studio album by The Friends of Distinction
Released	1971
Studio	RCA'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)

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.	Title	Writer(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 Peters	3:10
5.	"Dying to Live"	Edgar Winter	4:15

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"Oh, How I Miss You"	Jerry Peters	9:23
7.	"Jenny Wants to Know"	Jerry Peters	2:52
8.	"Let Me Be"	Skip Scarborough	2:49
9.	"I Need You"	Jerry Peters	3:12
10.	"It's Time to See Each Other"	Jerry Peters	11:12

Personnel

• Harry Eltson, Floyd Butler, Jessica Cleaves – vocals

Charts

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

Singles

Year	Single	Peak
		US [1]	US R&B [1]
1971	"I Need You"	79	28