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, {&"...   [ read more ]

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One Way's two-fer of the Friends of Distinction's Grazin' and Highly Distinct captures the swinging pop-soul group at their prime. This, in fact, contains their greatest hits -- "Grazing in the Grass" and "Going in Circles" -- along with a lot of other songs that sound like that, including a fair number of covers. They pretty much sound like the Fifth Dimension without the depth of material, which means they're pretty tied to their times, and the uneven songs emphasize their generic...   [ read more ]

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