Why Can't We Be Friends
War
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Momentum
This song has not appeared on a Rotation chart, so it has no score and no receipts. The rank history below is the ledger; a score is only published once the momentum run puts it on a chart.
Why it's here
Each member of War sings his own verse, giving the song an unusual structure built around the repeated line "Why can't we be friends?" [1] NASA beamed the song into space during the linking of Soviet and American crews for the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project. [2] Billboard ranked it the No. 24 song of 1975 on its year-end chart. [3]
In culture
Every place this record has lived. A solid chip states a fact and carries the citation that earns it; a dashed one is a connection somebody drew, and carries their name instead.
- Written by B.B. Dickersonsource
- Written by Charles Millersource
- Covered Goosesource
- Written by Harold Brownsource
- Written by Howard E. Scottsource
- Written by Jerry Goldsteinsource
- Covered Kings Roadsource
- Written by Lee Oskarsource
- Written by Lonnie Jordansource
- Covered Nastaseesource
- Written by Papa Dee Allensource
- Covered Scary Pockets feat. GoldFordsource
- Covered Smash Mouthsource
- Covered Smeedgesource
- Covered The Gotee Brotherssource
- Covered The Matt Wilson Quartetsource
Across markets · earliest pickup first
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No country chart has carried this song yet.
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Editions
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Identity
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- Slug
- war__why-can-t-we-be-friends
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About a sixth of the catalogue carries an ISRC today and the share grows nightly. Until one arrives this song is joined on its slug alone, which can merge or split.
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What moved this week, and why.
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