Why Can’t We Be Friends?

Tracklist

• 1
  Don’t Let No One Get You Down
  4:07
  2.5 ★
• 2
  Lotus Blossom
  4:04
• 3
  Heartbeat
  7:25
• 4
  Leroy’s Latin Lament (medley): A) Lonnie Dreams / B) The Way We Feel / C) La Fiesta / D) Lament
  6:44
• 5
  Smile Happy
  7:27
• 6
  So
  5:01
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Low Rider
  3:13
  4.7 ★
• 8
  In Mazatlan
  2:51
• 9
  Why Can’t We Be Friends?
  3:50
  4.1 ★

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Release credits

• Andrew Berliner
  recording
• Chris Huston
  recording
• Ed Barton
  mix, recording
• Howard E. Scott
  associate
• Jerry Goldstein
  producer
• Lonnie Jordan
  associate

Issues

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  Why Can't We Be Friends?

  Digital Media
  1 January 1975
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  Why Can’t We Be Friends?

  12" Vinyl
  June 1975
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  Why Can’t We Be Friends?

  12" Vinyl
  1976
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  Why Can’t We Be Friends?

  CD
  18 August 1992
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  Why Can't We Be Friends?

  CD
  1992
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  Why Can’t We Be Friends?

  CD
  1995
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  Why Can't We Be Friends?

  12" Vinyl
  2022
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  Why Can't We Be Friends? (50th Anniversary Collector's Edition)

  3x Digital Media
  2025
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  Why Can’t We Be Friends?

  CD