“Why can we not be friends?” — what a great song. This song came out on June 16, 1975, just a few weeks after I had graduated high school and a few weeks before my 18th birthday. Whenever I hear this song I am immediately transported back in time to that place in my mind and memory. It does not have the feel of the songs that were playing on the radio during my senior year of high school and it does not have he Disco flavor that was soon to fill most of the songs on the radio and jukeboxes for several years after my graduation in 1975. All I can say is that the Summer of ’75 was one of a kind and the mantra is true today as then, ‘Why can’t WE be friends?” — Stay tuned … what do you think? —
