Why Can’t We Be Friends?
~ Recording by War
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track artist | Release title | Release artist | Release group type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Official | |||||||||
| 1.9 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:50 | War | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | War | Album |
| United Artists | UA-LA441-G |
| 1.8 | Why Can't We Be Friends | 3:52 | War | Greatest Hits | War | Album + Compilation |
| United Artists | UA-LA648-G |
| 1.9 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:50 | War | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | War | Album |
| Island (imprint of Island Records, a division of Universal Music Group) | ILPS 9378 |
| 1.9 | Why Can’t We Be Friends | 3:48 | War | The Best of WAR and More, Vol. 1 | War | Album + Compilation |
| Avenue Records (US) | |
| 1.5 | Why Can't We Be Friends? | 3:53 | War | Sounds of the Seventies: 1975 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Special Products, Time–Life Music | OPCD-2595, SOD-08 |
| 1.9 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:53 | War | The Best of War and More | War | Album + Compilation |
| Avenue Records (US), Rhino (reissue label) | R2 70072 |
| 1.9 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:50 | War | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | War | Album |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 71051 |
| 2.1 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:48 | War | Anthology 1970 - 1994 | War | Album + Compilation |
| Avenue Records (US) | R2 71774 |
| 1.5 | Why Can’t We Be Friends | 3:51 | War | Even More Dazed and Confused | Various Artists | Album + Compilation + Soundtrack |
| The Medicine Label | 9 24588-2 |
| 2.1 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:48 | War | Anthology 1970 - 1994 | War | Album + Compilation |
| Avenue Records (US) | R2 71774 |
| 1.7 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:50 | War | Soul Hits of the ’70s: Didn’t It Blow Your Mind! Volume 17 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 72127 |
| 1.9 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:50 | War | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | War | Album |
| Avenue Records (US) | ASR 10602-2 |
| 1.14 | Why Can't We Be Friends | 3:51 | War | AM Gold: 1975 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| EMI‐Capitol Music Special Markets, Time–Life Music | 72438-19160-2-5, AM1-22 |
| 1.10 | Why Can't We Be Friends? | 3:50 | War | The Cisco Kid and Other Hits | War | Album + Compilation |
| Flashback Records (reissue label, subsidiary of Rhino) | 75299 |
| 1.5 | Why Can't We Be Friends? | 3:51 | War | Brown Eyed Soul: The Sound of East L.A. Vol. 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 72869 |
| 5.10 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:50 | War | Have a Nice Decade: The ’70s Pop Culture Box | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 72919 |
| 1.10 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:48 | War | Grooves & Messages: The Greatest Hits of War | War | Album + Compilation |
| Avenue Records (US) | R2 75903 |
| 1.9 | Why Can't We Be Friends | 3:52 | War | Midnight Blue Top 40 Chartbusters 1975 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Madacy Records | |
| 1.11 | Why Can't We Be Friends | 3:54 | War | Sounds of the Seventies: Feel Good '70s | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Special Products, Time–Life Music | OPCD-2776, R840-11 |
| 1.3 | Why Can't We Be Friends? | 3:53 | War | Venezia Soul | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rock River, Universal Music Special Markets | 314564974-2 |
| 1.11 | Why Can't We Be Friends | 3:49 | War | Casey Kasem Presents America's Top 10 Through the Years: 1970s | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Top Sail Productions | TSP-71888 |
| 1.7 | Why Can't We Be Friends | 3:52 | War | The Mexican | Alan Silvestri | Album + Soundtrack |
| Decca Records | 013 757-2 |
| 6.4 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:51 | War | Can You Dig It? The ’70s Soul Experience | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 74346 |
| 1.17 | Why Can't We Be Friends? | 3:49 | War | The Very Best of War | War | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label), Avenue Records (US) | R2 73895 |
| 1.17 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:49 | War | The Very Best Of War | War | Album + Compilation |
| Avenue Records (US), Rhino (reissue label) | 8122-73895-2 |
| 1.5 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:53 | War | Ultimate Seventies: 1975 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Special Products, Time–Life Music | 19475‐2, OPCD‐2595A, R634‐08 |
| 1.2 | Why Can't We Be Friends | 3:48 | War | The Nanny Diaries | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Artists’ Addiction Records (soundtrack label) | ADM-40080-2 |
| 1.8 | Why Can't We Be Friends | 3:48 | War | Semi-Pro | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Decca Records | 478 0441 |
| 1.8 | Why Can't We Be Friends | 3:48 | War | Semi-Pro: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| New Line Records | NLR39108 |
| 1.9 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:48 | War | Icon (The Hits) | War | Album + Compilation |
| Hip‐O Records, Far Out Productions | B0014950-02 |
| 1.9 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:48 | War | Icon (The Hits) | War | Album + Compilation |
| Hip‐O Records, Far Out Recordings (London, England based label, specialising in Brazilian music) | B0014950-02 |
| 1.9 | Why Can't We Be Friends? | 3:48 | War | The Hits | War | Album + Compilation |
| Far Out Productions, Inc. | |
| 2.1 | Why Can't We Be Friends? | 3:48 | War | Icon 2: The Hits & More | War | Album + Compilation |
| Far Out Productions, Inc. | B0015260-02 |
| 2.8 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:52 | War | Evolutionary | War | Album + Compilation |
| Far Out Records (American punk rock/hardcore record label) | B0020529-02 |
| 1.10 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:48 | War | Grooves & Messages: The Greatest Hits of War | War | Album + Compilation |
| Avenue Records (US) | |
| 1.5 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | ?:?? | War | Even More Dazed and Confused | Various Artists | Album + Compilation + Soundtrack |
| Real Gone Music (US reissue label founded by Gordon Anderson and Gabby Castellana. DO NOT CONFUSE WITH THE UK/EUROPE OUT-OF-COPYRIGHT LABEL.) | RGM-0717 |
| 5.9 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:49 | War | The Vinyl: 1971-1975 (Remastered on colored vinyl) | War | Album + Compilation |
| Avenue Records (US), Far Out Productions, Rhino (reissue label) | 603497844999, RCV1 645869 |
| 1.9 | Why Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:53 | War | The Best of War… and More (club edition) | War | Album + Compilation |
| BMG Direct (BMG’s direct marketing company/club editions), Avenue Records (US), Rhino (reissue label) | D111160, R2 70072 |
| Bootleg | |||||||||
| 2.5 | Can’t We Be Friends? | 3:51 | War | Dazed and Confused / Even More Dazed and Confused | Various Artists | Album + Compilation | |||
| (unknown) | |||||||||
| 1.8 | Why Can't We Be Friends | 3:52 | War | Greatest Hits | War | Album + Compilation |
| United Artists | 10601 |
Relationships
| recording engineer: | Ed Barton (engineer) Andrew Berliner Chris Huston |
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| associate producer: | Lonnie Jordan Howard E. Scott (US funk/rock guitarist, member of War) |
| producer: | Jerry Goldstein |
| mixer: | Ed Barton (engineer) |
| recording of: | Why Can’t We Be Friends? |
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Related works
Why Can’t We Be Friends?
| writer: | Papa Dee Allen Harold Brown B.B. Dickerson Jerry Goldstein Lonnie Jordan Charles Miller (US saxophonist & flutist, member of War) Lee Oskar Howard E. Scott (US funk/rock guitarist, member of War) |
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