Intimate Friends
Eddie Kendricks
7″ Single, 1977
Motown Records
We scheduled set times at the last I Love Vinyl party until 3:30 a.m. and after that it was sort of a free for all. This is the song I wanted to end the party with, but I didn’t elbow my way to the turntable in time.
Does anyone know the where this song first came out? This 45 says it’s from his “At His Best” compilation but it doesn’t seem to have come out before that. Is it one of those age-old “tack some new studio material onto a greatest hits so that the people who have every album still have to buy it” things? Well, if so, this was a great song to do it with, although, putting it out on 45 would sort of defeat the purpose.
Common (Immenslope, actually) sampled this on “A Penny For My Thoughts,” his first song on his first album in 1992, when he was Common Sense…before he tamed his flow.
Songs are available for two weeks.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
This may be TMI but I lost my virginity to this song! Such a gem
November 22nd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
i suppose it is TMI. makes me wonder if it was somewhat recently because that’s not your average high school jam (haha).
January 5th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
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