<P> `` Why Ca n't We Be Friends ? '' is a song by the funk band War for their 1975 studio album of the same name . The song has a simple structure , with the phrase `` Why ca n't we be friends ? '' being sung four times after each two - line verse amounting to over forty times in under four minutes . The song reached # 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1975 . The song is unique as various members of the band exchange vocal duties from verse to verse . It was played in outer space when NASA beamed it to the linking of Soviet cosmonauts and U.S. astronauts for the Apollo -- Soyuz Test Project . Billboard ranked it as the No. 23 song of that year . </P>
<P> `` Why Ca n't We Be Friends ? '' is a song by the funk band War for their 1975 studio album of the same name . The song has a simple structure , with the phrase `` Why ca n't we be friends ? '' being sung four times after each two - line verse amounting to over forty times in under four minutes . The song reached # 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1975 . The song is unique as various members of the band exchange vocal duties from verse to verse . It was played in outer space when NASA beamed it to the linking of Soviet cosmonauts and U.S. astronauts for the Apollo -- Soyuz Test Project . Billboard ranked it as the No. 23 song of that year . </P>
who made why ca n 't we be friends
who made why ca n 't we be friends
War
War