Why Can't We Be Friends?

Written by Papa Dee Allen, Harold Brown, B.B. Dickerson, Jerry Goldstein, Lonnie Jordan, Charles Miller, Lee Oskar, and Howard E. Scott, this title track from War's 1975 album reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was ranked the number 24 song of that year. The song uniquely features each band member singing their own verse and was played in outer space when NASA beamed it to the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, linking Soviet cosmonauts and U.S. astronauts.