The lead singer was beautiful and the female backup was cute.

Always been attracted to Jessica Cleeves, very sexy.

You don't like Sexxy Red? She said her booty hole brown 😅

I hear that!

Yes indeed!!!

Well my friend we have turned into our parents Thank God can't believe I'm so damn Old

I was in my mid teens and this song among many made those years special.

@Sandra Gonzalez Our parents were right. Especially when it came to standards.

It’s the sound track of my life. Makes me cry to.

I'm right there with you bud!

You got that right !!!

@@janaddeo236 Thanks for the memories!

While I truly love this music of my late teens, I still find new music to love every year. You just have to listen for it. I can't abide Adele, and the other "Music to commit suicide to" that is popular today, but that is not ALL of the music that there is!

Word! 💯

Ha-ha, do you mean like Tiny Tim with Tiptoe Through the Tulips and The Fifth Estate with Ding Dong the Witch is Dead? Come on, there’s dogs in ever era.

Thanks for the info

You're very welcome! 🙏🏿

Thanks - I know they changed lady singers I think twice. Who were the 2 women on ' Grazin in the grass?

Thank you for clearing that up! I was wondering because Charlene looked mighty different here. LOL.

Lol, very different!

James, you are so right, very underrated! If my memory serves correctly, I recall reading somewhere that a couple of members of the Fifth Dimension were also members of the Friends of Distinction. I remember thinking at the time I read the article that that's why they reminded me of each other. Not that they were clones, but that they each had these incredible harmonies. Still makes the hair on the back of my head stand up, and gives me goosebumps when I hear their music.

@@estedetringham7528 thanks 4 sharing.

​@@estedetringham7528didn't understand why they broke up, I read they were only together for about 6 years and in that short time span they had some mega hits! I guess they couldn't live up to their group name " friends of distinction"?

Was that Jessica Cleaves singing with Friends of Distinction before or after she was with Earth Wind & Fire?

​@@LisaWashington-vw6tg Before Earth, Wind & Fire

Absolutely!!! Gives me goosebumps

I totally agree! I wonder if TVOne has an episode of "Unsung" The Friends of Distinction? If they don't, there should be.

@@martyemmons1859 Yes! I sure hope so, also The Fifth Dimension!!!

@@loris.2481, I checked and no Friends of Distinction episode yet. But there is an episode for the Jones Girls. It hasn't been uploaded to KZfaq though. I'll be happy to watch that one. The Jones Girls made extremely good music.

I know..how can this song make you lonely...great sound ...

Lot's of it!!!

Doing my research on them, they only lasted 6 years as a group, didn't understand the quick break up because they had some serious hits in that time span.

musiciahship? is that a word? hahhaha

The answer is musicianship is a word, Margaret. No haha about it.

Good memory

I remember February 1970 as it was a month with just a few dates I had with a girl I was so crazy about. She turned me on to it. What I'm wondering is how do you recall the 21st? There must be some connection.

@@danielhagan921 The song didn't chart until the week of March 1st of 1970 according to Billboard top 100. He must have gotten lucky and heard a demo on a radio station 7 days or so earlier. Not to mention being in a wonderful situation perhaps with a gal when he first heard it.

That's a very fine difference, Trinity! I checked a calendar for 1970. It's only an eight or none day difference. I'm hoping John will let us in on how he remembers a 52 year old single date so well. Just curious - how about it, John?

And decades away from that awful auto tune! Real voices, real orchestration, real instruments. Real talent!

You can say that again!!! 70's and 80's music will never be topped by any other music. That's a fact Jack.

Same here! I was 14 in 1970. I was obsessed with this group, I had all their first five albums and memorized every songwriting and production credit. I would lay to floor with the speakers and soak in those harmonies all night.

@@itsabovemenow1016 Wonderful to hear! God bless, Dave

I was 13 when I first heard it. I'm 64 now and it still gives me goosebumps.

same here

I was 12 in 1970 and thank you Gordy for all the Motown sound. 1959 was an excellent year!!! The birth of Motown.

Yes indeed and sometime on a small transistor radio going in and out of the station, but we didn't care because we loved the song so much. Yep great memories 😁

Don’t ya miss top 40 AM Radio.. we had WFIL 56 and WIBG 990 Wibbage in philly.. life was grand even though we didn’t realize the big picture.

I did the exact same thing ! awesome

LARRY read your comment of listening to transistor radios back with the FRIENDS OF DISTINCTION!! How about WWRL I believe it was the SOUL STATION with GARY BYRD/HANK SPANN on AM radio mainly at night@ WABC 77 AM with JAY REYNOLDS 12 midnight to 6 am/DAN INGRAM 2 pm to 6 pm afternoons and so on!! And those clean messages in the songs and most songs had a religious/gospel sound in JUNE 1970: UP THE LADDER TO THE ROOF.NEW SUPREMES with JEAN TERREL)/UNITED WE STAND.BROTHERHOOD OF MAN/LAY DOWN CADLES IN THE RAIN.MELANIE/REACH OUT AND TOUCH SOMEBODYS HAND.DIANA ROSS (now going solo)/ EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL.RAY STEVENS/REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE.MARMALADE/SPIRIT IN THE SKY.NORMAN GREENBAUM*** just to name a few!!!Thanks for your TRANSISTOR RADIO COMMENT! Those radios never gave us VIRUS/HACKED/IDENTITY THEFT/STOLEN I.D.,s as they and those CASSETTES/8 TRACKS/TURNTABLES were all safe to play with no ONLINE THIEVES!

Yes!

So sorry

I didn't know she passed away. She and The Friends of Distinction certainly left a wonderful song for us to listen to.

Floyd Butler, another member of the same singing group also died but their beautiful harmonizing music lives on.

Just a fyi. That's not Jessica singing lead. It was my Cousin, Ms. Charlene Gibson!!! Jessica was just "Lip-Synching it.

(Cleaves)

I was a senior also. About two months to go before the real world

Really? How did pass? Was she sick? How about the other members? Because I recognized the other female singer who used to sing backup for Earth Wind & Fire, her name is Jessica Cleaves & was wondering if I am correct or no?

Good video

She has the talent of a 'Siren' of lore. The beautiful voice that tried to call Odysseus' ship to the crash on the rocks.

Hello. I was six when this was released but I certainly remember my father and his siblings jamming to this. Will you please share where this is from? It is a television show? Thanks so much for sharing.

@@CRSDelta I'm not sure, I don't think it was Soul Train because on there the group is usually right up next to people dancing, I think it was The Ed Sullivan Show which had a full stage like there in..

It's people like you that make youtube so addicting. Between Family Guy and the new Allstate commercial, Grazing In The Grass on the Ed Sullivan Show video has been given a brand new life. This song and video ranks right up there and deserves it's 15 minutes of fame again.

I think we all did. I was 8 yrs old when this song came out I remember loving it instantly. I guess we all thought that the good music would last forever. Joke is definitely on us...

all of it was great!

We all did I'm sure. I was 8 yrs old when this first hit. Didn't get the lyrics, but I loved the melody and their voices....

I turned 10 in late 1970s. It's now April 2022 (Easter Sunday) and today at age 61, for some odd reason, this song from my childhood popped into my mind. ❤❤❤

I was 14. this is one of my favorites of all time!

Dittos.

That was Jessica Cleaves, who also sang with EWF , George Clinton's Parliament and Funkadelics!

Yes, that's when singers who were singers had talent and not just rhyming a bunch of curse words and nonsense with a music track made on a computer with finger snaps.

The Friends of Distinction are a perfect example of the caliber of music we had! The competition was phenomenal. The fact that they even got played by the DJs during that time is a testament to their skill and abilities.

Wow, I've always known who recorded this, but never saw this as a Dusty Springfield song until reading your post, and realizing that there are similarities in sound, song and style.

Ahhh very nice story. Please read my comment about the Friends I just posted.

And better.

I agree 100%

I remember this song when I was growing up and I've always liked it. Sounds like the 5th Dimension band with all the tight harmonies. Love that era of music that was chart toppers!

Agreed!!!!!

You already knew what was right.

So was I 10. hearing this music takes me back to being a kid.I would buy 2 45s a week with my allowance.

@Richard Christopherson When it mattered, you don't mind giving up your allowances. For the longest time, my dad kept some of the things from his record store, one day I asked what this little yellow plastic disk was, he laughed and said that I should remember, it was the disk that went into the 45s, I was really young ,but the music store is were we spent so much time growing up. I'm the baby of the group. Once he said it , I vaguely remembered it. But it was cool seeing some of record store items.

So true!!

They HAVE to jump around, because they have no other talent!!!

@@scotabot7826 🤣🤣🤣!

@@stopiwantoff7965 Just to make sure, I'm talking about the Groups of today, not the Fab and wonderful Friends of Distinction!!!

That's because they actually sang during their performances

* side eyes in Marvelettes, Martha and the Vandellas, and Tina Turner and the Ikettes *

So far everybody loves this song video !!

Goosebumps

👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽!!!!!!

Agree!

I'm surely glad you found it again, but 50 years without hearing it? You need to get a recording and listen to it about 970 times to make up for all those misses.

I thought this was Barbara Jean Love singing lead🤷🏽‍♀️

@@HotSixty: Charlene replaced Barbara Jean when she went on pregnancy leave.

Yep. That's the same Jack Reynolds who was doing the overnight show at WWWD in Cleveland back in the 80's. Had that smooth, relaxing voice.

@@jrwxtx Nope. Barbara Jean Love

I'm originally from Phoenix and remembered a lot of you DJs and of course the stations.The city had a great lineup of such until corporations bought them out and reduced the number of songs that could be played.

I 💯 agree - at the end , they show for 1 second musicians playing! I caught that!

Amen. LOVE. PEACE. God Bless

1970 landed me smack dab in high school and drama I was not built for. Damn, damn… DAMN!

@@itsabovemenow1016 Sad to that it was not a nice experience for you at that particular time. Still certain songs can take our mind to a certain place in time be it bad or good. You survived it. Stay Strong.

@@theronedawson3236 oh, sorry. Now that I reread it, I made it sound tragic. It really wasn’t horrible. I was just raised very sheltered. Then we moved to a bigger city and the summer before I started HS and the kids were “fast”. I was naive. I was also the only kid I knew who ever heard of the Friends of Distinction. My peers we’re into rock or bubblegum. But on balance, it was like most kids’ experiences. Highs and lows, good and bad.

@@itsabovemenow1016 I got it. Well that is how life can be at times.

We thought that the great songs of this era would last forever. I was just 8 when this song burst onto the scene. I loved it then and love it now.

Oh my God, my heart just aches when I think of this song. Childhood comes rush back like high tide.

@@itsabovemenow1016 I heard that!!!! Going in Circles.A fav

@@Les445 LOL. "Going In Circles" was the very first slow jam I liked! I'm all of 13 and I'm just singing with my eyes closed. Putting my arms to total strangers to sway with me. I was a sensitive little mess.

The middle section was immense!

Yes, so well written, so well arranged, and the lead singer is flawless.

You sound like me, I was 15 back then but in my head I'm still 15.

@@janaddeo236 I'm with you Jan. I was 16, and with my girlfriend the first time I heard this song. It came on the car radio and she turned it up. It's been my favorite of that time ever since. "Old Joe", I thank you for your service! My uncle was in the famous 101st in WW2 and Korea, possibly Vietnam, I'm not sure of the last.

Super smooth and cool. They make it look easy. I'm still in awe of their talent.

In classical music that thumping note is called a pedal point.

@@jamesrobiscoe1174 Oh wow, thank you so much for educating me. I’m a semi professional drummer myself and I honestly NEVER knew nor heard that terminology before. I greatly appreciate you taking the time to enlighten me. God love ya brother!

Me too.....................😗

You apparently didn't persevere, a counselor acquaintance of mine married one of his campers, he waited until she was 18, he says...2 girls in my senior year of high school married teachers after graduation.

The bass player justs kicks ass in this song the whole band It makes want to cry when I hear songs like these talent reminds me of youth i

I sure do AGREE! @deborahstaats922 "When music was MUSIC"! What happened?

Isn't it funny, music used to change about every 2 to 3 years, Rap and Hip Hop started about 35 years ago and it's still here and NOT BECAUSE IT'S WAS GOOD, There is other reasons why it's still here.

You got that RIGHT ON!!!!!!!