![]() The vinyl contains only four songs per side and the final Top 40 record for the Rocket label, "Stepping Out," featuring Elton John on backing vocals, is missing. As a package, My Friend is an excellent compilation featuring seven of Neil Sedaka's eight hits from the 1970s up to 1980, put together by the singer and reissue master Bill Levenson. The result is highly listenable, though somewhat incomplete. There are the collaborations with Phil Cody as well as some of Sedaka's songs written on his own. ![]() Though My Friend could've been a collection of their greatest moments together, it is instead some of the important material from the second phase of Sedaka's radio career, the five and a half years from 1974-1980 when Toni Tennille helped the world realize Sedaka's Back. Greenfield died at the age of 49 on March 4, 1986, two weeks before his 50th birthday, and this set of recordings is dedicated to him. ![]() Sedaka "was a 13-year-old piano student at the Juilliard School and Howie was a 16-year-old poet." The record is pretty much a tribute to Sedaka's co-author of the song "My Friend," the lyricist who contributed to all of their big hits from the 1960s. In his touching liner notes written in October of 1986, Neil Sedaka tells of how he began writing songs with his friend Howard Greenfield exactly 24 years earlier on October 11, 1962.
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