My Best Friend (Jefferson Airplane song)

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"My Best Friend"
Single by Jefferson Airplane
from the album Surrealistic Pillow
ReleasedJanuary 1967
RecordedNovember 4, 1966
Genre
Length3:01
RCA Victor
Songwriter(s)Skip Spence
Producer(s)Rick Jarrard

"My Best Friend" is a song by the Jefferson Airplane. It was written by the band's former drummer Skip Spence. The song appeared on the band's second album, Surrealistic Pillow and was released as a single.

By the time the album was recorded, Spence had left Jefferson Airplane to join

George Starostin praised it as a slow "catchy pop song."[4] Rolling Stone called it a "country charmer."[3] Doug Collette of Glide Magazine compared the song to tracks on the debut album Jefferson Airplane Takes Off and noted it as "polite, sweet harmony-laden."[5]

Chart history

Chart (1967) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100[6] 103

Personnel

References

  1. ^ a b Viglione, Joe. "My Best Friend by Jefferson Airplane - Track Info - AllMusic". allmusic. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  2. ^ Masley, Ed (May 30, 2017). "Sgt. Pepper and beyond: A look back at 20 great albums released in 1967". azcentral. Retrieved November 3, 2023. ...to the wistful folk-pop charms of "My Best Friend"...
  3. ^ a b "Surrealistic Pillow". Rolling Stone. August 27, 1987. Retrieved February 25, 2022.
  4. ^ Starostin, George. "Surrealistic Pillow". Only Solitaire. Retrieved February 25, 2022.
  5. ^ Collette, Doug (February 1, 2022). "55 Years Later: Revisiting Jefferson Airplane's Counter-Culture Rock Statement 'Surrealistic Pillow'". Glide Magazine. Retrieved February 25, 2022.
  6. ISBN 0-89820-089-X
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