Will You Be My Friend?

Will You Be My Friend?
Studio album by
Released1994; re-released 2007 with bonus track
GenreFolk, children's music
LabelBaby Boom Music
ProducerStewart Lerman, Suzzy Roche
The Roches chronology
A Dove
(1992)
Will You Be My Friend?
(1994)
Can We Go Home Now
(1995)
Alternative cover
Cover of the 2007 rerelease

Will You Be My Friend? is a studio album by the American folk trio the Roches, released in 1994 on Baby Boom Music.[1][2] It was the group's only album of children's music. Suzzy Roche considered it among the most satisfying albums on which she had worked.[3] The Roches' brother and some of their children appeared on the album.[4] The title track is about having to make friends at a new school.[5]

  1. ^ Bream, Jon; Neal, Justin (1 Apr 1994). "Musicians serve up 'Sky Blue Catfish' for small set". Star Tribune. p. 1E.
  2. ^ "The Roches Biography by Jason Ankeny". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  3. ^ Durchholz, Daniel (16 Apr 1995). "BIG ON SMALL FRY". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. p. 4C.
  4. ^ Kohn, Martin F. (June 1995). "Music — Will You Be My Friend? by the Roches". Parents. Vol. 70, no. 6. p. 159.
  5. ^ Marcel, Joyce (May 19, 1994). "For the Roches, family harmony is a way of life". The Republican. Springfield. p. WK4.