Barbara Jean Love (born July 24, 1941) – Bring Us A Better Day (1970)

This superb jam was the closing cut from the Friends of Distinction's Whatever LP, the last album original member Love ever appeared on.

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The great singer Barbara Jean Love was one of the original members of the Los Angeles-based R&B vocal group The Friends of Distinction, alongside Jessica Cleaves and co-founders Harry Elston and Floyd Butler.

It was Love who suggested their name. When she joined the group, Elston and Butler were calling them the Distinctive Friends. Their first album Grazin’ was released in 1969 and included both their million-selling singles “Grazing In The Grass” and the beautiful slow jam “Going in Circles.”

Love left the group on maternity leave after their first two LP’s and was replaced by Charlene Gibson. She came back but departed again for good after recording their fourth studio album Whatever in 1970.

Love’s beautiful lead vocals shone on “Bring Us A Better Day,” the closing cut from Whatever, which was the last LP she ever recorded with the Friends or any other group.

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