Friendship

According to our correspondence course materials on Positive Psychology, there is a large body of research linking friendship and health, and an actual correlation between friendship and enhanced longevity. Together let’s study the work of the following philosophical sages on the dynamics of friendship, and add a few bonus years to our lives in the process.

Hour One:

1 - How to Win Friends and Influence People  - Bea Wain with Larry Clinton and his Orchestra – 1938

2 - Giv Mig Din Haand og Lad Os Være Venner (Give Me Your Hand and Let Us Be Friends) - Eddie Russell med Sid Merriman's Danseorkester - 1940s

3 - Let's Be Friends - Lil Green – 1941

4 - Make Room In Your Heart For A Friend - The Prairie Ramblers – 1945

5 - I Need a Friend - Tommy Taylor with Mitchell Ayres and his Fashions In Music – 1940

6 - Tolingana (Let Us Love One Another)  (Lingala; Congo) - Adikwa Na Bana Loningisa Rumba - 1952

7 - Amigo - Las Hermanas Padilla con La Orquesta Acuna - 1940s

8 - Friendship - Eddie Howard and Ronnie Kemper with Dick Jurgens and his Orchestra - 1940

9 - Ami  - Claus Broberg med Louis Preils Danseorkester - 1940s

10 - Tea For Two - The Comedian Harmonists – 1934

11 - Just A Fair Weather Friend – Eddie Elkins with the Scott Fisher Orchestra - 1935

12 - If You Ever Need a Friend - Wesley Tuttle And His Texas Stars – 1947

13 - Can't We Be Friends - Jimmie Di Palma with Bobby Byrne and his Orchestra - 1939

14 - Just Friends - Kenny Sargent with Glen Gray And The Casa Loma Orchestra – 1941

15 - Old Pal, Why Don't You Answer Me? - Henry Burr – 1920

16 - Buen Amigo  - Carlos Molina And His Orchestra - 1936

17 - Buen Amigo  - Polito Galinez con Pedro Flores y Su Orquesta – 1945

18 - A Friend to Alexander starring Robert Young – Suspense – 1943 (radio drama)

19 - Jane Meets Irma - My Friend Irma – 1947 (radio comedy)

20 – Friendship – The Smoothies - 1940