Will You Be My Friend?
Winner of the 1994 Parents' Choice Gold Award


Baby Boom Music.

October 18, 1994

Produced by: Stewart Lerman and Suzzy Roche

  1. do the boodanee
  2. disappointed
  3. will you be my friend?
  4. rover
  5. uncle dave
  6. the laundry
  7. postcard
  8. when kids are mean
  9. my new bicycle
  10. here we go
  11. little bitty betty
  12. lovey
  13. goodnight


Liner Notes:

DO THE BOODANEE
Written by Suzzy Roche
Maggie - Singing, strings
Terre - Singing
Suzzy - Singing, keyboards
David Kumin - Bass
Stewart Lerman - Percussion

DISAPPOINTED
Written by Terre Roche
Arranged by Terre Roche and Garry Dial
Maggie - Singing
Terre - Singing, keyboard
Suzzy - Singing
Garry Dial - Keyboards (appears courtesy of DMP)
David Kumin - Keyboards
Stewart Lerman - Guitar, percussion

WILL YOU BE MY FRIEND?
Written by Suzzy Roche
Lucy - Singing
Maggie - Singing
Terre - Singing
Suzzy - Singing, acoustic guitar
Paul Ossola - Bass

ROVER
Written by Suzzy Roche
Maggie - Singing
Terre - Singing
Suzzy - Singing, keyboards, guitar
Paul Ossola - Bass
Stewart Lerman - Guitar, piano

UNCLE DAVE
Written by Lucy and Terre Roche
Performed by THE MISBEHAVERS
Lucy Roche - Singing, keyboards
Anna Wainwright - Singing, violin
Evan Macosko - Organ keyboard
Sam Oatts - Trumpet
Sammy Weiss - Piano
Shelley Gladwin - Singing, drum
Frances Geller - Singing
Zac Posen - Singing

THE LAUNDRY
Written by Suzzy Roche
Maggie - Singing
Terre - Singing
Suzzy - Singing, guitar, keyboards
Paul Ossola - Bass
David Kumin - Pedal steel keyboard
Stewart Lerman - Percussion

POSTCARD
Written by Terre Roche
Arranged by Terre Roche and Garry Dial
Maggie - Singing, keyboard
Terre - Singing, keyboards
Suzzy - Singing
Garry Dial - Keyboards
Steuart Smith - Acoustic guitar
Paul Ossola - Bass
Stewart Lerman - Pants & percussion

WHEN KIDS ARE MEAN
Written by Terre and Suzzy Roche
Maggie - Singing
Terre - Singing, keyboard
Suzzy - Singing
Paul Ossola - Bass
Stewart Lerman - Keyboards, pants & percussion
David Kumin - Sound effects

MY NEW BICYCLE
Written by Suzzy Roche
Maggie - Singing
Terre - Singing
Suzzy - Singing, guitar
Paul Ossola - Bass

HERE WE GO
Written by David Roche
David - Singing, acoustic guitar
Maggie - Singing
Terre - Singing
Suzzy - Singing

ITTY BITTY BETTY
Written by Suzzy Roche
Maggie - Singing
Terre - Singing
Suzzy - Singing, keyboards, guitar
Paul Ossola - Bass
Stewart Lerman - Percussion

LOVEY
Written by Suzzy Roche
Maggie - Singing
Terre - Singing
Suzzy - Singing, guitar, keyboards
Paul Ossola - Bass
Stewart Lerman - Keyboards, pants & percussion
David Kumin - Piano
Julian Dawson - Harmonica (appears courtesy of BMG Records)

GOODNIGHT
Written by Suzzy Roche
Maggie - Singing
Terre - Singing
Suzzy - Singing, keyboards
Paul Ossola - Bass
Steuart Smith - Guitar


The Roches

Maggie Roche
Terre Roche
Suzzy Roche
(With special appearances by David Roche and Lucy Roche)

Produced by Stewart Lerman and Suzzy Roche
Recorded by Stewart Lerman
Additional engineering by Dominick Maita
Mixed by Dominick Maita
Additional keyboard programming by David Kumin (thanks Dave)
Recorded at Stewart's Bedroom. Additional recording at New Breed Studios, NYC (thanks Paul). "Uncle Dave" was recorded live to two-track at Garry's house by David Kumin.
Mixed at Kampo Cultural Center, NYC, assisted by Dave Robbins and Jovan Djordjevic
Digitially mastered at Sound/mirror by Henk Kooistra
Design by Sarah McNerney
Photographs by Ron Crofoot except "The Misbehavers" by Laura Oatts
Cover and inside drawings by Lucy Roche, age 12
Electronic photo composition by Mike Newman

All songs © 1994 by Nabithius (ASCAP)
and administered by Second Childhood Music (ASCAP)



The Roches "touring family"
Front, left to right: Suzzy, T.G. (Terry Gabis), Lucy, Maggie.
Back, left to right: Terre, "Uncle" Dave