Let's Make Up And Be Friendly was the fifth and, until 2007, final original album by the Bonzo Dog Band. The group had already disbanded when United Artists Records

United Artists Records

United Artists Records was a record label founded by Max E. Youngstein of United Artists in 1957 initially to distribute records of its movie soundtracks, though it soon branched out into recording music of a number of different genres.-History:...

 (which absorbed the Bonzos' label Liberty Records

Liberty Records

Liberty Records was a United States-based record label. It was started by chairman Simon Waronker in 1955 with Al Bennett as president and Theodore Keep as chief engineer. It was reactivated in 2001 in the United Kingdom and had two previous revivals.-1950s:...

) informed band members that the group owed the label one more album. This farewell album was the result. In 2007 the album was re-issued on CD by EMI

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

 with 6 bonus tracks. Some of these bonus tracks were not performed by the Bonzos, but were actually solo recordings by the members of the group.

This was their last album of new material featuring all original members until the band's reunion in 2006, by which time Vivian Stanshall

Vivian Stanshall

Vivian Stanshall was an English singer-songwriter, painter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surreal exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for narrating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.-The great...

 was deceased. A new studio album, Pour l'Amour des Chiens

Pour l'Amour des Chiens

Pour l'Amour Des Chiens is the first all new studio album by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band in 35 years...

(French for For the Love of Dogs), was released on December 2007.

Sleeve Notes

Friendly is the only Bonzo Dog Band album to feature an image of the eponymous "Bonzo Dog".

Side one

1. "The Strain"
2. "Turkeys"
3. "King Of Scurf"
4. "Waiting For The Wardrobe"
5. "Straight From My Heart"
6. "Rusty (Champion Thrust)"

Bonus tracks on 2007 re-issue CD

1. "Sofa Head"
2. "Jam" (by Topo D Bill)
3. "I Love To Bumpity Bump" (by Roger Ruskin Spear)
4. "Lie Down & Be Counted" (by Neil Innes)
5. "Bride Stripped Bare By 'Bachelors' (early version)
6. "No Matter Who You Vote For The Government Always Gets In" (demo)

There are a few differences between British and American versions

• "Rusty"
  • UK: fades out at end
  • US: does not fade out and continues on past where UK's ends
• Time difference
  • The UK album has a longer time gap between "Waiting for the Wardrobe" & "Straight from my Heart" and between "Bad Blood" & "Slush" than the US.