If you mean the one that goes "Making friends for the world to see, let the people know you got what you need. with a friend at hand you will see the light, if your friends are there, then everythings all right." That is Elton John.
The Bachelors
the casuals
Brothers Four-1960
Friends- how many of us have them? Ones we can depend on. Let's be friends!
Mary Hopkin (sang Those Were The Days in the 1960s)
The Trashmen - in 1963. See related link to Youtube.
John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.
The only song with that title to ever chart in the US was by Perry Como in 1971
"Mony Mony" was a hit for Tommy James & the Shondells in 1968.
Smash Mouth
sounds like a grass roots song.
Garth brooks