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 casuals
The Bachelors
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.
"Mony Mony" was a hit for Tommy James & the Shondells in 1968.
The only song with that title to ever chart in the US was by Perry Como in 1971
Smash Mouth
sounds like a grass roots song.
Garth brooks