Claim: Everybody Needs a Best Friend was composed by a South African.
Evidence: `` Everybody Needs a Best Friend '' is a song from the 2012 feature film Ted , with music composed by Walter Murphy and lyrics by Seth MacFarlane.
Walter Anthony Murphy , Jr. -LRB- born December 19 , 1952 -RRB- is an American composer , arranger , pianist , musician , songwriter , and record producer.