My favorite is “Thank You Faletinme Be Mice Elf Agin”, but if you haven’t done “Family Affair”, it’s a groove, and “Wanna Take You Higher” is a banger!
I had suggested Thank You which they did over a year ago.My suggestion "Thank You For Talking to Me Africa" Extended , slowed down funkier (more bass variation) of " Thank You(called me be mice elf agin) 🔥 🔥 🔥 A&A should hit this !!!!!!!!. Hot Fun is cool but not funky
I cannot do that one. You know how there are some songs that just make you feel like someone is running a cheese grater over your brain and other people like it, but the song really, really turns you completely off? Yep, that's one for me. If they listen to that one, I'll just bite my tongue and let you enjoy the moment, promise :)
There are a lot of songs that have been left out. If you listen to the Anthology of Sly, you’ll find a lot of jewels. I was going with my high school girlfriend who introduced me to two of the greatest Icons of the 21 st century- Richard Pryor and Sly Stone. I bought all the albums available. Every time I hear Hot Fun, I thank her for introducing me to me. I think of her going back and forth to college. May the Lord tests her soul.
The horns. And actually, the whole package of counterpoints in this piece makes it impossible for me not to feel that slow lazy summer vacation groove. Great choice.
This song epitomizes everything awesome about early 70s soul -- in its own way, as happy and carefree as 70s soft rock. The 70s just hit different. "Everyday People" is my fav Sly stone -- hearing this on the radio is one of my earliest musical memories. It sounds almost like a soulful Sesame Street song.
Larry Graham is the creator of the slap bass sound/thump you hear in the bass. Flea, Louis Johnson, and others cite Graham as their influence. His bass playing is phenomenal. Sly & the Family Stone is a great rabbit hole to explore. Other underrated summer songs are: "Summer Breeze" from The Isley Brothers and "Stoned Soul Picnic" by The Fifth Dimension.
"Thank You For Talking to Me Africa" Extended , slowed down funkier (more bass variation) of " Thank You(called me be mice elf agin) 🔥 🔥 🔥 A&A should hit this !!!!!!!!. Hot Fun is cool but not funky
@@jefffogertymusic2023 Bootsy is a huge fan of Sly Stone & Larry Graham. They are all funk brothers with utual respect and love. Bootsy recently put out a version of Sly " If you Want Me to Stay" . I am little more partial to Larry Graham but of course Bootsy is the funkateerr.
Alex and Andy hit this so perfectly….THIS is the melody of summer. I was 8 years old or so when this came out and it just captures the spirit of summer.
Summer in the city - Lovin Spoonful is more in tune with most people's summer vibe. This song (that version has been digitally evacuated) was tuned for those lucky enough to totally lay back & chill, like memories in slow motion. The original version is well blended so nothing stands out but the solos.
Yes, this one is nice and mellow, conjures up nostalgia. Though the instrumentation is different, "Groovin" by the Rascals has a similar vibe and is a prototypical mellow summer song.
Love me some Sly Stone! ❤️ This guy is a pro and everything they did was on purpose. There's a message, there's a groove, there's a good time, he can play with anybody and he can play anything. His church music is pretty great too. Just a terrific man all his life. Really looking forward to more of his stuff that you guys do down the line.
I was 12 years old in 1969. Listening to this on my 9V Transistor Radio tuned to WOKY 920AM Radio 📻 Milwaukee (we didn't have FM stations yet). Best summer memories. The song of my childhood!
So, this is, literally, the first time that I’ve heard this song through headphones. It sounds SO different than the single speaker in the dash. You get the separation and can hear the different instruments clearly. Wow!
I got Sly’s Greatest Hits one spring when a dude was throwing away all his ex-girlfriend’s LPs. I was 12 years old. It was 1973. We were staying in an apartment to finish out the school year because my dad got transferred and our house sold. We got some great records that day. And my apologies to Sue Owens (she wrote her name on the LP jackets) wherever you are!
When my dad bought our first 8-track player in the early '70s from a kid in the neighborhood, he threw in a Three Dog Night tape and Sly and the Family Stone's Greatest Hits. My dad was about as far from funky as you can get, but he loved that Sly tape, and especially this song.
Sly and the Family Stone and CCR were the ultimate summer bands. I always think of my days at the beach oiled up with baby oil, swimming and sunning while hearing them on the transistor radio I kept in my beach bag. The Family stone at their peak were one of the tightest bands around. Sly, Rose, and Freddie Stone with Larry Graham on bass, Cynthia Robinson on trumpet, Greg Errico on drums, and Jerry Martini on sax just killed it. Sly didn't care if you were black or white, male or female, if you could groove you were in. He even got flak from the Black Panthers who wanted him to get rid of Errico and Martini but Sly refused (Martini was a co-founder with Sly).
@@davidmoorecatdaddy6994 No she isn't. Rose Stone is Sly's sister. Cynthia was with him romantically for a while and they had a child together in the mid 70's.
My childhood was in the suburbs of Detroit, Motown/funk dominated The airwaves with all of the great bands of that era and this song definitely rockets me back to summertime in the backyard shirtless ice cream trucks laying on the grass chasing fireflies... quintessential goosebumps memories 😎❤️🙌🏻🍸
Scott, then you must have listened to CKLW Windsor, right? I grew up in rural SW Ontario in the 60s/70s and CKLW was on ALL. THE. TIME. I swear that’s why Motown is in my BLOOD!
I feel like my childhood was similar to Andy's description but a few decades earlier. Ice Cream Man ( our Bomb Pops were bigger ), Snow cone man, drinking out of a random garden hose because it was so hot.... and this song blaring!
This song was such a smooth, soulful experience. I remember listening in my youth and enjoying the vibe as we cruised down the road. A fond memory of another time.
Best Andy & Alex reaction IMO. Absolutely love this song. Great 70’s childhood memories. Then you Rediscover in your teens, then in your 20’s and so forth and so on. Always on the playlist.
Sly & The Family Stone were all about human unity. There was Love of all people. As an old hippie growing up with these messages of Love & Tolerance for all people it is very distressful to see the world we live in today. Be Safe & Blessings ❣️ ☮️❤️☮️
This song takes me straight back to hot summers in the 70s. Big cars, AM radio with the loud DJs doing the top 40s, FM doing Pink Floyd and Moody Blues, inner-tubing on a creek, those soda machines with the skinny glass doors you could open and pull the glass bottles out, the works!
Such a great song. You guys pretty much react to the soundtrack of my life. Born in 63. Kids ask me how we got by back then with only radio to listen to in the car, Well, radio was fucking amazing back in the day.
I was 7 years old when this song came out. It brings back summer bbq's wirh my family, swimming at the community pool and definitely The Allentown Fair! I love hearing this song. Thanks for playing it!
*~ SLY & THE FAMILY STONE GREATEST HITS (Released November of 1970) is one of my all-time favorite albums ~ Every song ~ A Great Party album & one of the best of the "Best-Of" albums ~!!! ~*
Excellent song by a excellent group . I wonder if you guys would like Larry Graham's band he made after leaving Sly's Family Stone. It was called Graham Central Station . try your hand a song called Earthquake ..It has that pre Primus feel ..xoxoxox
Summer is hot, and most take it slower. This song captures that laid back, lazy days of summer vibe. The song writer must been reminiscing college times, because his girl comes back at the end of Spring and goes back in Autumn; sounds like she’s been away at college-making a summer reunion even more special and memorable.
YES Alex! When you know and love this song well, you just wait for the "Boop-boop-ba-boop-boop' when I want to!" So glad you gave a listen to this 2nd place in the poll song.
Lovee this album so much! Great summer song of my high school years and forever after! My favorite on this album is Everyday People. Sly and the Family Stone is amazing...so many great songs on this album. Thanks for reacting to it!
I hadn’t heard this version before. My guess is it’s a different mix or even a different take than the one that was played on the radio. Some of the vocals are different and the chorus doesn’t really have much power in this version. Maybe this is the album version and the singles version was mixed differently? If so, I prefer the singles version better.
I agree. I remember the vocals being more to the front of the mix in the radio version. This seemed very instrument heavy with the chorus sounding softer than I remember.
Someone has posted a link to the version he perfers in the comments. I am going through the comments again, looking for it, and I will have a listen!! I love reading comments 💘
I was hoping you guys would come back to this song. So much fun! It doesn't matter what the setting you can play Sly & the Family Stone and people get happy. Other hits are "Stand", "Everybody is a Star", "Every Day People", "You Can Make it If You Try", "Sing A Simple Song", and "Family Affair".
My favourite group from when I was 16-20. They stole the show at Woodstock. One of the first groups with women playing instruments. They combined soul, R&B and rock. Their album Stand in 1968 was a classic.
Saw the "Family Stone" minus Sly at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk at a free concert they did on the beach. They were amazing. If Sly had been with them they would have been beyond amazing. Their tune "Dance to the Music" is the next one you should try out. For a summer song you really must consider The Kinks - "Sunny Afternoon".
Thanks for covering this song. Such a classic with so much good memories attached. Love this song, ...love you guys! Keep up the great work and the good vibes!
Love this song and band. I grew up in East Hampton, Long Island. We couldn't wait for summer. Spent most of it at the ocean all day or with my dad and grandparents at the bay finding clams and crabs to eat that night. Great freakin times.
That whole album is amazing! There is not one bad song on it! I had it on 8 track tape when I was 15 back in the 70s. With 8 tracks you had to jump it around to try and get to a good song you wanted to hear, but you didn’t have to do that with this one, you could just pop it in and let it play.
I TOTALLY LOVE THAT YOU HAVE THIS OFF OF THE GREATEST HITS ALBUM WHOSE COVER YOU HAVE IN THE BACKGROUND ON THE GREEN SCREEN!! I THINK I WAS ABOUT 12 OR 13 YEARS OLD AND I ORDERED I THINK IT WAS 10 CASSETTES FOR A PENNY FROM THE COLUMBIA HOUSE WHICH IS SOMETHING WE USED TO DO BACK IN THE SEVENTIES!! ONE OF THE CASSETTES THAT I ORDERED WAS THIS ALBUM SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE'S GREATEST HITS!! I REALLY FELL IN LOVE WITH EVERY SONG ON THIS RECORD!!
Interesting to have this song in a poll of 60's songs, and then Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" in the 70's poll, as if they were songs from different eras, when in fact they were released within a year of each other...
Sly was SUPER COOL dudes. Drugs destroyed him and took away his amazing talent. He could have been a top ten favorite,he was that good. They KILLED at Woodstock!
Coo-hoool became a thing. Sly caused a riot in Chicago when he didn't show for a concert. Totally underrated band...very deep catalog...missing Cindy singing on this. Check her out on Sing A Simple Song- B side to Everyday People which is a BANGER>
This is definitely in my Top 5 summer songs. I think I still put Seals and Crofts "Summer Breeze" at the top for its chill feel, but this is one you just belt out in the car with the windows down.
Always reminds me of the beach, with the portable am/fm radio playing all the summer favorites; UNDER THE BOARDWALK, SURFIN' SAFARI, SUMMERTIME SUMMERTIME (by the Jamies), SUMMER IN THE CITY, THE BOYS OF SUMMER, IN THE SUMMERTIME (Mungo Jerry), CRUEL SUMMER, SUMMER OF '69, SCHOOL'S OUT (for the summer), SUMMERTIME BLUES (Eddie Cochrane), BLUE SUMMER, GROOVIN', MARGARITAVILLE, anything Calypso, and most everything Beach Boys.
If you want a vibe, check out "If you want me to stay" and you will know Sly Stone and how he influenced the fk out of Prince! Seriously dudes...short song, but fricken off the charts funky and Sly's range I'd amazing!
Quintessential summer song. "I Want To Take You Higher" is Sly at his rockin' funky best.
My favorite is “Thank You Faletinme Be Mice Elf Agin”, but if you haven’t done “Family Affair”, it’s a groove, and “Wanna Take You Higher” is a banger!
I had suggested Thank You which they did over a year ago.My suggestion
"Thank You For Talking to Me Africa"
Extended , slowed down funkier (more bass variation) of " Thank You(called me be mice elf agin) 🔥 🔥 🔥
A&A should hit this !!!!!!!!.
Hot Fun is cool but not funky
I love "Stand". It has a great message in the lyrics, then goes into a totally funk groove at the end.
@@hectorsmommy1717 , excellent song and message!
Yes, Yes and Yes Randy
Wanna Take You Higher is necessary.
You can’t go wrong with Sly and the Family Stone.
I love it. Such a groove.
yes....if you don't sway to this song, you are a statue
DEFINITELY "Everybody is a Star." Their most overlooked song.
Yes! Love that one!
I cannot do that one. You know how there are some songs that just make you feel like someone is running a cheese grater over your brain and other people like it, but the song really, really turns you completely off? Yep, that's one for me. If they listen to that one, I'll just bite my tongue and let you enjoy the moment, promise :)
My favorite from them!
There are a lot of songs that have been left out. If you listen to the Anthology of Sly, you’ll find a lot of jewels. I was going with my high school girlfriend who introduced me to two of the greatest Icons of the 21 st century- Richard Pryor and Sly Stone. I bought all the albums available. Every time I hear Hot Fun, I thank her for introducing me to me. I think of her going back and forth to college. May the Lord tests her soul.
The horns. And actually, the whole package of counterpoints in this piece makes it impossible for me not to feel that slow lazy summer vacation groove.
Great choice.
This song epitomizes everything awesome about early 70s soul -- in its own way, as happy and carefree as 70s soft rock. The 70s just hit different.
"Everyday People" is my fav Sly stone -- hearing this on the radio is one of my earliest musical memories. It sounds almost like a soulful Sesame Street song.
Except this was the late 60’s(not that it matters!)
The whole 70's funk/soul explosion was built on Sly Stone's back.
Larry Graham is the creator of the slap bass sound/thump you hear in the bass. Flea, Louis Johnson, and others cite Graham as their influence. His bass playing is phenomenal. Sly & the Family Stone is a great rabbit hole to explore. Other underrated summer songs are: "Summer Breeze" from The Isley Brothers and "Stoned Soul Picnic" by The Fifth Dimension.
"Thank You For Talking to Me Africa"
Extended , slowed down funkier (more bass variation) of " Thank You(called me be mice elf agin) 🔥 🔥 🔥
A&A should hit this !!!!!!!!.
Hot Fun is cool but not funky
This channel could use some Graham Central Station.
Oh fuck yeah, Louis Johnson from the Brothers Johnson. What a great slap bassist...R.I.P.
Bootsy Collins...
@@jefffogertymusic2023 Bootsy is a huge fan of Sly Stone & Larry Graham. They are all funk brothers with utual respect and love. Bootsy recently put out a version of
Sly " If you Want Me to Stay" .
I am little more partial to Larry Graham but of course Bootsy is the funkateerr.
Such an amazing summer jam! “Dance to the Music” has to be next on your Sly Stone journey!
Alex and Andy hit this so perfectly….THIS is the melody of summer. I was 8 years old or so when this came out and it just captures the spirit of summer.
Summer in the city - Lovin Spoonful is more in tune with most people's summer vibe. This song (that version has been digitally evacuated) was tuned for those lucky enough to totally lay back & chill, like memories in slow motion. The original version is well blended so nothing stands out but the solos.
Yes!!! Agreed!
I'd have to agree as well!
Hot Town Summer In The City
Yes, this one is nice and mellow, conjures up nostalgia. Though the instrumentation is different, "Groovin" by the Rascals has a similar vibe and is a prototypical mellow summer song.
Even though I'm a boomer, my favorite summer song is Summertime, by DJ Jazzy Jeff.
Love me some Sly Stone! ❤️
This guy is a pro and everything they did was on purpose. There's a message, there's a groove, there's a good time, he can play with anybody and he can play anything. His church music is pretty great too. Just a terrific man all his life. Really looking forward to more of his stuff that you guys do down the line.
I was 12 years old in 1969. Listening to this on my 9V Transistor Radio tuned to WOKY 920AM Radio 📻 Milwaukee (we didn't have FM stations yet). Best summer memories. The song of my childhood!
So, this is, literally, the first time that I’ve heard this song through headphones. It sounds SO different than the single speaker in the dash. You get the separation and can hear the different instruments clearly. Wow!
It’s a different version than the original heard on the radio. That one is far superior to this one.
I got Sly’s Greatest Hits one spring when a dude was throwing away all his ex-girlfriend’s LPs. I was 12 years old. It was 1973. We were staying in an apartment to finish out the school year because my dad got transferred and our house sold. We got some great records that day. And my apologies to Sue Owens (she wrote her name on the LP jackets) wherever you are!
When my dad bought our first 8-track player in the early '70s from a kid in the neighborhood, he threw in a Three Dog Night tape and Sly and the Family Stone's Greatest Hits. My dad was about as far from funky as you can get, but he loved that Sly tape, and especially this song.
Lucky!
This was the very first cassette I ever owned ! One of the best
Cassettes ( records , et al ) ever .
@@ronwilcox7716 Knowing the neighbor kid, the deck was hot and these were the tapes he just grabbed off the guy's seat when he lifted it.
@@submandave1125 Double lucky!
Sly and the Family Stone and CCR were the ultimate summer bands. I always think of my days at the beach oiled up with baby oil, swimming and sunning while hearing them on the transistor radio I kept in my beach bag. The Family stone at their peak were one of the tightest bands around. Sly, Rose, and Freddie Stone with Larry Graham on bass, Cynthia Robinson on trumpet, Greg Errico on drums, and Jerry Martini on sax just killed it. Sly didn't care if you were black or white, male or female, if you could groove you were in. He even got flak from the Black Panthers who wanted him to get rid of Errico and Martini but Sly refused (Martini was a co-founder with Sly).
Didn't know Larry Graham was with Sly . Cynthia is Sly's sister.
@@davidmoorecatdaddy6994 No she isn't. Rose Stone is Sly's sister. Cynthia was with him romantically for a while and they had a child together in the mid 70's.
My childhood was in the suburbs of Detroit, Motown/funk dominated The airwaves with all of the great bands of that era and this song definitely rockets me back to summertime in the backyard shirtless ice cream trucks laying on the grass chasing fireflies... quintessential goosebumps memories 😎❤️🙌🏻🍸
Scott, then you must have listened to CKLW Windsor, right? I grew up in rural SW Ontario in the 60s/70s and CKLW was on ALL. THE. TIME. I swear that’s why Motown is in my BLOOD!
I feel like my childhood was similar to Andy's description but a few decades earlier. Ice Cream Man ( our Bomb Pops were bigger ), Snow cone man, drinking out of a random garden hose because it was so hot.... and this song blaring!
One of my fav songs of all time. I have the original greatest hits LP. All songs worthy of a listen!!
This song was such a smooth, soulful experience. I remember listening in my youth and enjoying the vibe as we cruised down the road. A fond memory of another time.
Best Andy & Alex reaction IMO. Absolutely love this song. Great 70’s childhood memories. Then you Rediscover in your teens, then in your 20’s and so forth and so on. Always on the playlist.
I'm 54 and never heard of this. Now I know how you guys feel reacting to a great song! LOVED IT.
Sly & The Family Stone were all about human unity. There was Love of all people. As an old hippie growing up with these messages of Love & Tolerance for all people it is very distressful to see the world we live in today.
Be Safe & Blessings ❣️
☮️❤️☮️
Sly is awesome. Give more of his songs a listen.
One of the greatest pop songs ever made.
Summer never officially starts until I hear this song.
This song takes me straight back to hot summers in the 70s. Big cars, AM radio with the loud DJs doing the top 40s, FM doing Pink Floyd and Moody Blues, inner-tubing on a creek, those soda machines with the skinny glass doors you could open and pull the glass bottles out, the works!
FM...😎🤙
*“Thank You Faletinme Be Mice Elf Agin”* MUST HEAR!!!
Such a great song. You guys pretty much react to the soundtrack of my life. Born in 63. Kids ask me how we got by back then with only radio to listen to in the car, Well, radio was fucking amazing back in the day.
I was 7 years old when this song came out. It brings back summer bbq's wirh my family, swimming at the community pool and definitely The Allentown Fair! I love hearing this song. Thanks for playing it!
I love ‘If You Want Me to Stay’ One of their masterpieces.
This song brings me back to my 65 Rambler in 1972, eight track blasting in Hotlanta ( Atlanta)!
A summer favorite for me!
So much summer souvenirs with this song aging in the park!
*~ SLY & THE FAMILY STONE GREATEST HITS (Released November of 1970) is one of my all-time favorite albums ~ Every song ~ A Great Party album & one of the best of the "Best-Of" albums ~!!! ~*
*~ "EVERYBODY IS A STAR"; "STAND!"; "DANCE TO THE MUSIC" ~*
Absolutely agree with you! They were my first concert.
I saw them in concert as a kid and it was a blast! The whole arena was dancing and just having a good time just like this song! Good memories.
This song evokes such great memories. Summer days at the public pool and someone puts a dime in the jukebox and this song blasts away. Awesome.
Excellent song by a excellent group . I wonder if you guys would like Larry Graham's band he made after leaving Sly's Family Stone. It was called Graham Central Station . try your hand a song called Earthquake ..It has that pre Primus feel ..xoxoxox
One of my favourite summer songs of my youth. Those short-lived summer love stories. senior from Canada
It doesn’t get much better than this. I knew you guys would love it.
This is one of those songs that sounds better in mono on an AM radio than on headphones, in my opinion.
Summer smiles delivered !!!
Love it ~
Summer is hot, and most take it slower. This song captures that laid back, lazy days of summer vibe. The song writer must been reminiscing college times, because his girl comes back at the end of Spring and goes back in Autumn; sounds like she’s been away at college-making a summer reunion even more special and memorable.
Perfect reaction - just as it should be. This song is just that summer feeling - nothing to over analyze. Easy. Light. Just enjoy it. Bravo!
YES Alex! When you know and love this song well, you just wait for the "Boop-boop-ba-boop-boop' when I want to!" So glad you gave a listen to this 2nd place in the poll song.
I remember my brother playing his music. He liked a wide range of genres..Love you Bro, RIP
Lovee this album so much! Great summer song of my high school years and forever after! My favorite on this album is Everyday People. Sly and the Family Stone is amazing...so many great songs on this album. Thanks for reacting to it!
My favorite Sly and the Family Stone!
man, the 70's kicked ass in ways that you can't begin to comprehend . . . .
Check out “Stand” and “I Want to Take You Higher” from the Stand album - 1969
"Stand" is such an important song in my life.
Agreed.
Wonderful Song
Perfect Summer Song
Sly & the Family Stone
Great Band
I hadn’t heard this version before. My guess is it’s a different mix or even a different take than the one that was played on the radio. Some of the vocals are different and the chorus doesn’t really have much power in this version. Maybe this is the album version and the singles version was mixed differently? If so, I prefer the singles version better.
I agree. I remember the vocals being more to the front of the mix in the radio version. This seemed very instrument heavy with the chorus sounding softer than I remember.
I totally agree. Wasn’t quite the same as I remember.
Same. I couldn’t figure out why it sounded so bad.
Someone has posted a link to the version he perfers in the comments. I am going through the comments again, looking for it, and I will have a listen!! I love reading comments 💘
It sounded to me like the right version but with the balance way out of whack. It was fun hearing the bass so prominent, thogh.
I was hoping you guys would come back to this song. So much fun! It doesn't matter what the setting you can play Sly & the Family Stone and people get happy. Other hits are "Stand", "Everybody is a Star", "Every Day People", "You Can Make it If You Try", "Sing A Simple Song", and "Family Affair".
Thank the maker you did Sly!!!
My favourite group from when I was 16-20. They stole the show at Woodstock. One of the first groups with women playing instruments. They combined soul, R&B and rock. Their album Stand in 1968 was a classic.
Saw the "Family Stone" minus Sly at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk at a free concert they did on the beach. They were amazing. If Sly had been with them they would have been beyond amazing. Their tune "Dance to the Music" is the next one you should try out. For a summer song you really must consider The Kinks - "Sunny Afternoon".
Thanks for covering this song. Such a classic with so much good memories attached. Love this song, ...love you guys! Keep up the great work and the good vibes!
Larry Graham is bass royalty. He basically invented slap/pop when he was younger to compensate for the lack of a drummer with a band he was in.
This is one of the best all around albums ever made! Super great memories.
Exactly. This song IS Summer fun!
Sly & the Family Stone! They have some great songs!
One of my favorite songs of all time. Thanks!
Love this song and band. I grew up in East Hampton, Long Island. We couldn't wait for summer. Spent most of it at the ocean all day or with my dad and grandparents at the bay finding clams and crabs to eat that night. Great freakin times.
May not be their best song, but you HAVE to hit “Dance to the Music.” To use the proper technical term, “quintessential” Sly.
Saw Sly and Family open for Prince in Dallas one NYE. It was wonderful!
Dance to the Music should be next to react- especially watching them perform it on The Ed Sullivan Show, you'll love their enthusiasm
Everyday People should be next! Awesome tune!
Dance to the Music is my all time favorite Sly song!
Sly Stone certainly made his mark in this world my friends.
That whole album is amazing! There is not one bad song on it! I had it on 8 track tape when I was 15 back in the 70s. With 8 tracks you had to jump it around to try and get to a good song you wanted to hear, but you didn’t have to do that with this one, you could just pop it in and let it play.
I TOTALLY LOVE THAT YOU HAVE THIS OFF OF THE GREATEST HITS ALBUM WHOSE COVER YOU HAVE IN THE BACKGROUND ON THE GREEN SCREEN!!
I THINK I WAS ABOUT 12 OR 13 YEARS OLD AND I ORDERED I THINK IT WAS 10 CASSETTES FOR A PENNY FROM THE COLUMBIA HOUSE WHICH IS SOMETHING WE USED TO DO BACK IN THE SEVENTIES!!
ONE OF THE CASSETTES THAT I ORDERED WAS THIS ALBUM SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE'S GREATEST HITS!! I REALLY FELL IN LOVE WITH EVERY SONG ON THIS RECORD!!
Had to listen to your reaction twice because you nailed it whatever summertime was fir you this song captures it
That brought back so many wonderful memories of my childhood. Thanks guys!
GOOOOOOOD MORNING A & A FAMILY!!!!!
☮️💟♾️
Thank you for this one guys! First day of my vacation today, and this song brings the vibes.
It’s been awhile since I heard this one, thanks for hitting it. Great, fun song. I forgot how short it was. It could’ve been a little longer.
Sylvester Stewart from Denton tx is a genius !
Interesting to have this song in a poll of 60's songs, and then Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" in the 70's poll, as if they were songs from different eras, when in fact they were released within a year of each other...
Sly is the the ccr of soul music. Every song is a banger.
Sly was SUPER COOL dudes. Drugs destroyed him and took away his amazing talent. He could have been a top ten favorite,he was that good. They KILLED at Woodstock!
Coo-hoool became a thing. Sly caused a riot in Chicago when he didn't show for a concert. Totally underrated band...very deep catalog...missing Cindy singing on this. Check her out on Sing A Simple Song- B side to Everyday People which is a BANGER>
You guys would have loved the seventies. More Sly and the Family Stone!
That fade out is CRIMINAL.
I've got that album. It's great. Brings back my youth, will just say I'm over 65
That's a groove. Thanks for reacting to it. Gonna be watching this a few times today 👍
This is definitely in my Top 5 summer songs. I think I still put Seals and Crofts "Summer Breeze" at the top for its chill feel, but this is one you just belt out in the car with the windows down.
One of my all-time favorites!!
Yes! Grooving in my halter top, hip huggers, and feeling care free! So, nostalgic! Keep on the Sly train!
I friggin' love Sly & Family Stone!
Always reminds me of the beach, with the portable am/fm radio playing all the summer favorites; UNDER THE BOARDWALK, SURFIN' SAFARI, SUMMERTIME SUMMERTIME (by the Jamies), SUMMER IN THE CITY, THE BOYS OF SUMMER, IN THE SUMMERTIME (Mungo Jerry), CRUEL SUMMER, SUMMER OF '69, SCHOOL'S OUT (for the summer), SUMMERTIME BLUES (Eddie Cochrane), BLUE SUMMER, GROOVIN', MARGARITAVILLE, anything Calypso, and most everything Beach Boys.
Always loved this song
Odd, never heard this version before, different than the radio version. Lots of great stuff from SFS.
If you want a vibe, check out "If you want me to stay" and you will know Sly Stone and how he influenced the fk out of Prince! Seriously dudes...short song, but fricken off the charts funky and Sly's range I'd amazing!
Does anyone remember when Sly got married at Madison Square Garden on national television? They were huge!
Solid reaction. Right on point!
Way I see it.
I Get Around is a Summer day at the beach.
This song is a Summer day at the Lake.
Exactly!
Yaaas! Great song! Try "If You Want Me To Stay" from Sly. It's a banger!
EVERYDAY PEOPLE Is magnificent
My first choice too. This was indeed my 10 year old summer. What a joy
"Dance to the Medley" studio version, not the Woodstock 1969 live version, gets my vote for next from them.