I'm an old lady and was in my teens when Sly and the Family Stone came on the scene. I loved them from the get-go. The music was absolutely cool and groovy and soulful, but always a positive message. I love you Sly! ❤️
For kids watching this that were born post Sly it truly was an incredible band at a time when we much needed it.With Vietnam and the killings of JFK,RFK,MLK,we hurt pretty bad but Sly pulled us together and got us thru it as Americans,all of us.Party on.
Sly was an activist through his music. His music still radiates in today's world and the hate that is attempting to radiate through the world and today's society.
My MAMA allowed me to watch the entire week SLY co-hosted the MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW. I'd never watched the show before or since. Had no idea middle America -- uncool whites -- knew of my fav band. K Love when SLY seeks dancers in the audience. "Git up and dance" was an amazing request to make of the audience. SLY looks like my grandfather dancing. And they danced. Pentecostal preacher pricked their spirit.
I jumped to my feet in 1974 when I was 16, I jumped to my feet tonight at 63 and I plan on jumping to my feet 10 years from now at 73 and I'm white woman and proud! There's nothing like Sly's music! Sylvester Stewart quote: Don't hate the black, don't hate the white. If you get bitten just hate the bite.
@@karlfritz47 She was a beautiful person as well, I met her outside the Ed Sullivan show in 1968 when they arrived in a limo she came up to us teens waiting in line and slapped us five on her way in.
@@karlfritz47 ruclips.net/video/WG_xmmllfFw/видео.htmlsi=3SLfSNJRxfExFZos Here is the show we attended (for free) and when Sly came into the audience with Rosie we went wild, what a memory.
Sly is the man & just got a $5 million dollar settlement very happy for him. Been living in a van in LA Ca. for the last 10 years smoking that rock. We LOVE YOU BROTHER, Larry Reeves USMC SNIPER VIETNAM VET
He had his RV parked outside his house. Sometimes he just needed to be away from the people always hanging around. He had a studio in the RV. And, back in the day when we thought Sly wasn't showing up for concerts because he was somewhere high, it turned out he suffered from anxiety/stage fright and would be there and just wouldn't come out. Not to say he didn't get high, but there's always more to the story.
Douglas show- I think 4:30 in the afternoon. Seemed the squarest person on the planet- but he wasn’t. Bless you sly. The MSG shoe was unforgettable. Ty mike for bringing great stuff fir after school.
This music will never be again so SAD. I grew up with these guys and they did really well but Sly is living in a Van somewhere in Los Angeles would like to find him. The Cocaine was his down fall. Thanks for the memories & the music.Larry Reeves USMC NAM VET 69-70 SEMPER-FI
One of my fav bands. So much talent and very revolutionary. This is an awful audio and doesn't represent them live at all...but check out the end when Sly goes to the audience and has them dance. There is an old lady who jumps right up and dances. It's beautiful.
On this day in 1969 {March 23rd} Sly & the Family Stone performed "Stand" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'... One month later on April 12th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #22 and spent 8 weeks on the Top 100... It reached #14 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart... The record's B-side, "I Want To Take You Higher", also charted, peaked at #60... R.I.P. Mr. Sullivan {1901 - 1974} and Sly Stone celebrated his 70th birthday eight days ago on March 15th
This is one of my fav live versions of 'Stand' by Sly that I find on RUclips. My absolute fav is their Isle of Wright version. The low key tempo and the violin from Sid Page just adds another layer of emotion to it. The vamp out jam at the end is just oozing with funk... And of course Sly jamming out at the end and getting the audience into it, even the old ladies, lol, is just timeless...
LOVE SLY STONE ......HELPED BRING ALL PEOPLE TOGETHER.....REAL FUNKY SOUL MUSIC ...HAD BLACKS, WHITES, WOMAN IN THE BAND NO RACIAL BULLSHIT LETS JUST PLAY....GREAT ARTIST AND MUSICIAN LOVE SLY AND FAMILY STONE.....ON A SIDE NOTE HATE TO SEE HIM THE WAY THAT HE IS NOW TODAY....A JUDGEMENT IS ONE THING, I DOUBT VERY STRONGLY WHETHER HE'LL EVER GET TO SEE ANY OF IT 5M!!!
Even though this ISN'T the Lineup that ROCKED Woodstock have to say this Band had Guys Girls Black White in a time that really didn't have back then....
Black and White together....Sly was bridging the gap way back then..... Music is kinda back to being divided again....we need Sly to slap the funk down on us and shake it off
This is classic African American protestant gospel music - it bends time: see squares catch rhythm. It is lost on critics, it appears, that this band played rocked out gospel. Rather than call it soul music, pundits called it funk. This song is a hymn, as are EVERYDAY PEOPLE and EVERYBODY IS A STAR. Heathens can't grasp the obvious...and so on and so on until death, then fire burns forever your puny imagination.
You lost me at the end, and you clearly don't understand the message this band and others had especially with a song like this. Saying words like heathen and putting people down is only putting yourself in the same shoes the ones that have been absusing you. You have to stand and be better and positive. Set the example. Be a good person because regardless of size and colour, we're people at the end of the day. Good luck in life, dude.
I remember watching the week SLY co hosted the Mike Douglas Show. Think it was in the summer. The band was different without Larry Graham. SLY summoned the squares and the squares went round. The blues in STAND was displayed here, the jazz, too. Sound is different from early 70s live shows but the sound still made squares round.
The music of this interracial band delivered a message of love and unity in "Stand," "Everybody is a Star" and others. It's such a counterpoint to the divisiveness we're going through now. Where did all that warmth go? (This is also the only band I'd ever seen that had a woman on trumpet! Was her name Cynthia?)
3:40 That awkward moment when you are reminded that some people are rhythmically challenged and and can't clap in unison. That's okay though,...they still clapped just the same. 😉 #Peace
i wish Tyler perry would pick up where Mike Douglas left off and showcase talented and gifted artist(s) that either have been forgotten or those who are being "slept" on. instead of doing the shows and movies that he's doing now,that cause us to regress,instead of progress...
Stand, in the end, you'll still be you One that's done all the things you set out to do Stand, there's a cross for you to bear Things to go through if you're goin' anywhere Stand for the things you know are right It's the truth that the truth makes them so uptight Stand, all the things you want are real You have you to complete and there is no deal Stand, you've been sitting much too long There's a permanent crease in your right and wrong Stand, there's a midget standing tall And a giant beside him about to fall Stand, they will try to make you crawl And they know what you're sayin' makes sense at all Stand, don't you know that you are free Well, at least in your mind if you want to be
Yeah, white people need to work on their soul, but Sly seemed not to expect anything from anyone. He was just cool people. Everyday people. We can definitely use more of him and his music. BRING IT BACK!
I'm an old lady and was in my teens when Sly and the Family Stone came on the scene. I loved them from the get-go. The music was absolutely cool and groovy and soulful, but always a positive message. I love you Sly! ❤️
I watched this whole week when Sly Stone was the guest host. All week the band played! I had no idea Mike Douglas would have done this! I loved it!
For kids watching this that were born post Sly it truly was an incredible band at a time when we much needed it.With Vietnam and the killings of JFK,RFK,MLK,we hurt pretty bad but Sly pulled us together and got us thru it as Americans,all of us.Party on.
He musically brought people together.
The man's hair is absolutely gorgeous 😍
Sorry to say they wore wigs.
Sly was an activist through his music. His music still radiates in today's world and the hate that is attempting to radiate through the world and today's society.
There'll never be a band like that again once in a lifetime take me back to my teenage years Detroit Michigan peace and love
My MAMA allowed me to watch the entire week SLY co-hosted the MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW. I'd never watched the show before or since. Had no idea middle America -- uncool whites -- knew of my fav band.
K
Love when SLY seeks dancers in the audience. "Git up and dance" was an amazing request to make of the audience. SLY looks like my grandfather dancing. And they danced. Pentecostal preacher pricked their spirit.
oh dear God! not just the music, but the visual transitions! nobody does anything like any of this anymore!
A masterpiece. Sends chills down my spine.
Very nice live version. There's nothing cooler than a band making live music from the ground up.
Only Sly could make 65 year old white women jump to their feet and do their thing in 1974. This is beautiful.
some people shine hard ;)
I jumped to my feet in 1974 when I was 16, I jumped to my feet tonight at 63 and I plan on jumping to my feet 10 years from now at 73 and I'm white woman and proud! There's nothing like Sly's music! Sylvester Stewart quote: Don't hate the black, don't hate the white. If you get bitten just hate the bite.
Those two older women in the second row are getting down, ha.
Lord have mercy!! Sly turned it out. Anytime you get the audience on their feet like that!! Whew!
Sly was the pioneer of Funk Rock and Blues!! No one like him during that era.
Sly and the Family Stone are the most important band in modern music that America ever produced imo,broke barriers
I remember being in about 7th grade and running home from school to see the bands on Mike Douglas. Sly, John and Yoko and so many others.
3:50 - I LOVE HOW MAMA IN THE FRONT ROW SAID "SKIP IT!" AND STARTED GETTING IT!
Sly whipping them into a frenzy on the Mike Douglas show... I love it.
Great soulful live version, lyrics still ring true today, RIP Cynthia.
I watched many vids with Cynthia in it...I thought she was sooo good looking .. beautiful ❤️
@@karlfritz47 She was a beautiful person as well, I met her outside the Ed Sullivan show in 1968 when they arrived in a limo she came up to us teens waiting in line and slapped us five on her way in.
@@brotzmannsax thats amazing.. awsome..at least you got to experience that ..iam jealous actually
@@karlfritz47 ruclips.net/video/WG_xmmllfFw/видео.htmlsi=3SLfSNJRxfExFZos
Here is the show we attended (for free) and when Sly came into the audience with Rosie we went wild, what a memory.
HOT! OUIWEE they don't make music like this no more
Sly is the man & just got a $5 million dollar settlement very happy for him. Been living in a van in LA Ca. for the last 10 years smoking that rock.
We LOVE YOU BROTHER,
Larry Reeves USMC SNIPER VIETNAM VET
Thank you for the update Larry & thank you so much for your service to our country. God bless you!
That's really happy news. I wish him to be well.
man why do people always assuem the worst? u dont know for sure if hes been smokin crack.. probably just doin normal stuff like weed i hope anyway.
He had his RV parked outside his house. Sometimes he just needed to be away from the people always hanging around. He had a studio in the RV. And, back in the day when we thought Sly wasn't showing up for concerts because he was somewhere high, it turned out he suffered from anxiety/stage fright and would be there and just wouldn't come out. Not to say he didn't get high, but there's always more to the story.
@@TheBlack-my5yf especially when the entertainment industry is busy ripping people off.
Music like this could change a world.
+Emmitill It did.....at least for a little while
+freein2339...at least for a little while. 💔
It caption the end of the 60s too.
THE BEST PART EVER
But it didn’t you see...... Larry knew that so he moved on 👍🏻
First album I bought when I was about 12...they were the most incredible group of people, music knows no color, and Sly proved it.
Really, we don't know color until we become bitter, disgruntled and in desperate need of someone to put the blame on.
Douglas show- I think 4:30 in the afternoon. Seemed the squarest person on the planet- but he wasn’t. Bless you sly. The MSG shoe was unforgettable. Ty mike for bringing great stuff fir after school.
#SlyAndTheFamilyStone A soulful band that knew how to get down. They had great musicians 😀🎷🎹🎺🎸🪘❤️🎻❤️
Great live performance
This music will never be again so SAD. I grew up with these guys and they did really well but Sly is living in a Van somewhere in Los Angeles would like to find him. The Cocaine was his down fall. Thanks for the memories & the music.Larry Reeves USMC NAM VET 69-70 SEMPER-FI
A lot of people been doin drugs. Why bring that up here and now?
This clip is fantastic! I sometimes forget about Sly & the Family Stone, and just how good they were.
We need their music, and Spirit for the hatred we have in the world.
@@Pdoolesct It's true. The BLM crowd would probably not approve of how inclusive Sly was.
his smile is so infectious. you can tell he has a kind soul.
Sly walked towards the crowd and yelled "get yo asses up!" lol
This what proofs that good music never will die... Wish I could've been there
Sly was one funky cat man!
Sly was made for this!!!! Greatness! Richard Pryor stole this look for one of his skits on his TV show!
One of my fav bands. So much talent and very revolutionary. This is an awful audio and doesn't represent them live at all...but check out the end when Sly goes to the audience and has them dance. There is an old lady who jumps right up and dances. It's beautiful.
That Freddie Stone sings so damn smooth!
He's a great guitarist, too. Should be included among greatest guitarist in the history of American pop music.
Pure Genius! No matter how high we get we dont get too low
Sly is wearing the hell outta that Jump-Suit...*salivates*. You betta werk Sly!
THANK GOD FOR THIS!
On this day in 1969 {March 23rd} Sly & the Family Stone performed "Stand" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'...
One month later on April 12th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #22 and spent 8 weeks on the Top 100...
It reached #14 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart...
The record's B-side, "I Want To Take You Higher", also charted, peaked at #60...
R.I.P. Mr. Sullivan {1901 - 1974} and Sly Stone celebrated his 70th birthday eight days ago on March 15th
Thank you for that apt journalism. RIP ED SULLIVAN.
This is one of my fav live versions of 'Stand' by Sly that I find on RUclips. My absolute fav is their Isle of Wright version.
The low key tempo and the violin from Sid Page just adds another layer of emotion to it. The vamp out jam at the end is just oozing with funk...
And of course Sly jamming out at the end and getting the audience into it, even the old ladies, lol, is just timeless...
My mother's favorite afternoon show!
Absolutely Amazing !!! Thank you with All I have for a Heart for posting this rare footage of *Sly & the Family Stone*
classic!
110% Real Talk!!! :)
ALWAYS LOVE THE POSITIVE MESSAGE OF THIS SONG ONE OF MY FAVORITE GROUPS OF ALL TIME
CLASSIC !
STAND DONT YOU KNOW YOU ARE FREE - AT LEAST IN YOUR MIND IF YOU WANT TO BE
Before Prince and The Revolution.
That outfit was fly as hell!
Should fly away.
Thanks for sharing
Mike Douglas b funky, yo!
this lyric is better than any Beatles - Stevie - Marvin -anything
He was a better songwriter than Stevie Wonder or Lennon - McCarthy.
You just gotta love him!!!
I LOVE THIS 6 POINT BROTHER
Love it
LOVE SLY STONE ......HELPED BRING ALL PEOPLE TOGETHER.....REAL FUNKY SOUL MUSIC ...HAD BLACKS, WHITES, WOMAN IN THE BAND NO RACIAL BULLSHIT LETS JUST PLAY....GREAT ARTIST AND MUSICIAN LOVE SLY AND FAMILY STONE.....ON A SIDE NOTE HATE TO SEE HIM THE WAY THAT HE IS NOW TODAY....A JUDGEMENT IS ONE THING, I DOUBT VERY STRONGLY WHETHER HE'LL EVER GET TO SEE ANY OF IT 5M!!!
This performance was from Merv Griffin Show! Thanks for sharing!
It's definitely from The Mike Douglas show. Say it in big letters. lol
LIVE!!!!!!!
big up to the young lady who was sitting in the aisle @ 3:36 and sat back down only to get back up later on with her friend... :)
Even though this ISN'T the Lineup that ROCKED Woodstock have to say this Band had Guys Girls Black White in a time that really didn't have back then....
he iss like God!
back then I never noticed that Mike Douglas had a hair weave.
fiddle chops on outro are boss, as is Douglas' strut
nooooooooooooo....my girl in the front row lookin for the beat!
Black and White together....Sly was bridging the gap way back then.....
Music is kinda back to being divided again....we need Sly to slap the funk down on us and shake it off
L♡VE
Whatch mean man! We got rhythm!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well said.
I just looked up cool in the dictionary and found a picture of Sly Stone.
This is classic African American protestant gospel music - it bends time: see squares catch rhythm.
It is lost on critics, it appears, that this band played rocked out gospel. Rather than call it soul music, pundits called it funk.
This song is a hymn, as are EVERYDAY PEOPLE and EVERYBODY IS A STAR.
Heathens can't grasp the obvious...and so on and so on until death, then fire burns forever your puny imagination.
Ethan Hill so... Do you like it or...
You lost me at the end, and you clearly don't understand the message this band and others had especially with a song like this. Saying words like heathen and putting people down is only putting yourself in the same shoes the ones that have been absusing you. You have to stand and be better and positive. Set the example. Be a good person because regardless of size and colour, we're people at the end of the day.
Good luck in life, dude.
I remember watching the week SLY co hosted the Mike Douglas Show. Think it was in the summer. The band was different without Larry Graham. SLY summoned the squares and the squares went round. The blues in STAND was displayed here, the jazz, too. Sound is different from early 70s live shows but the sound still made squares round.
The music of this interracial band delivered a message of love and unity in "Stand," "Everybody is a Star" and others. It's such a counterpoint to the divisiveness we're going through now. Where did all that warmth go?
(This is also the only band I'd ever seen that had a woman on trumpet! Was her name Cynthia?)
The only "divisiveness" is from ignorant people constantly bringing up "Race".
When everyone understood & got along
Shut up and dribble doesn't apply here. These artists definitely helped to shape our minds. They are more than artists, but trendsetters in many ways.
Bill Lordan of Robin Trower fame on drums.
3:40 That awkward moment when you are reminded that some people are rhythmically challenged and and can't clap in unison. That's okay though,...they still clapped just the same. 😉 #Peace
i wish Tyler perry would pick up where Mike Douglas left off and showcase talented and gifted artist(s) that either have been forgotten or those who are being "slept" on. instead of doing the shows and movies that he's doing now,that cause us to regress,instead of progress...
My thoughts exactly!
Stand, in the end, you'll still be you
One that's done all the things you set out to do
Stand, there's a cross for you to bear
Things to go through if you're goin' anywhere
Stand for the things you know are right
It's the truth that the truth makes them so uptight
Stand, all the things you want are real
You have you to complete and there is no deal
Stand, you've been sitting much too long
There's a permanent crease in your right and wrong
Stand, there's a midget standing tall
And a giant beside him about to fall
Stand, they will try to make you crawl
And they know what you're sayin' makes sense at all
Stand, don't you know that you are free
Well, at least in your mind if you want to be
more than beautyfull LOVE YOU SLY AND THANK YOU !!!
THANK YOU SLY AND YOU TOO DENNIS B
3:42 White girl, yellow pants: "1 & 2 & 3 & 4 and 1 & 2 & 3 & 4"
LMAO that bigger white dude, too. I never knew it was so hard to clap to the beat hahahah
@@msozzlover oh my
.lol
They had a white drummer. lol
I love how well-dressed (for the time ;) everyone was in the audience, black and white alike. Not a t-shirt in sight!
“Stand. Don’t you know that you are free? Well at least in your mind if you want to be”.
Sly said it before Kanye.
This a great comparison. KANYE is an apt carrier of SLY's skill and vision. I "hear" on BARRY BONDS, my fav KANYE song.
nanananana na na naanana
Yeah, white people need to work on their soul, but Sly seemed not to expect anything from anyone. He was just cool people. Everyday people. We can definitely use more of him and his music. BRING IT BACK!
Well, this white girl got her soul-on, bc I had Sly and Family, in late 60s and 70s, blaring throughout my house. I was taught by the best👍
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This was the theme song for the Ken Hamblin show. Sure miss the days when the black avenger would absolve people of their white guilt...
What a great band and what a great smile - black freedom breakin' into white conformity like gangbusters and good on 'em all.
Is that Bill Lordan on Drums..?
Lots better than crazy rap groups.
This the one with Ali???
sly is space out ! completely stoned deaf
Divide,conquer, enslave
Where was the original drummer and Jerry......
Greg Errico left the band in 1971. Bill Lordan is on drums here. Jerry Martini is there wearing black to Cynthia's left.
Is that Darrell Dixon on sax?
The two sax players are the original sax player and founding member, Jerry Martini, and wearing white, Pat Rizzo
Not the original drummer, not the original saxophonist, what happened ?
6 = Mar @ 2023,
Fuck me these are good
DYNAMICS!!!! Great performance....Sound Engineers at the TV studio ugh...
How nobody ain’t moving LOL
That white grandma in the white bells tho
Nah, squares got no rhythm.....They come in all colors Louis.
Goodness. Light. Cocaine.
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