What happened to Music that brought all people together ? No drugs...well maybe a little LOL! but it was about Music, Peace and love your Brother and sisters what ever the colors ~Those were some happy times, just look at the audience< WOW!
Wow...his life caught up with him in this performance.. his voice is gone, he has no control..if you notice other people are singing around him so it doesn't as noticeable. I really LOVE SLY..But this wasn't his best. And I LOVE HIM TO DEATH!!
I'm so fucking tired of people saying the N-word, just say NIGGER damn it. I'm black and hate to hear people describe NIGGER as the N-word, it's a fucking word.
I really do like the way this song is sung as compared to the recorded version, like the way they sing "one who that's done all the things you set out to do", no one does it quite like them nowadays
The building that Mike Douglas show was taped in is now gone. KYW They tore it down a year or two ago. Was in there one time back in the 90's to visit a radio friend who was working on WYSP. A sinigog is there now I believe.
Mike Douglas with all those old ladies in the audience brought in groups like Sly in the afternoon...I love Sly but give Mike Douglas props in the 70s...Heck, Leno and Letterman were playing in the sandbox
Stand! has always been on the quieter side. It increases in tempo as the song goes on, into that great breakdown after the 3rd stanza or so. There's another youtube video of them doing Stand! at Midnight Express. Same thing.
During the early 1970s, The band began to fall apart during this period because of drug abuse and ego clashes; consequently, the fortunes and reliability of the band deteriorated, leading to its dissolution in 1975.[5] Sly Stone continued to record albums and tour with a new rotating lineup under the "Sly & the Family Stone" name from 1975 to 1983. In 1987, Sly Stone was arrested and sentenced for cocaine use, after which he went into effective retirement
I used to be white, but I went on an all carrot diet and now I look orange or jaundiced, depending on the light. I can clap 4/4 while doing pushups to Sly's greatest hits. Sly was the shiznit. Always wanted to hear more--his body of work was mostly genius.
I am white and clap semi- on-time part-of the-time. I new I had a problem, and I sought help. One day I hope to clap a 4/4 beat successfully. Until then I wil have to watch the likes of Sly getting down in the hopes some of it might rub off on me.
These videos are a testament of how talented Sly was, even in his drug days. You can't help but feel how he squandered his God given talent. Sly was one of San Francisco's best dj's on KSOUL. He was to San Francisco, what Frankie Crocker was to New York. Sly wrote and produced for Bobby Freeman (The Swim) and the Beau Brummles (Laugh Laugh). At Sly's peak he had no peers as a songwriter and performer. I will appreciate Sylvester Stewart aka Sly Sones's legacy.
I bet the ratings went up that night. He's got the 'long hairs' and the 'squares' clapping and dancing togther. I liked the violin sound in it too. Is that Sid Page on violin ? And that's got to be "The Lord" Bill Lordon on drums.
I'm 54 and I actually remember watching this show when it happened. Mike Douglas was out of Philly. He interviewed Sly and Sly was stoned out of his mind. It was one of those moments from a forgotten time.
It's beautiful, yes, but Sly is stoned as hell and it makes me sad that by now he was pretty much screwed by drugs. Hearing him say "Don't you know you are free/ Well at least in your mind if you want to be" takes a different meaning when you realise he's not singing, he's slurring. :(
They're playin in San Jose,Ca. 7-7-07 with Sly..don't know exactly who with though,4 sure,but Jerry Martini is living well in Hawaii, & sure he should be there..
This was the first self contained R&B band to rock it. The 70s were just fantastic with Sly, War, EWF, The Isleys. They wrote them, They played them and they produced them with no mention of "hos" "n's" and "b's"
@rfnawesome Wouldn't you agree that it's a completely different connotation that was was used by Sly as compared to the way it's used these days? Think about about the timing of the song and what was going on in America, and the gratuitous way it's used these days. When you hear Sly say "Don't call me nigger, whitey; do you think the same thing, or do you feel the same way as when you hear Li'l Wayne say "nigga" this or "nigga" that? I don't think so.
PRICELESS. Right at 3 minutes 22 seconds we see a white girl in true form, clapping completely off beat. I love it. God bless ya Sly for makin us white folk dance, even if the dancing sucks!
I FEEL LIKE I'M AT THE FUNERAL FOR THE SONG "STAND". W.T.F. HAPPENED? I JUST CAN'T "STAND" THE WAY THEY F.I.U.
HEARTHEANGELSVOICES 5 months ago
@HEARTHEANGELSVOICES They whited it up for Michael Douglas's audience. I guess he wood ent let 'em be dames elves again.
acr08807 2 months ago
This version has a gentler feel than the studio original--and it works......
(works at both tempos, actually--it's an incredible song.....Sly forever!
rainbowkeys711 10 months ago
What happened to Music that brought all people together ? No drugs...well maybe a little LOL! but it was about Music, Peace and love your Brother and sisters what ever the colors ~Those were some happy times, just look at the audience< WOW!
tedkay 1 year ago
This never gets old. Still the greatest!
ionahoopii 1 year ago
WOW! The Douglas show had Really Groovy Video FX!
OlymPigs2010 1 year ago
persiangold it is evident that you don't know voice. His voice is as perfect as its ever been. as a matter of fact....its a bit better.
onestep759 1 year ago
Wow...his life caught up with him in this performance.. his voice is gone, he has no control..if you notice other people are singing around him so it doesn't as noticeable. I really LOVE SLY..But this wasn't his best. And I LOVE HIM TO DEATH!!
persiangold 1 year ago
You could say I was enjoying it because tears are in my eyes.
thanksyounow 1 year ago
Sly taken us back to CHURCH ya'll!
zim1966 1 year ago
I'm so fucking tired of people saying the N-word, just say NIGGER damn it. I'm black and hate to hear people describe NIGGER as the N-word, it's a fucking word.
fmslhj 1 year ago
@fmslhj you're right it's nigger
txlastrebel 6 months ago
Sly wasn't high in this video
eazye07 1 year ago
I really do like the way this song is sung as compared to the recorded version, like the way they sing "one who that's done all the things you set out to do", no one does it quite like them nowadays
justaman23 1 year ago
by '74 they was dead
cshargeit 2 years ago
Was that the 'Little Old Lady from Pasadena' from the Jan and Dean song? Go Granny, Go!!!
hbdavew 2 years ago
my birthday!
BLaZe071775 2 years ago 2
The building that Mike Douglas show was taped in is now gone. KYW They tore it down a year or two ago. Was in there one time back in the 90's to visit a radio friend who was working on WYSP. A sinigog is there now I believe.
radioman66 2 years ago
synagogue
universalradio 2 years ago
Thanks for the correction my friend. At 3 am in the morning I sometimes don't look up my spelling. :-o
radioman66 2 years ago
Grandma was gettin it !
PD2007 3 years ago 2
Mike Douglas with all those old ladies in the audience brought in groups like Sly in the afternoon...I love Sly but give Mike Douglas props in the 70s...Heck, Leno and Letterman were playing in the sandbox
Burghjazz 3 years ago 2
i remember this performance when it aired on TV when Sly got up and danced it jarred my memory.
exnewsanchor 3 years ago
I think that's Ellen Degeneres' grandmother @ 3:24. LOL Love this song. Laughing at the "rhythm" comments below. :)
aprilneo 4 years ago
LMAO @ Ellen's granma
push555push 3 years ago
hehehe ;)
cadreinc 3 years ago
LOL....yeah...She shouldn't have sat down. She was doing great!
aprilneo 3 years ago 2
She was tearing it up! :-) Sly Stone could light up cities with his smile!
im4wur 3 years ago 8
This was after Larry Graham and Gregg Erico left...
freein2339 4 years ago
Stand! has always been on the quieter side. It increases in tempo as the song goes on, into that great breakdown after the 3rd stanza or so. There's another youtube video of them doing Stand! at Midnight Express. Same thing.
Vociferor 4 years ago
Wow, disappointing performance from a great performer. Sly sounds really low-energy & tentative. What year was this?
NilezII 4 years ago
Have you taken a good look at that audience? Energy flows in two directions.
PEACE
Eyemallfunkedup 4 years ago 2
During the early 1970s, The band began to fall apart during this period because of drug abuse and ego clashes; consequently, the fortunes and reliability of the band deteriorated, leading to its dissolution in 1975.[5] Sly Stone continued to record albums and tour with a new rotating lineup under the "Sly & the Family Stone" name from 1975 to 1983. In 1987, Sly Stone was arrested and sentenced for cocaine use, after which he went into effective retirement
loosestudios 4 years ago
Is that Weeezie Jefferson mid sceeen between 4:14 and 4:19? Love the old lady too. Classic.
PEACE
Eyemallfunkedup 4 years ago
Family Stone: If your Black, you got a huge afro, if you're White you got lloonngg hair!!!
Outa sight!!!
thread14 4 years ago
I used to be white, but I went on an all carrot diet and now I look orange or jaundiced, depending on the light. I can clap 4/4 while doing pushups to Sly's greatest hits. Sly was the shiznit. Always wanted to hear more--his body of work was mostly genius.
hawksapoozle 4 years ago
Oh, what's a Hawksapoozle?
wonderfulhuman161 4 years ago
I am white and clap semi- on-time part-of the-time. I new I had a problem, and I sought help. One day I hope to clap a 4/4 beat successfully. Until then I wil have to watch the likes of Sly getting down in the hopes some of it might rub off on me.
wonderfulhuman161 4 years ago
I'm white and I have difficulty clapping on time.
VTBilly 4 years ago
That old lady in the white pants gets down, shakin' that azz! ;P
Gotta love Sly...
Alexltavares 4 years ago
He had the best speaking voice of anyone I have heard - a real FM radio voice!
Does he now have brain damage from drug abuse?
queenannegrl 4 years ago
These videos are a testament of how talented Sly was, even in his drug days. You can't help but feel how he squandered his God given talent. Sly was one of San Francisco's best dj's on KSOUL. He was to San Francisco, what Frankie Crocker was to New York. Sly wrote and produced for Bobby Freeman (The Swim) and the Beau Brummles (Laugh Laugh). At Sly's peak he had no peers as a songwriter and performer. I will appreciate Sylvester Stewart aka Sly Sones's legacy.
SoulTooSoul 4 years ago 2
Mike Douglas on the tambourine, y'all!
pekoe67 4 years ago
F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C
...But can anyone make out what his belt-buckle says?
I can't quite make it out.
Just kidding.
pekoe67 4 years ago
I think Michael jackson got the robot move from this performance.
zoldello 4 years ago
I bet the ratings went up that night. He's got the 'long hairs' and the 'squares' clapping and dancing togther. I liked the violin sound in it too. Is that Sid Page on violin ? And that's got to be "The Lord" Bill Lordon on drums.
loucastle123 4 years ago
I like the people clapping here
richardbyt1 4 years ago
He sure is not, check out the picture of the nice house he has out in cali in the August issue of Vanity Fair!
ilcchef2 4 years ago
Sly ain't broke, y'all.
maccadese 4 years ago
I'm 54 and I actually remember watching this show when it happened. Mike Douglas was out of Philly. He interviewed Sly and Sly was stoned out of his mind. It was one of those moments from a forgotten time.
DE19702 4 years ago
and he never got his mind back, broke he doesn't even own his own songs and sooooo sad how unforgettable...
bobalu10 4 years ago
It's beautiful, yes, but Sly is stoned as hell and it makes me sad that by now he was pretty much screwed by drugs. Hearing him say "Don't you know you are free/ Well at least in your mind if you want to be" takes a different meaning when you realise he's not singing, he's slurring. :(
nosferatudasvampir 4 years ago
totally cool
AngryAgain 4 years ago
Damn!I used to want a natural like that in the 70's.They had the look....
mexton 4 years ago
This all brings chills to me. Damn things change
fredtellum 4 years ago
Good gig.
Especially since this the bad times to for Sly & The Family Stone.
Only Sly,Rose an Cynthia are left from original the band.
The band never fails to impress when it's time to finally pull it all together.
marcloaf 4 years ago
They're playin in San Jose,Ca. 7-7-07 with Sly..don't know exactly who with though,4 sure,but Jerry Martini is living well in Hawaii, & sure he should be there..
anitalenor 4 years ago
amen....
funkpill 4 years ago
This was the first self contained R&B band to rock it. The 70s were just fantastic with Sly, War, EWF, The Isleys. They wrote them, They played them and they produced them with no mention of "hos" "n's" and "b's"
Cch092775 4 years ago 5
Yeah your right Cch092775. Most artists who use "hos", n's", and b's for the most part are pea brains.
usc69 4 years ago
No mention of the N word? Was it "Don't call me bigger, whitey"?
rfnawesome 4 years ago 3
@rfnawesome Wouldn't you agree that it's a completely different connotation that was was used by Sly as compared to the way it's used these days? Think about about the timing of the song and what was going on in America, and the gratuitous way it's used these days. When you hear Sly say "Don't call me nigger, whitey; do you think the same thing, or do you feel the same way as when you hear Li'l Wayne say "nigga" this or "nigga" that? I don't think so.
PEACE
Eyemallfunkedup 6 months ago 2
man this audience is so slow till it decides to stand !
Whereas Sly is OUTSTANDING !
dockaiser 4 years ago
I love this video. Sly and the Family Stone funk'd it!!! The music was better and We all had such beautiful afros. I miss the 70's.
BLKPRLZ 4 years ago 2
I LLLLLLLLLLOVE IT!
dominique777 5 years ago
Sly on the Mike Douglas show?
What's with the bad editing?
Utterlyflameproof 5 years ago
sylvester stewart does the bu-ga-loo yes lawd@!
Nebraskablack 5 years ago
Sly's got a website now: google 'phattadatta'
sketchr 5 years ago
Sky was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and if there is a Funk Hall of Fame he is their first inductee!
chelliegirl 5 years ago
I hope he is in the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame, because if not, they are really missing it.
LDean5643 5 years ago
PRICELESS. Right at 3 minutes 22 seconds we see a white girl in true form, clapping completely off beat. I love it. God bless ya Sly for makin us white folk dance, even if the dancing sucks!
Hamptonio 5 years ago
Yeah pretty funny...but granny in the blue and white gots 'da beat!!!
ilcchef2 5 years ago
I loved watching The Mike Douglas Show. R.I.P. Mr. Douglas. I and I LOVE S&tFS
perri6 5 years ago
I suppose no one except Sly could wear that outfit and look ultracool :)
Brainchicken 5 years ago
why where the audience sat down in the first place?
Pendaz 5 years ago
sly used to co-host with mike for the entire week...great tv..sly is one of a kind..but a true genius
garyr60 5 years ago
hey, pshark: Thanks for the correction. Reading can be tough for me sometimes. Yeah... that's it!
rfnawesome 5 years ago
no problem. still it would've been cool if he really was on 60 Minutes with Wallace
pshark 5 years ago
lol, Mike DOUGLAS not Mike WALLACE
pshark 5 years ago