@kmason685 How is his condition? I used to listen to this delightful tune , in October / November / December of 1969 when I was a third grader. Very kool times, very cool music!
I first seen Sly and the Family on the Ted Macks amateur hour in the late sixties maybe 67 We were all getting high and drinking at a friends house and totally agreed that this band would be GREAT!!!!!BTW They won hands down
Born in late 70's, so I missed this song the first time around. First heard it as a sample from the Roots, "Star/Pointro". Heard the original while watching the 2008 TV show "Life on Mars", which was set in 1973. Finally heard the whole song. Thanks YouTube for the video, and thanks Internet for the TV show.
Sly owns a four bedroom house that he refuses to set foot in. He feels that by living in the van the CIA won't be able to track him. He also says that he hasn't used cocaine or alcohol in the past week and a half which tells me that he is a drug user. It's no wonder that he is so paranoid
@sanfranciscobay That's Larry Graham: bassist and co-lead vocalist for Sly and The Family Stone. He's the guy who's wearing the white hat and white members only jacket on the right.
God I luv this music it's lke some straight addicting dope so Blessed to have grow up in this era......Bless you Sly & tha Family Stone sound track to my early years Thank you..
1.) Vietnam war killed off a lot of young, very young people;
2.) AIDS epidemic took out several thousands of lives in the 80's and 90s, until more antiviral medications became available. 3.) Drug related deaths, and...drum roll please......
4.) CORPORATE GREED! Money and profits and safe "formulaic" approach; no more 7 year record contracts! Bye, bye creative talent!
@jsbach15 well let's see if your comments fly, 113 million people are born each year in the world, with 4 million born in US alone! There are over 300 million people alive in US. from all those people you think that the Vietnam war killed off the musical artists? The Vietnam war killed over 58 thousand. So Aids killed the musical artists? Aids kills near 17k a year. So corporations killed the artists? Corporations are people, corporations don't write or play music, people write and play music
@jsbach15 Vietnam should have never happened, Aids needs a cure, without corporations none of this is possible then or now! People who work for corporations want to make a living just like you. corporations are just finance and tax structures and by the way... The music never stopped!!!
@jsbach15 That's nonsense. 20th century flu pandemics killed more people that all those other causes combined. Some truth to #4 (corporate greed). However, without the financial support from record companies (corporations), most of these artist from the past would never have gotten out of their basements. The biggest destroyer of creativity in commercial music today is technology. Full length albums have been replaced with 99 cent downloadable singles and crap like X Factor. Blame Simon Cowell
GREAT group -- GREAT song. This group had a greater potential. It's a shame Sly got so messed up. Tried to see them twice. Once, Sly was a no show and the band cancelled ( got my $5.50 back). Next, he did show up (sort of) --- was so far gone that he was "encouraged" off-stage, but show went on (sort of). Glad we still have these recorded studio sessions.
@21wdwrkr This was such a beautiful song-i too remember playing this album in high school -it was aslo a great time period to grow up in-the words of that song still stick with me today-and sly was right "Everybody is a Star"
@FemaleConservative this song is a superstar-- my second favorite from sly-- first being hot fun in the summertime--- they just donrt make them like they use to.
@femsual you are so right. if this doesn't bring me back to the day nothing does. I used to sing this song to my daughter as her "lullaby" and she knew all the words by the age of3. Hot fun in the summertime was my song from back in the 60's. These songs are epic/
@springs215 oh i agree- i could hear these songs another 50 years from now ,and ill still be instanlty taken back to a much simpler time, when fantastic music ruled-- these song will never die.
This song is so soulful, I miss feel-good funk like this. And the roots did a very good job of sampling this and putting their own hard-knock vibe into it. This shows that even a legendary band like the Roots must learn and respect the classic bands that paved the way for them...and this is a prime example.
Sly Stone is the king of funk! I was a kid when his songs airwaved, but I remember them so vividly in my mind,heart,body,and soul. Thank you Sly and the Family Stone for making me enjoy life back then and now.
I was in the showers this morning and for some reason the Beat and the Music start to Hit my mind and I caught myself humming and singing this song! I haven't heard this song since I was in Elementary School when I was a Kid! I'm 24 now and I rather prefer this song from this time ERA than what's being played in the radio which is COMPLETE TRASH! I started to remember this song from my past Good Times!
I don't know so much English but i don't care what you motherfuckers saying:) maddddonna is the best and she's sing it so much betttter they sing it wired:s
Never heard before Madonna included it in her ending of the Girlie Show: she could have done without it, I guess - as "Everybody" is a never-to-be-forgotten song, whereas this one is far too connoted (Disney-sounding and yapping) voices and arrangement.
You didn't just mention Madonna in the same breath as Sly and the Family Stone did you? Tell me you didn't just do that... Hey, why not just compare Carrot Top to Jesus Christ while we're at it? I mean as long as we're getting stupid here why not go all the way?
I love the poetry of these lyrics and how their deep truth is paired with a light, happy musical expression. Also I like hearing the many voices from the family. How many of us really know that God loves us as we are? And how many of us know another person who loves us as we are?
Sly & The Family Stone brought so much love to the world with their music, it's indescribable. Everytime i hear the song Stand! or Everyday People i feel like there's love everywhere. I wont get angry at any person.
And it's not wonder. The band wanted to stop all the war with their music.
Sadly, there are no much bands like this left in the world.
To all those including my mother that stood strong, civil activist, "B-Panthers" / "Us", along with musical artist who had the guts to give their support in the form of music in a very difficult and trying time and era. So that we could receive civil liberties as human beings, because they loved us so!!
sly and the family stone was the greatest. my parents would constanlty play them.everytime i listen to this song i cry cause this was my dads favorite song and he would take my hands dancing and twirl me around and sing everybody is a star.and we would sing together i was @ 7 yrs old , my mom would play hot fun in the summertime and that reminds me of good family timesf un in the summertime , picnics in the park. playing in the water plug when family was family!!!!
I can't believe I had to rely on youtube to get my very first listen to this song. I ran into it by mere accident when someone had it as a background music for some Woodstock vid. I think it's a great song.
Radio sucks, can't believe I've never heard this one on radio.
I'm with the rest of you......Radio needs to play this song, along with Fun, M'Lady, etc... Just l-o-v-e "Hot Fun In The Summertime" also, and it's almost the time of the year when we need to hear that!!! Sondra
It is a beautiful song with a genuinely healing touch of a sound----unfortunately it's NEVER heard on the radio where I live---I found it on a CD soundtrack to a film called Moonlight something---can't remember the full title.--great song,though---very underrated.
Ahh man! I close my eyes and I'm back in my neighborhood in Los Angeles 1969 and I can clearly see my block and all the childhood friends I had. Sweet sweet times
@bobwhite05 -- I can't believe I just said the very same words only minutes ago! Before they put me in that ground, let Sly play for me just one more time!!
I remember listening to this tape over and over on my little cassette player (portable music at the time!) while on a bus trip from Abilene, TX to Los Angeles in October of 1973. Seems like a hundred years ago now.
This song is the greatest song ever written. It epitomizes what life is about for every person born. Namely, that we are all God's children and unique stars in ourselves. It always gives me chills, even today. It's timeless. Sly hit a spot with the man above on this script. He was surely in tune with God, with pen in hand.
This is real music when it made u laugh,cry, want to have a cook out, hot dogs,hamburgers, beer and wine and celebrated being a true "AMERICAN" "DAM" will RAP DIE PLEASE>>>>
Pardon my heart,kellyjay,but you sound like you miss the old days,when,for an unfortunately large number of people in theWhiteEstatesofAmerica,celebrating"true" meant,at best a polite but anxiety-ridden smile at the few black folk encountered in the by-and-by and,at worst,stark&constant hatred&contempt.Look,Eye am as tired of rap as you--nothing new since '92, just more empty boastfulness and meanness--but this has nothing to do with being a"trueAmerican",whateverTHATscary thought brings to mind
This song and summertime remind me of growing up. in 1969 i was 7 yrs old and i remember my mom and dad playin sly and the family stone in the house and in the car !!they were so kool. i am sitting here with tears in my eyes because times were so good. family life was so good. it was good to be blk
This is one of my top 5 albums of all time. Sly was a genius and funk was so powerful at the time. People just don't realize how talented these people were. BTW, still have this on Vinyl and it is is excellent condition.
I wish that the management of oldies radio stations would look at the thousands of great songs that they're not playing, like this and other sly and the family stone songs and thousands of others
I loved Sly and the Family Stone music in 1969 but not half as much as I love it today.
terryorr 4 days ago
Sending Sly LOVE
willsirotak 4 days ago
ah, sly makes me feel so good..
lkuwaeoirNWEOUIAWNER 1 week ago
Sly Stone was my ninja.
KREEPNASTY1 1 week ago
"every man woman and child is a star." ~~ Aleister Crowley
gezayo 3 weeks ago in playlist More videos from PerryCoxPF93
@gezayo "do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law"
;-)
MrKirkenstein 1 week ago
I remember that they used this song in a commercial. I can't remember which one, but it was something uplifting.
kwkable11 1 month ago
Let's pray for Sly Stone.....
kmason685 1 month ago 2
@kmason685 How is his condition? I used to listen to this delightful tune , in October / November / December of 1969 when I was a third grader. Very kool times, very cool music!
Helivz 2 weeks ago
@Helivz I just know he's not doing well and that he lives in a van. Really unfortunate.
kmason685 2 weeks ago
3 people are not stars
jimmyjames6440 1 month ago
DON'T LET ANYBODY OR ANYTHING DULL YOUR STAR, BECAUSE YOUR STAR SHINES BRIGHT
snootsy811 1 month ago
Yes, everybody is a STAR! EVERYBODY, so let your Star shine, shine, shine wherever and whoever you are. God bless everybody!
spunkyswagger1 1 month ago
the flip side of "Thank You (for lettin' me be mice elf again)"
sexymama1966 1 month ago
I first seen Sly and the Family on the Ted Macks amateur hour in the late sixties maybe 67 We were all getting high and drinking at a friends house and totally agreed that this band would be GREAT!!!!!BTW They won hands down
dougerrr 1 month ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Sly & The Family Stone
Love this track...I'm lucky to have this music to remind me of a great time in my life.
jessejamesnow 2 months ago
EVERYBODY IS A STAR----everybody!!!
60jellybean 2 months ago
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So appropriate. "Everybody is a Star" I love you for who are not the one you feel you need to be"
beantianja 2 months ago in playlist More videos from PerryCoxPF93
THE THREE DISLIKES HAD NO CLUE...LOL
LADYCHALLENGER 2 months ago 2
@LADYCHALLENGER They're nebulaes.
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Capcoor 1 month ago
all i ever remembered about this song is "i love you for who you are" ainit no stopping us now!!! live life we are all stars!!!!
alislandgirl 2 months ago
Born in late 70's, so I missed this song the first time around. First heard it as a sample from the Roots, "Star/Pointro". Heard the original while watching the 2008 TV show "Life on Mars", which was set in 1973. Finally heard the whole song. Thanks YouTube for the video, and thanks Internet for the TV show.
-jmccuin in Philippines
jmccuin 3 months ago
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jmccuin 3 months ago
Star/Pointro- The Roots
natedawg6995 3 months ago
I remember such fond memories of high school when this was popular.
misscansino 3 months ago
Sly owns a four bedroom house that he refuses to set foot in. He feels that by living in the van the CIA won't be able to track him. He also says that he hasn't used cocaine or alcohol in the past week and a half which tells me that he is a drug user. It's no wonder that he is so paranoid
svtyorkville 3 months ago
@svtyorkville Sad.
Capcoor 3 months ago
0:31 Who's singing the part that has the low voice?
sanfranciscobay 3 months ago
@sanfranciscobay That's Larry Graham: bassist and co-lead vocalist for Sly and The Family Stone. He's the guy who's wearing the white hat and white members only jacket on the right.
Rakabash 3 months ago
@sanfranciscobay
That's Larry Graham. He sang and played bass
Arthro92 3 months ago
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sanfranciscobay 3 months ago
I pray for him. He's not doing well.
kmason685 4 months ago
Word has it that Sly is now homeless and living out of a van on Crenshaw Blvd. That is very sad.
Albacorewing 4 months ago
Miles Davis was influenced by Sly in the late sixties and that's saying something cause Miles wasn't influenced by very much.
bwanna23 4 months ago
God I luv this music it's lke some straight addicting dope so Blessed to have grow up in this era......Bless you Sly & tha Family Stone sound track to my early years Thank you..
rrrickster3137 4 months ago
I'm 53...this brings back young days when the music was grooooovy! :)
cynmarie33 4 months ago 4
Sly was a true artist, way ahead of his time. Loved his music then and love it more now...
cateyladi 4 months ago
thank you for this i.m 40 something i grew up on this and more .
blujaguar1 4 months ago
REAL MUSIC, PAY ATTENTION PEOPLE!
TODD9444 4 months ago
ROCK AND ROLL AND SOUL ARE HERE TO STAY!
simon4186 4 months ago
STARS: 423 - BLACK HOLES: 3
kyilprkr 5 months ago
Great song,. super lyrics----a song filled with easy words to live by!!!
eltoro145383 5 months ago
its aug. 2011 sly we love you. your music is timeless
alan stratford ct.
gstock427wagon 5 months ago 25
the roots!
hydrobeatz1 5 months ago
So FAR OUT~ Ba pa- pap-pap pa!
Irishglen6 6 months ago
"I love you for who you are, not the one you feel you need to be" - pure poetry
Joebob034 6 months ago 18
@Joebob034 I know someone I want to sing that to.
Capcoor 1 month ago
Who are the 3 people who disliked this? Have they got no soul?
kaianttila73i 6 months ago 5
@kaianttila73i They don't even who r
DatsDCpW 5 months ago
@ kabol69 Ohh please
MacOne13 7 months ago
where did the music go, i know i was born in 88 but wft
kabol69 7 months ago 4
lololoolloollo
darktrophy343 7 months ago
lololo
darktrophy343 7 months ago
Sly is the greatest !!!!!
kfiler 7 months ago
This song would go great An ABA and AFL Highlight Reels
Wehategod 7 months ago
Everybody wants to shine, who'll come out on a cloudy day?" You don't need darkness to do what you think is right..."
MelMediaServices 7 months ago
It was a long time ago but this music stands the test of time.
Sly really could party with the best of them too.
chrisbacos 7 months ago
what a song!!
donna1948ful 7 months ago 2
iam 23 years old and i know music... y couldnt i have been born before the state run radio. nothing like a soul sista in the 70s
kabol69 8 months ago
A GREAT GREAT SONG!!!!
MrGoodtogo55 11 months ago 3
These guys,the Temptations,Shuggie Otis,the O'Jays.That was music.How did it all go downhill?
locoencabasa 1 year ago
How did the music stop? Here are a few variables:
1.) Vietnam war killed off a lot of young, very young people;
2.) AIDS epidemic took out several thousands of lives in the 80's and 90s, until more antiviral medications became available. 3.) Drug related deaths, and...drum roll please......
4.) CORPORATE GREED! Money and profits and safe "formulaic" approach; no more 7 year record contracts! Bye, bye creative talent!
jsbach15 11 months ago
@jsbach15 well let's see if your comments fly, 113 million people are born each year in the world, with 4 million born in US alone! There are over 300 million people alive in US. from all those people you think that the Vietnam war killed off the musical artists? The Vietnam war killed over 58 thousand. So Aids killed the musical artists? Aids kills near 17k a year. So corporations killed the artists? Corporations are people, corporations don't write or play music, people write and play music
TheRnbmusiclover 11 months ago
@jsbach15 Vietnam should have never happened, Aids needs a cure, without corporations none of this is possible then or now! People who work for corporations want to make a living just like you. corporations are just finance and tax structures and by the way... The music never stopped!!!
TheRnbmusiclover 11 months ago
@jsbach15 That's nonsense. 20th century flu pandemics killed more people that all those other causes combined. Some truth to #4 (corporate greed). However, without the financial support from record companies (corporations), most of these artist from the past would never have gotten out of their basements. The biggest destroyer of creativity in commercial music today is technology. Full length albums have been replaced with 99 cent downloadable singles and crap like X Factor. Blame Simon Cowell
ritter89 5 months ago
@ritter89 My references and comments were reserved for post WWII; they didn't have this type of music during the Spanish-American war!
jsbach15 5 months ago
@jsbach15 How about the 54 million babies we've aborted?
Helivz 2 weeks ago
@Helivz You and jsbach15 have aborted 54 million babies!!!! Have you ever heard of birth control???!!!
gabepizza 1 week ago
GREAT group -- GREAT song. This group had a greater potential. It's a shame Sly got so messed up. Tried to see them twice. Once, Sly was a no show and the band cancelled ( got my $5.50 back). Next, he did show up (sort of) --- was so far gone that he was "encouraged" off-stage, but show went on (sort of). Glad we still have these recorded studio sessions.
MrVideogreg 1 year ago
Who could possibly dislike this? My favorite band of all time.
ionahoopii 1 year ago
I wore this album out in high school and this was my favorite song on it, still love it too
21wdwrkr 1 year ago 3
@21wdwrkr This was such a beautiful song-i too remember playing this album in high school -it was aslo a great time period to grow up in-the words of that song still stick with me today-and sly was right "Everybody is a Star"
curtisjones400 6 months ago
Orion on the horizon..
lottieli 1 year ago
with heartfelt wishes for the best new year.
BE the star you are ...
JuneEsWorld 1 year ago
One of the best!
They hit this one just right ...
Be the Shining Star that you are.
June and Jean Millington
"PLAY LIKE A GIRL"
on Kickstarter
'till Jan 10
IMAinthehouse 1 year ago
now i see why prince credits them as his number one influence
MrLover135 1 year ago
@MrLover135 well said-- this group is and was the coolest of all black groups!! HANDS DOWN!!
femsual 1 year ago
This was my favorite song from this album! Classic!
FemaleConservative 1 year ago
@FemaleConservative this song is a superstar-- my second favorite from sly-- first being hot fun in the summertime--- they just donrt make them like they use to.
femsual 1 year ago
@femsual you are so right. if this doesn't bring me back to the day nothing does. I used to sing this song to my daughter as her "lullaby" and she knew all the words by the age of3. Hot fun in the summertime was my song from back in the 60's. These songs are epic/
springs215 1 year ago
@springs215 oh i agree- i could hear these songs another 50 years from now ,and ill still be instanlty taken back to a much simpler time, when fantastic music ruled-- these song will never die.
femsual 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this
stumptown123 1 year ago
a VERY underrated song. Where is Sly and the Family in "oldies" music today????
EastofForever 1 year ago
This song is so soulful, I miss feel-good funk like this. And the roots did a very good job of sampling this and putting their own hard-knock vibe into it. This shows that even a legendary band like the Roots must learn and respect the classic bands that paved the way for them...and this is a prime example.
JDarbs71 1 year ago
the roots sampled this song
jerrymill89 1 year ago
just great
lmt61251 1 year ago
2 people don't want to be stars
ehit88 1 year ago
Sly Stone is the king of funk! I was a kid when his songs airwaved, but I remember them so vividly in my mind,heart,body,and soul. Thank you Sly and the Family Stone for making me enjoy life back then and now.
universalmessenger 1 year ago
i always wanted to know where the roots got this sample from
saddre1 1 year ago
i like it when she goes "ba ba ba ba ba ba ba"...trivia peoples...what movie is that line from?
pricha24 1 year ago
This was my shit before I was born
Doncour32 1 year ago
Classic.
debi5058 1 year ago
I was in the showers this morning and for some reason the Beat and the Music start to Hit my mind and I caught myself humming and singing this song! I haven't heard this song since I was in Elementary School when I was a Kid! I'm 24 now and I rather prefer this song from this time ERA than what's being played in the radio which is COMPLETE TRASH! I started to remember this song from my past Good Times!
Larh124 1 year ago
wake up in the morning and put this on while I am getting ready for work, it just makes your day flow in a wonderful way...
nyke271 1 year ago
I don't know so much English but i don't care what you motherfuckers saying:) maddddonna is the best and she's sing it so much betttter they sing it wired:s
roei105 1 year ago
@roei105 don't comment if u can't appriciate
SmileySmileAM 1 year ago
@roei105 WTF?
harmike17 1 year ago
This country needs to hear this song regularly . . . . . . . . it touches me on such a deep level. Yeah Im old school and proud of it.
OlCaliGirl 1 year ago
Never heard before Madonna included it in her ending of the Girlie Show: she could have done without it, I guess - as "Everybody" is a never-to-be-forgotten song, whereas this one is far too connoted (Disney-sounding and yapping) voices and arrangement.
jeuleud 1 year ago
long live the Afro!!!!!!!
onefugowie 1 year ago
This song is beautiful...
Saiedeh94510 1 year ago
I love this song, always have!!! Sly ROCKS!!!
marym499 1 year ago 3
Taught all my students this in the gym!
tompthelen1 1 year ago
Can ya dig it?
1ooman 1 year ago
Ba pa-pa-pa ba pa-pa ba ba ba pa-pa ba pa-pa ba pa-pa ba ba ba,
ba-pa ba-pa ba ba Ooooh, ooh, oooh, ooh
wmjdovensky 1 year ago
Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa.....pa pa pa pa pa pa. Wooooooooo Ahhhh.
PEACE
Eyemallfunkedup 1 year ago 3
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Madonna sing it sooo much hetter on the girlie show tour
roei105 1 year ago
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Madonna sings it so much better on gitlie
roei105 1 year ago
@roei105
You didn't just mention Madonna in the same breath as Sly and the Family Stone did you? Tell me you didn't just do that... Hey, why not just compare Carrot Top to Jesus Christ while we're at it? I mean as long as we're getting stupid here why not go all the way?
SpockOfRock 1 year ago 3
@SpockOfRock [[grin]]
ASeasonedWitch 1 year ago
@roei105 ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! NOBODY CAN TOUCH THIS SONG BUT SLY
doriana1414 1 year ago 3
@roei105 lay off the drugs
01tnql 1 year ago
This has to be in the XX century's top ten songs. Seriously.
NicotinMan 1 year ago
Don't even try not to sing along! Can't be done!
marshareed 1 year ago
killer song!
jcup825 1 year ago
..."you dont need darkness to do what you think is right".
wmjdovensky 1 year ago
another great song by cool sly!!!
tonywilly45 1 year ago
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"I love you for who you are, not the one you feel the need to be...' Beautiful
MrRobulos 1 year ago
Ba pa-pa-pa ba pa-pa ba ba ba pa-pa ba pa-pa ba pa-pa ba ba ba, ba-pa ba-pa ba ba, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
CoolerKing37 1 year ago 28
@CoolerKing37 I think you left out one "ba pa". Just kidding.
sanfranciscobay 3 months ago
One of my Favorite singing groups of all time...love almost every song...awesome
leahartlee29 1 year ago 2
That's right Double A sided with Thank You
Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin.
Also uploaded here.
Now that's a good record!
jhigh2 1 year ago
I think this song did make the number one slot ,just as
part of a double A sided record ,forget what it was with.
Makes me miss Life on Mars now as well.
jhigh2 1 year ago
I love the poetry of these lyrics and how their deep truth is paired with a light, happy musical expression. Also I like hearing the many voices from the family. How many of us really know that God loves us as we are? And how many of us know another person who loves us as we are?
rjnsims 1 year ago 4
Sly & The Family Stone brought so much love to the world with their music, it's indescribable. Everytime i hear the song Stand! or Everyday People i feel like there's love everywhere. I wont get angry at any person.
And it's not wonder. The band wanted to stop all the war with their music.
Sadly, there are no much bands like this left in the world.
RATMfan92 1 year ago 5
To all those including my mother that stood strong, civil activist, "B-Panthers" / "Us", along with musical artist who had the guts to give their support in the form of music in a very difficult and trying time and era. So that we could receive civil liberties as human beings, because they loved us so!!
trojanluck88 1 year ago
sly and the family stone was the greatest. my parents would constanlty play them.everytime i listen to this song i cry cause this was my dads favorite song and he would take my hands dancing and twirl me around and sing everybody is a star.and we would sing together i was @ 7 yrs old , my mom would play hot fun in the summertime and that reminds me of good family timesf un in the summertime , picnics in the park. playing in the water plug when family was family!!!!
nasdparis 1 year ago 12
@nasdparis Your post brought tears to my eyes -- this song reminds me of being a kid in the same way.....
SquidandTweet 1 year ago
I can't get enuf Sly, never could, never will.
His music is instantly spirit-lifting
babshabits 1 year ago 35
Sly had a lot of great songs. This one I did not know about till Greatest Hits came out. Fabulous CD.
mikeydan50 1 year ago
I can't believe I had to rely on youtube to get my very first listen to this song. I ran into it by mere accident when someone had it as a background music for some Woodstock vid. I think it's a great song.
Radio sucks, can't believe I've never heard this one on radio.
lcvd1 1 year ago 6
Does this bring back some memeories. Seems like a life time ago, the years go by too fast. All time great thaks for posting it!
COCH1960 1 year ago 3
To all you Atlanta Braves fans: This was the #1 song in the USA when pitcher Takashi Saito (disabled list) came into the world.
mkl62 1 year ago
even while growing up in the 70's, i knew this song. is Sly in the rock roll muesum yet ?
ajjules1 1 year ago
This was a great band
luminations123 1 year ago
what is wrong with this posting that it keeps burping?
jasonwheel 1 year ago
I have to memorize this song for STAR testing....
greeenluvsyou 1 year ago
i love this song i have 2 boytoys, all day long today, we were uinvolved, alot of foreplay, it was great, just thinking of this song
ajjules1 1 year ago
I'm with the rest of you......Radio needs to play this song, along with Fun, M'Lady, etc... Just l-o-v-e "Hot Fun In The Summertime" also, and it's almost the time of the year when we need to hear that!!! Sondra
sondrasmusic 1 year ago
This song instantly connects me to the past....and I get such a happy feeling!
TheMidcoast1 1 year ago 3
Beautiful. Simply beautiful.
fratricideisfun 1 year ago 8
One of my favourite Sly Stone compositions. Simple but very effective.
FenderRhodesService 1 year ago 6
One of their best songs.
logerfeld 1 year ago 3
@logerfeld
It is a beautiful song with a genuinely healing touch of a sound----unfortunately it's NEVER heard on the radio where I live---I found it on a CD soundtrack to a film called Moonlight something---can't remember the full title.--great song,though---very underrated.
statelybird3 1 year ago 4
@statelybird3: Moonlight Mile (2002) by Brad Silberling =)
cavegames 1 year ago
when the system trys to bring you down....... just think about that statement
bucsbaseball100 1 year ago 7
This is a great classic song, done by the best to date, "Sly and the Family Stone"
Thanks for the upload and the great memories, when life seem simple...5/5
Bacmaster 1 year ago 6
Ahh man! I close my eyes and I'm back in my neighborhood in Los Angeles 1969 and I can clearly see my block and all the childhood friends I had. Sweet sweet times
OldMrMemories 2 years ago 23
One day coming soon
life will be fair for everyone
and one day soon
everyone will be a star
MimiZ914 2 years ago 4
My favorite song of all time. I will have it played at my funeral
bobwhite05 2 years ago 8
@bobwhite05 -- I can't believe I just said the very same words only minutes ago! Before they put me in that ground, let Sly play for me just one more time!!
msprofit 2 years ago 4
It's funky, too...
FriendshipSeven 2 years ago
I remember listening to this tape over and over on my little cassette player (portable music at the time!) while on a bus trip from Abilene, TX to Los Angeles in October of 1973. Seems like a hundred years ago now.
Simon5005 2 years ago 2
Love the piano in this song. Oh yeah- and everything else too! haha
pingpongking 2 years ago 2
This song is the greatest song ever written. It epitomizes what life is about for every person born. Namely, that we are all God's children and unique stars in ourselves. It always gives me chills, even today. It's timeless. Sly hit a spot with the man above on this script. He was surely in tune with God, with pen in hand.
glaetze 2 years ago 5
A great great tune,love to here it.
Gregory195216 2 years ago 2
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i love this song
tonybaby100 2 years ago
This is probably Sly's greatest song...and that's saying ALOT!
hollies65 2 years ago 34
I was about to say the EXACT same thing. Song is crazy good.
spideymayne 2 years ago 2
@hollies65 AMEN, hollies65!
speechrighter 1 year ago
@hollies65 yes it's Sly's best song! Always wondered why did not make even the top 10 in his day!
raponte1955 1 year ago
Beautiful.
beselbic 2 years ago 3
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This is real music when it made u laugh,cry, want to have a cook out, hot dogs,hamburgers, beer and wine and celebrated being a true "AMERICAN" "DAM" will RAP DIE PLEASE>>>>
kelleighjaye1 2 years ago
Pardon my heart,kellyjay,but you sound like you miss the old days,when,for an unfortunately large number of people in theWhiteEstatesofAmerica,celebrating"true" meant,at best a polite but anxiety-ridden smile at the few black folk encountered in the by-and-by and,at worst,stark&constant hatred&contempt.Look,Eye am as tired of rap as you--nothing new since '92, just more empty boastfulness and meanness--but this has nothing to do with being a"trueAmerican",whateverTHATscary thought brings to mind
strummeresque 2 years ago 3
Beautiful song- freshmen of high school 1970
curtisjones400 2 years ago 5
This song and summertime remind me of growing up. in 1969 i was 7 yrs old and i remember my mom and dad playin sly and the family stone in the house and in the car !!they were so kool. i am sitting here with tears in my eyes because times were so good. family life was so good. it was good to be blk
nasdparis 2 years ago 3
wow, i hear ya man. i'm there
stizzystickler 2 years ago
Songs like this meant a lot , we need it !!!
Wise intelligent know wht needs to be said and not !!
Scipio2724 2 years ago 7
This is one of my top 5 albums of all time. Sly was a genius and funk was so powerful at the time. People just don't realize how talented these people were. BTW, still have this on Vinyl and it is is excellent condition.
TheNoteCollector 2 years ago 7
were doing this for bck to skool night
AgGirl4ever 2 years ago
Inspirational!
BronkoScunkadelik 2 years ago 4
I wish that the management of oldies radio stations would look at the thousands of great songs that they're not playing, like this and other sly and the family stone songs and thousands of others
68enxy 2 years ago 49
Thats agreat point 68enxy..it seems like oldie stations have so many songs at their disposal, but they play the same 30 or 40 every day.
GiantsSB2010 2 years ago 6
@68enxy you might want to try satelite radio, i'm sure they have a format of what you're looking for.
ace12067 1 year ago
@ace12067 We actually have cirrius radio in our new car,. It's not bad, but they still don't play 10% of what I enjoy on youtube.
68enxy 1 year ago
@68enxy If you look at my favorites, you will see some of what I enjoy. Andy
68enxy 1 year ago
@68enxy You said it!! I always loved Sly!
dmtivey 1 year ago