@@ChrisBasdeo Sly is one of the most talented musicians ever. He literally plays every instrument. That’s why Prince and D’Angelo always give this man his props. He’s a musical genius.
🎉🎉🎉Happy Birthday, Sly Stone! 🥳 Thanks for sharing. 64 years and I never knew I shared the same birthday with such a cool musician! 😎🎂Love this song, and the bass line❤
Dad, you weren’t the best father and you did a lot wrong, but I am so very grateful you introduced me to this band. Good lord I can’t even explain how much I love this song. Play it almost every day.
I have been told by my mom that people don't come with instruction books and I am sure your dad didn't have an instruction book so if he fed you, put a roof over your head... That's what his parents taught him.... So remember his mistakes and learn from him what you should not do
I truly appreciate & have much gratitude for the musicians who chose to release cover versions of this truly iconic song 🎶!! However, my forever favorite version will always be the original one 💃❤️
@Noel It's not Graham? He did a tutorial video of how to play his style, and he talks about using his finger as a pick, and this song was the one he did that with
@@andrewstrong40 yo I understand ur sentiment but to b honest no one compares to Sylvester Stewart...as great as prince was....sly and the family stone were the architects of modern music....he's n the top tier of geniuses in any genre of music
Growing up in California...I always loved seeing them on TV. They always seemed like they were really enjoying what they were doing and were so good doing it too! Some songs better than others but never a dud in the whole discography.
Larry Graham on bass.Slap style. I'm a 65 year old white kid grew up in the Bay area and Soul Train was my go to every Saturday. Remember Sly as a DJ. Living in Canada now and turning my grandkids on to this wonderful music.
Sly is not homeless.....he perfers to move around so he likes VanLife! He's usually parked at friends home so he can shower etc...he was really done wrong by record companies and concert promoters......they all took advantage of his lack of knowledge about finances.....so sad and disrespectful......he kinda F'up his head.....some entertainers need to step in and assist this man.....he is a LEGEND 🙌
I’ve listened to this song about 30 times today and I’m not done. Every so often I hear one of Sly’s songs after some years and it hits me differently and I notice a new angle and im enjoying his infectious genius and in awe of his talent again. Dude’s songs are SO unique. Funky, Bluesy, and soulful, but above all, the FUN he has making his music colors every note, every beat, every word and it feels its coming from a huge smile He’s a special composer. The direction he went with forming his band, combining so many distinct sounds and presenting them together like they’ve always been family, and the risks he took with songs that always paid off and made him revered and timeless. So glad to have his music. It has brightened countless hours of my life, and I think he’d say that’s what it’s all about.
This song was played in Dead Presidents..wow I love black people wish we loved each other ..only a gifted people could create something soo beautiful..
@@robertmounger407theres only one present day race its called the Homo sapien aka Human race. Anyone saying different is indirectly calling you or themself a primitive sub species
I remember growing up in East Oakland and it didn't matter what color you were. Everyone listened to Sly and the family stone. And others of the same. Damn those were good days. What's happened to us all?
@Yolonda Douglas-English Yes, you're so right. He was heavily influenced by Sly and the Family Stone. Do you remember Prince had a group called "The Family".
Hey! I think everybody has some magic to offer all their very own. I like to think every bit of creativity combined is why we are partnered with music we love in all aspects of our lives ❤
+Teenie One I sure was around. 73 was my favorite year and this was my favorite song! I get misty thinking about those old days and I CERTAINLY miss the music of those days.
When i was 7, This song is the only reason I fell in love with the dead presidents movie! After I didn't hear it anywhere else I just played the movie over & over again just to hear him playing the song!
This is an all-time masterpiece, the way the start is like all these hazy, loose elements gathering themselves into a rythm, and then you get these three incredibly memorable melodies (Sly & the twin horn and keyboard lines) not interfering with each other, perfectly adding to what one another is doing? The mixing is perfect as well, the bass punchy at the front carrying the song and the horns restrained and giving just enough without rising above the other sounds. The vocal DELIVERY as well... genius, genius, genius.
I remember growing up in the projects in the 70's and the older people bringing out the big 1970's speakers and blasting this song, along with Parliament/Funkadelic, late into the night! Good Times!!
They really don't make music like this anymore. It takes a lot of talent, skill and experience to create a track like this that has such feel. Computers, loops and midi packs can't create this.
I was lucky enough to see this bassist perform in the mid 1990's as part of Prince's group at that time. Prince introduced this illustrious group of musicians saying that they had all been Sly's family. :)
Sly and The Family Stone were cool, cool, cool. And they had a unique personality. Back then it wasn't about trying to sound like everybody else. It was about wanting to imitate, but in the process of trying to do so, creating originality.
His vocal approach to this song is so casual... his attitude so cavalier...., it could almost be mistaken for a demo. Yet, he makes it work brilliantly!
My first hubby loved this jam never really understood what he was trying to telle played it one day then realized 47yrs ago I was taking up his time we have been divorced for those yrs but have to let the Asshole know Number one is going to be #1 and that's Me still jamming in 2023.Thank U Jesus Jesus Jesus
My very first live concert was Sly and the Family Stone....1972 at the Philadelphia Spectrum. I will NEVER forget it! I was 15 years old, suburban white girl--IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!! Have loved him since....
@@kymanbedford-brown1323 , Actually I realize that it was 1971....but it was still incredibly awesome! My high school boyfriend got tickets as my birthday present...
@@patriciasutherland923 I'm in Australia and was about the same age! Not a lot of overseas concerts here, but I listened to them via my Dad who was a musical nutter, I'm so grateful, take care from Oz! Cheers😎👍
Valentine's Day 1970, Madison Sq. Garden: Fleetwood Mac, Grand Funk Railroad, Richard Pryor (doing standup) and headliner Sly & the Family Stone. This was about six months after Woodstock, where Sly (along with Santana) brought the house down. They did it again this night at the Garden: Dance to the Music, Everyday People, Sing a Simple Song, Thank You (Falettin' Me Be Myself), Hot Fun in the Summertime, M'Lady, Wanna Take You Higher, Stand...they did everything and nearly blew the Garden's roof off...unforgettable. If You Want Me to Stay is less well known but 10/10 on the funky scale...
Ohhhh maaaaan, this was my JAM! Takes me back to a happy place as a little girl in the 70s, with my mom, dad, and siblings all together growing up in our family home 😢. Some of my siblings have since then passed on 🥹 Boy, I sure miss those days.
This band was at Woodstock playing Funk before there was the name. Kind of like Iggy and the Stooges playing punk years before that classification. Sly is the Godfather of the Funk, let it be known.
Since I come from that time (60's), just to let you know, James Brown (Godfather of Soul) and George Clinton (Godfather of Clone Funk, P-Funk) were already on the scene. Sly brought in a whole new funky sound, however, adding rock to r&b, becoming the Master of this genre of Funk, straight from California. With a Diverse band, Diverse sound and Diverse LOOK. They were mod, wore funky clothes, were colorful to look at as well as listen to. We were never the same afterwards. He brought everyone together, black, white, red, polka-dot, WHATEVER!! Was so much fun, would I love to go back there again? Better believe it..
Just as an fyi, James is dubbed “The godfather of soul.” And yes, he indeed was. But he was also the godfather of funk, in spite of that title never being attributed to him (so much for classical labeling!). James delivered funk as early as the 60s; groups like Sly and P-Funk borrowed the style, which became popular in the early 70s when these groups were flying high. Recognize, now….
Wow this is my favorite song as a teen went to Atlantic City to see him in concert he walked off stage after 30 minutes. Bunch of teenagers spent the night at the bus stop outside waiting for next bus back to Philly. I saw interview with him about 10 years ago apologizing to his fans for walking off stages he said he was as high. I forgive him he did great music.❤
Wow who's listening November 2021? this tune has to be at least 50 years old now and still sound nice! that's when they used to play real instruments and get down!!!!!!! Mannn check Sly's guitar out!!!!Love You Sly!!!
I pressed the thumbs up icon for old times memories of hearing the attached joint by family members of mine playing on the wood stereo set in amongst our third floor living room appartment in Massachusetts.✌ Peace & respect to the listed as Sly & The Family Stone for sharing such beauty & talent of their spirits nature.
Ok, things I only noticed today: At 2:30 there’s the sound of a telephone’s dial tone. It goes “Booooop Boop” and then it’s gone. Wild. Landline, obviously, but that sound meant the line is working, but not connected to another phone at this time. Also, I’m in love with the scat he does at 2:36 is so awesome. He just did whatever and it was perfect. He’s totally at play. The different voices he sings with, the freestyle piano, it all seems like he just laughed his way through the recording session, but… That dial tone is a clue to his attention to detail, the clarity of the song in his mind, and his insistence to get that tone into the song, although it’s barely audible. It makes it more amazing that it comes across as a playful free style. It shows his absolute command of his craft. To have that kind of attention to detail, and a vision complete enough to demand a dial tone be subtly inserted one time near the end of a song, and make it feel like he smiled and winked through the whole recording is kinda his style. One of my favorite artists. Just unexplainably awesome. Fking Sly, man. 🙏🏻
Sly's voice is like sandpaper and honey. This is a straight up masterpiece.
MOO damn I don’t know if I’ve ever heard it put better than that. Sandpaper and honey. Perfect
Sly and the Family Stone live
True that!
Moo: Mica Paris version is absolutely great too and a beautiful tribute to Sly...
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Moo or maybe a voice like a ‘serrated rainbow’? Sandpaper and honey is better though 😂
I’m 64 this the bomb I played it when I was 14
This song isn't long enough ❤
One of THE best bass lines ever recorded in music history.
Larry Graham the best baby
@@wymellwilliams1543 Larry Graham had already left the band, believe it or not that's actually Sly playing the bass
That was Rusty Allen on the bass guitar on this track. Larry Graham was gone from the group .
@@reainealgraham7139 I thought it was Rusty Allen as well for the longest time, but it's Sly on bass
@@ChrisBasdeo Sly is one of the most talented musicians ever. He literally plays every instrument. That’s why Prince and D’Angelo always give this man his props. He’s a musical genius.
The holy trinity of funk:
Father-James Brown
Son-Sly Stone
Holy Spirit-George Clinton
Bootsy Collins
Where does Rick James fit into this? What about others like Zapp?
FUNKKY
I’m with Trisha. Rick James was funk for years! Had tix to see Sly four times and he cancelled every time. Sad story of immense talent wasted.
Love that.🎉😅
Happy 81st Birthday Sly Stone!(Born March 15, 1943)😃🥳🎂🎉🎊🎈🎁🍾🥂👍🏾👏🏾🙌🏾
🎉🎉🎉Happy Birthday, Sly Stone! 🥳 Thanks for sharing. 64 years and I never knew I shared the same birthday with such a cool musician! 😎🎂Love this song, and the bass line❤
Bobbi Kristina was a Pisces too I think ..her and Bobby brown song was this song I GOT TO BE ME 🥰🙏🏾 rip to the princess and Whitney ❤️
❤HAPPY BIRTHDAY SLY STONE!❤
🎉 happy birthday sly😊🎉
Amazing
Dad, you weren’t the best father and you did a lot wrong, but I am so very grateful you introduced me to this band. Good lord I can’t even explain how much I love this song. Play it almost every day.
My Dad hipped me to this song too!
I have been told by my mom that people don't come with instruction books and I am sure your dad didn't have an instruction book so if he fed you, put a roof over your head... That's what his parents taught him.... So remember his mistakes and learn from him what you should not do
Bless you
I’m the mother .. or was , have been .
Same. This song is therapy.
I NEVER get tired of hearing this.
😎💜✌️👏👏👏👏🤟
Amen....
Me either
OK THEN IDGRAF
WHATYA MAD ABOUT BOBBY
Unbelievable this song is 50 years old. 1973-2023. Thank you Sly for letting every music artist be themselves.
👍👍👏👏🖖🇩🇪🖖
Eric Benet did a cover of this song
Timeless
I truly appreciate & have much gratitude for the musicians who chose to release cover versions of this truly iconic song 🎶!! However, my forever favorite version will always be the original one 💃❤️
Hallelujah
Should be in the ROCK N ROLL Hall of Fame! Fasho!
Been in
Hes not?????????
Damn straight!
He is! 😊
This one of those songs that could never be duplicated and a cover could never captures it’s pure unique essence 🏆💕
Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded a good version back in mid 80s
That’s how I got to know Sly 😂
That bass line kills it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sly played it, himself too!
Yes! It does!🖤
That bass line is everything, learned how to play by listening to this song like a million times never gets old
like the jazz under tones
Make a Video ... Show us how it is Played!!
It's not graham, I thought for years that it was
That bass....THAT BASS!
@Noel It's not Graham?
He did a tutorial video of how to play his style, and he talks about using his finger as a pick, and this song was the one he did that with
Sly and "the family" were one of the best bands of all-time. Showed us that Black & White, Men & Women could get along just fine. Peace y'all!
He was the prince of the 70s
@@andrewstrong40 yo I understand ur sentiment but to b honest no one compares to Sylvester Stewart...as great as prince was....sly and the family stone were the architects of modern music....he's n the top tier of geniuses in any genre of music
😍🥰🥰🥰🥰
Absolutely .. One nation under the groove
yes one of the first black & white band.
Reminds me of growing up in the early 70’s! Good Times 🥲
I appreciate my dad putting me on to this.
My ma sang and danced w us 7 kids. I miss Her. Staying good ma
I'm a 27 year old white dude from west virginia. This one of the best tunes of all time
Prince owed HELLA props to Sly. HERITAGE!
When I was growing up in the Deep South, I believed Sly and The Family Stone was the greatest band ever. I still do.
They definitely one of them
Growing up in California...I always loved seeing them on TV. They always seemed like they were really enjoying what they were doing and were so good doing it too! Some songs better than others but never a dud in the whole discography.
I'm with you on that
Larry Graham on bass.Slap style. I'm a 65 year old white kid grew up in the Bay area and Soul Train was my go to every Saturday. Remember Sly as a DJ. Living in Canada now and turning my grandkids on to this wonderful music.
That is actually Sly playing bass. LG left Sly in 1972. This song was released June 1973.
@@michaelcarter9117 No I think that Is LG on Bass Sly Is on The Keyboards, Check them out at Soul Train, You Tube,
Because good music and good people have no color
Rusty Allen
Soouul Train! I was so shocked when I met French people who grew up on that show, just like a kid in NJ did.
My wife is 61 and I'm 63. We still get down to this song just like we did in high school!
I'm 62 this year and I don't know what I would do with out this music 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶
Simply jam too the rythym of the beat ❤️🔥🔥 forever& a day beyond 62
I can't take this song at of my head 😔
@@prodigymichael7777 hello Micheal 👋....How are you today???
@@delinpeter8954 🌠🌠🌠🌠 it's wonderful to be alive. When all is stable &- good . ☮️🔥❤️☮️
Not as Old, but still appreciate this Groove!
65 years young and this song still gets me going. This is just a great song and brings back a lot of 70s memories.
Sly is still relevant... he's still alive
How do we bring him back??? This is our music of the 70's. Forever Funck my brothers and sisters!
Sly is not homeless.....he perfers to move around so he likes VanLife! He's usually parked at friends home so he can shower etc...he was really done wrong by record companies and concert promoters......they all took advantage of his lack of knowledge about finances.....so sad and disrespectful......he kinda F'up his head.....some entertainers need to step in and assist this man.....he is a LEGEND 🙌
He won some sort of settlement I thought in recent times.. wasn’t it like 5 million!!?
@@genuinevibes437 yep
So many memories of cruising with my pops in a midnight blue Camaro blasting Sly & fam. 🖤
I’ve listened to this song about 30 times today and I’m not done.
Every so often I hear one of Sly’s songs after some years and it hits me differently and I notice a new angle and im enjoying his infectious genius and in awe of his talent again.
Dude’s songs are SO unique. Funky, Bluesy, and soulful, but above all, the FUN he has making his music colors every note, every beat, every word and it feels its coming from a huge smile
He’s a special composer. The direction he went with forming his band, combining so many distinct sounds and presenting them together like they’ve always been family, and the risks he took with songs that always paid off and made him revered and timeless.
So glad to have his music. It has brightened countless hours of my life, and I think he’d say that’s what it’s all about.
Growing up in the 70’s & 80’s Sly was a hometown hero, representing Vallejo, Ca.
That low note he hits gives me chills every single time.
Me too, really listen to what hes saying. this conveys in so many ways.
Indeed
this song damn near a perfect tune
614 BossN Right down to the "undo me."
614 BossN Yep! 💋
614 BossN 8
MASCULINE AF
It is PERFECT.
This song was played in Dead Presidents..wow I love black people wish we loved each other ..only a gifted people could create something soo beautiful..
We do love one another! Every race has their problems!
@@robertmounger407agreed, we have a house full of white men fighting like children.
@@robertmounger407 There is no race without sin. They all posses amazing boons too.
@@robertmounger407theres only one present day race its called the Homo sapien aka Human race. Anyone saying different is indirectly calling you or themself a primitive sub species
I love that soundtrack! Got me into old school r&b
If you can't fuck with this in 2022, then just quit tryin' bro. This is when music still had a pulse.
A STONE COLD CLASSIC JAM THAT I CAN STILL GROOVE TO AT AGE 57.
How about 37? But yet still in 2021!
I'm 63 ✌️
How about 77?
43! Til tis Day!
@@theresacarmen9847 GROOVE ON BABY-GIRL,GROOVE ON T C
Sly Stone of the best and most underrate musicians of the 20th century.
So true. I was lucky to be passed on his (and their) genius by my dad and so thankful - soulful funk on a stellar level
💯💯💯💜✌️
How the hell is he underrated? He's one of the godfathers of Funk and he's well recognized for that.
This brings back some fond memories from the 70’s.
I remember growing up in East Oakland and it didn't matter what color you were. Everyone listened to Sly and the family stone. And others of the same. Damn those were good days. What's happened to us all?
Yes I grew up in Piedmont. Rich white boy. But we all listened to KDIA. Lake Temiskal. Every body getting along.. what happened?
@@Steve-i4e Barry Sotero is what happened.
Wasn't Sly a dj around there before he began making music?
@@Steve-i4e EXACTLY
There would be no Prince without Sly Stone.. You hear Sky’s influence all over Prince voice, style and musicianship.
@Yolonda Douglas-English Yes, you're so right. He was heavily influenced by Sly and the Family Stone. Do you remember Prince had a group called "The Family".
@@kbryant187 of course
Macy Gray got a lot from Sly as well, style wise
Hey! I think everybody has some magic to offer all their very own. I like to think every bit of creativity combined is why we are partnered with music we love in all aspects of our lives ❤
Prince literally covered this song
OMG - your killing me !!! SLY -Stone :)
This song just doesnt last long ENOUGH! I thought the same thing in the 70s. Loved it then still love the hell out of it now!!
😇💕🙏🏽💕👌🏾
That's why I PLAY IT 2#👊🏿✌🏿
I hear you brother, should have a long jazzy ass instrumental solo.
it just gives you a taste of elusive greatness
Played it over and over. There was no loop option back then. Lol. Love love love this band.
Anybody else around in the summer of 1973 when this hit?
+Teenie One I was 11.
Present :-)
+Teenie One Yep. I was three years old during that time. That was when real music ruled the radio airwaves.
+Teenie One I sure was around. 73 was my favorite year and this was my favorite song! I get misty thinking about those old days and I CERTAINLY miss the music of those days.
+Teenie One , I was a freshman in High School. The 70's, best decade to grow up in!
This still hits hard in the year of 2023!
Almost 50 years old and the song still never becomes dated.
Real hard
When i was 7, This song is the only reason I fell in love with the dead presidents movie! After I didn't hear it anywhere else I just played the movie over & over again just to hear him playing the song!
This is an all-time masterpiece, the way the start is like all these hazy, loose elements gathering themselves into a rythm, and then you get these three incredibly memorable melodies (Sly & the twin horn and keyboard lines) not interfering with each other, perfectly adding to what one another is doing? The mixing is perfect as well, the bass punchy at the front carrying the song and the horns restrained and giving just enough without rising above the other sounds. The vocal DELIVERY as well... genius, genius, genius.
Way, way ahead of it's time. And don't forget....it's mostly Sly (probably).
Yes yes yes
Well described musicologist!
Intro is amazing, just getting you warmed up
Amen!
This Man is FUNK !!!, Inside and Out , Out Side and
I knew from a very young age that this was something special the first time I heard it. A collision of genius ..on repeat....
Love the expression, "a collision of genius." Now THAT really hit home😊!
I was 5 and I knew this was a bop…..33 now and it still carries 💯👏🏾
Me too…I was only about 8 yrs old but when my dad played it hit me any way that a kid would find hard to understand ❤
Happy Birthday Sly ❤❤❤
One of the best songs EVER. Just a master piece.
My daddy's favorite band. He taught me about funk at a early age. Thank you daddy R.I.P Ike Henderson.
Same here
I remember growing up in the projects in the 70's and the older people bringing out the big 1970's speakers and blasting this song, along with Parliament/Funkadelic, late into the night! Good Times!!
They really don't make music like this anymore. It takes a lot of talent, skill and experience to create a track like this that has such feel. Computers, loops and midi packs can't create this.
Killer bass-line. Sly is the master of R & B/ Funk/Rock. Thanks for posting.
That's a monster vocal performance by Sly
Also a monster bass line...
One thing from 70s I can't get enough of truly the greatest
This bassline is what made me want to learn bass as a teen. That groove is so funkin sick
I was lucky enough to see this bassist perform in the mid 1990's as part of Prince's group at that time. Prince introduced this illustrious group of musicians saying that they had all been Sly's family. :)
THIS is REAL music!!!
Kim Roby Sorry, I don't understand what you mean when you say 'real music', it's either music or not.
This is true
Kim Roby foreal realtalk no lie
Kim Roby amen to that
Yes ma'am!
Remembered this song from Money Talks when I was a kid.. 30 years old now & that bass line still makes me shoulder shimmy to this day
Who's listening in 2020 and reminiscing at the same time?
I can't not do both, 16 in 1970, the 70's was my time. I didn't know it then. I do now....Sly wow simply could not stand still when he hit my ears
me
Ah Yea
I am old school also, Sly and the family, bring back some good memories.
Me
I wish Sly and The Family Stone were available to do a Tiny Desk Concert.
Sly is not in good health.
@@CharleneMitchell-gq7cx Did he like to party? I thought he might have had some issues with that scene.
@@CharleneMitchell-gq7cx Lord help him in Jesus name 🙏🏽
Sly and The Family Stone were cool, cool, cool. And they had a unique personality. Back then it wasn't about trying to sound like everybody else. It was about wanting to imitate, but in the process of trying to do so, creating originality.
Love this so much I could listen to it all day. Memories of when I was young! Now I’m 72 but still dancin to it. Mm mm good stuff!
His vocal approach to this song is so casual... his attitude so cavalier...., it could almost be mistaken for a demo.
Yet, he makes it work brilliantly!
Luv that karate kick thatbSly does
Yes.
A masterpiece!
ALL IS WELL EITHER WAY ☺️
True.
My first hubby loved this jam never really understood what he was trying to telle played it one day then realized 47yrs ago I was taking up his time we have been divorced for those yrs but have to let the Asshole know Number one is going to be #1 and that's Me still jamming in 2023.Thank U Jesus Jesus Jesus
This will absolutely never get old.
My very first live concert was Sly and the Family Stone....1972 at the Philadelphia Spectrum. I will NEVER forget it! I was 15 years old, suburban white girl--IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!! Have loved him since....
I'm really jealous, I bet it was awesome!!
@@kymanbedford-brown1323 , Actually I realize that it was 1971....but it was still incredibly awesome! My high school boyfriend got tickets as my birthday present...
@@patriciasutherland923 I'm in Australia and was about the same age! Not a lot of overseas concerts here, but I listened to them via my Dad who was a musical nutter, I'm so grateful, take care from Oz! Cheers😎👍
Sly should have run for President. This world would be a lot better place if he did. He is a uniter. Not a divider. He is everyday people.
Valentine's Day 1970, Madison Sq. Garden: Fleetwood Mac, Grand Funk Railroad, Richard Pryor (doing standup) and headliner Sly & the Family Stone. This was about six months after Woodstock, where Sly (along with Santana) brought the house down. They did it again this night at the Garden: Dance to the Music, Everyday People, Sing a Simple Song, Thank You (Falettin' Me Be Myself), Hot Fun in the Summertime, M'Lady, Wanna Take You Higher, Stand...they did everything and nearly blew the Garden's roof off...unforgettable. If You Want Me to Stay is less well known but 10/10 on the funky scale...
That sounds fucking amazing, I appreciate you sharing the memory
I feel fortunate to have ever had this song grace my ears. If you were a child of the Funk Era recognize your soul was seasoned by greatness.
❤️
Rip Grandpa aka Big Jim, Nee Nee, MeeMee, Uncle Dave, and the list sadly goes on... this joint makes me think about how much I miss them
That BASSLINE though!!!
The GENIUS of SLY & The FAMILY STONE.
Ohhhh maaaaan, this was my JAM! Takes me back to a happy place as a little girl in the 70s, with my mom, dad, and siblings all together growing up in our family home 😢. Some of my siblings have since then passed on 🥹 Boy, I sure miss those days.
One of the best songs ever written
This band was at Woodstock playing Funk before there was the name. Kind of like Iggy and the Stooges playing punk years before that classification. Sly is the Godfather of the Funk, let it be known.
And making it Happen... A Good dude...
steamaweed don't forget James Brown now.
kinda like howling wolf, muddy waters, chuck berry, and all those individuals playing rock n roll before it was called that.
Since I come from that time (60's), just to let you know, James Brown (Godfather of Soul) and George Clinton (Godfather of Clone Funk, P-Funk) were already on the scene. Sly brought in a whole new funky sound, however, adding rock to r&b, becoming the Master of this genre of Funk, straight from California. With a Diverse band, Diverse sound and Diverse LOOK. They were mod, wore funky clothes, were colorful to look at as well as listen to. We were never the same afterwards. He brought everyone together, black, white, red, polka-dot, WHATEVER!! Was so much fun, would I love to go back there again? Better believe it..
Just as an fyi, James is dubbed “The godfather of soul.” And yes, he indeed was. But he was also the godfather of funk, in spite of that title never being attributed to him (so much for classical labeling!). James delivered funk as early as the 60s; groups like Sly and P-Funk borrowed the style, which became popular in the early 70s when these groups were flying high. Recognize, now….
Was listening to this album on a record player in the 70's
You can do that right now my friends
I know it's been hard for you in the past Sly, but I'm praying that the LORD JESUS will help you to STAY ( strong), bless you!!!
Pl MNthanlp
I love this band and song even more than I did in 1973. Turned my 3 year old granddaughter to Sly and the Family Stone. She loves them too❤
I was turned on to this song and been hooked since..
50 years + later I still love this
That bass and well the whole song is just funktified! Thanks, Sly & the Family Stone, a groovin’ gift for all time!❤😎🎶🎵🎶🎸🎁💝
Thank You and God Bless You Sly for giving me Soo many years of happiness with this song ! Fan for life brother 🫶🏾🤎🙏🏽
Wow this is my favorite song as a teen went to Atlantic City to see him in concert he walked off stage after 30 minutes. Bunch of teenagers spent the night at the bus stop outside waiting for next bus back to Philly. I saw interview with him about 10 years ago apologizing to his fans for walking off stages he said he was as high. I forgive him he did great music.❤
this song was the masterpiece GEM 💎 growing up in the 70s, here it is 2022 still sounds good 🎵
Same
Lol same, sharing with my kids
Best song ever
straight dope
So Glad Sly is Getting 75mil in Back Royalties* Now Enjoy this Song*
Uh. Sly died in poverty.
@@wrongangle4881 Uh, no he didn't. He is still living...
Idk much about sly and his life but this is confusing me so much
@@wrongangle4881 He's very much alive! jeezz it takes two fucking seconds to check.
@@wrongangle4881 lol your username checks out alright WRONG
Wow who's listening November 2021? this tune has to be at least 50 years old now and still sound nice! that's when they used to play real instruments and get down!!!!!!! Mannn check Sly's guitar out!!!!Love You Sly!!!
this is one of the very best songs ever!!!!
Music that changes your mood. Mood music is soul music.
This song is in my Top Ten All Time Favorite Songs of the last 50 years.
❤❤❤
One of the best songs ever!
Daniel Ramirez you misspelled best "song ever performed"
Chuuch
I think Larry killed em with today, this was commercial and banking on the stone name
40 yrs I LOVE THIS SONG💎💎💎💎💎🙋🏾♀️
Never heard anything like this before in my life ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I love this song. His voice and the bass, everything!
Ikr! And the funk, I just love it. I'm 67 and I makes me feel like I'm 16 again lol. Got me dancing in my chair again!
@cherylalt101 I am 62, so I am right there with you!
I pressed the thumbs up icon for old times memories of hearing the attached joint by family members of mine playing on the wood stereo set in amongst our third floor living room appartment in Massachusetts.✌ Peace & respect to the listed as Sly & The Family Stone for sharing such beauty & talent of their spirits nature.
Please let me remember this if I live to be 92! I enjoy it so much at 62 it brings me out of depression.
Hello Mary how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family may God bless you and your family
This funk still Bangs hard decades after. Legend!
That damn SLY!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Still on heavy repeat in 2024
💯💯
Indubitably!
Yes!! The guitars R working it!!!❤❤
Forever!!!!!!!!
Ok, things I only noticed today:
At 2:30 there’s the sound of a telephone’s dial tone.
It goes “Booooop Boop” and then it’s gone. Wild.
Landline, obviously, but that sound meant the line is working, but not connected to another phone at this time.
Also, I’m in love with the scat he does at 2:36 is so awesome.
He just did whatever and it was perfect. He’s totally at play. The different voices he sings with, the freestyle piano, it all seems like he just laughed his way through the recording session, but…
That dial tone is a clue to his attention to detail, the clarity of the song in his mind, and his insistence to get that tone into the song, although it’s barely audible.
It makes it more amazing that it comes across as a playful free style.
It shows his absolute command of his craft.
To have that kind of attention to detail, and a vision complete enough to demand a dial tone be subtly inserted one time near the end of a song, and make it feel like he smiled and winked through the whole recording is kinda his style.
One of my favorite artists. Just unexplainably awesome.
Fking Sly, man. 🙏🏻
Excellent comment
Thank you
Love this song! Listened to it as a kid!
I was born in 77, the music 🎵🎶 of that era always hits me in my SOUL 🔥🔥🔥🔥. It's just something about the music 🎶 of the 70's...