Songs Of The Day 10/16: Sly & The Family Stone-‘Everyday People’ And ‘Hot Fun In The Summertime’
‘Everyday People’ was a hit in 1968, but was also the lead single for 1969’s Stand. For decades, I misheard the lyric and thought it said ‘soul warning, soul warning, scooby dooby dooby’. Prefer it to the actual ‘so on and so on…” :
Sly released the ‘song of the summer’ in October 1969. Presumably it was the song of the summer in Australia. A stand-alone single:
