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From '' Once Upon A Time / Everyday People ''

Label: Baal -- 381123

Format: Vinyl, 7''

Released: 1974

Country: Singapore

Tracklist

A Once Upon A Time

B Everyday People

From the Baal Records LP ' Man With A Gun '.

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(Archive of Southeast Asian Music)

http://aseam.info/

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"Everyday People" is a 1968 song by Sly and the Family Stone.

It was the first single by the band to go to number one on the Soul singles chart and the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.

It held that position, on the Hot 100, for four weeks from February 15, 1969, until March 14, 1969, and is remembered as a popular song of the 1960s.

As with most of Sly & the Family Stone's songs, Sly Stone was credited as the sole songwriter.

Overview

The song is one of Sly Stone's pleas for peace and equality between differing races and social groups, a major theme and focus for the band.

The Family Stone featured Caucasians Greg Errico and Jerry Martini in its lineup, as well as females Rose Stone and Cynthia Robinson; making it the first major integrated band in rock history.

Sly & the Family Stone's message was about peace and equality through music, and this song reflects the same.

Unlike the band's more typically funky and psychedelic records, "Everyday People" is a mid-tempo number with a more mainstream pop feel.

Sly, singing the main verses for the song, explains that he is "no better / and neither are you / we are the same / whatever we do."

Sly's sister Rose Stone sings bridging sections that mock the futility of people hating each other for being tall, short, fat, skinny, white, black, or anything else.

The bridges of the song contain the line "different strokes for different folks," which became a popular catchphrase in 1969 (and inspired the name of the later television series, Diff'rent Strokes).

For the chorus, all of the singing members of the band (Sly, Rosie, Larry Graham, and Sly's brother Freddie Stone) proclaim that "I am everyday people," meaning that each of them (and each listener as well) should consider himself or herself as parts of one whole, not of smaller, specialized factions.

Bassist Larry Graham contends that the track featured the first instance of the "slap bass" technique, which would become a staple of funk and other genres.

The technique involves striking a string with the thumb of the right hand (or left hand, for a left-handed player) so that the string collides with the frets, producing a metallic "clunk" at the beginning of the note. Later slap bass songs -- for example, Graham's performance on "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)" -- expanded on the technique, incorporating a complementary "pull" or "pop" component.

"Everyday People" was included on the band's classic album Stand! (1969), which sold over three million copies.

It is one of the most covered songs in the band's repertoire, with versions by:

The Winstons,

Aretha Franklin,

The Staple Singers,

William Bell,

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts,

The Supremes & The Four Tops,

Peggy Lee,

Belle & Sebastian,

Pearl Jam,

Nicole C. Mullen,

Ta Mara and the Seen among many others.

Hip-hop group Arrested Development used the song as the basis of their 1992 hit, "People Everyday," which reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart and #8 on the Hot 100.

Dolly Parton's previously unreleased 1980 cover of the song was included as a bonus track on the 2009 reissue of her 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs album.

It was also prominently featured in a series of television commercials for Toyota automobiles in the late 1990s and most recently for Smarties candy in 2008.

Rolling Stone ranked "Everyday People" as #145 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

"Everyday People" is prominently featured in the opening sequence of the 2008 romantic comedy film Definitely, Maybe.

The lead character, Will Hayes (played by Ryan Reynolds), calls it his "perfect song" for that particular day. It can also be heard in the film Purple Haze.

Notable Versions

On the 2005 Sly & the Family Stone tribute album Different Strokes by Different Folks, Maroon 5 performs a cover of "Everyday People", accompanied by samples from the original.

A unique instrumental rendition of "Everyday People" is featured on the 1998 album Combustication by jazz fusion trio Medeski Martin & Wood.

Personnel

Lead Vocals by Sly Stone and Rose Stone

Background Vocals by Rose Stone, Freddie Stone, Larry Graham, and Little Sister (Vet Stone, Mary McCreary, Elva Mouton)

Piano by Rose Stone

Guitar by Freddie Stone

Bass by Larry Graham

Drums by Greg Errico

Horns by Jerry Martini (tenor saxophone) and Cynthia Robinson (trumpet)

Written and produced by Sly Stone