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Sly And The Family Stone – “Everyday People” in Clive Davis’ – The Soundtrack Of My Life Playlist On Spotify
Listen to Sly and the Family Stone – “Everyday People” in Clive Davis’ – The Soundtrack Of My Life playlist on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/1orD9IAKp9MotxkDEhl6Mr
Looking Back At Two #1 U.S. Hits By Sly And The Family Stone
February was a lucky month for Sly Stone, since the number one song in the USA 44 years ago this week was “Everyday People,” while the number one song in the USA 43 years ago was “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin).” These two Sly & The Family Stone classics were both featured on the 1970 Epic release Greatest Hits, a frozen concentrate of awesome in vinyl form.
Sly And The Family Stone Remastered
Recently, Sony’s senior mastering engineer Vic Anesini and producer Rob Santos were hunkered down at Battery Studios in New York to remaster a career-spanning boxed set of Sly and the Family Stone—including a previously unreleased recording of a 1970 concert at the Isle of Wight off the coast of England.
“For this project, we pulled about 12 cartons of original one-inch, eight-track analog tape masters from Sony’s vaults,” Mr. Anesini said. “Today I’m going to import just the new concert material into our computer at a high digital resolution, then I’m going to use the Pro Tools software program to refine imperfections caused by mike placements at the time.”
Read more at The Wall Street Journal.
Power Of Everyday People With The Family Stone
It’s a good deal: Jerry Martini never gets tired of playing songs by Sly and the Family Stone, and people never get tired of hearing them.
He attributes the material’s longevity to the fact that band founder Sly Stone wrote “absolutely brilliant lyrics” with a message, and that the music really is about everyday people and families: “There’s no swearing,” he says.
Read more at the San Francisco Examiner.