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Everyday People | align="center" bgcolor="yellow" colspan="3"|"Everyday People" | | lign="center" bgcolor="yellow" colspan="3"|Single by Sly & the Family Stone | | lign="center" colspan="3"|From the album Stand! | | lign="left" valign="top"|B-side | colspan="2" valign="top"|"Sing a Simple Song" | | lign="left" valign="top"|Single Released | colspan="2" valign="top"|1968 | | lign="left" valign="top"|Single Format | colspan="2" valign="top"|vinyl record (7" 45 RPM) | | lign="left" valign="top"|Recorded | colspan="2" valign="top"|1968 | | lign="left" valign="top"|Genre | colspan="2" valign="top"|Psychedelic/Soul/Funk | | lign="left" valign="top"|Song Length | colspan="2" valign="top"|2:22 | | lign="left" valign="top"|Record label | colspan="2" valign="top"|Epic Records
5-10407 | | lign="left" valign="top"|Producer | colspan="2" valign="top"|Sly Stone | | lign="left" valign="top"|Chart positions | colspan="2" valign="top"|1 (US) 1 (R&B) | | gcolor="yellow" colspan="3"|Sly & the Family Stone single chronology | align="top"|"Life"
1968 | valign="top"|"Everyday People"
1968 | valign="top"|"Stand!"
1969 | "Everyday People" is the title of a 1968 song by the soul/rock/funk band Sly & the Family Stone. It was the first single by the band to go to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, holding that position for five weeks from February 15, 1969 until March 15, 1969, and is remembered as one of the most popular songs of the 1960s. Like all of Sly & the Family Stone's songs, Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart was credited as the sole songwriter. "We gotta live together" The song is perhaps Sly Stone's most unabashed plea for peace and equality between differing races and social groups, a major theme and focus for both Sly. The Family Stone featured Caucasians Greg Errico and Jerry Martini in its lineup, as well as females Rosie 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 contains one of their strongest social messages. 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 Rosie 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. The chorus of the song summarizes Sly's point. 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. "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, having been covered by Aretha Franklin, Belle & Sebastian, and Pearl Jam, among many others. Hip-hop group Arrested Development used the song as the basis of their 1992 hit, "People Everyday," and it was also prominently featured in a series of television commercials for Toyota automobiles in the late 1990s. Credits Samples External Links
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