Greatest Hits (Sly & the Family Stone album)

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Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits cover
Greatest hits by Sly & the Family Stone
Released November 21, 1970
Recorded 1967 - Fall 1969
Genre Psychedelic soul/funk
Length 39:56
Label Epic
PE 30325
Producer(s) Sly Stone
Professional reviews
Sly & the Family Stone chronology
Stand!
(1969)		 Greatest Hits
(1970)		 There's a Riot Goin' On
(1971)


Greatest Hits is a 1970 greatest hits LP for the soul/rock/funk band Sly & the Family Stone. It includes all of the singles from the albums Dance to the Music, Life, and Stand!, and all of their charting b-sides. The album also includes one non-charting album track, "You Can Make It If You Try" from Stand!, and three non-album singles from 1969: "Hot Fun in the Summertime", "Everybody Is a Star", and "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)".

Contents

[edit] Overview

Released in the midst of an eighteen-month stretch from late 1969 to late 1971, during which Sly & the Family Stone released no new material, Greatest Hits was designed by Epic Records to appease consumer demand and keep the band's name and music in the public's eye. Greatest Hits peaks at number-two on the Billboard 200, and was the band's second most successful album sales-wise (behind There's a Riot Goin' On). When Rolling Stone printed its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Greatest Hits was the highest-ranked Sly & the Family Stone release, listed at number 60.

The songs from this album were remixed into quadraphonic format in 1970 (some of these mixes contain different running times or alternate vocals/instrumentation to the original versions), and Greatest Hits was simultaneously issued with quadraphonic sound. However, Sly Stone and his engineers never got around to making standard stereo mixes of the three non-album singles, and Epic had to resort to taking the mono versions and making simulated stereo versions by electronically rechannelling the mono mixes' frequencies. Stereo mixes of these three songs were finally done when the Sly & the Family Stone catalog was digitally remastered in the 1990s.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Sylvester Stewart, and produced and arranged by Sly Stone for Stone Flower Productions. Superscripts denote original album sources, referenced below.

[edit] Side one

  1. "I Want to Take You Higher" - 5:22 c
  2. "Everybody is a Star" - 3:00
  3. "Stand!" - 3:08 c
  4. "Life" - 2:58 b
  5. "Fun" - 2:20 b
  6. "You Can Make It If You Try" - 3:39 c

[edit] Side two

  1. "Dance To The Music" - 2:58 a
  2. "Everyday People" - 2:20 c
  3. "Hot Fun in the Summertime" - 2:37
  4. "M'Lady" - 2:44 b
  5. "Sing a Simple Song" - 4:47 c
  6. "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" - 3:55

[edit] Notes

[edit] Album sources

"Everyone is a Star", "Hot Fun in the Summertime", and "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" are all new to album.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Chart and singles history

Title Information
"Hot Fun in the Summertime"
  • Epic single 10450, 1969
  • B-side: "Fun"
"Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"/
"Everybody Is a Star"
  • Epic single 10555 , 1969
  • Double A-sided single
Name Chart (1969 - 1970) Peak
position
Greatest Hits U.S. Billboard Pop Albums 2
Greatest Hits U.S. Top R&B Albums 1
"Hot Fun in the Summertime" U.S. Billlboard Pop Singles 2
"Hot Fun in the Summertime" U.S. Billboard R&B Singles 3
"Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"/
"Everybody Is a Star"		 U.S. Billlboard Pop Singles 1
"Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"/
"Everybody Is a Star"		 U.S. Billboard R&B Singles 1

[edit] Samples

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