A music-obsessed, retired San Francisco lawyer, and author of the rock & roll memoir Jittery White Guy Music (available on Amazon)... picking a random album or song in his collection every day or so and sharing a few thoughts.
I generally prefer my Sly & The Family Stone a little funkier (as on 1971's There's A Riot Goin' On), but this enduring chestnut is pretty damn undeniable. "Everyday People," the massive hit from 1969's Stand!, sees the band in their most pure-pop crossover mode, a song transcending the musical racial divide of the time (and since). And while normally a song that has become so ubiquitous, whether through decades of radio airplay or television commercial cooptation or having its lyrics become part of the common parlance (or, in this case, all three) tends to make it something I don't necessarily want to hear, this is the rare exception. I mean, c'mon, is it humanly possible to hear "Everyday People" and not feel a little better about... everything?Live on TV 1969:Joan Jett:Joan again, this time live and paired with Sweet's "AC/DC," so how can I resist?Jeff Buckley:Renee & Jeremy:Arrested Developments' "People Everyday":
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