Legacy Recordings

It was, as an early album title put it, a whole new thing: flamboyant funk played by an interracial outfit led by the irrepressible and unpredictable Sylvester Stewart. Sometimes there was a message in the music, sometimes it was a freaky electric circus, and sometimes it was just the hippest hybrid of rock, pop and soul imaginable. Of all the memorable early hits “Everyday People,” “Dance To The Music,” the Woodstock rallying cry “I Want To Take You Higher,” “Hot Fun In The Summertime” shows Sly at his most infectious, a last burst of 60’s celebration before his stringent 1970 masterpiece, “There’s A Riot Going On.”

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