First time hearing Sly & The Family Stone “Hot Fun In The Summertime” Reaction | Asia and BJ

[@Jamesscearce]

Sly Stone is easily one of the most influential musicians, he could incorporate all kinds of textures into his music... before there was Prince, there was Sly Stone.

[@SnoBear626]

Fact!

[@paulinwoburn9680]

You are 100 percent right.

[@Junebugreen]

Perfectly stated and appreciated.

[@judyfalcone9125]

You are absolutely correct 💯 percent Sir!

[@spoonerfive]

Excellent analogy! Two genius pioneers who were outstanding performers, too.

[@surlechapeau]

Asia & BJ, you’ll love their “Thank You” “Every Day People” and “Dance To The Music”!!!! I would have spelled out the whole “Thank You” song title, but they would think there were too many typos to be real LOL!

[@natashab3412]

& stand !

[@marthaz]

"Family Affair" is another jam of theirs that is totally true facts about every family 🤣👍 they're legendary - performed at Woodstock 😉💕

[@chrisjamieson3452]

B-side Luv & Haight.

[@brianherrington7226]

Everybody Is A Star is my favorite by Sly and the Family Stone. Sly was ahead of his time. He was one of the very first cats to integrate his band.

[@jangle4246]

This one was played on the radio *a lot* back in the late 60s - early 70s. Brings back Southern California memories for me. Great song!

[@angelagoodwin5758]

For funk, the best Sly & Family Stone song is "Thank You for Lettin' Me Be Myself". It has a strong groove!

[@JoeKentMagic]

The spelling on the record label always cracked me up ... "Thank You (Faletttinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

[@spoonerfive]

If you are a true funk fan, just play the whole "There's a Riot Going On" album, it is truly a clinic in funk, pretty much every song. Larry Graham is a beast on bass.

[@biff9999]

My favorite song from one of my favorite groups - my god, I loved Sly and the Family Stone.

[@dagmar.6954]

Great band from the 60's-80's. Their sound was a mixture of funk, soul, rock & psychedelic music. They had a lot of hits such as "Dance To The Music", "Everyday People", ""Everybody Is A Star", "Sing A Simple Song", "Family Affair", "Remember Who You Are", "Stand" "I Want To Take You Higher", "Thank You" etc.

[@timpafundi6321]

Sly & The Family Stone brings back my childhood memories. My older brother was in high school when Sly was at the height of his popularity and he used to play his music in the morning. It always woke me up (my room was next to his), but I still loved everything I heard. This is such a laid back summer vibe song and a perfect choice for a summer playlist. Luv ya’s! 💕✌️

[@robwealer5416]

Sly is another rabbit hole... he has about 10 hits that made the chart... all amazing. He was the songs of my late teens.

[@richardfriedman2633]

I saw Sly and the Family Stone live in 1970 in Madison Square Garden - my first concert!!! The openers were Gladys Knight and Rare Earth. 15,000 New Yorkers got down for the entire concert when Sly performed!!! I was 13 years old and hooked. The 60 yo old ushers who normally worked at basketball games were dancing in the aisles harder than the 18 yo old hippies!!!! Check out "Sex Machine" from the album 'Stand" - it will blow your mind with funk.

[@matvei15]

Wow! Thanks for sharing.

[@elegantirony78]

Sly and The Family Stone were a huge influence on rock. People attribute rock's turn to funk in the 70s to James Brown but I think it was Sly. They played at Woodstock. If You Want Me to Stay is my favorite. The bass is killer

[@eileendobbs8009]

Got to be in the top 5 best Summer jams ever! I loved this song when I was a kid. This and Everyday People.

[@BenLapke]

I’ll sound like an old man, but when we were young we were very lucky. I grew up in Chicago, and the Top 40 radio station played all different musical genres. We had funk music (by Sly Stone, the master), soul (James Brown), bubble gum (1910 Fruitgum Company), Motown, pop music, rock music (Cream) and great solo artists like Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, etc. It’s such fun to see the younger generation discover the music we were blessed to listen to everyday.

[@MrCeora]

Just a simple song taking many of us back to those summer days, county fairs, outdoor music festivals, no shooting, Afro's, hippies, tie dyes, jazz, rock, musicians playing real instruments. Takes me all the way back.

[@sharrongrant6240]

He was the hit of Woodstock!! Played very late at night and still had the whole audience up and dancing....400,000 can't be wrong!!!

[@paulinwoburn9680]

This is my favorite Sly song. Thanks for playing it. What a great band.

[@kevinkennedy6875]

BJ nailed it! This is old school funk, with the bell bottoms and the big hair. An absolute classic. My only complaint about this song is that I wish it was twice as long!

[@dantean]

Everything off "Sly and the Family Stones Greatest Hits" is genius.

[@Kimberrann]

Love Sly & The Family… Takes me back to teen years.

[@zunbake3]

Poor Sylvester Stewart, one of the greatest Rock Legends from the 60's, he virtually invented modern Funk, but now lives in a motor home parked outside a friend's house in L.A. Mr. Stewart, may your remaining days be bright and happy with the memories of your triumphs the rest of your days!

[@ericoberlies7537]

He has now received a substantial payout for his publishing royalties. I think he, or his daughter, may own that house. The RV doubles as his studio. Sly is an odd cat.

[@doplinger1]

So much good music, but my favorite is still “If You Want Me To Stay”, it has such a unique funky sound.

[@frankfroml.a.4104]

There you go! That's my favorite from Sly too. Only complaint is why it had to be so short - kinda like Bill Wither's, "Ain't No Sunshine" also great but too short.

[@merittrayner5312]

Best bass line ever👍

[@Junebugreen]

Me too. So good.

[@jessegreen6138]

This song was written by Sylvester Stewart (Sly Stone) and released in 1969. Sly was born in Denton, TX on 15 March 1943. Sly was identified as a musical prodigy. By age 7 he had mastered the keyboards. Then by 11 he had mastered the guitar, bass and drums. Thank you for your reaction to "Hot Fun in the Summertime", Asia and BJ.

[@kimberlyfowler5748]

Thank you for this, I remember him as a child in 70s

[@jessegreen6138]

@@kimberlyfowler5748 Your welcome Kimberly.

[@159awi]

This was one of my favorite bands in my youth. I was singing this song to myself just yesterday.

[@chrisa4695]

Just as nearly every rock band can trace their roots to The Beatles, every funk and funky R&B band that emerged in the 70’s can trace their roots to Sly & The Family Stone. Many people site James Brown as the greatest influence. However, in nearly every interview I read most cited James Brown as their favorite performer, they all said they wanted to be like Sly. He influenced the look of nearly every band that came after as well as having multiple lead vocalists and free form jamming.

[@franksullivan1873]

So many memories from those days.Cruising in my 65 American Rambler going through my hometown , catching up to my friends and going to Summer dances at the Armory Building.So much fun long ago.

[@biff9999]

I had a 1969 Rambler (I believe that was the last model year of the Rambler) in a pale yellow that was definitely not luxe in any kind of way, but, very dependable (straight six), good on gas, and it got me and my friends everywhere we needed to go. Drove that car all around Ventura, down to L.A., up to Santa Barbara, replaced the single speaker to the car radio three times because I always had it turned up all the way, blasting out music.

[@franksullivan1873]

@@biff9999 I loved My American.It also had a unique feature where the front seats could fold the back rest even with the seat cushion in the back,essentially making a bed,lol.I literally could camp out in the Rambler.Unique Car.

[@thomascerulli8013]

SLY was the man. As the song breaks down. And those other voices kick in. Guys Peace and Love. How can anyone not feel this groove. And if you want a little funk. Check out Dance to the music. But if you want THE FUNK. James Brown hands down. The Godfather of Soul Baby …..😎✌️💜

[@kathrinepearson7528]

"Stand" is a great tune by them also.

[@blackprix]

I did see sly in the family Stone in person in 1969! Other than having to wait for an hour because they were late, I would do it again the show was unbelievable very very talented group of people. And nobody complained about them being late coming on stage

[@Prone2Thrill]

I was playing through all their hits the other day and the list just kept going.......amazing band. Mom knew Sly, he lived in the SFV near Van Nuys airport. She broke her leg - he had a area to ride around in circles on his horses. I don't remember meeting him but I did ride a pony he had for the kids.

[@Prone2Thrill]

@kalatime2 Randy Rhodes Toluca Lake - Joni Mitchell Topanga cyn etc. My friends parents live near Donovan by Laurel cyn.

[@paulinwoburn9680]

What a great story.

[@michaelcurtis8515]

I was 17 and full of my young self when this came out.. such a wonderful time.

[@CCTH2221-lp2zj]

Every time I listen to Sly I imagine a young kid in Minneapolis was listening very closely to every instrument when this music came out. Long before he dreamed of Purple Rain🎼☔️

[@williampatience9524]

Sly was cool and hip for the times. Smoked my first wheat straw joint at Myrtle Beach listening to an 8 track of them.

[@franklinloll2229]

I was 13 in 1969 when this came out. Such wonderful music. Back then radio stations were all AM. Except country all radio stations played rock, r&b, soul, folk and pop music.

[@arthurlangford5861]

My favorite jams by Sly & The Family Stone are "Sing A Simple Song" and "I Want To Take You Higher"! Everyone listed their other hits here.. Asia missed this one because everything they DID was funky! 💯

[@bonsaibobby1]

One of the greatest funk/rock bands of all time...Such a beautiful song...I was around when it was first recorded and performed...I'm 68 years of age and still lovin' it....By the way,you two are such a cute couple...I love your reactions videos,,humility and clean,family friendly presentations...

[@justsomeguy820]

Sly invented funk. When we used to listen to our radios in our car, when this came on, we turned it up.

[@donitaforrest9064]

My favourite band from wayback land in the 1970's. I grew up in a tourist town in Canada and spent most of my days & nights at the beach with friends. The absolute 'coolest' sound ever, gives me chills hearing it again. Lovin' it ♥️👍😁

[@tishleigh7026]

Your mama and daddy grew up on this music ! 🎶 It was a wonderful time to grow up and live in the 70s ! We had a lot of smooth music in the 70s ! The bigger the bells the better !Be blessed ! ❤️ 🙏 Kansas City

[@kurtadams3021]

The LEGENDARY Iconic Sly and his Family Stone 💯

[@williamweiss6128]

All Sly is beast. Just like James Brown. Parliment/Funkadelic.

[@loisrogers2511]

The thing I remember most about junior prom was decorate the gym day. Classmates asked me to bring my Sly and the Family Stone albums, and they just played them over and over! Nice memory 😊

[@donnabruhn6907]

God, I miss those days. Haven't heard this song in 50 yrs. 🥺😍😘

[@lawrence1389u]

First album I ever purchased with my own money as a kid. So many great songs!

[@mrmaxxx94]

Sly and the family stone is to me the most important band America ever produced because broke so much ground. This is a love song. So many people ate off sly stones plate

[@mikeferris408]

Freakin music icons! What great musicaians 🤘👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍

[@michaellombard894]

I love the breaks where just the drums and vocals play through! The great bass figures, triplets, the soaring horns! Yes brings me back to very early 1970s. Haha lol yes, big 'fros, bell bottoms and bibs!!!

[@jacquiadams6741]

My go to -top down, cruisin summertime music! Thanks guys-just discovered your movie channel and I’m enjoying it so much!

[@AsiaandBJ]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@winslow551]

Yesssssssssssss. Brings back incredible memories from an Incredible band. Thanks!!!

[@mlhesler68]

Sly was one of my favorites from 1968 - 1971. Still are.

[@marthabarker2136]

This song is done in 2/4 time - it is a bump song. The slower rhythm is distinctive of native African dance Older folk- Y' all remember the bump? These kids say this song has no funk! Ha, ha Guess what guys, I am 67 years old , and White!! And I can still dance to this: OUTTA SCHOOL!! Still Groovin'!!! Thanks

[@waitn4theharpazo]

One of my fav summer listens

[@mikeconway9849]

Great reaction! This brought back many memories of slow, easy times.

[@AsiaandBJ]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ronsontag6841]

My first Rock concert with 100,000 people, at "Milwaukee Summerfest 1970"

[@chrishadorn9272]

Really miss Sly and the Family Stone! I was a teen and loved their music back in the day.....sweet.

[@johnharkness7114]

I wasn't in Harlem, but DC when this came out, and def everyone was strollin around to this, bus spring fall and winter as well as summer!

[@chrispittman8854]

This song always reminds me of walking out of white washed chapels, Spanish moss on the trees, ladies with their "Sunday go tah meetin' hats" and fans sayin' all their "Howsyourmamanems" as the get in a hot car, heading home to pack up that picnic and lay their blankets on the cool grass down by the river.

[@Jen-in-Texas]

Such a great song…so many childhood memories with this one. It was SO popular!

[@craigmarkowski7156]

They played at Woodstock ! You'll like the song "Thank you" ...

[@MoeFro78]

Aaaahhhhh man. This here is what I call The Oakland Athletics summertime song. They relocated from Texas to The Bay Area in the 70s. I remember this playing at The Coliseum and watching the Oakland Raiders and A's World Championship banners blowing in the wind. Good Times 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿🎤🎵🎶

[@brianfallon2607]

My all-time favourite group back in the day. They were a group where women played instruments and were multi racial. Check out "Stand". Great song. Also, Thank You for letting me be myself".

[@joelliebler5690]

I forgot how good the vocals were on this great tune!🎹🎤👍🏻

[@glenngotling657]

Sly had a lot of great songs but the one that really brings me back is "Dance to the Music". I don't recall what year is came out but I was in high school and that song played all the time at the hamburger joint hangout across the street from the school.

[@bernie4366]

To me, this song is an absolute, flat out masterpiece. It grows on you. Sticks in the back of your mind. You'll see.

[@jaredhowe2847]

Dance To The Music.... Sly & Family Stone. You'll Love It.

[@saltypepper6526]

😁🙏 Maybe the best song with real groove, I Want To Take You Higher Or I Want To Thank You Both have super fab funk ☺️🎶

[@kabirahnazeem9403]

Its R&B. Gr8 song lived it as a child. They from my hometown the great San Francisco

[@leemcclements8889]

Awesome song! Great choice in the month of July!

[@AsiaandBJ]

Thanks so much!

[@americanmutt9089]

"Clean" and "Fresh" are my feeling words for this song. Checkout their song Life.

[@americanaforever6725]

Sly is awesome 👏 “Everyday People” is an all time classic

[@annewoodard6803]

Sly and the Family Stone’s greatest hits is an album you guys should do. So many great songs! Skip the live performances, Sly was notoriously messed up, sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t. Dance to the Music, redo I Wanna Take You Higher, Everyday People. 😁❤️

[@desertdweller4501]

BJ, I was in 4th grade when my dad was stationed at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, MS, the year the Saints franchise started. I’ve been a lifelong fan, even through the “Aints” years. I’m 64 now and I think losing Drew and Sean might be too big of a hole to climb out of. I enjoy your videos, especially Asia’s smile and laugh.

[@deanhills6745]

Sly, in concert, would go out in the audience and get people moving, white and black. He was a great humanitarian.

[@sheilalett5844]

Nobody compares to Sly and Family Stone! Classics! ❤️✌️☀️

[@angelagazzo9976]

Saw this group at the Stanley Movie Theater in Newark NJ .. at the end of my street. The lines were insane

[@futuregenerationz]

It's the triplet feel. It works great in this song. Chill groove. Not quite as shill as War 'Summer' but easier to groove with.

[@gregfagan199]

Sly Stone invented psychedelic soul music. This track is a bit more pop-oriented, but it's still funky as hell.

[@robertasirgutz8800]

One of the greatest acts ever. Deep catalogue. Too many good songs to mention!

[@feelthebern7662]

Sly Stone is one of the Godfathers of funk. It's funk. Grew up on these 45's.

[@brenthowell6148]

Happy Days in the Summertime in the early 70's!🎸♥️🎺

[@Greyareas27]

This was 1969. They were very influential in what 70's music would become.

[@cathyhall1350]

Sly and the Family Stone are a bi-racial band who performed at Woodstock! Sly's sister Cynthia played the trumpet and sang! Like the song "Every Day People"! 💕🎸🎼✌️

[@AW-yj6md]

BJ, you got it right,..so wish I could take ya'll back in a time machine,...he's so right,..I'm from the south,..and that's how it was down here,..bellbottoms, for us girls with halter tops, and bellbottoms or hot pants(we sometimes called our shorts that,..they weren't daisy dukes,..not that high up, but high),..by the 70's there was this goup of songs,..summer songs, djs everywhere would play to ring in the summer, when you heard them, you knew it was underway,.this song,..Alice Cooper's School's Out, Yes, Roundabout, Seals and Croft, Summer Breeze, then the Isley Brothers also did that one,..boom boxes hadn't made it yet, but we had transistor radios,..and they could be pretty loud, you just didn't get that extra woofer,..in the speakers,..but we still jammed, they were light easy to carry,..have it out on the driveway while you wash your car, or at the car wash, hooked onto your bicycle while you road around the neighborhood, you'd see the mechanic with one purched right on top of the the next to where the hood opens, or right on the engine while they worked,..lol we were sometimes perilous back in the day,..I took my radio everywhere but to school,..and anytime I turned it on,..a song I liked, like this one,..was bound to be on, I swear,..didn't have the Walkman yet,..didn't have all the records,..had a nice collection of 45's,..and a few albums,..but they played these songs on the radio, Johnny Carson, Ed Sullivan, American Bandstand,.Midnight Special, Flip Wilson,..you almost didn't need to buy it, they were always playing somewhere on the planet,..do keep going, your gonna end up with a 50 year old playlist😉, just enjoy it,..and kick off your summer every year with it,..like we did,..ya'll are awesome, keep going, Godspeed, Peace ✌

[@RobertSmith-iw2kb]

They have all different styles in there songs or as sly said different strokes for different folks late 60's early 70's.

[@steliokontos1180]

Vallejo legends! Sly and the Family Stone is straight 🔥🔥

[@daleharmon8521]

Jazz, funk, rock, and soul all rolled into one vibe…

[@davidmolina3520]

Excellent memories 👍🥵🌡️

[@turnerdan53]

If you are doing Summer songs. Growing up every summer the radio stations would play Summertime Summertime by The Jamies from 1958.

[@barbarasalley]

Oh, this takes me back!! They were fire!!

[@teresabunting6364]

Love this song!! They had some great ones.

[@perrynelson4254]

I bought this 45 record when I was about 12. Just a real feel good vibe. Still sounds good

[@speaknoevil957]

Hey "young-ins" (I'm 73) have you checked out the groups "Mother's Finest" and the "Ohio Players" yet? Surf their albums and I betchu will find a song(s) that will have you rockin'!😊

[@johnmendez2983]

A 70’s all time classic of all times love it👍👍

[@scottfeuerhammer3595]

BJ Bout to get uncs riled. 😆. Ugh yeah, I show them pics and they aren't happy in their 70's. Especially the plaid drawers. I do love this song. It's 68 or 69. Rose is older than my mother, but her voice is magic in this song. I love ❤️ Rose Stewart 🌹 ♥️

[@elizabethbrown6384]

One of the best summer vacation songs ever!

[@keef7224]

They had a lot of funky shit, but this one always reminded me of that classic Motown sound.

[@johnrawker4487]

Please y'all just listen to me I'm a white boy Surfer from San Diego California and this is a song I listen to when I was a kid in the back of a car going to the beach with my five siblings for 55 and it is just special special to my heart please try to dig it

[@FeelGoodNetwork]

Oh my gosh! I LOVEEEE this song!

[@davidwalsh7128]

This was their next single after taking over Woodstock with a spectacular Live performance....

[@highflylowfly5103]

This is it you found them so much groove so much funk so much rock so much soul