It was, as an early album title put it, a whole new ting: 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 ‘60s celebration before his stringent 1970 masterpiece, There’s A Riot Going On.
Sly & The Family Stone "Hot Fun In The Summertime"

Sly & The Family Stone Greatest Hits