"Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" is a 1969 song recorded by Sly and the Family Stone. The song,released as a double A-side single with "Everybody Is a Star",reached number one on the soul single charts for five weeks,and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1970.[3]Billboard ranked the record as the No. 19 song of 1970.[4]
"Thank You" was intended to be included on an in-progress album with "Everybody Is a Star" and "Hot Fun in the Summertime";[citation needed] but the LP was never completed,and the three tracks were instead included on the band's 1970 Greatest Hits LP. "Thank You" and "Everybody Is a Star" were the final Family Stone recordings issued in the 1960s and marked the beginning of a 20-month gap of releases from the band,which would finally end with the release of "Family Affair" in 1971.
The song's length on the original hit single and the Greatest Hits LP is 4:48 and was re-channeled to simulate stereo on the popular Greatest Hits LP. The 1971 quadraphonic release of the Greatest Hits LP did use a true 4-channel remix of the song,however. The previously unreleased full-length version (6:18) was mixed by Bob Irwin in true stereo and its only issue for 35 years was on a 1990 Columbia promotional CD Legacy:Music for the Next Generation until it was included on the soundtrack for Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) in 2025. On the subsequent (and available as of 2015) The Essential Sly &The Family Stone 2-CD set,the track is in stereo but is the standard 4:48 length hit version.
The song was followed by a re-working on the closing track,"Thank You for Talkin' to Me,Africa",from the group's subsequent 1971 album,There's A Riot Goin' On.
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