| Different Strokes by Different Folks | |
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| Released | July 13, 2005 |
| Genre | Soul |
| Length | 61:49 |
| Label | Hear Music (12-track release) Epic Records (14-track release) |
| Producer | Sylvester Stewart Jerry Goldstein, Glenn Stone, Steve Berkowitz |
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Different Strokes by Different Folks is a remix and cover album by American funk, and soul band Sly and the Family Stone.
Released first as a Starbucks-exclusive in 2005, this version (recognizable by its black background cover) featured 12 tracks. The extended 14-track version of the album was released in 2006 by Epic Records It included two additional tracks: "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" and "Thank You Nation 1814". Each track is a remix of a previously released Sly and the Family Stone song.
| No. | Title | Guest Artists | Length |
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| 1. | "Dance to the Music" | will.i.am | 4:04 |
| 2. | "Everyday People" | Maroon 5 | 2:46 |
| 3. | "Star" | The Roots | 4:25 |
| 4. | "Runnin' Away" | Big Boi feat. Sleepy Brown & Killer Mike | 4:04 |
| 5. | "Family Affair" | John Legend & Joss Stone with Van Hunt | 3:42 |
| 6. | "(You Caught Me) Smilin'" | Scar, CeeLo Green, Big Boi & DJ Swiff | 3:52 |
| 7. | "If You Want Me to Stay" | Devin Lima | 3:32 |
| 8. | "I Get High On You" | The Wylde Bunch | 3:36 |
| 9. | "Love City" | Moby | 4:57 |
| 10. | "You Can Make It If You Try" | Buddy Guy & John Mayer | 5:34 |
| 11. | "Sing a Simple Song" | Chuck D, D'Angelo & Isaac Hayes | 6:37 |
| 12. | "I Want to Take You Higher" | Steven Tyler & Robert Randolph | 5:09 |
| 13. | "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" | Nappy Roots feat. Martin Luther | 4:07 |
| 14. | "Thank You Rhythm Nation 1814" | Janet Jackson & DJ Reset | 5:17 |
Sly and the Family Stone was an American band from San Francisco. Active from 1966 to 1983, it was pivotal in the development of funk, soul, rock, and psychedelic music. Its core line-up was led by singer-songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, and included Stone's brother and singer/guitarist Freddie Stone, sister and singer/keyboardist Rose Stone, trumpeter Cynthia Robinson, drummer Greg Errico, saxophonist Jerry Martini, and bassist Larry Graham. It was the first major American rock group to have a racially integrated, male and female lineup.
Sylvester Stewart, better known by his stage name Sly Stone, is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer who is most famous for his role as frontman for Sly and the Family Stone, playing a critical role in the development of funk with his pioneering fusion of soul, rock, psychedelia and gospel in the 1960s and 1970s. Crawdaddy! has called him "the founder of progressive soul".
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"Everyday People" is a 1968 song composed by Sly Stone and first recorded by his band, Sly and the Family Stone. It was the first single by the band to go to number one on the Soul singles chart and the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. It held that position on the Hot 100 for four weeks, from February 9 to March 8, 1969, and is remembered as one of the most popular songs of the 1960s. Billboard ranked it as the No. 5 song of 1969.
Stand! is the fourth album by soul/funk band Sly and the Family Stone, released on May 3, 1969. Written and produced by lead singer and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, Stand! is considered an artistic high-point of the band's career. Released by Epic Records, just before the group's celebrated performance at the Woodstock festival, it became the band's most commercially successful album to date. It includes several well-known songs, among them hit singles, such as "Sing a Simple Song", "I Want to Take You Higher", "Stand!", and "Everyday People". The album was reissued in 1990 on compact disc and vinyl, and again in 2007 as a remastered numbered edition digipack CD with bonus tracks and, in the UK, as only a CD with bonus tracks.
Fresh is the sixth album by American funk band Sly and the Family Stone, released by Epic/CBS Records on June 30, 1973. Written and produced by Sly Stone over two years, Fresh has been described as a lighter and more accessible take on the dense, drum machine-driven sound of its landmark 1971 predecessor There's a Riot Goin' On. It was the band's final album to reach the US Top 10, and their last of three consecutive number-one albums on the R&B chart. In 2003, the album was ranked number 186 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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"I Want to Take You Higher" is a song by the soul/rock/funk band Sly and the Family Stone, the B-side to their Top 30 hit "Stand!". Unlike most of the other tracks on the Stand! album, "I Want to Take You Higher" is not a message song; instead, it is simply dedicated to music and the feeling one gets from music. Like nearly all of Sly & the Family Stone's songs, Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart was credited as the sole songwriter.
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