A song from the summer of 1969, Hot Fun in the Summertime by Sly & Family Stone entered the Billboard charts on August 9, remained there for 16 weeks, and got up to #2 for two weeks, blocked from the top spot by the Temptations’ Can’t Get Next To You.
It also entered the soul charts on August 23, and got up to #3.
In a clever bit of marketing, the first time this song appeared on an album was the greatest hits collection. Unless you owned the singles, and you wanted this song, Everybody is a Star, and Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), you needed to buy the LP. And so I did.
A religious experience.
Good tune. We’re rather hoping we might eventually see some summer days here!
Roger, I swear to you, Lex and I were in the apt. complex pool today, and we were both singing “Hot Fun In the Summertime”! But my all-time fave is still Nat Cole singing, “Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer.”
Thanks for the coincidental mention of Sly. Man, oh man. Amy
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I loved that song “back in the day”! Still do.