Sly Stone Podcast Theme by : Gail Nobles © 2021
Music by: Gail Nobles

Cat Bear, The Red Panda walks alone. He doesn’t have any records to grow on to make things happen. So he puts on a beat thinking about Sly Stone.

Yea, Sly and the family Stone was a band from San Francisco. They were active from 1966 to 1983. Their genres are funk, soul, rock, and psychedelic music. The lead singer was songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone. Sly Stone’s brother was singer and guitarist. His name is Freddie Stone. Sky’s sister was singer/keyboardist Rose Stone. And there was trumpeter Cynthia Robinson, drummer Greg Errico, Saxophonist Jerry Martini, and bassist Larry Graham.

They released a series of Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hits such as Dance to the Music (1968). Everyday People (1968) just to name a few. Oh and I love their song Stand. Stand is the fourth album by Sly and the family Stone released in 1969.

The album sold 500,000 copies in 1969 and was certified gold in sales by the RIAA on December 4 of that year. It peaked at number 13 on the Billboard 200 and stayed on the chart for nearly two years. That album went a long ways. By 1986 it had sold well over 1 million copies and was certified platinum in sales by the RIAA on November 21 of that same year. It then went on to sell over three million copies, becoming one of the most successful albums of the 1960s. In 2003, the album was ranked number 118 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, In 2015, the album was deemed "culturally and historically significant" by the Library of Congress. That album went a long long ways.

I want to say thank you for listening tonight. I’m Gail Nobles, and you’re listening to Cat Bear, The Red Panda. Have a good night.