Hot Fun in the Summertime

"Hot Fun in the Summertime"
side-A label
Side A of the US single
Single by Sly and the Family Stone
from the album Greatest Hits
B-side"Fun"
ReleasedJuly 21, 1969[1]
Recorded1969
Genre
Length2:37 (mono single version & stereo album version)
LabelEpic
5-10497
Songwriter(s)Sly Stone
Producer(s)Sly Stone
Sly and the Family Stone singles chronology
"Stand!" / "I Want to Take You Higher"
(1969) 		"Hot Fun in the Summertime" / "Fun"
(1969) 		"Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" / "Everybody is a Star"
(1969)
Music video
"Hot Fun in the Summertime" (audio) on YouTube

"Hot Fun in the Summertime" is a 1969 song recorded by Sly and the Family Stone. The single was released just prior to the band's high-profile performance at Woodstock, which greatly expanded their fanbase. The song peaked at number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart, kept out of the number 1 spot by "I Can't Get Next to You" by The Temptations.[4] "Hot Fun in the Summertime" also peaked at number 3 on the U.S. Billboard soul singles chart in autumn 1969.[5] It is ranked as the seventh biggest U.S. hit of 1969,[6] and the 65th in Canada.

Rolling Stone ranked the song #247 on their list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time", and it has also been named in lists by Yahoo! Music and AskMen as an all-time "summer anthem."[7][8]

  1. ^ "Sly and the Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime".
  2. ^ Pitchfork Staff (August 18, 2006). "The 200 Best Songs of the 1960s". Pitchfork. Retrieved October 12, 2022. No surprise, however, that it's the sweet and psychedelic soul sounds that win out.
  3. ^ Rolling Stone Staff (June 25, 2022). "The Best Summer Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 10, 2023. Sly and crew croon beautifully about summer days over string-sweetened light funk...
  4. ^ "The Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 534.
  6. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1969/Top 100 Songs of 1969". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-02.
  7. ^ Willman, Chris (2012-05-29). "The 50 Greatest Summer Songs!". Music.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2016-10-02.
  8. ^ "Top 10 Better Man". AskMen.com. Retrieved 2016-10-02.