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Hot Fun in the SummertimeSly and the Family Stone

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Song · 1969 · Psychedelic soul

Hot Fun in the Summertime

Sly and the Family Stone

1969

★ 6.4 editorial score

Violins in the upper register, rare for Sly, on a single released weeks before the band played Woodstock.

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