It Happened 50 Years Ago: Sly & The Family Stone “Hot Fun in the Summertime”
Sly & The Family Stone scored two of their five Top 10 hits on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart in 1969. Exactly 50 years ago, the second of that pair of hits, “Hot Fun in the Summertime,” was in its second week of a two-week stay at a peak position of number 2.