Hot Fun in the Summertime
| "Hot Fun in the Summertime" | ||||
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Side A of the US single | ||||
| Single by Sly and the Family Stone | ||||
| from the album Greatest Hits | ||||
| B-side | "Fun" | |||
| Released | July 21, 1969 | |||
| Recorded | 1969 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 2:37 (mono single version & stereo album version) | |||
| Label | Epic 5-10497 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Sly Stone | |||
| Producer(s) | Sly Stone | |||
| Sly and the Family Stone singles chronology | ||||
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| 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 singles chart, kept out of the number 1 spot by "I Can't Get Next to You" by the Temptations. "Hot Fun in the Summertime" also peaked at number 3 on the U.S. Billboard Soul Singles chart in autumn 1969. It is ranked as the seventh biggest U.S. hit of 1969, 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."