Sly & the Family Stone, Kraft Music Hall, ABC 1968

There’s just too many good things to say about Sly and this band. Sly brought the message of love, compassion and music. He let everyone in the band be a star. Say what you will about his decline into drugs but he had/has heart and love in him and his songs. P.s. Rose Stone, I still love you and always will.

Kraft Music Hall was actually aired on NBC, not ABC. I know because I was an NBC page at the time and worked on this episode, which was shot the NBC studios in Brooklyn. I seem to remember that all didn't go smoothly, with Sly and the director, Dwitght Hemion, having some differences of opinion. I think the producer, Gary Smith, had to help make peace to get the show rolling, which eventually happened. It was the first time I had really seen Sly & the Famly Stone, and it knocked me out.

Sylvester Stewart aka Sly Stone..One of the greatest soul/pop singers...completely under appreciated. Before Prince...there was Sly

CAN U IMAGINE SEEING THIS SHIT LIVE???? I WOULD'VE LOST MY MIND

Sly and the Family Stone - legends!! And changed the music scene completely in 1971 with "There's a riot goin'on"!! 💯🎵🎶

Man that man had magic! God blessed Sly with so much musical talent

Beautiful, Love it, So Good, what a family, the family sign-along's during the holidays must have been pretty interesting!!!

Research is discovering truth. Wow this is beautiful and crazy. Loving this in 2022. 💞💞

RIP cynthia Robinson

Thanks for posting. This medley made them famous at Woodstock. They were by far the best and there was some talent there, over 3 plus days

Great man!

Originally telecast on NBC on August 21, 1968.

Makes me proud to be the First to ab thank you for sharing this Video with us. Great.

This was such a great performance to me. Takes me back to my days in Junior High. I would come home from school, & play these songs. I was the first one home. Thanx for this….

Young Ed McMahon..SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE

Thanks for posting!

H#lluva Band.... One of the greatest.

RIDE SALLY RIDE YEAHHHH SLY😼

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do believe Sly planned how to tear up a house as cleverly & carefully as Prince or James Brown or Cab Calloway. But there's that Woodstock rap - the point where he calls for the peace sign, way up on the hillside. Seems to me no one's ever held the world in his palm like that, ever. Had he kept on Sly would have been more influential than Dylan or the Beatles - to me he's their equal as a lyricist (which carries the most influence, liongest, even in music & for musicians?) & plainly Sly was their elder & superior in studio craft & musicianship