Everyday People You Sweat". A unique instrumental rendition of "Everyday People" is featured on the 1998 album "Combustication" by jazz fusion trio Medeski Martin & Wood. Hip hop group Arrested Development released an adapted version of "Everyday People" on their 1992 album "3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of..." titled as "People Everyday". The 2005 Sly and the Family Stone tribute album "Different Strokes by Different Folks" features a cover by Maroon 5, accompanied by samples from the original recording. A version by Jeff Buckley is included in the posthumously released album "You and I". Jon Batiste and
Everyday People song, explains that he is "no better / and neither are you / we are the same / whatever we do." Sly's sister Rose Stone sings bridging sections that mock the futility of people hating each other for being tall, short, rich, poor, fat, skinny, white, black, or anything else. The bridges of the song contain the line "different strokes for different folks," which became a popular catchphrase in 1969 (and inspired the name of the later television series, "Diff'rent Strokes"). Rose's singing ends each part of the bridge with the words: "And so on, and so on, and scooby