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 dooby doo". During the chorus, all of the singing members of the band (Sly, Rosie, Larry Graham, and Sly's brother Freddie Stone) proclaim that "I am everyday people," meaning that each of them (and each listener as well) should consider himself or herself as parts of one whole, not of smaller, specialized factions. Bassist Larry Graham contends that the track featured the first instance of the "slap bass" technique, which would become a staple of funk and other genres. The technique involves striking a string with the thumb of the right hand (or left hand, for a left-handed player) so