Songoftheday 7/4/18 - See I was resting at the park minding my own business as I kick up the treble tone, on my radio tape player box right just loud enough so folks could hear it's hype, see?

"People Everyday" - Arrested Development
from the album 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life of... (1992)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #8 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 18

Today's song of the day comes from the alternative hip-hop collective Arrested Development, whose debut album 3 Years, 5 Months, & 2 Days in the Life of... had already landed a top ten pop hit with "Tennessee" in the summer of 1992. Their second single from the set would be a take off on Sly and the Family Stone's "Everyday People", reworked as "People Everyday". With lyrics about how leader Speech, as an afrocentric culturalist, gets bullied by the hard "gangsta" types but will beat down if his lady is threatened. The single version, dubbed the "Metamorphosis Mix", took the loopy metronome-rocking album version and completely transformed it to a funky danceable number (with help from a guitar lick nabbed from Bob James' "Tappan Zee") that followed "Tennessee" to the heights of the charts...

"People Everyday" became the group's second top ten pop hit in October of 1992. The single spent two weeks at #2 on Billboard's R&B chart, while it made it to #6 on their Dance Club Play list. Internationally, the record reached the top ten in the UK (#2, their biggest hit there), France (#6), Australia (#6), and New Zealand (#6). It also hit the top-40 in Ireland (#11), the Netherlands (#20), and Sweden (#27). In Canada, it only climbed to #64.

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The group previewed the song's remix on the Arsenio Hall show...