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release date: 1978
format: vinyl
[single rate: 3 / 5] [3,06]
producer: Richard Perry
label: Planet - nationality: USA
Tracklist: A) "Everybody Is a Star" - - B) "Lay It on the Line"
Single release by The Pointer Sisters is a cover of a song written by Sly Stone and originally performed by Sly and the Family Stone and released as the B-side (or: actually as the other track on a double A-sided single) to "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" Dec. 1969. The Pointer Sisters' version here, as well as the B-side are both included on their fifth album Energy (Oct. 1978).
I don't have much recollection of when or why I ever purchased this. My best guess is that I purchased this as part of a sales buy. Back in the mid-80s I sometimes went to another town with my best friend to buy new music. They had this music store "Rillen" in the town of Grenaa, and we were both subscribing to their monthly catalogue of new music / new imports, and they also had an annual catalogue of their whole stock, and through that, we used to tick off the albums we just needed to have, and once or twice a year we simply drove there to get new music: vinyl albums, maxi singles, VHS videos, and not seldom: to buy a few items that were on sale in a pile of singles. That's probably on such an occasion that I got this. Not involuntarily, but neither with the intention to get precisely thisthe copy in question. The song is a classic soul-song and in The pointers versions it's not exactly improved but more likely: re-arranged to suit a more settled audience.
The single was issued in a generic (white) sleeve, and the WEA-sleeve appears like the original for this particular print, as it appears to have been distributed by WEA Records.
