“Every Kind Of People” by Robert Palmer

Island put out "Every Kinda People" in March 1978 as the lead single from Double Fun, Robert Palmer's fourth solo album. Andy Fraser wrote it and Tom Moulton produced it, and it opened doors for Palmer in North America, giving him his first American top 40 hit at 16 and doing the same in Canada, where it reached 12 on the RPM chart. It also made 22 on the US adult contemporary chart, though Britain stalled it at 53.

In 1992 Palmer revived it in a remix as the lead single from his compilation Addictions: Volume 2, and the new mix became a radio hit of its own, reaching 8 on the adult contemporary chart and beating the original in the UK at 43.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.