I Want to Take You Higher
| "I Want to Take You Higher" | ||||||||||
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| Single by Sly and the Family Stone | ||||||||||
| from the album Stand! | ||||||||||
| Released | 1969 | |||||||||
| Format | 7" single | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1969 | |||||||||
| Genre | Psychedelic soul, funk | |||||||||
| Length | 5:23 | |||||||||
| Label |
Epic 5-10450 |
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| Writer(s) | Sly Stone | |||||||||
| Producer(s) | Sly Stone | |||||||||
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| "I Want to Take You Higher" | |
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| Single by Ike & Tina Turner | |
| Released | 1970 |
"I Want to Take You Higher" is a song by the soul/rock/funk band Sly and the Family Stone, the B-side to their Top 30 hit "Stand!". Unlike most of the other tracks on the Stand! album, "I Want to Take You Higher" is not a message song; instead, it is simply dedicated to music and the feeling one gets from music. Like nearly all of Sly & the Family Stone's songs, Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart was credited as the sole songwriter.
"I Want to Take You Higher" opens with a bluesy guitar riff played by Freddie Stone. The song, one of the most upbeat recordings in the Family Stone canon, is a remake of sorts of "Higher", a song from the band's 1968 Dance to the Music LP. "Higher" itself has its origins in "Advice", a song Sly Stone co-wrote and arranged for Billy Preston's album The Wildest Organ In Town in 1966.
"Higher" made the setlist for the band's performance at alongside "Dance to the Music" and "Music Lover"; Sly Stone used the song during a memorable interlude, during which he had the Woodstock crowd repeating, at three in the morning, the song's frantic cry of "higher!"
Even though it was a b-side, "I Want to Take You Higher" became a Top 40 hit of its own in 1970. That same year, Ike & Tina Turner released a cover of the song that became a hit as well, peaking four spots above the original Family Stone recording on the US pop charts (at #34), and one position below the original on the R&B singles chart.
Sly & the Family Stone performed a medley of "Dance to the Music" and "I Want to Take You Higher" on Soul Train on June 29, 1974.
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