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"Stand!" | ||||
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![]() Side A of the US single | ||||
Single by Sly and the Family Stone | ||||
from the album Stand! | ||||
B-side | "I Want to Take You Higher" | |||
Released | March 1969 | |||
Recorded | February 27, 1969 [1] | |||
Genre | Psychedelic soul, funk | |||
Length | 3:08 | |||
Label | Epic | |||
Songwriter(s) | Sly Stone | |||
Producer(s) | Sly Stone | |||
Sly and the Family Stone singles chronology | ||||
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"Stand!" (audio) on YouTube | ||||
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"Stand!" |
"Stand!" is a 1969 song by the soul/rock/funk band Sly and the Family Stone Issued as a single that year by Epic Records,it reached number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 14 on the Hot Soul Songs charts. [2] [3] [4]
The song's title and lyrics are a call for its listeners to "stand" up for themselves,their communities,and what they believe in. Like nearly all of Sly &the Family Stone's songs,Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart was credited as the sole songwriter.
The original mix of "Stand!" garnered a warm,yet unenthusiastic,reaction when Sly Stone had an early acetate of the record played in a San Francisco club. As a result,Stone went back into the studio and had the song's final section,a fevered gospel music-styled break,rerecorded. Most of the Family Stone was unavailable for the session,and Stone resorted to using mostly studio musicians for the rerecorded section.
"I Want to Take You Higher",the b-side of "Stand!",was also a hit single in 1969/1970.
In 2004 the song was ranked #241 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. [5]