Sly & The Family Stone - I Want to Take You Higher (Official Audio)
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- "I Want to Take You Higher" by Sly & The Family Stone
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Lyrics:
Freddie: Feeling's gettin' stronger
Larry: Music's gettin' longer too
Rose: Music is flashin' me
Sly: I want to take you higher
Baby baby baby light my fire
All: Boom shaka-laka-laka Boom shaka-laka-laka
Freddie: Feeling's nitty-gritty
Larry: Sound is in the city too
Rose: Music's still flashin' me
Sly: Don't ya want to get higher
Baby baby baby light my fire.
All: Boom shaka-laka-laka Boom shaka-laka-laka
All Repeated: Higher!
Sly: C'mon light my fire
Want to take you higher
All: Boom shaka-laka-laka Boom shaka-laka-laka
Freddie: Feeling that should make you move
Larry: Sounds that should help you groove
Rose: Music still flashin' me
Sly: Take your places
I want to take you higher
Baby baby baby light my fire.
All: Boom shaka-laka-laka Boom shaka-laka-laka
All Repeated: Higher!
Sly: Let's take you, do you want to go, etc.
All Repeated: Boom shaka-laka-laka Boom shaka-laka-laka, Higher!
All Repeated: Boom shaka-laka-laka Boom shaka-laka-laka, Higher!
All Repeated: Boom shaka-laka-laka Boom shaka-laka-laka
#SlyAndTheFamilyStone #IWantToTakeYouHigher #Funk
I hear you..I'm ,66 and shaking it well...queen Ms freda
I’M FROM SAN FRANCISCO AND NO BODY DID IT LIKE SLY AND THE FAMILY STONES! I LOVED THE MUSIC AND THE HIGHWAY TRAFFIC BACK THEN THE MONEY WAS GOOD AND NO PROBLEM WITH MY PEOPLES FROM MY HOOD AND JUST LOVE H.P.
Yep, this the One
And it’s still a classic
Yep!
I can't sit still when i hear this song! Was dancing to it in 1970 and im 66 now! Love this!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Me too
65 years young. When I'm stressed and want to move, this is my go to jam. Come on Sly take me there with the horns. Yeah!
I remember 1969 smokin the ganja and having this cranked up. We didn’t give a damn who made the music just as long as it was great music. Now I’m old and have to crank it even louder.
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
@@BeaverdamMan well I’ve got prostate cancer and kidney disease and my oncologist suggested it so yes, I’m smoking the ganja again.
louder will introduce the neighbors to real music.
@@Dave-hc6pp Dude, do not go gentle into that good night - go get that finest spliff available to humanity, right here, right now! (apologies both to Dylan Thomas and Whithnail)
This was the original "funk" - a fusion of psychedelic rock and soul.
AGREE!
James Brown might disagree. Just sayin'. Lol
Can you imagine playing that song at Woodstock to a half million people?
Unfortunately there are very few bands today that put this much effort and intensity in their music, such raw talent displayed!
Saw them at Woodstock, and I was very high. We were there for the three days wet,muddy, stoned and one of the best moments of my life.
Still rocking at 76 years.
Peace
Look up their performance at Woodstock. It's a song AND a show
The enthusiasm and passion back then is M.I.A in today's world!
You won't find a more diverse and influential funk band ever!!
Parliament Funkadelic
The Family Stand is worth a listen 👊🏼
Was at a local night club one night when this song come on (1969). 3/4 of us (about 200) went outside in the street singing "I Want to Take You Higher" repeatedly. Yes , we were all stoned. Now I'm an old man living in retirement. Man! The years went by fast.
You were young in the best Days Joe.
@@Slipstream2009 saw them on Ed Sullivan 1968 sly and his sister Rosie left the stage and went in the audience sly was doing hand jive and when they went on the stage he gave this brother five he said don't hate the black don't hate the white if you get bitten just hate the bite yess
Damn ain’t it so. I was 8 years old at Woodstock. My mom took me. My grandfather was furious. But it was probably the safest I’ve ever been before or since.
I just started it
LOVE YOU MAN I AM 23 AND I CAN ALREADY FEEL THE SADNESS OF BEING OLD IT IS VERY WEIRD
Pure funk! Sly & The Family brought it to the mainstream, but still remained original.
Sly and the family have never got the recitation they deserve
Sly was master
He was the first one and was the king of funk. Please take time to really listen to his music
They get plenty of recitation from me!
@@thedevilinthecircuit1414😂 onGod n nem
@@thedevilinthecircuit1414 NO. They should have been to the 70s what the Beatles were to the 60s.
Sly and the family stone were Way ahead of their time. Their music is awesome! Sylvester Stewart was a musical genius!
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@@alessandrazeni8874 I wanna take you higher! 😊
Yes he was
At 66 years young I am still rocking sly and the family stone.
He'll yell bro man
Same
67 here and going strong. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜
Same here ....
Same here
THIS song is the epitome of funk. Brilliant.
I just sent a snap to my 2 adult sons and said, "when I think too much, I play me some funk." I attached this song to it…
…But you can tune a piano
Boom !💣 Shakalaka! 👏 EPIC!
Yessssss!
After all of these decades this FUCKING ROCKS!!!!
To this DAY!!!
@@digithead01 STILL KILLIN' IT! ❤
💯👍
Absolutely!! 💯
How did Sly decide to play harmonica on this song. Pure genius. Wouldn’t be the same song without it.
Kills it. Equivalent of James Cotton or Sonny Boy in rock setting
Why on earth has this group not received way more accolades? I was 12 in 69 and Sly just tore me up!
I was going on 12 in early '69 and I remember "Everyday People" and "Stand!" extremely well.
They are great
extra thumbs for "tore me up"
Y'uns gettin' me all tore up there my own self
I loved their music, I believe they really walked the walk and were not just talk!
apparentely Sly was hard to deal with..?????
Saw them in person at madison square garden in 1968..i was 27, now im 82..what a great night that was! The harmonuca was bitchin!! Great band..girl in it too! MS.CYNTHIA!!❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
Let’s GO!!!!!
sly's fusion of soul, funk and rock reached its apotheosis at woodstock.
63 and still rocking to this love 60's&70's music 🎶🎵 Still getting high too forever young 💃
I'm 75yrs, I saw them at a United States Air Force base in Germany in 1971. Fantastic!
Qué asco. Un soldado del imperio de la muerte. Si instrumento de destrucción no quieres ser, educarte debes hacer.
That's awesome man, Peace, Love Compassion and Blessings to you & yours. ✌🏼💚🙏🙌🏼☯️🌴
Yep, turning 70 this year and still listening to Sly and the Family Stone!! Musical Genius touching All Generations Worldwide!!❤😊
One of the greatest JAMS of all time! Who cares if you ain't got rhythm?! If you ain't moving to this, you better call someone to check your pulse!
As funky as it gets...
❤❤❤❤😂😂🎉🎉🎉
If you aint groovin and movin to this you, you must be dead.
Sly Stone the music has stood time. We really should be Everyday People. I pray he recovers from the addictions that have him currently living on Slauson and Crenshaw homeless..
He's been on the up and up actually for a bit more than a year, so I've heard. His memoir is coming out soon, and he had to be clean to participate in that process. God bless Sly!!
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I don't why he got a (5 Million Dollars Settlement about two years ago)
They blew the roof off the sky at Woodstock!!
yeah awesome ha
Was looking for SFS greatest hit l.p. at antiques nothing dang..Woodstock
..Sly and The Who performance were stellar
rickw1100: beautifully put!!
Thank you so much my friend!!!☯️
SLY &THE FAMILY STONE.BAAAAAAAAAAA TO THE BONE.LOVE IT.FUNKY.LOVE THEM!!!!!!!!!
I remember my Moms & Uncle...bustin a move to this!! 70s house parties were the best!! GOD, we were so lucky to be part of it! ❤😢 #70sgreatness #thewonderyears
So right! Far out there, sister. Everybody knows how to dance in the living room. People knew how to just be mellow 😊
The rhythm, the beat of the song seemed to explode not only through you but all around you, truly gave a tribal feeling. If your head, should, and feet weren’t moving you were dead.
Tribal. Yes.
one of the best arrangement in music history. sly stone the genius
a century of black music
Absolutely! Who else can combine these instruments and make you shake your ass!!!
It's so uplifting to me, it gets you so full of energy and the groove takes you away so blissful, that's fucking soul music right there. Music binds us together, we' are having a human experience, it lets us know to celebrate this love we can all share for free vibe
I agree...and the killer horns!!!
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OMG, I loved them at 13, was so lucky to see them at Madison Square Garden at 14. Sly and the Family Stone impacted our culture for the betterI in profound ways. I am a senior citizen and still can't sit still when I hear them.
Ms.Ellen, I saw Sly and the Family Stone when I was thirteen, it was my first live concert, and I am still growing from the explosion of energy I saw and heard that day. I am now 65.
@@3340steve MIght have both been at the same concert! I continue to bask in that glow. I just watched "Summer of Soul" where Sly and the Family Stone helped to transform pop culture. I had an epiphany - Sly wanting to take us 'Higher' was about love, joy and spirituality much more than about being stoned, if at all.
I waited on line at Madison Square Garden for tickets and they sold out right before I got to the ticket window. Lucky you were able to get in. 😊
From what I’ve read, Sly would NOT cave into pressure from militants to sack the white cats😉🙂
This bassline is absolutely insane.
That Bass that's Larry Graham his cousin he's a f****** genius definitely in the Rock and roll Hall of Fame Prince says he was one of his inspirations
YES
That muted hard fuzz kills me man
Supposedly Graham invented that thumb slap base style. The story goes that he and his mom were street musicians, and he was trying to simulate percussion and base at the same. Or, I'm completely wrong. Either way, I like 👍 it!
I agree man... Kick ass bass
@@daviddragavon7555 You're right. I did a documentary on funk music called Make It Funky that was part of the WGBH/PBS series ROCK AND ROLL. Everyone I interviewed, including Larry Graham himself, says he invented that style of bass playing.
Oh, yeah! It just doesn't get better than this one. Take me higher!
64 white boy, played this in a school band room, I was 16. Bass and percussion were our black cohorts. Me and the other guitar player were white. Funny thing . The groove and idea took hold. Couldn't stop, had to ride it out. One of many memorable experiences . To kids now. Pick up an instrument.
I play instruments too as a 16 year old but what the hell does color have to do with this? Why are you white apologists so obsessed with that? Constantly, on almost EVERY old school song that happens to be made by black people, you people come in here bringing up color. You do know that's racist in itself, right?
We played some funky shit in school band. I wouldn't know anything funk if it weren't for our bad ass instructor.
Fantastic combination of soul,funk, and psychedelic all wrapped up in one......GREAT
Mr. Stone is still going strong and doing well at 77 years young. Many more my man.
Ms. L. Churchill
no he is not doing good..living in a trailer just getting by in 2019!
@@dealsbetweenfriends at least he's not dead
That bass though! ❤❤❤❤❤
An all time classic that will bring joy forever
This music is like fine wine.
Do y’all her this genius
Im 71 n still dancing to sly n family music back then was awesome music now music today just called dirt music now n no more class like back them am i rite??????❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Hell Yeah!!!!!! I'm 70 still Rock n Roll!!!!! This Great Music!!!! 🎶 Don't Stop the Dance!!!!!!!!
"Take your places. I wanta take you higher."
Wow! Talk about a well oiled machine this group is, love,love love!
Just love this band I would go back to 70's and stay
This band was and still simply amazing and powerful. You can hear every instrument, they were superb! I miss this band so much. They ruled the late 60's and early 70's.
But they fell to drugs and foolishness. Fame does a thing to the young and dumb.
Yes it's too bad the young people today don't know how great great this band was
tiedye
67-71 were their peak. Fresh sucked
We grew up with the best music then!!
Nope 90s baby here & the 90s were the best... we were born in between the oldies and the technologic perfect time to be alive
i believe the earth shook when this song was recorded.
Even the Earth couldn't help dancing to this.
I was 13 in 1969. In seventh grade.
This was the greatest band me and my friends had ever heard up to that point.
My favorite song in the history of the world. Nonstop life affirming emotional energy from the first second to the last.
Sly is so damned cool. A true funky classic!!
Sly stone,music genius.sly and the family stone.great band.this album stand great timeless, funky music.period😊
That bassline is sick!
And the baddest babe on earth was on that bass.
True that*******
Good to hear others appreciate the bass.
That was larry graham on bass who went on to his own group graham central station. On of the first if not the first to use slap bass. On funky bass player.
Imagine living it !
Been playing this in my head since 1973.
One of the greatest songs of all time, one of the most important and one of my absolute favourites
I become filled with the Holy Spirit when I hear this song. Music today doesn't make me feel that way at all. It sounds good, but it doesn't move my soul.
It’s too formulated these days.
Sly and his family were/are Pentecostal so it has that church feel especially with the drums and organ chords
the band were not ostentatiously Chirstian, but humbly so; band were blood bros and sis and cousins, all raised among very Christian, very rural, families whose church life were daily.
irl just decent Christian folks everywhere, in the humble opine of this fat old sinner.
the routine ganj notwithstanding... ;-)
I saw the Sly group in San Fran in 1969 at the Winter Garden where you could either watch the concert or dance.
There was so much grass being smoked there that I actually got high on the second hand grass smoke.I never did drugs for real and I am now a born again, spirit filled, retired attorney living in the best home I ever owned on the Philippine Sea with my Philippine wife, Stela.
Next step is our being raptured by Jesus Christ which should be very soon, given the world's condition today.
Miller
Now THAT’S music! What talent! I was 14 when this song came out. Saw them live at the Stanford amphitheater!
No way I read this comment on the day I turned 14 (and the first time I've heard this song)! I've always loved listening to old school music, and the stories that derived.
At 24.5 seconds this awesome thing made of bass and brimstone comes in, low, rumbling, threatening. WoW! Sly had more soul than any man to walk the earth and in my humble opinion, is the greatest composer of modern time. Spot on every time. Did it all with family and friends. He didn't scour the earth looking for the best instramentalists of the day. They all made do with what they had. Of course with Larry Grahm (Mr Slap Bass) and Cynthia on the horn it aint like he was hurting for talent!
Happy Birthday to Sly and thank you and the Family Stone for taking us higher.
They where the best.😊
Such a great song. I have been listening to Sly since the 70's. Wonderful band. So much talent. Love them.
It’s so heavy god DAYUM
I was 6 years old listening to this 🎵! I was around the older crowd and got exposed to a lot of different music. I play this music with meaning 😢😅😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤!
I was 14. It still blows my mind. So underrated. These guys were amazing!
Simple lyrics. All magic kept in the groove. Sometimes all you need is the groove!
This is one of those ultimate grooves.
astonesfan
Absolutely that's all you need, great music that makes you shake your ass, lol!!!
3kingkool
Hell yes!!!
its a song about the song.
AMEN!
"Simple lyrics?" Not if you were sitting in the audience during their day. Dude telling you he wanna take you higher. As a teenager, you think he was referring to other things. Then that bass line hit and the next thing you know is that all that shyness you came with was gone after you realized you were dancing on top of the seats. What a simple but everlasting experience.
Well put laa nice one 🤙
Danced on those seats myself
That bass was Larry Graham
Saw them 55 years ago tonight. Sitting in the cheap seats in the balcony of the Auditorium Theater in Chicago. Amazing show. (Steve Miller Band opening and they were at the top of their game too).
Hey! I was born in 1994. I got this album on vinyl years ago, original 1969 pressing. I’m a huge fan of music from this era. I’m very curious about that time period, what was it actually like back then in those concerts??
This group of talent was very very very special.
Hubby just told me this was by Teddy Pendergrass... lol. I'm younger than thus song by 12 yrs and I still got it. Whoop music knowledge for the win. Booging my swinging butt on home to this now.
One of the most under-rated bands of all time
True that*******
#FACTS
Agreed....A greeting from Italy
Under-rated by who? I've always heard lots about how great they were
Agreed. Most of the Oldies stations I've heard these days don't play Sly's music. Don't get it.
I just Danced like crazy just now to this in my bedroom! No booze, no drugs! Just joy! I love to dance!
the fuzz bass :SIMPLY SINISTER!
I hadn't heard the album cut of this song since 1970. What a great band this was!
Yeah baby! 67 here and needed motivation to clean house. Problem is, I keep dancing!!! 😂😂
As i said before we had the greatest live bands ever god bless all when we heard this snd all the. Bands live as lighting. Blessings sent. Bklyn coney island m
Man this whole song is 🔥🔥🔥
But I must say what sticks out the most to me that harmonica, love the bass and the organ too!!
I have my seven month old granddaughter rocking to this groove.
That is awesome!
Cynthia is the reason I joined the high school band and picked the trumpet lol
Jan 12, 2025 she would have been 80 today
Still a banger.
Easily the most iconic bass riff of all time.
I’m an old man now but I remember going to the “Electric Circus” in the “East Village” in NY and guess who the dance band was? That’s right, Sly and the Family Stone! It was right before they hit it big. All of a sudden Larry Graham on that bottom had the whole room rocking. Sly, Cynthia, all of them! We danced all night with them playing right there on a small stage on the dance floor!
One of my favorite bands in high school. It still sounds fresh.
Smokin band smokin time to be young and legal, and good-lookin, which i was then! Couldnt sit still in my seat, danced in the aisle!!! What a show!!😅
2023...and still loving Sly & The Family Stone ~ I was 17 in 1969 when this song came out!
Same here 😂
Larry is soon funky
I saw them in concert in 1972. God what a night!😁😁😁
WOW this is the funk!
Good music. Enjoyed this music in my brother in law low rider. Teen only allowed one beer . Thank you brother
Boom Shakalaka
Came here for this!
i love this from japan.in my youth days, i spent the time in listening Sly.
When Sly played this live at concerts - they took you higher. Everybody was just as stoned as he was. They rocked the house.
That is an honest statement. Nothing else mattered.
Lol… “Stoned”
❤
Always loved this cut. Imagine hearing this live in concert circa 1969 at some venue in Greenwich Village or the Bay Area?!
My mom was there...and Im still listening today.
65 and still jamming to oldies.basic song but they were hitting all the groove
At 70 and still wanna get higher
58 !!
Still lovin' the groove
💥🎼💥
@@mickeydixon396 at 73 and still getting high 🇨🇦
This is my all time favorite song.The instrumental is off the charts and that trumpet!!!!!
Amazing masterpiece from the summer of my years.
You go Tracie! I'm 65, going on 66! Life is good!!!!
It's hearsay, I wasn't there, but Sly was the first person to publish and introduce the public to a new reality.. interracial band.. a band that featured women who played horns in addition to being the best background singers ..Sly was the man. there you go .
INDEED! i LOVE SLY!
Saw them 3 times - awesome!!!! Especially in the Fillmore East
I was there and all those complaints about race mixing basically stopped when the song started blasting out everyone s speakers
@@dancingnature Lol, funny how that happens when everyone realizes how frickin' good they were!!
@@sdgakatbk You got that right !!!
Obrigado Paul Stanley pela indicação
Timeless masterpierce!!!
Hell effing yea!!!