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Higher is a 1969 song by the soul/rock/funk band Sly & 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. 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.
