Sly & The Family Stone - Stand! (extended version)
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Published 2023-07-04
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.
In 2004 the song was ranked #241 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. -Wikipedia.
All Comments (3)
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Sly smoked the airwaves with brilliant hit after hit after hit. The man got burned. Don’t let it happen to you.
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I read that this song was well received, but people thought it was a bit soft, so Sly went in studio alone, and extended the funky part. Whatever the story, I'm glad because that part funks you to the core!
