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Sly & The Family Stone

If You Want Me To Stay

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  • 1969
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  • 2007

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“If You Want Me to Stay” is a 1973 hit single by Sly & the Family Stone, from their album Fresh. The single was the band’s final Top 20 pop hit, and is the best-known of its post-There’s a Riot Goin’ On recordings. Stone recorded the song without much input from the rest of the band; by the early 1970s, he had begun crafting most of his material by himself. An alternate version of “If You Want Me to Stay”, as well as most of the rest of the Fresh album, was completed before Stone decided to scrap the masters and re-record the album. These alternate versions have surfaced in underground markets, online auctions, and specialty shops. However, in Epic’s 2007 reissue of Fresh, five bonus tracks are included, all of which are directly from the alternate mix of the... Read on...

Song lines: ♪ I hope that you have been ... I wish, I could ... The kind of person

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