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Sly & the Family Stone
Stand!
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“Stand!“ is a 1969 song by the soul/rock/funk band Sly & the Family Stone. 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.
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Read on...Song lines: ♪ Na na na na na na na na na na ... Stand ... Stand, stand, stand ♫
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This song is listed #241 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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