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I LOVE THIS BAND

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-APRIL 7, 2019…IT WAS ON THIS DATE 50 YEARS AGO THE BAY AREA’S SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE RELEASED THEIR FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM ‘STAND!’

THIS WAS THE GROUP’S BIGGEST SELLING ALBUM, CONTAINING ‘EVERYDAY PEOPLE’ THE TITLE TRACK ‘STAND!’ ‘SING A SIMPLE SONG’ AND ‘I WANT TO TAKE YOU HIGHER’

STAND! WENT ON TO SELL OVER 3 MILLION COPIES AND IS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ALBUMS OF THE SIXTIES. FOUR YEARS AGO THE ALBUM WAS DEEMED “CULTURALLY, HISTORICALLY OR AESTHETICALLY SIGNIFICANT” BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND WAS SELECTED FOR INCLUSION IN THE

NATIONAL RECORDING REGISTRY.

HERE’S SLY AND THE BAND PERFORMING ‘ I WANT TO TAKE YOU HIGHER’ ON THE MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW

AND THIS IS JUST A GREAT JAM SESSION FROM 1974 WITH AN APPEARANCE ON ‘THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL’