I Want to Take You Higher

It began as the B-side of "Stand!" in 1969, and is not a message song. It is simply about music and the feeling music gives. It reworks "Higher" from Dance to the Music, which in turn has roots in "Advice", a song Sly co-wrote and arranged for Billy Preston's 1966 album The Wildest Organ in Town. Freddie Stone plays the bluesy guitar riff that opens it. Freddie, Graham, Rose and Sly take turns on lead, all seven members shout the backing vocals, and Sly, Robinson, Freddie, Graham and Martini each take an instrumental solo.

After the Woodstock film the single was reissued with this song as the A-side, and it reached number 38 in 1970. Ike & Tina Turner's cover that year peaked above it on the Hot 100, at number 34. At Woodstock, at three in the morning, Sly had the crowd chanting the cry of "higher!". The Guardian ranked it first among his songs, calling it "a riot of its own".

Others to cover it include Brian Auger & the Trinity, Kool & the Gang and the Jackson 5, who put it on Goin' Back to Indiana. Q magazine named it number 84 among its 100 greatest guitar tracks in 2005.