High on You

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This article is about the Sly & the Family Stone album. For the Survivor song, see High on You (song).
High On You
High On You cover
Studio album by Sly Stone
Released November 8, 1975
Recorded 1974 - 1975
Genre Funk
Length 39:46
Label Epic
PE 33835
Producer Sly Stone
Professional reviews
Sly Stone chronology
Small Talk
(1974)		 High on You
(Sly Stone)
(1975)		 Heard You Missed Me, Well I'm Back
(1976)

High on You is the eighth album by Sly & the Family Stone, released by Epic/CBS Records in 1975. This album is credited solely to singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Sly Stone, and reflects the beginnings of change in the concept of "Sly & the Family Stone". Formerly a tangible self-contained band, the Family Stone broke up in January 1975 after a disastrous booking at the Radio City Music Hall. At this point, most of the band members parted company with Stone, except for trumpetist Cynthia Robinson.

Contents

[edit] Overview

From this point on, each "Sly & the Family Stone" album would essentially be a Sly Stone solo recording, with contributions from a varying group of collaborators. Sometimes, members of the original Family Stone would participate in the sessions, and sometimes session players and new members would work with Stone as well. For the most part, however, Stone performed a large part of the instrumentation for each song on his own using multitracking (as he had been doing for Family Stone LPs since There's a Riot Goin' On in 1971). This album, like the others, includes a combination of all three types of recordings, plus a handful of songs recorded before the band's dissolution.

High on You's first single was the R&B number-three hit "I Get High on You". Stone, a known drug user, compares making love with a woman to "getting high". The LP's second single, "Le Lo Li", failed to chart within the R&B Top 40, as did the third, "Crossword Puzzle". All three singles missed the U.S. pop Top 40.

Besides its standard stereo release, High on You was also released in quadraphonic sound.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Sylvester Stewart and produced by Sly Stone, unless otherwise noted.

[edit] Side one

  1. "I Get High On You" - 3:15
  2. "Crossword Puzzle" - 2:57
  3. "That's Lovin' You" - 2:58
  4. "Who Do You Love?" - 3:42
  5. "Green Eyed Monster Girl" - 3:55

[edit] Side two

  1. "Organize" (Sylvester Stewart, Freddie Stewart) - 3:22
  2. "Le Lo Li" - 3:20
  3. "My World" - 3:26
  4. "So Good To Me" - 3:24
  5. "Greed" - 4:13

[edit] Personnel

  • Sly Stone: vocals, keyboards, guitar, bass, various instruments
  • Little Sister (Dawn Silva, Tiny Melton, Vet Stewart, Rudy Love): background vocals
  • Freddie Stone: vocals, guitar
  • Jerry Martini: saxophones
  • Dennis Marcellino: saxophone
  • Cousin Gale (Gail Muldrow): guitar
  • Bobby Vega: bass ("I Get High on You")
  • Rusty Allen: bass ("Organize")
  • Michael Samuels: drums ("Crossword Puzzle" and "Monster Girl")
  • Jim Strassburg: drums ("I Get High on You," "Who Do You Love," "My World," "So Good to Me," and "Greed")
  • Willie Wild Sparks: drums ("Le Lo Li")
  • Bill Lordan: drums ("That's Lovin' You")
  • Cynthia Robinson: trumpet, vocals
  • "Little Moses": organ ("I Get High On You")
  • Bobby Lyles, Tricky Truman Governor (Truman Thomas): keyboards