IKE & TINA: Song

I Want To Take You Higher

is a song from the band 'Sly and the Family Stone', released as the b-side on their single „Stand!“ in 1969. Ike & Tina covered it in 1970 for their album Come Together and released it also as a very successful single. They performed the song the following years repeatedly in their concerts, available on many live albums like Live In Paris. Tina Turner used it in 2000 as the opening number at her Twenty Four Seven Tour, after she didn’t performed the song for a quarter of a century.

Writer: Sylvester Stewart
Producer: Ike Turner
Album: Come Together (1970) / Live In Paris (1971) / What You Hear Is What You Get (1971) / Live at Circus Krone (1993) / Live In '71 (2004) / From Rivers Deep To Mountain Highs (2023)
Single: I Want To Take You Higher (1970)
Video: One Last Time (2000) / Live In '71 (2004)
Charts: USA: #25 (R&B) / #34 (Pop)

  1. I Want To Take You Higher 2:55
  2. From the album 'Come Together'
  3. I Want To Take You Higher (Different Version) 3:47
  4. From the album 'Delilah's Power'
  5. I Want To Take You Higher (Reworked Version) 3:43
  6. From the sampler 'Those Were The Days'
  7. I Want To Take You Higher (Live) 4:42
  8. From the album 'Live In Paris' with a concert from the Olympia Theater on January 30, 1971
  9. I Want To Take You Higher (Live) 3:16
  10. I Want To Take You Higher (Live Reprise) 4:21
  11. From the album and home video 'Live In '71' with a concert from the Kurhaus in Scheveningen, Netherlands on February 11, 1971
  12. I Want To Take You Higher (Live) 3:35
  13. From the album 'What You Hear Is What You Get' with a concert from the Carnegie Hall in New York City on April 1, 1971
  14. I Want To Take You Higher (Live) 2:52
  15. From the album 'From Rivers Deep To Mountain Highs' with a performance at 'Soul Train' on September 30, 1972
  16. I Want To Take You Higher (Live) 2:47
  17. From the album 'Live at Circus Krone' with a concert from Munich, Germany in 1973
  18. I Want To Take You Higher (Live) 2:44
  19. From the album 'From Rivers Deep To Mountain Highs' with a performance at the 'Don Kirshner's Rock Concert' on March 12, 1976

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