''High on You'' is the first solo album by singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist

Sly Stone Sylvester Stewart (born March 15, 1943), better known by his stage name Sly Stone, is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer who is most famous for his role as frontman for Sly and the Family Stone, playing a critical role in the ...

, released by Epic/

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in 1975.

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broke up in January 1975 after a disastrous booking at the

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. At this point, most of the band members parted company with Stone, except for trumpeter

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, his brother guitarist

Freddie Stone Freddie Stone (born Frederick Jerome Stewart, June 5, 1947) is an American pastor and musician, best known as a co-founder, guitarist, and vocalist in the band Sly and the Family Stone, fronted by his brother Sly and including his sister Rose ...

, and backup singers Little Sister. With subsequent recordings, Stone returned to using the name of his former band, although they were largely solo recordings.

Overview

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 ''

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'' in 1971). This album includes a combination of newly recorded solo material with a handful of songs recorded before the Family Stone's dissolution. ''High on You's'' first single was the R&B number-three hit "I Get High on You". 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

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sound.

Track listing

''All songs written by

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and produced by

, unless otherwise noted.''

Side one

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

Side two

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

Personnel

*Sly Stone - vocals, keyboards, guitar, bass, various instruments * Little Sister (Dawn Silva, Tiny Melton, Vet Stewart, Rudy Love) - background vocals *

- vocals, guitar *

Jerry Martini Gerald L. Martini (born October 1, 1942) is an American musician, best known for being the saxophonist for Sly and the Family Stone. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 as a member of Sly and the Family Stone. Early lif ...

- saxophones *

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- saxophone *Cousin Gale (Gail Muldrow) - guitar *Bobby Vega - bass on "I Get High on You" *

Rusty Allen Rustee Allen (born March 3, 1951) is an American musician best known as the bass guitar player for the influential funk band Sly and the Family Stone from 1972 to 1975. Allen replaced founding Family Stone member Larry Graham, who was forced ou ...

- bass on "Organize" *Michael Samuels - drums on "Crossword Puzzle" and "Monster Girl" *Jim Strassburg - drums on "I Get High on You", "Who Do You Love", "My World", "So Good to Me" and "Greed" *Willie Wild Sparks - drums on "Le Lo Li" *

Bill Lordan Bill Lordan (born May 22, 1947 in Minneapolis, MN), is an American rock music drummer who has been in a number of bands, such as The Mystics, Gypsy, Robin Trower Band and Sly & The Family Stone. He began playing in sixth grade when his teacher ...

- drums on "That's Lovin' You" *

- trumpet, vocals *"Little Moses" - organ on "I Get High On You" *Bobby Lyles, Tricky Truman Governor (Truman Thomas) - keyboards *Sid Page - violin ;Technical *Karat Faye - engineer

References

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