I Want To Take You Higher is a cover version from the band Sly and the Family Stone, released as the second single from the album Come Together. Ike & Tina promoted it at several TV-Shows and performed it live in their concerts, available on the album Live In Paris and the home video Live In '71. Thirty years later in 2000, Tina used this song as the opening track for her Twenty Four Seven Tour. The single was reviewed in Billboard magazine in it’s issue from May 16, 1970 and was reissued under the Silver Spotlight Series.
- I Want To Take You Higher 2:52
- Contact High 2:17
Producer: Ike Turner
Release: May 1970 (USA) / June 1970 (Europe)
Reissue: 1973
Label: Liberty
Format: 7“ Vinyl
Charts: USA: #25 (R&B) / #34 (Pop)
Album: Come Together
Above: Pearl Baily Show / Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert / Below: Top à Régine / Bill Cosby Show
TV-Appearances
USA: Playboy After Dark (February 03, 1970) / Everly Brothers Show (August 05, 1970) / Andy Williams Show (September 26, 1970) / Pearl Baily Show (March 27, 1971) / Soul Train (April 22, 1972) / Bill Cosby Show (December 04, 1972) / Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert (March 12, 1976) France: Deux Sur La 2 (February 18, 1971) / Top à Régine (November 11, 1972) Germany: Beat Club (February 27, 1971) / Hits a GoGo (December 14, 1973) Italy: Rai Uno (March 13, 1971) Australia: Countdown (November 27, 1975)