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If You Want Me To Stay

Certain Songs #2264: Sly & The Family Stone – “If You Want Me To Stay”

January 12, 2022 by Jim Connelly

Album: Fresh
Year: 1973

. . .

And this is where I came, kinda sorta.

I started listening hardcore to the radio in the spring of 1973, meaning that I ended up hearing “If You Want Me To Stay” a zillion times on 1300 KYNO-AM, and probably taped it off the radio, as well. And so, like a lot of the songs from that era, I know every single bit of it, and yet — because I was listening to it through shitty transistor radio speakers — can still discover nuances in it.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Fresh, If You Want Me To Stay, Sly & The Family Stone

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