"Stand!" is a 1969 song by the soul/rock/funk band Sly & the Family Stone. The song's title and lyrics are a call for its listeners to "stand" up for themselves, their communities, and what they believe in. Like nearly all of Sly & the Family Stone's songs, Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart was credited as the sole songwriter.
The original mix of "Stand!" garnered a warm, yet unenthusiastic, reaction when Sly Stone had an early acetate of the record played in a San Francisco club. As a result, Stone went back into the studio and had the song's final section, a fevered gospel music-styled break, rerecorded. Most of the Family Stone was unavailable for the session, and Stone resorted to using mostly studio musicians for the rerecorded section.
"I Want to Take You Higher", the b-side of "Stand!", was also a hit single in 1969/1970.
In 2004 the song was ranked #241 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
"Stand" is a song by R.E.M. released as the first single from Green in 1989. The song quickly rose up the charts, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming R.E.M.'s second top 10 hit in the United States. Only Losing My Religion, which reached #4 in 1991, has been a bigger pop hit in the U.S. for the band. The song reached #48 on the UK Singles Charts, becoming what was then R.E.M.'s biggest hit in the United Kingdom.
"Weird Al" Yankovic parodied "Stand" for his 1989 album, UHF, as "Spam".
Stand was used as the opening theme to the early 1990s Fox comedy, Get a Life, starring Chris Elliott.
The song was placed on R.E.M.'s Warner Bros. Records "best of" album In Time - The Best of R.E.M. 1988-2003 in 2003.
The song is an example of "truck driver's gear change", as the last two rounds of the chorus are each one semitone higher than the one previous .
"Stand" is a dance-pop song written and produced by American singer-songwriter Jewel and songwriter/producer Lester Mendez for Jewel's fourth studio album, 0304 (2003). Released as the album's second single in October 2003 in the United States and later on internationally, the single failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. It nevertheless managed chart on the Hot 100 Singles Sales at number sixteen, and also became Jewel's third consecutive chart-topper on the Hot Dance Club Play, the first two being "Serve the Ego" and "Intuition".
Singaporean singer Celest recorded a Mandarin-language version of the song in 2004.
Stand is the name of many songs, Stand by the country trio Rascal Flatts. It was written by Danny Orton & Blair Daly. It was produced in a video and is currently on the album, Me And My Gang, the fourth album from Rascal Flatts.
"Stand" is a hit by country music band Rascal Flatts. It is the fourth single released from their Me and My Gang album. The song became their seventh number-one hit on Hot Country Songs chart on the week of May 12, 2007.
