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"Dance to the Music" is a 1967 hit single by soul/funk/rock band Sly and the Family Stone for the Epic/CBS Records label. It was the first single by the band to reach the Billboard Pop Singles Top 10, peaking at #8 and the first to popularize the band's sound, which would be emulated throughout the black music industry and dubbed "psychedelic soul". [2]
Dance to the Music is the second studio album by funk/soul band Sly and the Family Stone, released in 1968 on Epic/CBS Records.It contains the Top Ten hit single of the same name, which was influential in the formation and popularization of the musical subgenre of psychedelic soul and helped lay the groundwork for the development of funk music.
Music critic Joel Selvin wrote, "there are two types of black music: black music before Sly Stone, and black music after Sly Stone". [8] In 2010, they were ranked 43rd in Rolling Stone ' s 100 Greatest Artists of All Time , [ 9 ] and three of their albums are included on the most recent version of Rolling Stone ' s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time .
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications; US [1]US R&B HH [2]AUS [3]CAN JPN [4]UK [5]A Whole New Thing: Released: October 1967; Label: Epic 195 — Dance to the Music
Sly and the Family Stone in 1968. Left to right: Freddie Stone, Sly Stone, Rose Stone, Larry Graham, Cynthia Robinson, Jerry Martini, and Greg Errico. It was at Martini's suggestion that Sly and the Family Stone came about, and he became one of its key figures. [2] The group would become to be known as Sly and the Family Stone.
[61] In addition to being featured near the top of several major publications' "best album" lists, Riot was also ranked at number 99 on Rolling Stone ' s 2003 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list, [62] one of four Sly & the Family Stone entries to be included on the list; it is the second ...
As a member of Sly and the Family Stone, Errico played at Woodstock music festival in 1969. Sly and the Family Stone in 1968. Left to right: Freddie Stone, Sly Stone, Rose Stone, Larry Graham, Cynthia Robinson, Jerry Martini, and Greg Errico. Errico toured with jazz-fusion group Weather Report in 1973/74, but never made a studio recording with ...
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 development of funk with his pioneering fusion of soul, rock, psychedelia and gospel in the 1960s and 1970s.