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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.
Sly and the Family Stone’s first album, “A Whole New Thing,” was too ahead of its time to catch on (it was a commercial dud), and Sly was told that to save the band he needed to create a hit ...
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 .
Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the American group Sly and the Family Stone.It was first released on November 21, 1970, by Epic Records. [1] The album includes all of the singles from the albums Dance to the Music (1968), Life (1968), and Stand!
Sly Stone, founder, frontman and namesake of Sly and the Family Stone, has deserved to be the subject of a documentary since the heyday of his eponymous, chart-topping, mixed-gender, racially ...
Alkema is accompanied by the Dutch twin biographers Arno and Edwin Konings. Sly Stone's sister: Vaetta Stewart gives a series of performances in Europe where Sly performs a number of songs. This is where the documentary Dance to the Music ends. In Coming Back for More the story continues. Alkema speaks to Sly in hotel rooms.
Left to right: Freddie Stone, Sly Stone, Rose Stone, Larry Graham, Cynthia Robinson, Jerry Martini, and Greg Errico. She was a founding member of Sly and the Family Stone , starting in 1966. Robinson was among the first female trumpeters in a major American band, and the first such player in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .