Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sly and the Family Stone was an American funk band formed in San Francisco, California in 1966 and active until 1983. They are considered to be pivotal in the development of funk, soul, R&B, rock, and psychedelic music.
Sly and the Family Stone discography; Studio albums: 10: Live albums: 2: Compilation albums: 6: Singles: 19: This is the discography of the American band Sly and the ...
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.
Stand! begins with the title track on which Sly sings lead, a mid-tempo number launching into a gospel break for its final forty-nine seconds. [15] Most of the Family Stone was unavailable for the session at which this coda was recorded: Sly, drummer Gregg Errico and horn players Cynthia Robinson and Jerry Martini were augmented by session players instead.
The 24 September issue of Cash Box suggests that the album was issued in a 7" album format (cat Epic 26397). The reviewer said that Sly & the Family Stone had emerged as one of the most popular groups to jukebox audiences across the US.
There's a Riot Goin' On is the fifth studio album by the American funk and soul band Sly and the Family Stone.It was recorded from 1970 to 1971 at Record Plant Studios in Sausalito, California and released later that year on November 1 by Epic Records. [7]
Back on the Right Track is a studio album by Sly and the Family Stone, released by Warner Bros. Records in 1979. [2] The album was, as its title alludes to, an overt comeback attempt for Sly Stone. However, the album and its singles, "Remember Who You Are" and "The Same Thing (Makes You Laugh, Makes You Cry)", failed to live up to expectations.
"Family Affair" is a 1971 number-one hit single recorded by Sly and the Family Stone for the Epic Records label. Their first new material since the double A-sided single "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)"/ "Everybody Is a Star" nearly two years prior, "Family Affair" became the third and final number-one pop single for the band.