Dance to the Music (Sly and the Family Stone album)

Dance to the Music
Studio album by
Sly and the Family Stone
ReleasedApril 1968[1]
Recorded1967
GenrePsychedelic funk[2]
Length37:54
LabelEpic
ProducerSly Stone
Sly and the Family Stone chronology
A Whole New Thing
(1967) 		Dance to the Music
(1968) 		Life
(1968)

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.

  1. ^ "Billboard". April 13, 1968.
  2. ^ Hanson, Michael Stephen (2004). People Get Ready: Race, Place and Political Identity in Post-civil Rights Black Popular Music, 1965-1975. UC Berkeley. p. 124.