“Dance to the Music” was one of the most influential songs of the late-1960s. The Sly and the Family Stone sound became the dominating sound in African-American pop music for the next three years, and many established artists, such as The Temptations and their producer Norman Whitfield, Diana Ross & the Supremes, The Impressions, The Four Tops, The 5th Dimension, and War began turning out Family Stone-esque material. The Temptations, in fact, rode their first “Dance to the Music”-inspired single, “Cloud Nine”, all the way to the Pop Top Ten and to a 1968 Grammy Award. “Dance to the Music” and the later Family Stone singles also helped lead to the development of what is now known as funk music.