 From this point on, the Temptations focused almost exclusively on songs about romance.However, songs about social issues similar to the recordings made during Whitfield's tenure were periodically produced as well.Temptations recordings of the mid 1970s focused significantly on the influences of funk music from artists such as Parliament-Funkadelic and Sly and the Family Stone, and members of both acts contributed significantly to material recorded by the group during this period.