Gold, the instrumental is extended as well as the ending portion, which includes Reeves singing more ad-libs while her group mates continue to sing the word "burning" repeatedly. The success of "Heat Wave" helped popularize both Martha and the Vandellas and Holland-Dozier-Holland, while cementing Motown as a strong musical force. The Martha and the Vandellas version was featured in the 1970 film The Boys in the Band, in a scene in which several of the characters perform an impromptu line dance to the recording. It also appeared in Brian De Palma's 1976 film Carrie and was also featured in the 1979's More American Graffiti and is included on the film’s soundtrack album. In the 1992 film Sister Act, Whoopi Goldberg sings the song (arranged by Marc Shaiman) as part of her Vegas nightclub act saluting '60s girl groups. In a 2007 DVD entitled "The Lovin' Spoonful with John Sebastian – Do You Believe in Magic", author Sebastian illustrates how he sped up the three-chord intro from "Heat Wave" to come up with the intro to "Do You Believe in Magic". Billboard named the song number 12 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs. In 2021, it was listed at No. 257 on Rolling Stone's Top 500 Best Songs. Personnel Lead vocals – Martha Reeves Background vocals – Rosalind Ashford and Annette Beard Produced by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier Written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Edward Holland, Jr. Instrumentation by the Funk Brothers: Richard "Pistol" Allen – drums James Jamerson – double bass Joe Hunter – piano Robert White – guitar Eddie Willis – guitar Andrew "Mike" Terry – baritone saxophone solo Chart performance Linda Ronstadt version Background Linda Ronstadt remade "Heat Wave" for her album Prisoner in Disguise which was recorded at The Sound Factory in Hollywood between February and June 1975 and released that October. Ronstadt's sideman Andrew Gold told Rolling Stone: "[her] band had been trying to get Linda to add it to her [live] set ...one night at a Long Island club called My Father's Place we received six encores and we'd run of tunes. One of us yelled out 'Heat Wave in D' and we did it. [The band was] awfully sloppy but the crowd really liked it. So we kept the song in our set." Michael Epstein the manager of My Father's Place states he was responsible for Ronstadt's singing "Heat