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Sylvia ~ Pillow Talk 1973 Soul Purrfection Version

If Sylvia Robinson had had her way, it would have been Al Green on the vocals of "Pillow Talk". She wrote the song with him in mind, but I guess it was a little too overtly sexy for him and he turned it down. Undaunted she recorded the song herself and the sexy sighs "ay ya ya" she breathed beat Donna Summer to the punch by two years. She was born May 29, 1935 as Sylvia Vanderpool in Harlem, New York. She always loved to sing and dropped out of high school at the age of 14 to begin recording music for Columbia Records in 1950 as Little Sylvia. Four years later she met Mickey Baker and they named themselves Mickey & Sylvia. In 1956 the duo recorded "Love Is Strange" which crossed the color lines becoming a #1 R&B and a #11 Hot100 hit. They broke up the band in 1959, unable to come up with a suitable follow up song. She went solo, but soon realized that as a cduo, they could record again and they did some background vocal work for Ike & Tina Turner. She married Joseph Robinson Jr that same year, and they stayed together until his death in 2000. Baker became disillusioned with the business and moved to Paris, effectively ending the new relationship in 1964. She went ahead and opened All Platinum Records writing, producing and performing on most of the songs. The Moments, Whatnauts, Retta Young and Shirley & Company all benefitted from her expertise. In 1973 she turned her attentions to herself with "Pillow Talk" that connected with just about everyone everywhere at it peaked at #1 R&B for two weeks and #3 on the Hot100. I believe the Al Green story, if you listen to the music track, the drums sound like Al Green's style. It became All Platinum's most successful single ever and the first single released on the new Vibration label. The Shirley & Company "Shame Shame Shame" single followed in 1975 and that opened even more doors. She opened Sugarhill Records and released the stone cold classic "Rappers Delight" in 1979 that changed the course of popular music towards hip hop. Longtime label act The Moments have a footnote. A trio of them; Al Goodman, Harry Ray and Billy Brown quit All Platinum and signed with Polydor records,. Sylvia asserted her legal right to the name The Moments and they were not the Moments anymore. So they chose Ray, Goodman & Brown. No matter, with a single as strong as "Special Lady" and the veteran vocals of Ray, Goodman & Brown it secured the #1 R&B and a #5 Hot100 hit in early 1980. She passed away on September 29, 2011 from congestive heart failure. I remember her from Mickey & Sylvia back in 1956 with "Love Is Strange", the song used for the now iconic scene in Dirty Dancing. Ya gotta hand it to woman who had her own successful recording career and guided a raft of other bands on All Platinum/Vibration labels and set the scene for American popular and R&B music for years to come. Don'tcha love the way she is stylin'?