Sylvia Robinson And All Platinum Soul Sound Studios
Posted by: Fusion 45 in Classic Recording Studios, tags: al green, bo diddley, donna summer, mickey and sylvia, sugar hill gang, sylvia robinson
I had no idea before today that Sylvia Robinson was such a pioneer in the world of soul music.
As Sylvia Vanderpool she was one half of the famed duo, Mickey And Sylvia, who scored a Top 10 hit in 1957 with their cover of Bo Diddley’s Love Is Strange.
In 1964, Vanderpool married Joe Robinson and together they launched All Platinum Soul Sound Studios as well as the All Platinum, Stacy and Vibration labels.
In 1973, Robinson pitched a new song to Al Green, but the risque content didn’t fit Green’s style. So Robinson recorded the track herself and Pillow Talk became a huge hit. Known as a precursor to the disco movement, Pillow Talk’s sly groove and cooing vocals set the table for many that followed (not the least of which was Donna Summer’s Love To Love You Baby).
Were that not enough, Robinson is widely considered the Godmother of Rap Music. It was her label, Sugar Hill Records, and her discovery, The Sugar Hill Gang, that essentially launched the commercial viability of rap music with their massive 1979 hit, Rapper’s Delight.
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I am ASTOUNDED that Sylvia is Sylvia of Mickey and Sylvia !!!!
I believe that Sylvia is the type of woman that let a man be a man. When the Bible states that a woman was formed from the rib of a man, she must have been thought about, because she stuck by the side of Joe Robinson, and helped build him up with probably no thought about herself. The pillow talk sounds in her music let a person no that this is how a woman is suppose to sound, and not talking filthy as a man would. Her music is second to none though she did not receive the knowariety like others.
do you think most people think of the movie Dirty Dancing when they hear that Mickey and Sylvia song?
That Bill Medley tune…Time Of Your Life, I think…THAT one makes me think of Dirty Dancing. Mickey and Sylvia reminds me of listening to late night radio in the summertime.