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Mickey & Sylvia Robinson:
🎵 Love Is Strange
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Sylvia Robinson
90 years ago today, #SylviaRobinson, American rocker (Mickey & Sylvia - "Love Is Strange"), born in Harlem, New York (d. 2011).
#HappyBirthday #RIP 🕯️
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Mickey & Sylvia Robinson:
🎵 Love Is Strange
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Meet Sylvia Robinson: She Pushed Hip-Hop Into the Mainstream and Left a Legacy That Still Shapes the Culture: Sylvia Robinson didn’t just spot talent; she spotted the future. Long before hip-hop was a cultural force, or even a recognized… #HipHop #SylviaRobinson #MusicLegend #CulturalImpact #Legacy
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Sylvia Robinson graphic for Ahmet Ertegun Award from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
#QuickSidenote Sylvia Robinson was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022 as a recipient of the Ahmet Ertegun Award for her significant influence as the founder of Sugar Hill Records and a visionary in early hip-hop. #SylviaRobinson #OneHitWondered
#QuickSidenote To further go down an ever-deepening rabbit hole, Sylvia Robinson had a #Billboard pre-Hot 100 era hit in 1957 as part of the R&B duo Mickey & Sylvia with "Love Is Strange." #Mickey&Sylvia #LoveIsStrange #SylviaRobinson #OneHitWondered
#OneHitHistory Disco duo Shirley & Company earned US #OneHitWonder honors in 1975 with “Shame, Shame, Shame,” which was written & produced by Sylvia Robinson. Legend has it that Sylvia coaxed her old friend Shirley Goodman into recording the song… #SylviaRobinson #Shirley&Company #OneHitWondered
#OneHitHistory Remembering ‘Mother of Hip-Hop’ Sylvia Robinson, who #DOTD in 2011… Then mononymously known as Sylvia, she earned US #OneHitWonder honors in 1973 when her sultry slow jam “Pillow Talk” spent 13 weeks on the US #Billboard #Top40, peaking at #3. #SylviaRobinson #OneHitWondered
#OnThisDay in 2011, #SylviaRobinson, American singer (Mickey & Sylvia - "Love Is Strange"; solo - "Pillow Talk"), record producer, and record label executive (Sugar Hill Records), died of congestive heart failure at 76.
#RIP 🪽🥀
#QuickSidenote “Shame, Shame, Shame” is credited as written & produced by Sylvia Robinson… Legend has it that Sylvia coaxed her old friend Shirley Goodman into recording the song… earning US #OneHitWonder honors in 1975. #SylviaRobinson #OneHitWondered
#QuickSidenote Sylvia Robinson is also known as a US #OneHitWonder honoree! Then mononymously known as Sylvia, her sultry slow jam “Pillow Talk” peaked at #3 on the US #Billboard #Top40 the week ending June 9, 1973. Sylvia also co-wrote & co-produced. #SylviaRobinson #OneHitWondered
#OneHitHistory #OTD in 1979, “Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugarhill Gang” was released by Sylvia Robinson’s Sugar Hill Records. The song made history as the first rap song to reach the US #Billboard #Top40… earning the trio their US #OneHitWonder honors. #SugarhillGang #SylviaRobinson #OneHitWondered
Sylvia Robinson- Black History Fun Facts 💿
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#Interestingly Sylvia’s biggest impact came behind the scenes. In 1979, she co-founded Sugar Hill Records (named after a Harlem, NY neighborhood) and recognized the rising power of hip-hop long before the mainstream music industry caught on. #SylviaRobinson #OneHitWondered #MusicSky
#Interestingly Sylvia began recording in the early 1950s… She teamed up with guitarist Mickey Baker to form Mickey & Sylvia, & the R&B duo had a pre-hot 100 era hit in 1957 with the R&B crossover “Love Is Strange.” #SylviaRobinson #OneHitWondered #MusicSky
#Interestingly Released on Vibration Records, which Sylvia co-founded, “Pillow Talk” was a bold, intimate song… it was originally offered to Al Green, who passed on it. Sylvia, who’d stepped back from performing, decided to return to the spotlight. #SylviaRobinson #OneHitWondered #MusicSky
#OneHitHistory The sultry slow jam “Pillow Talk” by US #OneHitWonder honoree Sylvia Robinson (mononymously known as Sylvia) peaked at #3 on the US #Billboard #Top40 the week ending June 9, 1973. Sylvia also co-wrote & co-produced. #SylviaRobinson #OneHitWondered #MusicSky
The Godmother of #HipHop #HipHopMusic #SylviaRobinson #BlackHistory #MusicHistory
#OnThisDay in 1935, #SylviaRobinson, American singer (Mickey & Sylvia - "Love Is Strange"; solo - "Pillow Talk"), record producer, and record label executive (Sugar Hill Records), born in Harlem, New York (d. 2011).
#RIP 🥀
#OTD #TDIH #May29, 1935: #HBD #SylviaRobinson! #AfricanAmericans #Singers #Songwriters #Guitarists #RecordProducers #RecordExecutives #Beauties #MickeyAndSylvia #Blues #RAndB #RNB #RockMusic #SoulMusic #Funk #Disco #HipHop #SugarHillRecords #MusicSky
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#OTD #TDIH #May29, 1935: #HBD #SylviaRobinson! #AfricanAmericans #Singers #Songwriters #Guitarists #RecordProducers #RecordExecutives #Beauties #MickeyAndSylvia #Blues #RAndB #RNB #RockMusic #SoulMusic #Funk #Disco #HipHop #SugarHillRecords #MusicSky
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#OTD #TDIH #May29, 1935: #HBD #SylviaRobinson! #AfricanAmericans #Singers #Songwriters #Guitarists #RecordProducers #RecordExecutives #Beauties #MickeyAndSylvia #Blues #RAndB #RNB #RockMusic #SoulMusic #Funk #Disco #HipHop #SugarHillRecords #MusicSky
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........29/5 in another space and time #SylviaRobbins #SylviaRobinson www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr_a...
........29/5 love in space and time, space age #SylviaRobinson www.youtube.com/watch?v=B17o...
........29/5 Queen Of Sugarhill #SylviaRobinson
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Nouvel épisode de Hoop Culture avec un invité très spécial : Real Muzul !
#hoopculture #nba #sylviarobinson #getbusy #hiphop #soul #realmuzul
My portrait of Sylvia Robinson. Sugar Hill Records producer and singer. The Mother of Hip Hop
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Here’s the studio version of “Go Away Little Boy,” by #MarlenaShaw. My adolescent mind and spirit were riveted by the story + Shaw’s artistic mastery here, whew! As it is with #GwenMcCrae—#MarlenaShaw, #SylviaRobinson and a few other BW 20thC singers were unique Trailblazers youtu.be/uK391aF6Tu4?...