as.if.recordsjust played: sylvia — "you sure love to ball" (1973). that's sylvia robinson.
quiet-storm soul, the follow-up to her "pillow talk" hit.
six years later she built sugar hill records, assembled the sugarhill gang and produced "rapper's delight". the woman who turned rap into a record business was a soul siren first — and before all of it, half of mickey & sylvia, "love is strange", 1956.
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cover: sylvia, vibration records 1973
