Mickey & Sylvia - Love is Strange & Love is a Treasure

My sister was obsessed with the Dirty Dancing movie when we were young. She used to watch it, and listen to the soundtrack over and over again, which obviously drove me completely insane!!!

Yet, now I'm older, I love several of those songs, it must have rubbed off on me somehow! This is great, as is Stay - Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs, and what is POSSIBLY my all time fave song Be My Baby - The Ronettes.

Hungry Eyes and I've Had the Time Of My Life still suck though. Big time

This was penned by the great Bo Diddley, but credited to his wife Ethel Smith.

Mickey Baker was guitarist on many hit songs including Shake, Rattle and Roll - Big Joe Turne.r

Sylvia Vanderpool put together The Sugarhill Gang to record their smash record Rappers Delight near the dawn of Hip Hop. As far as I know it was the first comercially released Hip Hop record.

This track was the first apperance of drummer Bernard Purdie.

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Music

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• Mickey & Sylvia
• Love is Strange
• Love is a Treasure
• Dirty Dancing
• Bernard Purdie
• Soul
• Rhythm & Blues

[FoxRunMan]

Sept 29 2011 - Sylvia passed away today - RIP.

[Steamstock]

@FoxRunMan for letting me know.

[drjimiboy69]

No less than the great JMH was influenced and inspired by the guitar stylings provided by this duo, especially the talking guitar sound and the quirky funk rhythms. Sylvia was no chick just bangin' the tambourine on her hip (not that there's anything wrong with that). She was a presence in her own right with a great business sense and an eye for talent. Ancestor of hip hop who was an owner of Sugar Hill Records. Deserves much credit in sexist/racist environment for her accomplishments.

[Steamstock]

@drjimiboy69 Thanks for the info.

[rmbion]

Saw M&S in the Fall, 1957 at the Chicago Civic Opera house. Billed as a "rock & Roll Show" by impresario and Chicago DJ, Marty Faye. We had balcony seats, but less than 100 people showed up, so we sat in the front row. The whole show was lip sync to the records, but it was terrific nevertheless. We all fell in love with Sylvia.

[Steamstock]

@rmbion Oh, thats cool!

[WARBIRD31]

LOOK at you flip that record!!! ...how many kids can do that today?

But then,how many kids have trouble with their ipods/phones?

Anyway,great stuff thanks for demo-ing this. Great guitar lick too.

Wonder if thats echo or reverb?

Mike

[UNbowed62]

R.I.P. Sylvia Robinson, Mother of HipHop.

[ILLSLAPAHO]

@FoxRunMan Yea man, I just read that. I heard this in dirty dancing too but I have to admit I did not know who she was. Now I do! Thanks man.

[EmilyARTS]

Excellent quality! Thanks! :)

[droningforever]

Just read about how Lou Reed was a Mickey and Silvia fan and how their guitar tone definitely influenced the one by The Velvets. And how, in the end, everything comes to Chuck Berry.

[yaesuham]

Nice Turntable, and a great song too. ~  Thanks for post