Posted on 09/29/2011 12:20:27 PM PDT by Borges
Sylvia Robinson, the singer, songwriter and record producer who formed the Sugar Hill Gang and made the first commercially successful rap recording, died early Thursday morning at a hospital in New Jersey. She was 75.
Ms. Robinson had a notable career as a rhythm and blues singer long before she and her husband, Joe Robinson, formed Sugar Hill Records in 1979 and served as the midwives for a musical genre that came to dominate pop music.
She sang with Mickey Baker as part of the duo Mickey & Sylvia in the 1950s and had several hits, including Love Is Strange, which was a No. 1 R&B song in 1956. She also had a solo hit, under the name Sylvia, in spring of 1973 with her own composition Pillow Talk.
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Victor Lundberg's An Open Letter to My Teenage Son was another "rap" release, circa 1967. The spoken word lyrics ended powerfully and patriotically:
And I love you too, Son.
But I also love our country and the principles for which we stand. And if you decide to burn your draft card, then burn your birth certificate at the same time.
From that moment on, I have no son!
That stuff wasn’t hip hop; hip hop is crap and vulgar.Sugar Hill Gang in the late 70’s was quality and fun to listen to and move around...hip hop is crap and is a lot of anger and hate...same as the crap the Seattle grunge music puts out...whinny and angry, etc.
JC wasn’t holding his crotch when he was singing so it doesn’t count.
But he was in a prison...........
Good Riddance.
“The Mother of Hip Hop.”
She mated with a rabbit?
Sounds a lot like Andy Sandler's "rap" skit on SNL.
I’m guessing nobody’s quite sure who the father of Hip-Hop is......
This is one of the first songs I remember on the radio that made me want to dance... I was 6 years old. :) They played this song many-a-time in “House” Clubs in the late 80s/early 90s, too. Still makes me want to move! LOL
May she RIP...
Technically, Adam Sandler's rap on SNL would sound like Rapper's Delight because it's 20+ years older than.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OXLcUbkgFg
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