"Pillow Talk" - Sylvia

[ClassicCase]

.....as in Sylvia Vanderpool then later Sylvia Robinson. This is a one-hit wonder that only went to #3 on the pop singles chart and in R&B somewhere in the top 10. It's one of those seductive teasable songs that gives you an idea that if Marilyn Monroe were alive in 1973, she would record it and take it to #1. Wishful thiking, but that would never happen.

[stevie nice]

yep i have this 45 too, i think the label is called Platinum or something. I didn't find out until years after Sugar Hill Records started that she was owner. I guess that means she was pretty much the one who opened the doors to rap and hip-hop music.

[ClassicCase]

Actually according to Billboard's Top 40 Hits, it was her husband Joe Robinson that owned the Platinum label which later became Sugar Hill in which the Sugar Hill Gang opened doors to a new style of music called rap. You might say that it was a family affair of sorts.

[Deleted]

Yes, this is a very good song. She rapped too. "It's Good To Be The Queen" is one of my favorite old school rap songs.

[reception]

I like it.

[areyoureadytojump]

Peaked at #3 on the Hot 100.

[tico]

Very seductive indeed. A song that can really get you in the mood to make love.

[Deleted]

RIP Slyvia

From Wikipedia:

Sylvia had originally hoped the song would be recorded by Al Green, who turned it down as he thought it was too risqué and against his religion. She eventually recorded "Pillow Talk" and released it in 1973. The drums on the recorded version seem to have been influenced by the productions of Willie Mitchell for Green.

"Pillow Talk" spent two weeks at number one on the Best Selling Soul Singles chart and peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100[1] and is an early example of prototypical disco music. The vocals are replete with moaning and heavy breathing, predating Donna Summer's orgasmic moans on 1975's "Love to Love You Baby". The drumming rhythm would reappear in 1985 on Kate Bush's "Running Up that Hill", then again in 1987 on Fleetwood Mac's "Big Love".

[Soulsista]

Love it.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Love it. So classy and sexy at the same time.

[disman00911]

Annoying.  This is overplayed in several of the 70s online stations I listen to.