Mickey & Sylvia - Anthology: The Deluxe Collection (Remastered) (2020)

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Artist: Mickey & Sylvia
Title: Anthology: The Deluxe Collection (Remastered)
Year Of Release: 2020
Label: Master Tape Records
Genre: R&B, Soul, Pop, Doo-Wop
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 2:21:13
Total Size: 765 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01. Love Is Strange (Remastered)
02. Where Is My Honey? (Remastered)
03. Love Will Make You Fail in School (Remastered)
04. Who Knows Why (Remastered)
05. Baby You're so Fine (Remastered)
06. Peace of Mind (Remastered)
07. I've Got a Feeling (In My Heart) (Remastered)
08. Dearest (Remastered)
09. Drive Daddy Drive (Remastered)
10. I Went to Your Wedding (Remastered)
11. A Million Tears (Remastered)
12. Say the Word (Remastered)
13. Don't Blame My Heart (Remastered)
14. Too Much Weight (Remastered)
15. A New Idea on Love (Remastered)
16. The Ring (Remastered)
17. Blue Heaven (Remastered)
18. I Found Somebody to Love (Remastered)
19. Shake It Up (Remastered)
20. A Kiss for My Baby (Remastered)
21. Can't Get You on the Phone (Remastered)
22. I Miss You (Remastered)
23. Rock and Stroll Room (Remastered)
24. Ain't Gonna Do It (Remastered)
25. Bewildered (Remastered)
26. Everything I Need but You (Remastered)
27. True, True Love (Remastered)
28. I'm so Glad (Remastered)
29. It's You I Love (Remastered)
30. Se de Boom Run Dun (Remastered)
31. To the Valley (Remastered)
32. Forever and a Day (Remastered)
33. Oh Yeah! Uh Huh (Remastered)
34. Rise Sally Rise (Remastered)
35. Sweeter as the Days Go By (Remastered)
36. Mommy out de Light (Remastered)
37. Seems Like Just Yesterday (Remastered)
38. What Would I Do? (Remastered)
39. No Good Lover (Remastered)
40. This Is My Story (Remastered)
41. Love Lesson (Remastered)
42. Walkin' in the Rain (Remastered)
43. Love Is the Only Thing (Remastered)
44. I'm Going Home (Remastered)
45. Love Drops (Remastered)
46. There Oughta Be a Law (Remastered)
47. Darling I Miss You So (Remastered)
48. I'm Guilty (Remastered)
49. Since I Fell for You (Remastered)
50. Two Shadows on Your Window (Remastered)
51. He Gave Me Everything (Remastered)
52. Love Is a Treasure (Remastered)
53. Let's Have a Picnic (Remastered)
54. Love Is Strange 2 (Remastered)
55. There'll Be No Backin' Out (Remastered)
56. Walking in the Rain (Remastered)

Although this duo is primarily remembered as a one-hit act -- for "Love Is Strange," which reached number 11 in 1957 -- they actually recorded quite a few exciting hybrids of R&B and rock & roll in the mid- and late '50s. Playing on countless '50s sessions for various labels (especially Atlantic and OKeh), Mickey Baker was one of the greatest guitar players of early rock & roll. With his partner (and former guitar student) Sylvia Robinson, he got to stretch out a bit from his usual role, with some trailblazing, piercing, lean, and bluesy leads. Vocally, Mickey & Sylvia had an engagingly playful, occasionally sly and sassy repartee that makes up in charm what it might lack in smoke and firepower. Their recordings were inconsistent, but at their best they offered a fetching blend of blues, Bo Diddley, calypso, and doo wop.

After "Love Is Strange," whose devastating licks inspired countless guitarists, the duo notched a couple more substantial R&B hits. But although they recorded as late as 1965, they never approached the Top 20 again. Mickey Baker recorded as a solo artist and enjoyed a fairly successful career as an expatriate sessionman in France. Sylvia Robinson unexpectedly re-emerged with the number three pre-disco hit "Pillow Talk" in 1973, and co-founded the pioneering rap label Sugar Hill in the late '70s. ~ Richie Unterberger

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