"You Got It (Release It)" was by far my favorite by them. The sound of the guitars and the chords they play, plus the harmonies, pushed all of my power pop buttons!
As many know, this is the same Sylvia of Mickey and Sylvia ("Love Is Strange") fame. Also, one of three instances I know of where totally unrelated artists with exactly the same name charted in the Billboard Top 40. That's a trivia question I came up with years ago. Don't want to derail the thread from its purpose, but if anyone wants to take a quick crack at naming the other two (or others I don't know about)…
Derail away. Just you and me here. Didn't want to cheat. I give up. Only thing I can come up with in a mini minor similar vein is song Venus by Booby Vinton (or Vee) and by Shocking Blue.
True, and this is among the few instances of same song titles/different songs that both went to #1. And in fact, the second "Venus" went to #1 again in the version by Bananarama. (The first "Venus" was by Frankie Avalon.) But what I'm talking about is artists with exactly the same name that made the Top 40 charts who were entirely different artists. The first of the three pairs I know of is your "Pillow Talk" Sylvia and the country artist Sylvia, who charted pop as well as country with "Nobody." As for the other two, I'll give you a hint: they're both groups rather than individual singers — and the better-known of both pairs are, well, pretty well-known.
Got one I think - The Beat - late '70's new wavish (Paul Collins - Don't you know that it's different for girls and Don't wait up for me) and the (English) Beat - they musta had a hit ...
Unfortunately, neither of these groups made the Billboard Top 40 charts. I was a fan of Paul Collins' Beat, as I was of his first band, The Nerves. Both bands were known simply as "The Beat" in their native lands, but the UK group had its records released stateside as The English Beat. The U.S. group started being billed as "Paul Collins' Beat" on some of their later releases. I won't prolong the agony! Here, besides Sylvia, are the two examples I know of that answer my trivia question above: The Kingsmen* An offshoot of Bill Haley's Comets, they had a #35 hit in 1958 with the instrumental "Week End." The "Louie Louie" guys The Temptations A white doo-wop group who reached #29 in 1960 with "Barbara." The Motown superstars * Of course there's also a very long-running Southern gospel group known as The Kingsmen. But they never troubled the Top 40 charts!
The original is a nice performance, but this "remix" is pointless and offensive. If you want to do this sort of thing for your own entertainment, that's fine. But why not just keep it to yourself? (I'm speaking to the remixer, not you, muddlehead!)
Lovely song. My best friend back in the 60s, not always given to expression of his emotions, once said how affected he was by the acoustic guitar that comes in at 2:12 after the pause to introduce the coda. He thought it was very beautiful. I've never forgotten the day he said that.
100% agree. Nice story. Love the name of the genre, psychedelic sunshine pop. Hope you'll like today's edition. I was thinking of today's song when I thought up this 365 song thingy.
I know The Roches had a long and quite wonderful career, but I never progressed beyond their first album. I couldn't tell you much about the other songs on it, but this was the one that really, really grabbed me right out of the gate. I'm happy you selected it.
