Today I learned about Sylvia Robinson. She is the singer of the song “Love is Strange”, by Mickey and Sylvia. I’d heard the song before, but I hadn’t been aware that Sylvia went on to form Sugar Hill Records! Who would have known.
You learn something everyday, right?
Sugar Hill Records in my mind really got the hip-hop movement going with the release of the Sugar Hill Gang’s music. I’m sure that there is much more of a story to it, but for me that song where the “chicken tastes like wood” tells it all for me.
