Mickey & Sylvia - "Love Is Strange"
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Topic: Mickey & Sylvia - "Love Is Strange"
Posted By: AdvprosD
Subject: Mickey & Sylvia - "Love Is Strange"
Date Posted: 07 December 2021 at 10:13pm
I am having a bit of trouble locating the original post about this song. Perhaps this is it, because I sure thought I had asked about this before.
Since this song charted up to #11 in 1957, there have been at least a few instances where it showed up a few times in cinema. Like Dirty Dancing for instance.
I thought there was only one mix of this available, mono and pretty lo-fi at best. However, I stumbled upon a "One Hit Wonders" disc under the RCA label that
has a much different sound to it. Much cleaner overall and the background harmonies are brought forward quite a lot. It sounds to me as if it is the same recording,
e.g. not one that was recorded later than the popular single. From the data I have turned up this was a hit on the "Groove" label in 1957. I'm trying to look and
see if possibly this label was acquired by RCA at some point. The disc is called "RCA's Greatest One-Hit Wonders." (1996).
I have known about this song for a long long time and also discovered that this is the same Sylvia who recorded up into the 1970's (Pillow Talk.)
I just thought it was odd that this recording sounded so much different yet the same as the one I had heard so many times before. I wonder if they ended up
recording it again trying to sound as close to the original as the first time. It's one I'll never forget, especially when she sings, "Come Here Loverboy."
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Posted By: PopArchivist
Date Posted: 07 December 2021 at 10:24pm
I don't see any other post for this song.
For 1957, I have my 45 version off of Teen-Years in The Still of the Night. A DES version exists via Eric Records from several years ago as well.
I've never heard anything other than the version on Dirty Dancing. You never know it might be a re-recorded version.
BTW the guitar in this song is absolutely my favorite!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SwMB9v1pQ4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SwMB9v1pQ4
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Posted By: davidclark
Date Posted: 08 December 2021 at 2:00am
As for "Dirty Dancing" there are numerous issues of this, some containing the
hit, other the hit from vinyl while still others feature an alternate version
which to my ears has the female (presumably Sylvia's) answer vocal mixed
much louder than the hit and Mickey's mixed out. I do not know how/when/why
this alternate came to be (I would like to, though). Pat's database has the
details for six issues of the soundtrack.
Oh, and Groove Records was a subsidiary of RCA Victor. And, according to the
database "RCA's Greatest One-Hit Wonders" has the alternate (non-hit)
version.
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Posted By: TomDiehl1
Date Posted: 08 December 2021 at 7:33am
Do we know where the alternate version
originated?
In 1973, RCA reissued the tune on a Gold
Standard 45, and issued a promo 45 on DJA0-
0080 with a different matrix number than the
stock GS reissue, which maintained the
matrix number from the original Groove
release.
I sold my copy of the promo long ago and
can't remember what version's on it. I do
have a mint 78 on the Groove label but my
music room turned into a storage room so
that does me no good, but I assume it, too,
has the regular hit version on it.
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Posted By: KentT
Date Posted: 01 January 2022 at 7:55am
Groove was a RCA subsidiary label, originally set up as
their R&B label, it later branched out to Country and
other sounds, then closed and folded into RCA around 1964.
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