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Singles: 'Pillow Talk', Sylvia (Sylvia Robinson & Michael Burton) Vibration 521 (All Platinum)

Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 21 June 1973

"EVERY DAY for the past 16 years somebody has asked me how I call my lover boy," Sylvia Robinson marveled, referring to the public's memory of the Mickey and Sylvia classic 'Love Is Strange'. Thanks to her current million-seller, the world now knows how she really calls her lover boy. 'Pillow Talk' is an ode to bedroom play that climaxes with a sequence of guttural noises and a final "Oh, my God!"

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