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Sylvia Robinson: Not So Much A Debut For Sylvia

Phil Symes, Disc, 30 June 1973

ONCE IN A while a record comes along that nothing will stop being a hit. Not even the fact that radio producers are frightened of it because of the lyric. A few years back a record called 'Je T'Aime' made the top of the chart without ever being played on the radio once.

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