Just Sylvia

Sylvia (Author) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Original Release Date: 1981
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000B5HDFO
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #437,474 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Country Sweetheart Sylvia. Her "Nobody" Album. Complete with all 10 Tracks.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'll Never Understand WHY RCA Hasn't Kept This One In Print, September 12, 2007

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SometimesYouJustKnow (Anchorage, AK United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Just Sylvia (Audio CD)

This is my second favorite of Sylvia's albums. In fact, I'd say it's close to a tie with "One Step Closer". Same goes for this album in regards to single releases that could have become classics if only given a chance. In particular "You Can't Go Back Home". What an amazingly awesome video it could have been. I think "Mirage" would have been a huge hit as well. It has a similar style and production of her first number one single, "Drifter".

Looking back all those years ago when I first purchased this album in 1982. My baby brother was just one year old. I raised him and our younger brother on Sylvia's music. Actually, "Nobody" was their first favorite song of their lives.

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the release of this album has come and gone. I wrote to Sony/BMG asking them to consider re-releasing this CD/album for it's anniversary. But to no avail.

Whenever I put this CD in to listen to it. So many great memories come flooding back. Sylvia was at the height of her career and getting such great radio airplay. I can't help but wonder why RCA didn't produce any music videos from this album. There were so many great possibilities and songs that would have made amazing videos.

I think the most traditional country song Sylvia has ever recorded is, "I'll Make It Right With You". In fact, it was the B side to her two-million seller, mega-smash hit "Nobody".

I'd like to see a record label do re-mixes of some of Sylvia's songs and release an all re-mix Sylvia CD. I can just imagine awesome re-mixes of "You're A Legend In Your Own Mind", "Not Tonight", "Mirage" and "Nobody" (all from this album) and I'm sure they could re-mix many songs from her other albums as well. Maybe even some Sylvia tracks that are stored away in the RCA vaults, that have never been released.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sylvia, October 2, 2006

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Richard Jordan - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Just Sylvia (Audio CD)

I purchased this ablum when it first came out and my wife and I liked every song on it. It's not that country. More of an easy listening album with each song having a nice sound to it that makes you want to hear it again. At least to us. I am still looking for it on a CD.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sylvia sentimental sap - and I love it!, February 28, 2007

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Donny A. Cruce "Big Don" (Rabun Gap, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Just Sylvia (Audio CD)

Several really good songs on this album. The obvious pop hit of 'Nobody' is here - as well as 'Sweet Yesterday' both still great tunes. I found two that I had never heard after recently buying a cassette version of this album - and they made this a very enjoyable piece of memorabilia. You can't go back home and Everybody's got a dream ( Mill Song ) are both very sentimental and very heavy on the sap. I loved hearing these tunes. I guess that makes me sappy. Mill Song - to me, the title sounds like a song about a Mill on a stream with a big water wheel -but it's not. Its about a girl who grew up a mile from a textile mill. And how her father instilled in her a sense of value and meaning. For all Sylvia's insistence that you 'cant go back home' this album takes you there and drives you around the block a couple times. I reccommend this album to anyone who went through their teens in the 70's/80's. Great collection of tunes - Not a stinker among them and Sylvia's voice is in perfect form here; soft and strong : )