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Just Sylvia

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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.

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.

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 : )

I became a Sylvia fan-atic in 1981 as her single "Drifter" became her first number one country single. I have been looking for this particular cd for years and finally found it at a reasonable price. "Just Sylvia" propelled Sylvia from rising star to Country Superstar in a matter of months. In late 1981 RCA released the first single, "Sweet Yesterday" which achieved moderate success climbing to #11 on the Country Singles chart, The next single release to country and pop radio would take them both by storm, "Nobody", this song made Sylvia a household name becoming a #1 country smash and crossing over into the top 15 pop. The summer of 1982 belonged to Sylvia she began appearing on more and more T.V programs and award shows and she also began gracing the cover of many Country magazines. RCA released the third and final single in the Winter of 1982 "Like Nothing Ever Happened" it quickly reached #2 on Billboards Country singles chart. For those of us old enough to remember it also became Sylvia 3rd #1 single on the Radio n Records Country Singles chart. By the end of 1982 Sylvia earned a gold album for "Just Sylvia" and a gold single for "Nobody". For all the hard work Sylvia did promoting this album well it paid off for her in spades come the Spring of 1983, The Academy Of Country Music awarded her the coveted Female Vocalist Of The Year trophy. I was 10 in 1981 and 39 now and I love this Lady still. I mean Lady in every sense of the word. I was lucky enough to meet this kind and gracious lady in the Winter of 1999 in Nashville, TN. Heres hoping the executives at RCA wise up and re-release the entire Sylvia catalog. Including "Drifter" which was never made available on cd and the cd that was never released in 1987 "Knockin' Around", this cd was shelved and RCA choose to release her "Greatest Hits" instead and soon after Sylvia left the RCA label