Nobody by Sylvia

This song should be covered by a guy.

Your nobody called today.

He hung up when I asked his name.

This song makes zero sense in the age of cell phones. Not really getting why a guy should cover it, either.

I like this frau’s look.

As a gay who has been involved with guys who also like women, there is no need to change lyrics to this song.

Sylvia was cosmopolitan country pop

I was a Sylvia fanatic as a child. I was in her fan club and owned all 6 of her RCA albums on CD. Her sixth album was a greatest hits comp.

Sylvia was feminine and attractive . At one point during her 80s recording career, she was being represented by the Ford Agency in NY.

Anne Murray was not feminine.

I like her plum colored rouge.

No one wears that anymore.

J, you have every thread I ever created written down so you can replicate them? That’s a massive sign of real mental illness

R8 I often have that happen to me too.

Why was there such a recurring theme in country music with women fighting with their husband's sluts to get him back?

I always wondered if "Nobody" was that firecrotch Jolene, calling to snatch sweet Sylvia's man.

Except for the SNAPSHOT he doesn’t know I’ve got

Hello? This is Sylvia. I want to make a reservation for tomorrow evening. A table for two around 7ish.

Let me take a look at our list…. That should be fine. What last name will this be under?

Just Sylvia.

Ok, Miss Sylvia. I have you down for tomorrow evening. Do you have any advanced requests?

Do you think you’re being clever?

Why not at all, ma’am. I was just asking.

Uh huh. Even better. Ciao!

[quote]This song makes zero sense in the age of cell phones.

Why do you say that?

The phone lyric is:

Well your nobody called today/She hung up when I asked her name

Why couldn't that happen in the age of cell phones?

Because people don't answer other people's cell phones, R16. Most people keep their cell phones locked, and they keep them with them at all times.

Do you own a cell phone? Have you ever let another person answer it?

God, the '80s made all its music sound as if it was being played on a $20 Casio keyboard.

Even Madonna sounded cheap.

[Quote] Real name: Sylvia Jane Kirby. Also known as Sylvia Jane Allen, Sylvia Hutton and Sylvia Rutledge.

Much married?

Damn. She couldn't even get a pressed CD reissue? She looks similar to Brook Shields in her first album photoshoot.

I like this Sylvia and this song better.

Is that the same Rhonda Fleming?

Her sleeves suggest someone aimed at the teen market but the music is very AC.

I like the cover shot from her album Surprise

I remember The Boy Gets Around

“The boy gets around. He’s been with every girl in town. But I don’t care what they say. I’m gonna love him anyway”.

The boy gets around. He’s fucked every ass in town.

R27 that was kind of a country/pop/rock jam back in the day.

[quote] Because people don't answer other people's cell phones, [R16]. Most people keep their cell phones locked, and they keep them with them at all times.

A jealous wife who thinks her husband is having an affair might. If he's in the shower when "Nobody" calls, the wife may answer it.

Dusty Springfield later covered "I Can't Help The Way I Don't Feel."

I like her video to Snapshot. I remember HBO would play it pretty often in between movies and shows.

The only Sylvia who matters…

[Quote]A jealous wife who thinks her husband is having an affair might. If he's in the shower when "Nobody" calls, the wife may answer it.

Yes, but everyone locks their cell phones now. You need a passcode, fingerprint or face recognition to unlock. A cheating partner wouldn't leave his cell phone unlocked and out of ear shot for a second. The type of nosy, mistrusting and boundary-crossing partner who would insist on knowing their partner's passcode and snoop on their phone unattended drastically changes the meaning of the song; listeners wouldn't sympathize with that person the same way they would with the then-relatable scenario of a couple sharing a land line in 1981.

Look, it's a great song. I love it. But a cover wouldn't work today. Unless your audience is 60+ year olds with Jitterbug phones who haven't dated anyone since the Clinton administration, the premise of this song is lost in 2022.

I still have no idea why OP thought a man should sing this. If a man discovers his partner is cheating, he's either going to get angry with his partner, go out and cheat himself, or both. He's not going to mope around being coy about what he knows and crying about the other person calling.

The female jogger who was killed a few days ago... Someone came across her discarded cell phone and was able to return it to her husband a couple of hours later. Would they have been able to do that if the phone were locked?

Drifter since you left me

I’ve been crying every day.

I love the lyrics to Sylvia’s follow-up to Nobody. Like Nothing Ever Happened.

We meet on the street.

You introduce her to me

And my heart sinks inside

As I say to her “it’s nice to me you”

You call me an old friend

Guess that’s the way you look at it

Just like nothing ever happened…

[Quote] “it’s nice to me you”

How very Data Lounge of Sylvia.

Here I am falling apart

Forcing a smile while there you are

Acting like nothing ever happened

Thats amazing, R5, considering her first album was never released on cd.

It was released on CD. I have it.

Her first album only seems to have been released as an on-demand CD-R. The remainder were either issued on Japanese CDs in 1984 or later (if their original release was later).

Drifter was released on CD after its initial factory pressing in 1981. I special ordered my CD from a store called Jack Wolnak rare necessities in the mid 80s. All of her 80s album were available at one point. I wish her unreleased 1986 album, Knockin’ Around would see the light of day. A few tracks from it have appeared on comps.

This bit really didn't age well:

[quote]We came back home got ready for bed [quote]I said to myself, I've got one shot left [quote]You're still mine and I won't stand in line behind nobody, nobody

Unless the shot she's referring to will be coming out of a holdout pistol she's packing, anyway.

No you don't R42. Learn what a cdr is.

You don’t know anything, you brainless motherfucker. My motherfucking cd is not a cdr it was manufactured by godamned rca records.

And if you have a silver cd, it is a bootleg. Drifter was never officially released on cd.

I was always told she was Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle's sister

Discogs has 1984 CD releases for

"Just Sylvia" PCD1-4312 "Snapshot" PCD1-4672 "Surprise" PCD1-4960

"One Step Closer" is a 1985 album and its CD release is PCD1-5413.

[Quote] You don’t know anything, you brainless motherfucker. My motherfucking cd is not a cdr it was manufactured by godamned rca records.

You should add the release you have to Discogs. You won't have to do it from scratch as there are other entries for that album. Just change the relevant information.

Ahh, the Sylvia who sang the r&b classic Pillow Talk in 1973 in NOT the same Sylvia who sang the country hit Nobody in 1982.

"Pillow Talk" Sylvia is also "Love Is Strange" (Mickey &) Sylvia, right?

A Sylvia Robinson biopic would be great. She was a pioneer.

He doesn't have it R51. It doesn't exist.

She did this one. I was at a slumber party and the hostess insisted we stay up all night listening to the radio waiting for this song. It never came on but I've hated country music ever since then

The Sylvia at r22 is the harlot who was hanging all over OP Sylvia's man.

Why wasn't her 1986 album released? Did she get pregnant or something?

RCA dumped her, along with several other artists, and the album was shelved. Maybe R5 has a cd of it though.

Lick my cunt bitch because I have drifter on cd and you don’t.

Ok I don’t have drifter on cd or a cunt. Pity me!!!

They would come out of the woodwork and on to the dance floor when "The Matador" came on at the discotheque.

The Matador and Drifter were described as being urban cowboy and prairie disco.

Ok-barcode and catalog #. Also, the name of the unicorn you probably also have.

Her first single You Don’t Miss A Thing from 1979 is nice song. A country radio programmer asked a RCA rep “when is she going to release a country single” as it was very pop.

Sylvia was a strapping lass.

You don’t eat ass anymore

This song reminds me of my dad’s cheating & my parents’ divorce, it was popular right as they split. I loved Sylvia’s hair.

Sylvia had the early 80s Brooke Shields look for a few yrs. She changed her hairstyle for her SURPRISE album.

Sylvia Jane Kirby, 65, is still working!

I am an idiot. I always thought “Nobody” was a Sheena Easton song.

R71, don’t feel bad, I thought that too.

R71 and r72 are probably confusing Nobody by Sylvia with Telefone by Sheena Easton

Was Sylvia picked up by a giant gorilla hand in some music video of which I'm unaware?

Sheena Easton is picked up by King Kong at the end of her video for Telefone.

Yes, that's the reason I was asking. Otherwise, why the confusion?

How do we re-ignite the Sylvia 1981 Drifter cd war? That’s available exclusively on Datalounge.

I love that there are two hefty gals on here slap fighting over the veracity of a Sylvia CD. Only on the Datalounge, folks. Only on the Datalounge.

He still hasn't offered any proof but his flapping gums!

We're still waiting, R5. Catalog # and barcode.

Some early CDs didn't have barcodes, right?

So what ever happened to (WHET) this Sylvia and other Sylvias mentioned in this thread?

You're right, R23. But they did have catalog #s. And the earliest RCA cd by Sylvia (Just Sylvia 84) has a barcode.

Sylvia was one of my mom's and mine favorites. Although songs like Matador seem kind of pokey who couldn't love a good civil war song like Bobby's in Vicksburg. And Tumbleweed is such a beautiful song and melody.

I want her 1986 unreleased RCA album Knockin’ Around.

I don’t know the track list other than a few tracks like forever my love which appears on her greatest hits album, blame it on love and the title track which appeared on a early aughts comp.

Does Sylvia have social media? Maybe she will tell you. She might even have a cassette of the album somewhere.

It was shelved by RCA. To my knowledge it was not sent to RCA’s manufacturing plants for pressing

I mean a cassette sourced from the producer(s), not a commercially pressed tape.

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained was another track intended for Knockin Around. It was released as the album’s lead off single in 1986. Sooo…. A vinyl, cassette or CD of the album may exist in limited capacity somewhere.

The master tapes exist and RCA or it’s parent company, Sony are owners. Brent Maher was the producer.

A reissue company need to get the rights to remaster her catalog using the original master tapes.

The best chance of a release is probably if they do a boxset of Sylvia's RCA recordings. Boxsets seem the be the last chance saloon for CDs.

She’s still very gorgeous. Check out Sylvia’s twitter.

Sony have been digitizing a lot of old albums that never received a CD release, especially country ones in the last few years.

Fingers crossed r97. I’d settle for digital to streaming via Apple Music.

I love the chorus of this song and Sylvia’s delivery. It’s like a 1-2 punch.

They say, The boy (the boy), the boy gets arou-ound He's been (he's been) with every girl in to-own. BUT I DON’T CARE WHAT THEY SAY! You know I'm gonna love him anyway! They'll see, when he gets around to me-- He'll settle down, down, down! The boy gets around, round round The boy gets around

Has anyone ever seen Sylvia perform live? I was a big time Sylvia fan as a kid. My dad took me and my friends to her concerts during the 80s.

I saw her open for the Statler Bros. at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, Pa in the 80's. We left after her show and I got an autographed picture. Fuck if I know where it is now. I have 2 vinyl of her "Live From Gilley's" performances. I would love to get my hands on the only 1 in existence copy of the "Drifter" album on cd that R5 claims to have without any proof.

Nice, r101.

I saw her four times in solo concerts. In 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987.

She really took.a chance releasing "Snatch Shot" but I think she thought it would do for her what "Physical" did for ONJ.

What about when she did “My Snatch Gets Around”?

What about when she did the fistula song, “Snatch Shit”?

If you won’t stop long enough to catch a big whiff of my cunt…

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