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.

This song should be covered by a guy.

Your nobody called today.

He hung up when I asked his name.

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by Anonymousreply 106September 29, 2022 8:13 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 1August 29, 2022 10:29 PM

I like this frau’s look.

by Anonymousreply 2August 29, 2022 10:30 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 3August 29, 2022 10:37 PM

Sylvia was cosmopolitan country pop

by Anonymousreply 4August 29, 2022 10:37 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 5August 29, 2022 10:45 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 6August 29, 2022 10:51 PM

I like her plum colored rouge.

No one wears that anymore.

by Anonymousreply 7August 29, 2022 11:14 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 8August 29, 2022 11:20 PM

R8 I often have that happen to me too.

by Anonymousreply 10August 29, 2022 11:33 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 11August 30, 2022 3:04 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 12August 30, 2022 3:17 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 14August 31, 2022 8:13 PM

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!

by Anonymousreply 15August 31, 2022 8:23 PM

[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?

by Anonymousreply 16August 31, 2022 9:28 PM

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?

by Anonymousreply 17September 3, 2022 9:23 PM

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

Even Madonna sounded cheap.

by Anonymousreply 18September 3, 2022 9:39 PM

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

Much married?

by Anonymousreply 20September 3, 2022 9:44 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 21September 3, 2022 9:46 PM

I like this Sylvia and this song better.

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by Anonymousreply 22September 3, 2022 9:47 PM

Is that the same Rhonda Fleming?

by Anonymousreply 24September 3, 2022 9:48 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 25September 3, 2022 9:57 PM

I like the cover shot from her album Surprise

by Anonymousreply 26September 3, 2022 10:05 PM

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”.

by Anonymousreply 27September 3, 2022 10:08 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 28September 3, 2022 10:08 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 29September 3, 2022 10:10 PM

[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.

by Anonymousreply 30September 3, 2022 11:50 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 31September 3, 2022 11:58 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 32September 4, 2022 9:09 PM

The only Sylvia who matters…

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by Anonymousreply 33September 4, 2022 11:05 PM

[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.

by Anonymousreply 34September 6, 2022 9:15 PM

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?

by Anonymousreply 35September 6, 2022 9:18 PM

Drifter since you left me

I’ve been crying every day.

by Anonymousreply 36September 6, 2022 9:49 PM

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…

by Anonymousreply 37September 6, 2022 9:54 PM

[Quote] “it’s nice to me you”

How very Data Lounge of Sylvia.

by Anonymousreply 38September 6, 2022 9:59 PM

Here I am falling apart

Forcing a smile while there you are

Acting like nothing ever happened

by Anonymousreply 40September 6, 2022 10:01 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 41September 6, 2022 10:05 PM

It was released on CD. I have it.

by Anonymousreply 42September 6, 2022 10:09 PM

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).

by Anonymousreply 43September 6, 2022 10:11 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 44September 6, 2022 10:13 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 45September 6, 2022 10:13 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 46September 6, 2022 10:14 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 47September 6, 2022 10:16 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 48September 6, 2022 10:16 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 49September 6, 2022 10:17 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 50September 6, 2022 10:18 PM

[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.

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by Anonymousreply 51September 6, 2022 10:20 PM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 52September 6, 2022 10:22 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 53September 6, 2022 10:23 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 54September 6, 2022 10:24 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 55September 6, 2022 10:24 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 56September 6, 2022 10:31 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 57September 6, 2022 10:31 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 58September 6, 2022 10:32 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 59September 6, 2022 10:33 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 60September 6, 2022 10:50 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 61September 6, 2022 10:57 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 62September 6, 2022 10:58 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 63September 6, 2022 11:05 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 64September 6, 2022 11:06 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 65September 6, 2022 11:08 PM

Sylvia was a strapping lass.

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by Anonymousreply 66September 6, 2022 11:20 PM

You don’t eat ass anymore

by Anonymousreply 67September 9, 2022 6:34 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 68September 9, 2022 6:42 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 69September 9, 2022 6:59 PM

Sylvia Jane Kirby, 65, is still working!

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by Anonymousreply 70September 9, 2022 10:23 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 71September 9, 2022 10:48 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 72September 10, 2022 2:26 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 74September 10, 2022 7:29 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 75September 12, 2022 6:59 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 76September 12, 2022 8:04 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 77September 12, 2022 8:21 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 78September 12, 2022 10:18 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 79September 12, 2022 10:26 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 80September 12, 2022 11:27 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 81September 24, 2022 11:39 PM

Some early CDs didn't have barcodes, right?

by Anonymousreply 82September 24, 2022 11:45 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 83September 24, 2022 11:52 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 84September 25, 2022 12:09 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 85September 25, 2022 12:19 AM

I want her 1986 unreleased RCA album Knockin’ Around.

by Anonymousreply 86September 25, 2022 1:14 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 88September 25, 2022 1:18 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 89September 25, 2022 1:21 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 90September 25, 2022 1:23 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 91September 25, 2022 1:27 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 92September 25, 2022 1:28 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 93September 25, 2022 1:30 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 94September 25, 2022 1:31 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 95September 25, 2022 1:32 AM

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

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by Anonymousreply 96September 25, 2022 1:33 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 97September 25, 2022 1:34 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 98September 25, 2022 1:47 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 99September 25, 2022 8:53 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 100September 25, 2022 8:57 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 101September 25, 2022 9:02 PM

Nice, r101.

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

by Anonymousreply 102September 25, 2022 9:14 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 103September 26, 2022 12:41 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 104September 26, 2022 1:42 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 105September 26, 2022 6:26 AM

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

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