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Vicki Sue Robinson (May 31, 1954 – April 27, 2000) was an American singer closely associated with the
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era of late 1970s
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; she is most famous for her 1976 hit, " Turn the Beat Around".


Early life

Born in
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, to
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Shakespearean actor Bill Robinson and his
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wife Marianne, a folk singer, Vicki Sue Robinson was reared in
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, for most of her early years. She returned to New York City with her family when she was a teen.


Career

She gave her first public performance in 1960 at the age of six, when she accompanied her
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on stage at the
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. Ten years later, at the age of 16, while a student at the
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, Robinson made her professional performing debut when she joined the
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cast of the
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''. Robinson remained with ''Hair'' for six weeks before moving to a new Broadway production, ''Soon'', whose cast included Peter Allen,
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,
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, and
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. After the show's short run, Robinson appeared in the Off-Broadway play ''Long Time Coming, Long Time Gone'', in which she and Richard Gere played Mimi and
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. ''
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'' magazine opined that Robinson "sings with gentle power, accompanying herself on guitar and dulcimer, and moves with astounding confidence." Robinson also had bit parts in the films ''
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'' (1971) and ''
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'' (1972). After a sojourn in
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, Robinson returned to Broadway in 1973, joining the cast of ''
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''. Robinson made her recording debut as one of several ''Hair'' veterans invited to sing background on
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's ''
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'' album released in 1972. In 1973 she spent time in Japan with Itsuro Shimoda, with whom she did session work on his album ''Love Songs and Lamentations'', and toured nationally. In 2011, Gold Legion.com digitally remastered and reissued Robinson's four albums for
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on CD, along with bonus tracks and liner notes.


"Turn the Beat Around"

In 1975, Robinson was providing vocals at a New York recording session for the album ''Many Sunny Places'' by Scott Fagan, a singer with whom she had performed in
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clubs.
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, a producer/engineer with
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, was struck by Robinson's voice and saw her potential as a
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-oriented artist. Schatz invited Robinson to cut some demos including a remake of
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", which became Robinson's first solo release. Despite that track's failure, RCA green-lit Schatz producing Robinson's debut album '' Never Gonna Let You Go''. The title cut, a Schatz original, became a #10 disco hit but another album track, " Turn the Beat Around", began to build "buzz" and was expediently released as a single, topping the disco charts on March 20, 1976. It reached the U.S. top 10 in August, spending around six months overall on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and propelling the ''Never Gonna Let You Go'' album to #49. "Turn the Beat Around" would chart internationally, reaching #14 in
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, #11 in the
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, and #12 in
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. The track would earn Robinson a nomination for a
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. In 1976, Robinson toured across the United States promoting her hit tune, "Turn the Beat Around". She performed on major TV shows such as '' The Midnight Special'', ''Don Kirshner's Rock Concert'', ''The Merv Griffin Show'', ''Mike Douglas'', ''
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'', and ''
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''. She also performed at the top venues around the country, such as the Boarding House in
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, The Starwood, in
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, The Bottom Line, Felt Forum, and Carnegie Hall in
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. The original touring band consisted of Dan Pickering on trumpet and flute, Bill Cerulli on drums, Wendy Simmons on bass guitar, Nacho Mena on percussion, Vernie "Butch" Taylor on guitar, and George Pavlis on keyboards. George Pavlis later would be replaced by Joey Melotti on keyboards. The touring band members recorded four tracks on Robinson's second album, ''Vicki Sue Robinson.''


Follow-up

Again with Schatz producing, Robinson recorded ''Vicki Sue Robinson'' for release in the fall of 1976. Although its lead single, a cover of
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's "
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", was only a minor hit (#61), the album reached #45. Robinson's next Hot 100 appearance was in August 1977, with her version of
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' "Hold Tight", which peaked at #67 (and #2 on the disco chart). Its parent album, ''Half and Half'', again produced by Schatz, was not released until 1978 and peaked at #110. In 1979, Robinson contributed the track "Easy to Be Hard" to the Schatz production ''Disco Spectacular'' – an album of dance versions of songs from the musical ''Hair'', inspired by the release of the film version – and recorded what would prove to be her final album, ''Movin' On''. Although Schatz was credited as the album's executive producer, that job was done by Evelyn King's producer, T. Life. ''Movin' On's'' tracks were ignored in the dance clubs, but Robinson scored a 1979 club hit with "Nighttime Fantasy", a track written and produced by Norman Bergen and Reid Whitelaw, recorded for the film '' Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula''. Also in 1979, Robinson appeared in a film made by the same production company as ''Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula'' titled ''Gangsters'' (now called ''Hoodlums''), which also featured T. Life and
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, and the first credited screen role for
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.


The 1980s

In 1980 Robinson moved from RCA to
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, where Warren Schatz had assumed the position of COO. However, Schatz did not continue as Robinson's producer at
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. Respecting her wishes to move in a new musical direction, he had her record at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios with Clayton Ivey and Terry Woodford, producing the single "Nothin' But a Heartache", the recording of the Michael McDonald composition being Robinson's sole Ariola release. She subsequently resumed recording dance music with Schatz, with releases on a number of labels: Prelude, Promise, Perfect, and
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, with the Profile releasing her dance version of "
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", which became a surprise top ten hit in Australia in 1984. Robinson's next release, a remake of "
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" in 1984, was her last recording for almost fifteen years, apart from the track "Grab Them Cakes", a duet with
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featured on ''
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'' (1985). "Grab Them Cakes" was issued as a single, with
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miming the guitar in the
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. Robinson sang background on
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's hit single " Fame" in 1980, and as the decade progressed she returned to session work, backing
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and
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. She also established herself as a career jingle singer for such products as Wrigley's Doublemint chewing gum,
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Cosmetics, Downy fabric softener, Hanes underwear, New York Bell, and Folger's coffee. From 1987 to 1988, Robinson provided the singing voice for the characters Rapture and Minx in the animated TV series '' Jem.''


Later career

Robinson regained some publicity from
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's 1994 version of " Turn the Beat Around". The success of the Estefan single inspired Robinson to re-record the song for the
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of her 1995 single, "For Real". This led to TV appearances on a number of talk shows as well as some recording, film, and stage projects. Firstly, she provided backing vocals on
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's 1996 album ''Foxy Lady,'' where the two of them also recorded a duet. Then, in 1997, she recorded the song "House of Joy" for DJ/producer
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, which became Robinson's first and only hit single in the
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. She then recorded the song "My Stomp, My Beat" for the film ''
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''. In October of that same year, Robinson played herself on
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's mock TV documentary ''Unauthorized Biography: Milo, Death of a Supermodel.'' A resurgence of interest in disco music in the mid-1990s led Robinson and fellow disco veterans
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,
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,
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, and
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to embark on a well-received world tour. Upon returning to the U.S. in 1999, Robinson returned to her roots in theatre by performing in an
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musical titled ''Vicki: Behind The Beat'' which was semi-autobiographical in nature, and featured her hit songs and her best-known jingles. The play was a continuation of her popular
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show. In June of that year, she provided the track "Pokémon (Dance Mix)" from the '' Pokémon 2.B.A. Master'' soundtrack for the English dub of the
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. Three months later, in September, Robinson released her final single, "Move On", which reached #18 on Billboard's Dance Chart. During that same month, she was forced to withdraw from her Off-Broadway show due to poor health. However, before her illness became terminal, Robinson undertook the role of a fairy godmother in the independent film ''Red Lipstick,'' which was released on April 16, 2000.


Death

On April 27, 2000, 11 days after the release of ''Red Lipstick,'' Robinson died of
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at her home in
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.


Discography


Albums


Singles


Filmography

*''
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'' – 1971 *''
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'' – 1972 *''Hoodlums'' – 1980 *''Red Lipstick'' – 2000


Theatre

*''
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'' – 1970 *''Soon'' – 1971 *''Long Time Coming, Long Time Gone'' – 1971 *''Voices From The Third World'' – 1972 *''
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'' – 1973 *''Vicki Sue Robinson: Behind The Beat'' – 1999


See also

*
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* List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart


Notes


References


External links

* Vicki Sue Robinson Billboard Pagebr>Photograph of Robinson from the 1976 self-titled album cover
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Robinson, Vicki Sue 1954 births 2000 deaths American women pop singers 20th-century African-American women singers American disco musicians American mezzo-sopranos Prelude Records artists American soul singers Deaths from cancer in Connecticut 20th-century American singers 20th-century American women singers