Mickey & Sylvia - Love Is Strange

Mickey and Sylvia of "Love Is Strange" fame are both dead.  Mickey just died - yesterday, or so.  Sylvia, who went on to be a record executive died in 2011.

This from Wikipedia:
"Mickey & Sylvia was an American R&B duo,^[1] composed of Mickey Baker and Sylvia Vanderpool, who later became Sylvia Robinson. They were the first big seller for Groove Records.^[2]
Mickey was a music instructor and Sylvia one of his pupils. Baker was inspired to form the group by the success of Les Paul & Mary Ford. They had a Top 20 hit with "Love Is Strange" in 1956, which sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc.^[3] The duo eventually bought their own nightclub, established a publishing company, and formed their own record label. Although Mickey & Sylvia disbanded by the end of the 1950s, they continued to record together on an infrequent basis until 1965, when Mickey quit the music industry in the United States.
After that, Mickey had a successful career as a session musician, moving to Paris, France. Sylvia had a hit record in 1973 with "Pillow Talk," and later assisted in the formation of the Sugar Hill rap label. Sylvia died in 2011 and Mickey died in 2012."

The song was really quite different when it was first introduced.  R&B, Rock & Roll, who cares  --  it was one of the sounds of my youth.

I put up a lot of Jazz.  I've listened to Jazz for my entire life  --  at the same time, from 1954 to about 1974, rock, and R&B were a constant thread through my life.

The old "Sounds Of My Life" thing  --  here's Mickey and Sylvia