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Vicki Sue Robinson May 31, [ 1 ] — April 27, [ 3 ] was an American singer, closely associated with the disco era of late s pop music ; she is most famous for her hit , " Turn the Beat Around ". She gave her first public performance in at the age of six, when she accompanied her mother on stage at the Philadelphia Folk Festival.

Ten years later, at the age of 16, while a student at the New Lincoln School , Robinson made her professional performing debut when she joined the Broadway cast of the musical Hair. New York magazine opined that Robinson "sings with gentle power, accompanying herself on guitar and dulcimer, and moves with astounding confidence. In , Gold Legion.

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, George Pavlis would be later replaced by Joey Melotti on keyboards.

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The touring band members recorded four tracks on Robinson's second album, Vicki Sue Robinson. Again with Schatz producing, Robinson recorded Vicki Sue Robinson for release in the fall of ; although its lead single, a cover of Bobby Womack 's " Daylight ", was only a minor hit 61 , the album reached Robinson's next Hot appearance was in August , with her version of David Gates ' "Hold Tight", which peaked at 67 and 2 on the disco chart.

In , 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 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.

Movin' On's tracks were ignored in the dance clubs, but Robinson scored a 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 , 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 Cissy Houston , and the first credited screen role for Jean Smart. However, Schatz did not continue as Robinson's producer at Ariola. She subsequently resumed recording dance music with Schatz, with releases on a number of labels: Prelude , Promise, Perfect, and Profile , with the Profile releasing her dance version of " To Sir with Love ", which became a surprise top ten hit in Australia in