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Turbo records

Wood Brass and Steel did the massive Funkanova in 1976 on Turbo records, Sylvia Robinson's label

Turbo records went on to reissue 'The Bottle' ... which had originally beeen recorded on the legendary Strata East label.

[...] In 1969, Sylvia resurfaced as the creative partner in husband Joe Robinson's string of New Jersey-based indie labels (All Platinum, Stang, Turbo and Vibration), scoring hits with the Moments (she co-wrote and produced "Love on a Two-Way Street" in 1970), the Whatnauts, Brother to Brother, Linda Jones, Donnie Elbert, Shirley & Company's proto-disco '75 masterpiece "Shame, Shame, Shame" and her own '73 boudoir-soul classic, "Pillow Talk." continue to Sylvia Robinson ...


The Bottle - Gil Scott-Heron (Strata-East, 1974)/Brother to Brother (Turbo, 1974)
St. Louis native Michael Burton formed Brother to Brother with studio musicians Billy Jones, Frankie Prescott, and Yogi Horton in the mid-'70s. They enjoyed success with a good cover of Gil Scott-Heron's "In the Bottle" in 1974, scoring a number nine R&B hit. It was the only one of their releases for Turbo that made any impact

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