Sylvia Tyson - Satin on Stone - 1978 - Folk Rock ( Clearance vinyl ) Overstocked

Sylvia Tyson - Satin on Stone - 1978 - Folk Rock ( Clearance vinyl ) Overstocked

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From 1959 to 1974, she was half of the popular folk duo Ian & Sylvia with Ian Tyson.^[7][8] The two met after a friend of Tyson's heard her sing at a party and let Ian know about her; Tyson had been performing in Toronto clubs as a solo artist, but after he and Fricker met, they decided to work together as a duo.^[9] From the late 1960s to the early 1970s, she and Ian Tyson also fronted the country rock band Great Speckled Bird.

Sylvia wrote her first and best-known song "You Were on My Mind" in 1962. It was recorded by Ian & Sylvia in 1964.^[10] The song has been covered extensively,^[11] and became a hit single in the mid-1960s for the San Francisco-based folk-rock band We Five and also for the British pop singer Crispian St. Peters.

Fricker married Ian Tyson on 26 June 1964.^[12] During their years together they recorded 13 albums.^[4]

The Tysons were divorced in 1975.^[13] During their marriage, they had one child, Clayton Dawson (Clay) Tyson.^[14]

Later career

After the Tysons separated and stopped performing together in 1975, Sylvia started a solo career;^[4] she released two albums through Capital Records, Woman's World in 1975 and Cool Wind from the North in 1976.^[15] She then established an independent record label, Salt Records, in the early 1980s.^[16] Through this label she released the albums, Satin on Stone in 1978 and Sugar for Sugar in 1979.^[15]

Sylvia Tyson contributed offstage to the Canadian music scene as a board member of FACTOR and the Juno Awards. With Tom Russell, she was an editor of the 1995 anthology And Then I Wrote: The Songwriter Speaks (ISBN 9781551520230).^[16] In 2011, she wrote her first novel, a 420-page book entitled Joyner's Dream

Sleeve Condition (Out of 10) ~ 8 just light wear
Label Condition (Out of 10) ~ 10
Vinyl Condition ~ (Out of 10)
Side 1 ~ 10
side 2 - 10

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