answers: Vicki Sue Robinson
context: Turn the World Around Turn the World Around is an album by Harry Belafonte, released in 1977. After 21 years on the RCA Victor label, Belafonte signed with Columbia Records. After a series of pop-oriented albums, "Turn the World Around" was a return to interpreting folk songs of other cultures. Gary Ginell stated in his AllMusic review: "It is an absolute triumph and one of the finest albums of his career." Although recorded in the US, it was only released overseas. The title track became the focus of one of the most acclaimed performances on the successful television series, "The </s> onto the market in 1972. It was adopted by New York City hip hop DJs such as Grand Wizard Theodore and Afrika Bambaataa in the 1970s. As they experimented with the SL-1200 decks, they developed scratching techniques when they found that the motor would continue to spin at the correct RPM even if the DJ wiggled the record back and forth on the platter. Since then, turntablism spread widely in hip hop culture, and the SL-1200 remained the most widely used turntable in DJ culture for the next several decades. Turntablism as a modern art form and musical practice has </s> Turn the Beat Around "Turn the Beat Around" is a disco song written by Gerald Jackson and Peter Jackson and performed by Vicki Sue Robinson in 1976 (see 1976 in music), originally appearing on her debut album, "Never Gonna Let You Go". Released as a single, the song went to #10 on the "Billboard" pop charts, and #73 on the soul chart. Robinson received a grammy nomination for best female pop vocal. The track went to number one on the disco chart for four weeks. "Turn the Beat Around" is considered a disco classic and is featured on many compilation
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