Gloria Gaynor

Gloria Fowles Born September 7 1943 Better Known As Gloria Gaynor Is An American Singer-Songwriter Born In Newark New Jersey USA. She Is Best-Known For Her Disco Era Hits "I Will Survive" Hot 100 #1 1979 "Never Can Say Goodbye" Hot 100 #9 1974 "Let Me Know I Have A Right " Hot 100 #42 1980 And "I Am What I Am" Hot 100 #82 1983 . Some Of Her Other Hits Include "I Never Knew" "Just Keep Thinking About You" "Last Night" "Mighty High" "Be Soft With Me Tonight" "Strive" "Let's Mend What's Been Broken" "This Love Affair" "Love Is Just A Heartbeat Away" And "Casanova Brown". Gaynor Was A Singer With The Soul Satisfiers A Jazz/pop Band In The 1960s. Her First Solo Single Was "She'll Be Sorry/Let Me Go Baby" In 1965. Her First Real Success Came In 1975 With The Release Of Her Album Never Can Say Goodbye Which Established Her As A Disco Artist. The First Side Of This Album Consisted Of Three Disco Songs "Honey Bee" "Never Can Say Goodbye" And "Reach Out I'll Be There" With No Breaks In Between The Songs. This 19-Minute Dance Marathon Proved To Be Enormously Popular Especially At Dance Clubs. All Three Songs Were Released As Singles Via Radio Edits And All Of Them Became Hits. This Album Was So Instrumental In Introducing Disco Music To The Public That Many Later Believed That Gloria Gaynor Had Been The First Artist To Record Disco Music. "Never Can Say Goodbye" Became The First Song To Top Billboard Magazine's Dance Chart - In That Sense She Was The First. Capitalizing On The Success Of Her First Album Gaynor Quickly Released Her Second Album Experience Gloria Gaynor Later That Same Year. While This Album Was Also Successful It Was Not Quite As Popular As Her Previous Album In The Mainstream. Some Of Her Lesser-Known Singles Due To Lack Of Recurrent Airplay Include "Honey Bee" "Casanova Brown" And "Let's Make A Deal" Which All Became Hits In The Clubs And Reached The Top 5 On Billboard's Disco Charts. After Her 1976 Album I've Got You Gaynor Shifted From Her Hit Production Team To Work With Other Productions. While It Seemed Like A Good Move Her Subsequent Producers Did Not Seem To Match Gaynor's Vocal Approach And Style As Well. This Caused Her The Albums That Followed Such As 1977's Glorious And 1978's Park Avenue Sound To Be Regarded As Merely Good Albums Instead Of Excellent Albums. For The Next Few Years Gaynor Would Only Enjoy A Few Moderate Hits. However In Late 1978 With The Release Of Her Album Love Tracks She Climbed The Pop Charts Again Because Of Her Now-Signature Song "I Will Survive". The Lyrics Of This Song Are Written From The Point Of View Of A Woman Recently Dumped Telling Her Former Lover That She Can Cope Without Him And Does Not Want Anything More To Do With Him. The Song Has Become Something Of An Anthem Of Female Emancipation And Is Still A Staple Of Office Parties And Karaoke Nights. The Song Was Awarded The First And Only Grammy Award For Best Disco Recording In 1980 The Category Was Discontinued Upon Disco's Fall From Favor Shortly Afterward . In 1999 Pixar Animator Victor Navone Used This Song To Create An Alien Music Video Which For A Time Was A Minor Internet Phenomenon. Interestingly "I Will Survive" Was Originally The B-Side When Polydor Records Released It In Late 1978. The A-Side A Song Called "Substitute" Then A Recent Worldwide Hit For South African Girl-Group Clout Was Considered To Be More "radio Friendly." Radio DJs Flipped The Record Over And Audience Response Forced The Record Company To Flip The Songs So That Subsequent Copies Of The Single Listed The More Popular Song On The A-Side. In Late 1979 She Released The Album I Have A Right Which Contained Her Next Disco Hit "Let Me Know I Have The Right " Featuring Doc Severinsen Of The Tonight Show Fame On Trumpet Solo. Even Though She Exprienced Difficulty Having Hit Records In The U.S. After "I Am What I Am" The Majority Of Her Subsequent Single Chart On The UK Singles Chart. During The Late 1990s And The 2000s Gaynor Returned To The American Charts. She Issued Two Albums 2002's I Wish You Love And 2006's The Answer That Were Well Received With Her Fanbase. read less

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"I Will Survive" is a hit song first performed by American singer Gloria Gaynor, released in October 1978. It was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris. A top-selling song after its initial release, it has remained a popular disco anthem, as well as being certified double platinum by the RIAA. The song's lyrics describe the narrator's discovery of personal strength following an initially devastating breakup, delivered with increasing confidence and backed by a stirring instrumental accompaniment. It is one of the most famous disco songs of all time and remains Gaynor's biggest hit. It received heavy airplay in 1979, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and on the UK Singles Chart on consecutive weeks. The song is also frequently recalled as a symbol of female strength and as a gay anthem. The song was included in the 2012 videogame Dance Central 3 and will be included in the upcoming videogame Just Dance 2014. It is also one of the select songs available on the demo version of Just Dance 2014. Originally released as the B-side to a cover version of the Righteous Brothers song "Substitute", "I Will Survive" became a worldwide hit for Gaynor when disc jockeys played that side of the record instead. New copies of the record were eventually pressed with "I Will Survive" as the A-side ("Substitute" itself peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart in October 1978, equaling to number 107 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart). As a disco number, the song was unique for its time by virtue of Gaynor's having no background singers. And, unlike her first disco hits, the track was not pitched up to make it faster and to render Gaynor's recorded voice in a higher register than that in which she actually sang. Most disco hits at the time were heavily produced, with multiple voices, overdubs, and adjustments to pitch and speed. "I Will Survive" had a much more spare and "clean" sound. The song received the Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording in 1980, the only year the award was given. It is ranked #492 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", and ranked at #97 on Billboard magazine's "All-Time Hot 100". In 2000, the song was ranked #2 in VH1's list of the 100 greatest dance songs. Comedian George Carlin, however, listed it without comment as item 9 on his list of "10 Most Embarrassing Songs of All Time". A promotional video was filmed in 1979 at New York discothèque Xenon. Sheila Reid-Pender of Harlem, NY is the featured skater in the video from the skating group, The Village Wizards. Although three videos were filmed that day, the "I Will Survive" video is the only one that remains. Following the success of fellow 1970s disco stars Sister Sledge with remixed singles in the UK in 1993, "I Will Survive" was also remixed and released that summer. This remix reached number five on the UK Singles Chart. According to the I Will Survive Songfacts, Gaynor's producers Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris wrote this for her after she suffered a back injury and spent 6 months in the hospital. She had had surgery and was still in a back brace when she recorded this. The song is also the sound track for Victor Navone's popular Alien Song animated clip and Jesus Christ The Musical Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.