Gloria Gaynor
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Gloria Gaynor is an American
singer, best known for the disco
era hits
; "I Will Survive
" (Hot 100
number 1, 1979), "Never Can Say Goodbye
" (Hot 100 number 9, 1974), "Let Me Know (I Have a Right)" (Hot 100 number 42, 1980) and "I Am What I Am
" (R&B number 82, 1983).
/pop
band, in the 1960s. Her first solo single was "She'll Be Sorry/Let Me Go Baby" (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. The album was instrumental in introducing disco music to the public, "Never Can Say Goodbye" becoming the first song to top Billboard
magazine's dance chart. Capitalizing on the success of her first album, Gloria 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 — including "Honey Bee" (1974), "Casanova Brown" (1975), and "Let's Make A Deal" (1976) — 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.
and Park Avenue Sound
, but 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 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.
-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 more "radio friendly". Boston Disco Radio DJ Jack King turned the record over and recalls being stunned by what he heard. "I couldn't believe they were burying this monster hit on the B-side", says King. "I played it and played it and my listeners went nuts." This massive 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. King was honored at New York's "Disco Masters Awards Show" for 3 consecutive years (1979–1981) in recognition of his relentless push of the song. The song was awarded the only Grammy Award
ever for Best Disco Recording in 1980.
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. Had it been originally planned and released as an A-side, it would almost certainly have undergone a substantially more heavy-handed remix. In late 1979, she released the album I Have a Right
which contained her next disco hit, "Let Me Know (I Have a Right)", which featured Doc Severinsen
of The Tonight Show
fame, on trumpet solo. Gaynor also recorded a disco song called "Love Is Just a Heartbeat Away" in 1979 for the vampire movie Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula
which featured a number of disco songs.
radio, where disco music remained popular. In 1982, having looked into a wide variety of faiths and religious movements, she became a Christian
and began to distance herself from a past she considered to be sin
ful. She would not release an album in 1982. In 1983, she released an album entitled Gloria Gaynor
, in which she rejected disco
for mid-tempo R&B and Pop style songs. The album contained a patriotic song called "America" as well as a new version of "I Will Survive". In this new version of "I Will Survive", she changed the lyrics of the song in order to advertise her new conversion to Christianity
. The words "It took all the strength I had not to fall apart" were changed to "Only the Lord could give me strength not to fall apart". The album was not a success in the Pop, Dance or Urban markets. This move proved to be a turn off to all other than her devoted fans.
Gaynor would achieve her final success in the '80s with the release of her album I Am Gloria Gaynor
in 1984. This was mainly due to the song "I Am What I Am
", which became a hit at dance clubs, and then on the Club Play chart in late 1983/early 1984. "I Am What I Am" made Gaynor a gay icon
. However, her career went into sharp decline following this hit. She mainly made her living outside of the US where there was never any disco backlash. Her 1986 album, The Power of Gloria Gaynor
, was almost entirely composed of cover versions of other songs that were popular at the time. The album was ignored, becoming a commercial failure.
During the late 1990s, she dabbled in acting for a while, guest starring on The Wayans Bros, That '70s Show
, and Ally McBeal
before doing a limited engagement performance in Broadway's
Smokey Joe's Cafe
.
In 2001 she sung "I Will Survive" in the 30th Anniversary Concert for Michael Jackson
.
She returned to the recording studio in 2002, releasing her first album in over 15 years, entitled, I Wish You Love. The two singles released from the album, "Just Keep Thinking About You" and "I Never Knew", both topped Billboard' s Hot Dance Music/Club Play. Both singles also secured moderate to heavy Dance format radio airplay. The latter song also charted #30 on Billboards Adult Contemporary chart.
After almost 30 years of its release, Gaynor continues to ride the success of "I Will Survive", touring the country and the world over and performing her signature song on dozens of TV shows. A few successful remixes of the song during the 1990s and 2000s along with new versions of the song by Lonnie Gordon
, Diana Ross
, Chantay Savage
, rock group Cake
and others as well as constant recurrent airplay on nearly all Soft AC and Rhythmic format radio stations have helped to keep the song in the mainstream.
On September 19, 2005, Gaynor was honored twice when she and her music were inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame
. She was inducted in the Artist Inductees category along with fellow disco legends Chic
and the late Sylvester. Her classic anthem "I Will Survive" was inducted under the Records Inductees category.
In 2004, Gaynor re-released her 1997 album The Answer
(also released under the title What a Life) as a follow up to her successful album I Wish You Love
. The album includes her popular club hit "Oh, What a Life".
In January 2008, The American Diabetes Association named Gaynor the Honorary Spokesperson of the 2008 NYC Step Out To Fight Diabetes Walk.
In 2009, she appeared on The John Kerwin Show, The Wendy Williams Show
, and The View to promote the 30th anniversary of "I Will Survive".
In 2010, she appeared on Last Comic Standing
and The Tonight Show
.
On December 5, 2010 Gloria went to Ecuador
and sang her biggest hits in Teleton Ecuador.
She and her husband have been residents of Cliffside Park, New Jersey
.
^ "Hacer Por Hacer" reached #17 in Spain.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
singer, best known for the disco
Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...
era hits
Hit record
A hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings...
; "I Will Survive
I Will Survive
"I Will Survive" is a song first performed by American singer Gloria Gaynor, released in October 1978. It was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris...
" (Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
number 1, 1979), "Never Can Say Goodbye
Never Can Say Goodbye
"Never Can Say Goodbye" is a song written by Clifton Davis and originally recorded by The Jackson 5. Released as a single in 1971, it was one of the group's most successful songs...
" (Hot 100 number 9, 1974), "Let Me Know (I Have a Right)" (Hot 100 number 42, 1980) and "I Am What I Am
I Am What I Am (Broadway musical song)
"I am what I am" is a song originally introduced in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical La Cage aux Folles . The song is the finale number of the musical's first act, and performed by the character of Albin Mougeotte, first played by George Hearn...
" (R&B number 82, 1983).
Early career
Gaynor was a singer with the Soul Satisfiers, a jazzJazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
/pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
band, in the 1960s. Her first solo single was "She'll Be Sorry/Let Me Go Baby" (1965).
Her first real success came in 1975 with the release of her album Never Can Say Goodbye
Never Can Say Goodbye (Gloria Gaynor album)
Never Can Say Goodbye is a 1975 album by Gloria Gaynor, released on MGM Records in January 1975. It is most notable for including several early Disco recordings...
, which established her as a disco
Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...
artist. The first side of this album consisted of three disco
Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...
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. The album was instrumental in introducing disco music to the public, "Never Can Say Goodbye" becoming the first song to top Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
magazine's dance chart. Capitalizing on the success of her first album, Gloria Gaynor quickly released her second album, Experience Gloria Gaynor
Experience Gloria Gaynor
Experience Gloria Gaynor is the second album from Gloria Gaynor, released in 1975 on MGM Records. The album charted in the US Billboard at #64 in the US Pop chart, and at #32 in the US R&B chart. The album failed to chart in the UK, the single "How High The Moon" was issued in the UK and peaked at...
, 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 — including "Honey Bee" (1974), "Casanova Brown" (1975), and "Let's Make A Deal" (1976) — became hits in the clubs and reached the Top 5 on Billboard's disco charts. After her 1976 album, I've Got You
I've Got You
I've Got You was a 1976 album by vocalist Gloria Gaynor. It was her first on Polydor Records, which absorbed her previous label MGM Records, and soon became a force in the disco genre...
, 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.
Major mainstream breakthrough
In the next few years, Gloria Gaynor released the albums GloriousGlorious (Gloria Gaynor album)
Glorious is American singer Gloria Gaynor's fourth studio album. It was released in 1977 on Polydor Records.The album has never been re-released on CD.-Track listing:Side one# "Why Should I Pay" -...
and Park Avenue Sound
Park Avenue Sound
Park Avenue Sound is the fifth album by Gloria Gaynor. It was released in 1978 on Polydor Records, and was reasonably well-received. Includes the moderate hit singles, "You're All I Need To Get By" and "This Love Affair"; The latter lists Gloria Gaynor as co-writer...
, but would only enjoy a few moderate hits. However, in late 1978, with the release of her album Love Tracks
Love Tracks (Gloria Gaynor album)
Love Tracks was the sixth album released by Gloria Gaynor in 1978 . The album includes her million-selling #1 hit single "I Will Survive" which originally started out as the B-side to the album's first single, a cover of Clout's "Substitute" before it was flipped.Love Tracks was the sixth album...
, she climbed the pop charts again because of her song "I Will Survive
I Will Survive
"I Will Survive" is a song first performed by American singer Gloria Gaynor, released in October 1978. It was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris...
". 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
Karaoke
is a form of interactive entertainment or video game in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and public address system. The music is typically a well-known pop song minus the lead vocal. Lyrics are usually displayed on a video screen, along with a moving symbol,...
nights.
-Interestingly, "I Will Survive
I Will Survive
"I Will Survive" is a song first performed by American singer Gloria Gaynor, released in October 1978. It was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris...
" 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
Clout
Clout were originally a five-piece, South African million-selling all-girl rock group formed in 1977, best known for their song, "Substitute".-Career:...
, was considered more "radio friendly". Boston Disco Radio DJ Jack King turned the record over and recalls being stunned by what he heard. "I couldn't believe they were burying this monster hit on the B-side", says King. "I played it and played it and my listeners went nuts." This massive 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. King was honored at New York's "Disco Masters Awards Show" for 3 consecutive years (1979–1981) in recognition of his relentless push of the song. The song was awarded the only Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
ever for Best Disco Recording in 1980.
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. Had it been originally planned and released as an A-side, it would almost certainly have undergone a substantially more heavy-handed remix. In late 1979, she released the album I Have a Right
I Have a Right
I Have a Right is Gloria Gaynor's seventh studio album, released in 1978. The track, "Let Me Know ", was released as a single and reached number 42 on the Billboard Hot 100.This album has never been released on CD.-Track listing:Side one...
which contained her next disco hit, "Let Me Know (I Have a Right)", which featured Doc Severinsen
Doc Severinsen
Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen is an American pop and jazz trumpeter. He is best known for leading the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.-Early life:...
of The Tonight Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under the Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night....
fame, on trumpet solo. Gaynor also recorded a disco song called "Love Is Just a Heartbeat Away" in 1979 for the vampire movie Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula
Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula
Nocturna is a 1979 film conceived by star Nai Bonet and written and directed by Harry Hurwitz, who was credited as "Harry Tampa".-Plot:...
which featured a number of disco songs.
Stateside career
In 1980 and again in 1981, Gaynor released two disco albums which were virtually ignored in the United States due to the backlash against disco, which began late in 1979. The album's singles barely registered on Urban contemporaryUrban contemporary
Urban contemporary is a music radio format. The term was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop/rap, contemporary R&B, pop, electronica such as dubstep and drum and bass and Caribbean music...
radio, where disco music remained popular. In 1982, having looked into a wide variety of faiths and religious movements, she became a Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
and began to distance herself from a past she considered to be sin
Sin
In religion, sin is the violation or deviation of an eternal divine law or standard. The term sin may also refer to the state of having committed such a violation. Christians believe the moral code of conduct is decreed by God In religion, sin (also called peccancy) is the violation or deviation...
ful. She would not release an album in 1982. In 1983, she released an album entitled Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Gaynor (Gloria Gaynor album)
Gloria Gaynor is the tenth studio album by Gloria Gaynor and her only to be released on Atlantic Records after her contract with Polydor Records expired. The lead single release was a cover of The Supremes' "Stop in the Name of Love", followed by the singles "America" and "Tease Me". The album...
, in which she rejected disco
Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...
for mid-tempo R&B and Pop style songs. The album contained a patriotic song called "America" as well as a new version of "I Will Survive". In this new version of "I Will Survive", she changed the lyrics of the song in order to advertise her new conversion to Christianity
Christianity
Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...
. The words "It took all the strength I had not to fall apart" were changed to "Only the Lord could give me strength not to fall apart". The album was not a success in the Pop, Dance or Urban markets. This move proved to be a turn off to all other than her devoted fans.
Gaynor would achieve her final success in the '80s with the release of her album I Am Gloria Gaynor
I Am Gloria Gaynor
I am Gloria Gaynor is the eleventh studio album by Gloria Gaynor, released in 1983 by Chrysalis Records. The most notable song on the album was Gloria Gaynor's cover of "I Am What I Am" from the musical La Cage Aux Folles...
in 1984. This was mainly due to the song "I Am What I Am
I Am What I Am (Broadway musical song)
"I am what I am" is a song originally introduced in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical La Cage aux Folles . The song is the finale number of the musical's first act, and performed by the character of Albin Mougeotte, first played by George Hearn...
", which became a hit at dance clubs, and then on the Club Play chart in late 1983/early 1984. "I Am What I Am" made Gaynor a gay icon
Gay icon
A gay icon is a public figure who is embraced by many within :lesbian, :gay, :bisexual and :transgender communities...
. However, her career went into sharp decline following this hit. She mainly made her living outside of the US where there was never any disco backlash. Her 1986 album, The Power of Gloria Gaynor
The Power of Gloria Gaynor
The Power of Gloria Gaynor, also known as The Power, is the twelfth studio album by Gloria Gaynor, released in 1986, which is composed mostly of cover versions of other popular songs from the 1970s and 80s, and is her only album to be released on Stylus Records. It was originally only released in...
, was almost entirely composed of cover versions of other songs that were popular at the time. The album was ignored, becoming a commercial failure.
Career revival
Gaynor began to revive her career worldwide with the revival of disco beginning in the early to mid-1990s.During the late 1990s, she dabbled in acting for a while, guest starring on The Wayans Bros, That '70s Show
That '70s Show
That '70s Show is an American television period sitcom that centers on the lives of a group of teenage friends living in the fictional suburban town of Point Place, Wisconsin, from May 17, 1976, to December 31, 1979...
, and Ally McBeal
Ally McBeal
Ally McBeal is an American legal comedy-drama series which aired on the Fox network from 1997 to 2002. The series was created by David E. Kelley, who also served as the executive producer, along with Bill D'Elia...
before doing a limited engagement performance in Broadway's
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
Smokey Joe's Cafe
Smokey Joe's Cafe
Smokey Joe's Cafe is a musical revue showcasing 39 pop standards, including rock and roll, rhythm and blues songs written by songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller...
.
In 2001 she sung "I Will Survive" in the 30th Anniversary Concert for Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
.
She returned to the recording studio in 2002, releasing her first album in over 15 years, entitled, I Wish You Love. The two singles released from the album, "Just Keep Thinking About You" and "I Never Knew", both topped Billboard
After almost 30 years of its release, Gaynor continues to ride the success of "I Will Survive", touring the country and the world over and performing her signature song on dozens of TV shows. A few successful remixes of the song during the 1990s and 2000s along with new versions of the song by Lonnie Gordon
Lonnie Gordon
Lonnie Gordon is a female Hi-NRG, house and soul singer-songwriter from New York's Bronx, who has scored many chart hits during the 1990s and 2000s.-Early life and career:...
, Diana Ross
Diana Ross
Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...
, Chantay Savage
Chantay Savage
Chantay Savage is an R&B/dance singer who found substantial success in the 1990s with "I Will Survive", in which she reworked the Gloria Gaynor disco anthem...
, rock group Cake
Cake (band)
Cake is an American alternative rock band from Sacramento, California. Consisting of singer John McCrea, trumpeter Vince DiFiore, guitarist Xan McCurdy, bassist Gabe Nelson and drummer Paulo Baldi, the band has been noted for McCrea's sarcastic lyrics and deadpan voice, DiFiore's trumpet parts, and...
and others as well as constant recurrent airplay on nearly all Soft AC and Rhythmic format radio stations have helped to keep the song in the mainstream.
On September 19, 2005, Gaynor was honored twice when she and her music were inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame
Dance Music Hall of Fame
The Dance Music Hall of Fame was created in 2003 when music industry veteran John Parker thought that something needed to be done to honor the creators and innovators of dance music...
. She was inducted in the Artist Inductees category along with fellow disco legends Chic
Chic (band)
Chic was an African American disco and R&B band that was organized during 1976 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards. It is known best for its commercially successful disco songs, including "Dance, Dance, Dance " , "Everybody Dance" , "Le Freak" , "I Want Your Love" , "Good Times"...
and the late Sylvester. Her classic anthem "I Will Survive" was inducted under the Records Inductees category.
In 2004, Gaynor re-released her 1997 album The Answer
The Answer (Gloria Gaynor album)
The Answer is the sixteenth album by singer-songwriter Gloria Gaynor. It was released in France on October 24, 1997. A version with a slightly different track list was released the following year in Germany, under the title What a Life. The Answer includes the singles "Oh, What a Life", "Rippin' It...
(also released under the title What a Life) as a follow up to her successful album I Wish You Love
I Wish You Love (Gloria Gaynor album)
I Wish You Love is Gloria Gaynor's seventeenth album, and her first international release in 18 years. It is a return to her roots in Club/Dance music, along with Urban contemporary and Contemporary R&B...
. The album includes her popular club hit "Oh, What a Life".
In January 2008, The American Diabetes Association named Gaynor the Honorary Spokesperson of the 2008 NYC Step Out To Fight Diabetes Walk.
In 2009, she appeared on The John Kerwin Show, The Wendy Williams Show
The Wendy Williams Show
The Wendy Williams Show is a syndicated talk show hosted by Wendy Williams that premiered on July 14, 2008, as six-week sneak peek, in Detroit, Dallas, Los Angeles, and New York City. The test run was picked up for a full season that began its run on July 13, 2009 in over 70% of the country in...
, and The View to promote the 30th anniversary of "I Will Survive".
In 2010, she appeared on Last Comic Standing
Last Comic Standing
Last Comic Standing is an American reality television talent show that has aired from 2003 through 2010.The goal of the program is to select a comedian from a group, who will receive a development contract with the NBC network, and a television special first to air on the cable-TV network Comedy...
and The Tonight Show
The Tonight Show
The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show that has aired on NBC since 1954. It is the longest currently running regularly scheduled entertainment program in the United States, and the third longest-running show on NBC, after Meet the Press and Today.The Tonight Show has been hosted by...
.
On December 5, 2010 Gloria went to Ecuador
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
and sang her biggest hits in Teleton Ecuador.
She and her husband have been residents of Cliffside Park, New Jersey
Cliffside Park, New Jersey
Cliffside Park is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 23,594....
.
Albums
- 1975: Never Can Say GoodbyeNever Can Say Goodbye (Gloria Gaynor album)Never Can Say Goodbye is a 1975 album by Gloria Gaynor, released on MGM Records in January 1975. It is most notable for including several early Disco recordings...
(MGMMGM RecordsMGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946, for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films. Later it became a pop label, lasting into the 1970s...
) - US Pop #25, US R&B #21 - 1975: Experience Gloria GaynorExperience Gloria GaynorExperience Gloria Gaynor is the second album from Gloria Gaynor, released in 1975 on MGM Records. The album charted in the US Billboard at #64 in the US Pop chart, and at #32 in the US R&B chart. The album failed to chart in the UK, the single "How High The Moon" was issued in the UK and peaked at...
(MGM) - US Pop #64, US R&B #32 - 1976: I've Got YouI've Got YouI've Got You was a 1976 album by vocalist Gloria Gaynor. It was her first on Polydor Records, which absorbed her previous label MGM Records, and soon became a force in the disco genre...
(PolydorPolydor RecordsPolydor is a record label owned by Universal Music Group, headquartered in the United Kingdom.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used as an export label in 1924, the British and German branches of the Gramophone...
) - US Pop #107, US R&B #40 - 1977: GloriousGlorious (Gloria Gaynor album)Glorious is American singer Gloria Gaynor's fourth studio album. It was released in 1977 on Polydor Records.The album has never been re-released on CD.-Track listing:Side one# "Why Should I Pay" -...
(Polydor) - US Pop #183 - 1978: Park Avenue SoundPark Avenue SoundPark Avenue Sound is the fifth album by Gloria Gaynor. It was released in 1978 on Polydor Records, and was reasonably well-received. Includes the moderate hit singles, "You're All I Need To Get By" and "This Love Affair"; The latter lists Gloria Gaynor as co-writer...
(Polydor) - 1978: Love TracksLove Tracks (Gloria Gaynor album)Love Tracks was the sixth album released by Gloria Gaynor in 1978 . The album includes her million-selling #1 hit single "I Will Survive" which originally started out as the B-side to the album's first single, a cover of Clout's "Substitute" before it was flipped.Love Tracks was the sixth album...
(Polydor) - US Pop #4, US R&B #4 - 1979: I Have a RightI Have a RightI Have a Right is Gloria Gaynor's seventh studio album, released in 1978. The track, "Let Me Know ", was released as a single and reached number 42 on the Billboard Hot 100.This album has never been released on CD.-Track listing:Side one...
(Polydor) - US Pop #58, US R&B #56 - 1980: StoriesStories (Gloria Gaynor album)Stories is the eighth album by Gloria Gaynor, released in 1980. Failing to produce any hit singles, Stories didn't fare as well as its predecessors and peaked at #178 on The Billboard 200.This album has yet to be reissued on CD.-Track listing:...
- US Pop #178 - 1981: I Kinda Like MeI Kinda Like MeI Kinda Like Me is the ninth album by Gloria Gaynor. It failed to make an impact because of the then current, now defunct Disco backlash. Includes the single, "Let's Mend What's Been Broken."This album has yet to be reissued on CD....
(Polydor) -US Pop #206 - 1982: Gloria Gaynor (Ecstacy) - US Pop #210
- 1983: I Am Gloria GaynorI Am Gloria GaynorI am Gloria Gaynor is the eleventh studio album by Gloria Gaynor, released in 1983 by Chrysalis Records. The most notable song on the album was Gloria Gaynor's cover of "I Am What I Am" from the musical La Cage Aux Folles...
(ChrysalisChrysalis RecordsChrysalis Records was a British record label that was created in 1969. The name was both a reference to the pupal stage of a butterfly and a combination of its founders names, Chris Wright and Terry Ellis...
) - 1986: The Power of Gloria GaynorThe Power of Gloria GaynorThe Power of Gloria Gaynor, also known as The Power, is the twelfth studio album by Gloria Gaynor, released in 1986, which is composed mostly of cover versions of other popular songs from the 1970s and 80s, and is her only album to be released on Stylus Records. It was originally only released in...
(Stylus) - 1990: Gloria Gaynor '90
- 1992: Love Affair
- 1995: I'll Be There (Radikal)
- 1997: The AnswerThe Answer (Gloria Gaynor album)The Answer is the sixteenth album by singer-songwriter Gloria Gaynor. It was released in France on October 24, 1997. A version with a slightly different track list was released the following year in Germany, under the title What a Life. The Answer includes the singles "Oh, What a Life", "Rippin' It...
(Florical) - 2002: I Wish You LoveI Wish You Love (Gloria Gaynor album)I Wish You Love is Gloria Gaynor's seventeenth album, and her first international release in 18 years. It is a return to her roots in Club/Dance music, along with Urban contemporary and Contemporary R&B...
(Bell) - 2005: Live! At John J. Burns Town Park (Instant Live)
- 2007: Christmas Presence (Glolo)
Compilations
- 1977 - The Best of Gloria Gaynor
- 1982 - Greatest Hits
- 1994 - Reach Out
- 1995 - I'll Be There
- 1996 - The Collection
- 1998 - I Will Survive: The Anthology
- 1998 - The Gloria Gaynor Album
- 2000 - 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Gloria Gaynor
- 2001 - Ten Best: The Millennium Versions
- 2002 - I Will Survive
- 2006 - All The Hits Remixed
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
US R&B Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,... |
US Dance |
US AC Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States... |
UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
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| 1974 | "Honey Bee" | - | 55 | - | - | - | |||
| "Never Can Say Goodbye Never Can Say Goodbye "Never Can Say Goodbye" is a song written by Clifton Davis and originally recorded by The Jackson 5. Released as a single in 1971, it was one of the group's most successful songs... " |
9 | 34 | 1 | - | 2 | ||||
| 1975 | "Reach Out I'll Be There Reach Out I'll Be There "Reach Out I'll Be There" is a 1966 hit song recorded by the Four Tops for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, the song is one of the most well-known Motown tunes of the 1960s and is today considered The Tops' signature song... " |
60 | - | - | - | 14 | |||
| "Real Good People" | - | - | 6 | - | - | ||||
| "Walk On By" | 98 | - | 8 | - | - | ||||
| "All I Need Is Your Sweet Lovin' All I Need Is Your Sweet Lovin' "All I Need Is Your Sweet Lovin" is a song by American singer Gloria Gaynor, released in August 1975... " |
- | - | - | - | 44 | ||||
| "Casanova Brown" | - | - | 1 | - | - | ||||
| "(If You Want It) Do It Yourself" | 98 | 24 | - | - | - | ||||
| "How High the Moon" | 75 | 73 | - | - | 33 | ||||
| 1976 | "Let's Make a Deal" | - | 95 | - | - | - | |||
| 1978 | "I Will Survive I Will Survive "I Will Survive" is a song first performed by American singer Gloria Gaynor, released in October 1978. It was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris... " |
1 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | |||
| "Substitute Substitute (Righteous Brothers song) "Substitute" is a song by Willie H. Wilson, recorded first by The Righteous Brothers and released as single from their album The Sons of Mrs. Righteous in 1975.This song was also released in 1978 by the South African band Clout and became a big hit... " |
107 | 78 | - | - | - | ||||
| 1979 | "Anybody Want to Party" | - | 16 | - | - | - | |||
| "Let Me Know (I Have a Right)" | 42 | - | - | - | 32 | ||||
| 1980 | "Tonight" | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 1981 | "Let's Mend What's Been Broken" | - | 76 | - | - | - | |||
| 1983 | "I Am What I Am I Am What I Am (Broadway musical song) "I am what I am" is a song originally introduced in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical La Cage aux Folles . The song is the finale number of the musical's first act, and performed by the character of Albin Mougeotte, first played by George Hearn... " |
- | 82 | - | - | 13 | |||
| 1984 | "Strive" | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 1985 | "My Love Is Music" | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 1986 | "Don't You Dare Call It Love" | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 1987 | "Be Soft with Me Tonight" | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 1993 | "I Will Survive" (remix) | - | - | - | - | 5 | |||
| 1997 | "Mighty High" (with The Trammps The Trammps The Trammps were an American disco band, who were based in Philadelphia and were one of the first disco bands. The band's first major success was with their 1972 cover version of "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart". The first disco track they released was "Love Epidemic" in 1973... ) |
- | - | 12 | - | - | |||
| 1998 | "Never Can Say Goodbye 1998" | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 2000 | "Last Night" | - | - | - | - | 67 | |||
| 2001 | "Just Keep Thinking About You" | - | - | 1 | - | - | |||
| 2002 | "I Never Knew" | - | - | 1 | 30 | - | |||
| 2006 | "The Power of a Woman In Love" | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| 2008 | "Hacer Por Hacer" (with Miguel Bosé Miguel Bosé Miguel Dominguín Bosé is a Latin Grammy-winning Spanish/Italian musician and actor.-Early life:Bosé was born in San Fernando Hospital in Panama City, Panama, the son of the famous Italian actress Lucia Bosé and the legendary bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín. He is also a cousin of Carmen... )[A] |
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| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
^ "Hacer Por Hacer" reached #17 in Spain.
See also
- List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)
- List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart
- List of number-one dance hits (United States)
- List of number-one hits (United States)