Saturday, May 25, 2013

Number 352 - Gloria Gaynor


Number 352

Gloria Gaynor

"I Will Survive"

(1979)
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................Genre: Disco...............
b.1949 - 
Perhaps second only to Donna SummerGloria Gaynor has become one of the best-known female disco artists from the '70s due to the ongoing success of her monster 1979 hit (and subsequent "woman's anthem"), "I Will Survive." Born Gloria Fowles on September 7, 1949, in Newark, NJ, the singer (who began going by Gloria Gaynor by the early '70s), first sang as part of the obscure R&B outfit the Soul Satisfiers before being discovered by MGM Records head honcho Mike Curb (eventual leader of the Curb label and Lieutenant Governor of California), who decided to sign the singer to his label after several auditions. Gaynor began issuing albums on a regular basis beginning in 1975 and with her 1976 release Never Can Say Goodbye, the singer became one of the first-ever dance artists to issue an album aimed primarily for club use (there were no breaks between the songs, as one track would automatically segue into the next), a method used to this day by DJs and certain dance artists. [source ~ artistdirect]
For Donna Summer see #420
Other songs with reference to Gloria Gaynor ~ #895, #489
This song has a Definitive 1000 rating of 80.7 out of 108
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