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Gloria Gaynor - Gloria Gaynor Audio CD

A fair review of the Gloria Gaynor "Gloria Gaynor" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Gloria Gaynor reviews here, or go back to the Gloria Gaynor tabs.

Gloria Gaynor Band: Gloria Gaynor
Title: Gloria Gaynor
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Release Date: 1996-10-15
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Will Survive 2: Stop! In the Name of Love 3: Runaround Love 4: Mack Side 5: Tease Me 6: America 7: For You, My Love 8: Love Me Real 9: Even a Fool Would Let Go 10: I Will Survive [Extended Mix]

One of her Best!
While I enjoyed select songs from many of them, I haven't found the LP's to be terribly consistent. I have to admit, I am not a big fan of a lot of Gaynor's 70's LP's. This 1982 set, however (originally released on Atlantic Records), is different. I can say that I enjoy seven of the eight songs thoroughly (the two versions of "I Will Survive" included here were NOT on the original LP; they were merely added by Hot Productions in order to attract more consumers to purchasing this reissue, being that the song is the one that everybody knows Gloria for!). First single, the remake of "Stop in the Name of Love" is peppy and funky, with a totally new melody to the chorus of the original Supremes recording. "America," also released as a single, is also very bright and feel-good. True, some of the lyrics are questionable in merit; but they do have a positivity about them, and Gaynor's delivery is very pleasing! And the final single from the album, "Tease Me," has the most "soulful" quality of all the uptempo numbers here, with funky-freaky synth-bass, percussion, and sultry background vocal arrangements. Also noteworthy is the catchy "Runaround Love. " Fun stuff!.


The End of the "Queen of Disco" and the beginning of a born again Christian
This is a sad record. . Gloria Gaynor became a "born-again" Christian shortly before doing this album and changed the lyrics of "I Will Survive" from 'I took all the strength I had not to fall apart' - to 'Only the Lord could give me strength not to fall apart'. Ironically, the "Queen of Disco" had fallen a prey to the brainwashing campaign of the conservatives (e. g. the Reagen revolution) who made "disco" a dirty word and turned their backs about the multiculturalism and liberalism of the 1970's in an attempt to bring back the 1950's. Gloria Gaynor's last great album was 1981's I Kinda Like Me. . . she would never be the same after that.


Her finest album of the '80's
There are many excellent, catchy Dance-Pop songs with an Urban slant which would insure Urban radio airplay and as well as rotation in nightclubs such as "Love Me Real", "Mack-Side", "Runaround Love", and "Tease Me. Self titled "Gloria Gaynor" is clearly her finest recording of the '80's, period! Her voice is in prime condition! He production and arrangements are not as Urban contemporary as one would think. " All would have been obivious choices to be lifted as singles. Corporate error set Gloria's career back (Stateside, that is) by releasing teribble single choices which were a needless cover of the Supremes hit, "Stop! In the Name of Love", the catchy but lyrically corny "America" and one of the many needless re-records of "I Will Survive. " In addition to the aformentioned album tracks which were not lifted as singles, the other standouts are the two ballad "For You, My Love" and "Even A Fool Would Let Go. " Those two ballads are worth knowing, ripe with emotion and romantic themes, an sophistication. Overall, a worthy album overall worth listening to.


Cool, slick R&B record
Kool & The Gang re-worked the Supremes classic "Stop In The Name Of Love" for Gloria, this was the first single, and the result is terrifically funky, as are songs as "Runaway Love", "Tease Me" and "Love Me Real", classy R&B! Also the ballad cuts are worth listening to, the thoughtful "Mack-Side", "For You, My Love" (both co-penned by Gloria's husband) and Tom Snow-penned "Even A Fool Would Let Go". Having released 9 albums on Polydor of varying quality, Gloria Gaynor signed with Atlantic in 1982 and released this surprisingly enjoyable album that was all but ignored at the time, despite being one of the lady's most complete albums to date. The second single, "America" isn't that bad either, that said if you can only ignore the sickly lyrics that make you wanna puke, it bears several similarities to Donna Summer's equally awful "Living In America" from her 1982 album, in that it also features a children's choir praising God's own country . . . yuck! "I Will Survive" is included in both a short & long version on the CD as a bonus track, although it's kept as close as possible to the original 1978 recording, this is a re-recording (the first of many . . . ), produced by Yves Dessca, for what purpose is not known . . . I think 4 stars are too much as the LP lacks a good hit single so it ends up a 3 stars release, it should have been 3½ stars as this is really Gloria Gaynor's best album.


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