Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive

“I Will Survive” – single by Gloria Gaynor from the album Love Tracks, released in 1978. Charted #1 in UK and in US.

This song was written by the former Motown producers Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris. Perren was a co-writer on three #1 Jackson 5 hits: “I Want You Back,” “The Love You Save” and “ABC.” Fekaris’ biggest co-write with Motown was “I Just Want to Celebrate” by Rare Earth, but he also placed tracks with The Temptations and The Four Tops.

This won the 1979 Grammy for Best Disco Recording, beating out “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” “Bad Girls,”
“Boogie Wonderland” and “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” It was the first and last time the Grammy was offered in this category, but not the last win for Gaynor, who won Best Roots Gospel Album 40 years later in 2019 for Testimony.

Gaynor sees this song as just a simple song about survival, regardless of what you have to overcome. She said: “I love the empowering effect, I love the encouraging effect. It’s a timeless lyric that addresses a timeless concern.”

The musicians on this track were some of the first-call session players in the Los Angeles area. There were:

Drums – James Gadson
Bass – Scott Edwards
Guitar – Bob Bowles
Guitar – Melvin Ragin
Piano – Freddie Perren (also the song’s co-producer and co-writer

String players were also brought in to play on the track.

“I Will Survive” este o melodie compusă de Dino Fekaris și Freddie Perren, lansată pe single la 23 Octombrie 1978, de pe albumul Love Tracks.

A fost una din cele mai ascultate melodii disco în aceea toamnă și iarnă. Desigur, datorită popularizării și la radio, a fost piesa #1 la Billboard Hot Hits, primind certificarea de “Platină”.

Acesta este video original, filmat în 1979 la discoteca Xenon, din New York – discotecă fondată in 1978 de Howard Stein și Peppo Vanini.  Sheila Reid-Pender din Harlem, este patinatoarea din acest video.

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