The original A side "Substitute" appeared on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart for four weeks starting October 14, 1978, peaking at No.
Gloria Gaynor performed the song "I Will Survive", which became one of her signature songs. It featured a roller skater Sheila Reid-Pender from a local group called The Village Wizards skate dancing on the dance floor. To support the single, a video shot in Xenon Discotheque in New York was released. The popularity of "I Will Survive" with the DJs led to the label releasing the song as an A side. Other disc jockeys in discos and radio stations soon followed and played that side of the record instead. She also gave the DJ a stack of the records to give to his friends. Gaynor's husband took the song to the Studio 54 DJ Richie Kaczor, who loved the song and played the song. Releases Īlthough Gaynor was convinced that "I Will Survive" would be a hit and tried to persuade the label to release it as the A side, the label refused to entertain the idea and it was released as the B-side to "Substitute". The injury and a recent bereavement made Gaynor identified with the sentiment of "I Will Survive" she said: "That's why I was able to sing the song with so much conviction". Gaynor then recorded the vocals, doing it while wearing a back brace after having to undergo surgery due to fall at a concert. Due to the difference in the intro from the main body of the tune which made a smooth transition difficult, it was recorded in two parts and then spliced together. Based only on the chord changes and a few notes, they improvised freely much of the backing track, and Bowles filled in the bare bone of the tune with jazzy blues licks. They also did not even know the song title or the melody of the song, but they were fairly relaxed recording it in the belief that the B side would likely not be played. As a result, they only had 35 minutes to record the B side. Īccording to Robert "Boogie" Bowles who played guitar on the song, in the three-hour recording session, the session musicians spent most of their time recording the A side, "Substitute". Gaynor recognised the song as a hit immediately. When Gaynor was asked what kind of songs she likes, she said she "like songs that are meaningful, have good lyrics and touch people's hearts." The producers then handed her the song lyrics of "I Will Survive" scribbled on a piece of brown paper. In 1978, Perrin was asked by Polydor to produce " Subsitute" for Gloria Gaynor, which he agreed on the understanding that he could also produce the B side. Fekaris teamed up with with his collaborator Freddie Perren, another former member of the Motown production team, to finish the song, however, the song remained unrecorded for two years as no suitable singer was available. He took it as a good omen, and jumped up and down on the bed saying, "I'm going to make it.
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Jobless, he turned on the TV in his room, and a theme song he had written for the film Generation (performed by Rare Earth) happened to be playing. In 2016, the Library of Congress deemed Gaynor's original recording to be "culturally, historically, or artistically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Recording Registry.Īccording to Dino Fekaris, the principal writer of the song, "I Will Survive" has its genesis in his experience getting fired by Motown Records in mid-1970s after seven years working there as a staff writer. The song is also frequently recalled as a symbol of female empowerment.
It received heavy airplay in 1979, reaching spending three non-consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as topping the UK Singles Chart and Irish Singles Chart. The song's lyrics describe the narrator's discovery of personal strength following an initially devastating breakup. A top-selling song, it is a popular disco anthem, as well as being certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS)." I Will Survive" is a song by American singer Gloria Gaynor, released in October 1978 as the second single from her sixth album, Love Tracks (1978).
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