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The popularity of "I Will Survive" led to the label releasing the song as an A side. To support the single, a video shot at Xenon Discotheque in New York was released. It featured a roller skater – Sheila Reid-Pender from a local group called The Village Wizards – skate dancing on the dance floor. [11]
The song has become something of an anthem of female Emancipation. Originally, "I Will Survive" was a 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".
Nearly 50 years ago, Gloria Gaynor released “I Will Survive,” the first disco song to top the Billboard charts and the only one to be awarded a Grammy for best disco recording. Then, 40 years ...
Love Tracks includes her million-selling number-one 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. (The 12" single was quickly deleted and the 4:56 album version was replaced with the 8:01 12" version in order to sell more albums).
Disco songs like Gaynor's "I Will Survive," plus her cover of The Jackson 5's "Never Can Say Goodbye" and "I Am What I Am," the Bee Gees' soundtrack to the 1977 film "Saturday Night Fever," as ...
[2] [3] Demi Lovato covered the 1978 single "I Will Survive" performed by Gloria Gaynor. The song was later released as a single on May 5, 2016, ahead of the film's soundtrack release. [4] In April 2016, producer John Cohen announced that Charli XCX who voiced as Willow in the film, will also contribute the song "Explode". [5]
The bridge of the song contains an interpolation of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive".The string instrument part is a François de Roubaix-composed piece from the José Giovanni-directed film Dernier domicile connu starring Lino Ventura and Marlène Jobert.
Dino George Fekaris (born January 24, 1945) is an American music producer and songwriter. [1] [2] [self-published source] [3]Fekaris was the producer and co-writer, with Freddie Perren, of the 1978 song "I Will Survive", and other songs recorded by Gloria Gaynor. [4]