What was Gloria Gaynor's first US top ten single?
Gloria Fowles (born September 7, 1943), known professionally as Gloria Gaynor, is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" (1978), "Let Me Know (I Have a Right)" (1979), "I Am What I Am" (1983), and her version of "Never Can Say Goodbye" (1974).
Gaynor was a singer with The Soul Satisfiers, a jazz and R&B music band of the 1960s. She recorded "She'll Be Sorry" as Gloria Gaynor in 1965, for Johnny Nash's "Jocida" label. Her first real success came in 1973 when she was signed to Columbia Records by Clive Davis. The fruit of that was the release of the flop single "Honey Bee".
Moving on to MGM Records she finally hit with the album "Never Can Say Goodbye", released in 1975. The first side of the album consisted of three songs ("Honey Bee", "Never Can Say Goodbye", and "Reach Out, I'll Be There"), with no break between the songs.
The Gloria Gaynor version of "Never Can Say Goodbye" was a number-nine hit on the U.S. Pop Singles chart, her first US top ten single. This version became one of the defining recordings of the disco era. Indeed, her version peaked at number two in the UK during January 1975, and number three in Canada, surpassing the Jackson Five's original recording in those nations.
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