![]() **24bit FLAC Only Available For Seven Days! Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)ĭown Sampling/Dither: iZotope RX Advanced 2 Record Cleaning: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning MachineĪrtwork Scans: Epson Workforce WF-7610 Professional Printer/Scanner Tubes: Genalex Gold Lion 12AX7 ECC83/B759 Gold Pins Vacuum Tube – Matched Pair ![]() Turntable Isolation Platform: ISO-Tone™ Turntable Isolation Platform Written-By – Dino Fekaris, Freddie PerrenĬartridge/Stylus: Ortofon 2M Black PnP MkII.Co-producer, Arranged By – Freddie Perren.In 2000, the song was ranked #1 in VH1’s list of the 100 greatest dance songs. ![]() It is ranked #492 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of “the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”, and ranked at #97 on Billboard magazine’s “All-Time Hot 100”. The song received the first-ever Grammy Award for Best Disco Recording in 1980, the only year the award was given. Had it been originally planned and released as an A-side, it would almost certainly have undergone a substantially more heavy-handed remix. “I Will Survive” had a much more spare and “clean” sound. Most disco hits at the time were heavily produced, with multiple voices, overdubs, and adjustments to pitch and speed. And, unlike her first disco hits, the track was not pitched up to make it faster and to render Gaynor’s recorded voice in a higher register than that in which she actually sang. New copies of the record were eventually pressed with “I Will Survive” as the A-side (“Substitute” itself peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, equaling to number 107 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart).Īs a disco number, the song was unique for its time by virtue of Gaynor’s having no background singers. Originally released as the B-side to a cover version of the Righteous Brothers song “Substitute”, “I Will Survive” became a worldwide hit for Gaynor when disc jockeys played that side of the record instead. 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. “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). This transatlantic chart-topper would overwhelm Gaynor’s career but, as defining moments go, it’s in a class of its own. Its status as one of the best LGBTQ+ Pride songs is tinged with sadness – arguably a last stand against the backlash of homophobia that would secure disco’s first demise and add so much extra suffering to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, then just around the corner. The song that really fought to find its audience, I Will Survive first surfaced as the B-side to a long-forgotten single before eventually becoming a Studio 54 anthem. ![]()
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