‘Gloria’,Unaware That They Have Both Her Number And Her Alias, Listens To The Voices In Her Head calling ‘Gloria’
Okay. we're gonna Jazzercise now. Er, Fondacise? Everybody feel the energy! The burn! Or...the whatever. I'm fittin' you for a tiger print headband and something in lycra. *CLAPS HANDS* LET'S GO! READ ON!
Sorry. I got punchy up there. It's late as I write this, and I just got home from my kid's final baseball game of the year. They lost, but they made it all the way down to the finals, so, go team Indians. Anyway, on to Laura Branigan. Didn't John Wayne play a cop named Branigan? I know I would have liked to see the Duke in black leather pants like our girl Laura up there. Yeah. Kind of a forgotten artist, our Laura. Had two or three big hits, didn't have much of a personality, faded away as the 80's moved on to whatever Pat Benetar or Olivia Newton john were into. Oh, wait, Wikipedia says Branigan died at her home in 2004, aged 47, from a previously undiagnosed cerebral aneurysm. Oh geez, that's the worst. R.I.P. Laura.
And now we are sad.
Today's song, actually a cover of an Italian song, went platinum in 1982, hitting number one and selling two million copies. Branigan had been quoted as saying Gloria was ""Certainly my signature song. And I always get the same reaction wherever I go, and whenever I perform it ... I have to end every show with that song, and people just go crazy."[18] They'd really go nuts if she showed up now.
Here is your K-101.7 Song Of The Day!
Yeah, that was the eighties, right there. These days, we're less spangly and more likely to be found hanging around the local arcade cave. Speaking of which:
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