Gloria Gaynor Performs "I Will Survive" | WETA

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• I WILL SURVIVEGLORIA GAYNORTRACK 5 ON LOVE TRACKS PRODUCED BYDO FEKARISTHIS SONG WAS GIVEN A LUCKY BREAK WHEN A STUD 54 DJ FLIPPED TO THE B-SI OF “SUBSTUTE”, A RIGHTEO BROTHERS VER. DURG A TIME WHEN MOST DIS HS WERE HEAVILY… READ MORE AUG. 19781 VIEWER710.5K VIEWS79 CONTRIBUTORSI WILL SURVIVE LYRICS[INTRO]AT FIRST I WAS AAID, I WAS PETRIFIEDKEPT THK' I ULD NEVER LIVE WHOUT YOU BY MY SIBUT THEN I SPENT SO MANY NIGHTS THK' HOW YOU DID ME WRONGAND I GREW STRONG AND I LEARNED HOW TO GET ALONG[VERSE 1]AND SO YOU'RE BACK, OM OUTER SPACEI JT WALKED TO FD YOU HERE WH THAT SAD LOOK UPON YOUR FACEI SHOULD HAVE CHANGED THAT STUPID LOCKI SHOULD HAVE MA YOU LEAVE YOUR KEYIF I'D HAVE KNOWN FOR JT ONE SEND YOU'D BE BACK TO BOTHER ME[PRE-CHOS]GO ON NOW, GO, WALK OUT THE DOORJT TURN AROUND NOW, 'E YOU'RE NOT WELE ANYMOREWEREN'T YOU THE ONE WHO TRIED TO HURT ME WH GOODBYE?DID YOU THK I'D CMBLE? DID YOU THK I'D LAY DOWN AND DIE?[CHOS]OH NO, NOT I, I WILL SURVIVEOH, AS LONG AS I KNOW HOW TO LOVE, I KNOW I'LL STAY ALIVEI'VE GOT ALL MY LIFE TO LIVE, AND I'VE GOT ALL MY LOVE TO GIVEAND I'LL SURVIVE, I WILL SURVIVE, HEY HEY[STRG SOLO]YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2]IT TOOK ALL THE STRENGTH I HAD NOT TO FALL APARTJT TRY' HARD TO MEND THE PIEC OF MY BROKEN HEARTAND I SPENT OH SO MANY NIGHTS JT FEELG SORRY FOR MYSELFI ED TO CRY, BUT NOW I HOLD MY HEAD UP HIGHAND YOU SEE ME, SOMEBODY NEWI'M NOT THAT CHAED UP LTLE PERSON STILL LOVE WH YOUAND SO YOU FELT LIKE DROPP' AND JT EXPECT ME TO BE EENOW I'M SAVG ALL MY LOV' FOR SOMEONE WHO'S LOV' ME[PRE-CHOS]GO ON NOW, GO, WALK OUT THE DOORJT TURN AROUND NOW, 'E YOU'RE NOT WELE ANYMOREWEREN'T YOU THE ONE WHO TRIED TO BREAK ME WH GOODBYE?DID YOU THK I'D CMBLE? DID YOU THK I'D LAY DOWN AND DIE?[CHOS]OH NO, NOT I, I WILL SURVIVEOH, AS LONG AS I KNOW HOW TO LOVE, I KNOW I'LL STAY ALIVEI'VE GOT ALL MY LIFE TO LIVE, AND I'VE GOT ALL MY LOVE TO GIVEAND I'LL SURVIVE, I WILL SURVIVE, OH[PRE-CHOS]GO ON NOW GO, WALK OUT THE DOORJT TURN AROUND NOW, 'E YOU'RE NOT WELE ANYMOREWEREN'T YOU THE ONE WHO TRIED TO BREAK ME WH GOODBYE?DID YOU THK I'D CMBLE? DID YOU THK I'D LAY DOWN AND DIE?[CHOS]OH NO, NOT I, I WILL SURVIVEOH, AS LONG AS I KNOW HOW TO LOVE, I KNOW I'LL STAY ALIVEI'VE GOT ALL MY LIFE TO LIVE, AND I'VE GOT ALL MY LOVE TO GIVEAND I'LL SURVIVE, I WILL SURVIVE, I WILL SURVIVE[SAXOPHONE SOLO][VERSE 2]IT TOOK ALL THE STRENGTH I HAD NOT TO FALL APARTJT TRY' HARD TO MEND THE PIEC OF MY BROKEN HEARTAND I SPENT OH SO MANY NIGHTS JT FEELG SORRY FOR MYSELFI ED TO CRY, BUT NOW I HOLD MY HEAD UP HIGHAND YOU SEE ME, SOMEBODY NEWI'M NOT THAT CHAED UP LTLE PERSON STILL LOVE WH YOUAND SO YOU FELT LIKE DROPP' AND JT EXPECT ME TO BE EEWELL, NOW I'M SAVG ALL MY LOV' FOR SOMEONE WHO'S LOV' ME[PRE-CHOS]GO ON NOW GO, WALK OUT THE DOORJT TURN AROUND NOW, 'E YOU'RE NOT WELE ANYMOREWEREN'T YOU THE ONE WHO TRIED TO HURT ME WH GOODBYE?DID YOU THK I'D CMBLE? DID YOU THK I'D BREAK DOWN AND DIE?[CHOS]OH NO, NOT I, I WILL SURVIVEOH, AS LONG AS I KNOW HOW TO LOVE, I KNOW I'LL STAY ALIVEI'VE GOT ALL MY LIFE TO LIVE, AND I'VE GOT ALL MY LOVE TO GIVEAND I'LL SURVIVE, I WILL SURVIVE, I WILL SURVIVE[OUTRO]I'VE GOT ALL MY LIFE TO LIVE, AND I'VE GOT SO MUCH LOVE TO GIVEAND I'LL SURVIVE, Y, I'LL SURVIVE, YEAH, I'LL SURVIVE37EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
• GLORIA GAYNOR REVEALS REAL PA BEHD ‘I WILL SURVIVE’ NEW DOC
• HOW GLORIA GAYNOR SURVIVED: SIX BT MOMENTS OM THE TRIBE FILM FTIVAL DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE
• GLORIA GAYNOR: LA HISTORIA ‘I WILL SURVIVE’ N UN SPIDO Y UNA FAJA ORTOPéDI
• GLORIA GAYNOR PERFORMS "I WILL SURVIVE"
• GLORIA GAYNOR: 'I WILL SURVIVE' IS 'THE CORE OF MY PURPOSE'
• 'IT HAS NOT SLOWED DOWN ONE B': GLORIA GAYNOR SHAR THE AMAZG STORY OF 'I WILL SURVIVE'
• ‘I WILL SURVIVE’: THE STORY BEHD GLORIA GAYNOR’S BEAN OF EMPOWERMENT

I WILL SURVIVEGLORIA GAYNORTRACK 5 ON LOVE TRACKS PRODUCED BYDO FEKARISTHIS SONG WAS GIVEN A LUCKY BREAK WHEN A STUD 54 DJ FLIPPED TO THE B-SI OF “SUBSTUTE”, A RIGHTEO BROTHERS VER. DURG A TIME WHEN MOST DIS HS WERE HEAVILY… READ MORE AUG. 19781 VIEWER710.5K VIEWS79 CONTRIBUTORSI WILL SURVIVE LYRICS[INTRO]AT FIRST I WAS AAID, I WAS PETRIFIEDKEPT THK' I ULD NEVER LIVE WHOUT YOU BY MY SIBUT THEN I SPENT SO MANY NIGHTS THK' HOW YOU DID ME WRONGAND I GREW STRONG AND I LEARNED HOW TO GET ALONG[VERSE 1]AND SO YOU'RE BACK, OM OUTER SPACEI JT WALKED TO FD YOU HERE WH THAT SAD LOOK UPON YOUR FACEI SHOULD HAVE CHANGED THAT STUPID LOCKI SHOULD HAVE MA YOU LEAVE YOUR KEYIF I'D HAVE KNOWN FOR JT ONE SEND YOU'D BE BACK TO BOTHER ME[PRE-CHOS]GO ON NOW, GO, WALK OUT THE DOORJT TURN AROUND NOW, 'E YOU'RE NOT WELE ANYMOREWEREN'T YOU THE ONE WHO TRIED TO HURT ME WH GOODBYE?DID YOU THK I'D CMBLE? DID YOU THK I'D LAY DOWN AND DIE?[CHOS]OH NO, NOT I, I WILL SURVIVEOH, AS LONG AS I KNOW HOW TO LOVE, I KNOW I'LL STAY ALIVEI'VE GOT ALL MY LIFE TO LIVE, AND I'VE GOT ALL MY LOVE TO GIVEAND I'LL SURVIVE, I WILL SURVIVE, HEY HEY[STRG SOLO]YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2]IT TOOK ALL THE STRENGTH I HAD NOT TO FALL APARTJT TRY' HARD TO MEND THE PIEC OF MY BROKEN HEARTAND I SPENT OH SO MANY NIGHTS JT FEELG SORRY FOR MYSELFI ED TO CRY, BUT NOW I HOLD MY HEAD UP HIGHAND YOU SEE ME, SOMEBODY NEWI'M NOT THAT CHAED UP LTLE PERSON STILL LOVE WH YOUAND SO YOU FELT LIKE DROPP' AND JT EXPECT ME TO BE EENOW I'M SAVG ALL MY LOV' FOR SOMEONE WHO'S LOV' ME[PRE-CHOS]GO ON NOW, GO, WALK OUT THE DOORJT TURN AROUND NOW, 'E YOU'RE NOT WELE ANYMOREWEREN'T YOU THE ONE WHO TRIED TO BREAK ME WH GOODBYE?DID YOU THK I'D CMBLE? DID YOU THK I'D LAY DOWN AND DIE?[CHOS]OH NO, NOT I, I WILL SURVIVEOH, AS LONG AS I KNOW HOW TO LOVE, I KNOW I'LL STAY ALIVEI'VE GOT ALL MY LIFE TO LIVE, AND I'VE GOT ALL MY LOVE TO GIVEAND I'LL SURVIVE, I WILL SURVIVE, OH[PRE-CHOS]GO ON NOW GO, WALK OUT THE DOORJT TURN AROUND NOW, 'E YOU'RE NOT WELE ANYMOREWEREN'T YOU THE ONE WHO TRIED TO BREAK ME WH GOODBYE?DID YOU THK I'D CMBLE? DID YOU THK I'D LAY DOWN AND DIE?[CHOS]OH NO, NOT I, I WILL SURVIVEOH, AS LONG AS I KNOW HOW TO LOVE, I KNOW I'LL STAY ALIVEI'VE GOT ALL MY LIFE TO LIVE, AND I'VE GOT ALL MY LOVE TO GIVEAND I'LL SURVIVE, I WILL SURVIVE, I WILL SURVIVE[SAXOPHONE SOLO][VERSE 2]IT TOOK ALL THE STRENGTH I HAD NOT TO FALL APARTJT TRY' HARD TO MEND THE PIEC OF MY BROKEN HEARTAND I SPENT OH SO MANY NIGHTS JT FEELG SORRY FOR MYSELFI ED TO CRY, BUT NOW I HOLD MY HEAD UP HIGHAND YOU SEE ME, SOMEBODY NEWI'M NOT THAT CHAED UP LTLE PERSON STILL LOVE WH YOUAND SO YOU FELT LIKE DROPP' AND JT EXPECT ME TO BE EEWELL, NOW I'M SAVG ALL MY LOV' FOR SOMEONE WHO'S LOV' ME[PRE-CHOS]GO ON NOW GO, WALK OUT THE DOORJT TURN AROUND NOW, 'E YOU'RE NOT WELE ANYMOREWEREN'T YOU THE ONE WHO TRIED TO HURT ME WH GOODBYE?DID YOU THK I'D CMBLE? DID YOU THK I'D BREAK DOWN AND DIE?[CHOS]OH NO, NOT I, I WILL SURVIVEOH, AS LONG AS I KNOW HOW TO LOVE, I KNOW I'LL STAY ALIVEI'VE GOT ALL MY LIFE TO LIVE, AND I'VE GOT ALL MY LOVE TO GIVEAND I'LL SURVIVE, I WILL SURVIVE, I WILL SURVIVE[OUTRO]I'VE GOT ALL MY LIFE TO LIVE, AND I'VE GOT SO MUCH LOVE TO GIVEAND I'LL SURVIVE, Y, I'LL SURVIVE, YEAH, I'LL SURVIVE37EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

A uple years before this song me out, Gaynor had been propelled to the blossomg dis genre thanks to the succs of her 1975 album Never Can Say Goodbye. Gaynor herself had a reason to sg a song about survival.

Gaynor said changed her perspective and gave her a new reason to sg an anthem like this:.

GLORIA GAYNOR REVEALS REAL PA BEHD ‘I WILL SURVIVE’ NEW DOC

This beme the five song of Gaynor’s reer, and she named her tobgraphy after . Dis legend Gloria Gaynor is famo for beltg out one of the most inic survival anthems of all time — and she meant every word.

Woke up the next morng paralyzed om the waist down, ” the 79-year-old sger reveals the new documentary “Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive, ” which premiered at the Tribe Ftival this weekend. Still worse, while Gaynor was “flat on my back” the hospal, she got a letter om her rerd pany sayg the label wasn’t gog to renew her ntract. Gloria Gaynor ma her dis breakthrough wh a ver of the Jackson 5’s “Never Can Say Goodbye” Imag.

But even at her lowt pot, Gaynor didn’t cmble. Jt months after her near-paralyzg accint, a back-braced Gaynor was the stud wailg for her life on what would bee her signature song.

HOW GLORIA GAYNOR SURVIVED: SIX BT MOMENTS OM THE TRIBE FILM FTIVAL DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE

“I Will Survive” — which, unfathomably, was origally released as the B-si to Gaynor’s ver of the Righteo Brothers’ “Substute” — went on to bee her first and only No.

GLORIA GAYNOR: LA HISTORIA ‘I WILL SURVIVE’ N UN SPIDO Y UNA FAJA ORTOPéDI

Gloria Gaynor had to survive mistreatment and mismanagement by ex-hband Lwood via Getty Imag. For Gaynor, was also a very personal anthem of rilience and perseverance as she endured — and survived — everythg om poverty and sexual abe while growg up, to mismanagement by her ex-hband, to the ath of dis, which almost killed her reer.

GLORIA GAYNOR PERFORMS "I WILL SURVIVE"

Born Newark, New Jersey, Gaynor was raised by her mother a one-bedroom apartment wh five brothers and one sister. The new documentary “Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive” tails the dis legend’s triumphs and Schechter.

Gaynor suffered silence.

GLORIA GAYNOR: 'I WILL SURVIVE' IS 'THE CORE OF MY PURPOSE'

In the new documentary “Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive, ” the Grammy-wng sger reveals past sexual Schechter. “I never talked about , and I never cried about , ” Gaynor reveals. In fact, Gaynor se those early ab as the reason why she accepted years of mistreatment and mismanagement by her ex-hband, Lwood Simon, whom she wed 1979.

'IT HAS NOT SLOWED DOWN ONE B': GLORIA GAYNOR SHAR THE AMAZG STORY OF 'I WILL SURVIVE'

Gloria Gaynor performed at the Tribe Ftival premiere of her new documentary on Imag for Tribe Ftival. Gaynor and Simon divorced 2005.

In 2020, Gaynor ma a triumphant eback unr new management, wng her send Grammy for her gospel album “Ttimony. How Gloria Gaynor Survived: Six Bt Moments om the Tribe Film Ftival Documentary Premiere.

Gloria Gaynor performs durg the "Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive" premiere durg the 2023 Tribe Ftival at Sprg Studs on June 09, 2023 New York Cy. Although Gloria Gaynor is bt known for her Hot 100-toppg 1978 dis anthem, “I Will Survive, ” more than four s later, she’s dog more than that – she’s thrivg.

‘I WILL SURVIVE’: THE STORY BEHD GLORIA GAYNOR’S BEAN OF EMPOWERMENT

Durg this year’s Tribe Film Ftival, Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive, directed by Betsy Schechter, screened to a buzzg dience of a few hundred film and mic enthiasts alike.

Dpe beg an tablished name mic well to her seventi, Gaynor ntends wh endurg past eak accints, ageism, abe and pivotg mic genr. The film and Gaynor share them of owng who you are and love, matag perseverance and clivy, and breakg down barriers for other Black and female artists. Gloria Gaynor breaks the fourth wall talkg to New York dienc about “I Will Survive.