Stories (Gloria Gaynor album) explained

Stories
Type:studio
Artist:Gloria Gaynor
Cover:Gaynorstories.jpg
Released:May 20, 1980
Genre:Disco, R&B
Label:Polydor
Producer:Dino Fekaris, Freddie Perren
Prev Title:I Have a Right
Prev Year:1979
Next Title:I Kinda Like Me
Next Year:1981

Stories is the eighth album by Gloria Gaynor, released in 1980. Failing to produce any hit singles, Stories didn't fare as well as its predecessors and peaked at #178 on the Billboard 200.

This album has yet to be reissued on CD.

Critical reception

Billboard's reviewer noted with satisfaction that "Gaynor deserts the dictates of disco for an album of classic pop-soul songs". He singled out "Ain't No Bigger Fool" and "Make Me Yours" as fine examples of the Motown sound brought up-to-date, with powerful bass lines, beefy brass and call-and-response backup vocals". As well as a couple of ballads, "Don't Read Me Wrong" and "The Luckiest Girl In The World," that "underscore Gaynor's versatility". As a result critic called Stories a "singer's best LP in years".[1]

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Review: Gloria Gaynor – Stories. Billboard. 17 May 1980. 11 February 2022. 92. 20. 66. New York. Billboard Publications Inc.. World Radio History. 0006-2510. https://web.archive.org/web/20220208161609/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/80s/1980/BB-1980-05-17.pdf. 8 February 2022.