Never Can Say Goodbye

And before Sheik, my feet keep dancing.

Coming up next, a track from Gloria Gaynor, and this is called Never Can Say Goodbye.

And say goodbye No, no, no, I Say goodbye.

I never can say goodbye, boy.

Bye.

Bye.

And she ends up making history.

She recorded Never Can Say Goodbye, which was the very first record specifically mixed for discotheques.

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Well, I'm about to tell you what it is after this.

It was Never Can Say Goodbye by Gloria Gaynor.

So congrats to everyone who got it right.

So that's an upbeat version of Never Can Say Goodbye from Gloria Gaynor.

It was also sung by Michael Jackson.

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Gaynor had one early single released in 1965, which didn't catch on, and then she spent the rest of the 60s and the early 70s working as a backup singer for various gospel and soul groups.

Gaynor finally was given another shot at recording her own music in 1974, and she had an immediate top 10 pop hit with the title track to her 1974 album, Never Can Say Goodbye.

But that success was short-lived for her.

Between that single and 1978, Gloria Gaynor released 17 singles and four albums, and her only success during that time was a handful of disco-tinged songs that were popular on the dance club charts, but failed to chart anywhere else, and she achieved one mid-sized hit on R&B radio.

The next year, the same album that yielded Love Hurts, Hair of the Dog, yielded another hit in the form of the album's title track.

More of a hit on album-oriented rock radio than on the pop chart, this down-and-dirty, gritty, greasy rock number is more indicative of what Nazareth actually sounded like, made most memorable by its classic chorus, "Now you're messing with a son of a bitch!" Next, Gloria Gaynor with Never Can Say Goodbye from 1974 and I Will Survive from 1978.

Gaynor will forever be known for I Will Survive, the towering disco classic and one of the greatest anthems of female empowerment ever.

But a lot of people don't know that she had another huge top 10 hit four years previously with Never Can Say Goodbye, a song wonderfully drenched in that lush, decadent sound emanating from the Philadelphia R&B soul scene at the time that was just beginning to be called disco.

Next, Gary Wright with Dream Weaver and Love Is Alive, both from 1976.

Wright's 1976 album, The Dream Weaver, produced two massive hit singles, the first of which is the, well, dreamy, spacey, almost psychedelic ballad, Dream Weaver.

And never heard of him.

I found out that he also produced Gloria Gaynor's Never Can Say Goodbye.

So.

Oh, nice song.