Let It Loose: A Gloria Este-FAN Podcast
Sep 17, 2026 · 51 min · 16 segments
Think you know every Gloria song? Think again! This week we’re digging into the deep end of Gloria’s catalog—from soundtrack surprises and unexpected duets to concept albums, children’s music, and…
all right so we're gonna dive into this humongous list maybe we'll post the whole list at some point so people can see all the different songs that we um dug up throughout the years but we're starting with one of our favorite songs ever i think wes is that you who's starting off yes And what a song to start us off with.
I think this is, like, definitely a fan favorite.
Oh, my God.
Yeah,
well, definitely well-known in the hardcore fan community.
But with it being on a massive soundtrack to a massive movie, Hot Summer Nights in 1986 was one of the songs on the Top Gun soundtrack.
So...
Taking My Breath Away was like the biggest, probably the biggest single from that album.
I can't think of it.
I
know what you're talking about.
Yeah.
Those were the big songs in the United States.
But yeah, I just love that song.
And the first, I'm sure for all of us here, the first time we heard it was on the Homecoming concert.
The Homecoming concert.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I didn't even know anything about, you know, I mean, I was little at the time, so I knew what the Top Gun album was, but I didn't realize it came from that, you know, soundtrack.
But yeah, that's one of my, that's one of my, that's my first favorite.
Yeah,
I knew that it was a studio version of it until I was much older.
Same
all right so we're gonna dive into this humongous list maybe we'll post the whole list at some point so people can see all the different songs that we um dug up throughout the years but we're starting with one of our favorite songs ever i think wes is that you who's starting off yes And what a song to start us off with.
I think this is, like, definitely a fan favorite.
Oh, my God.
Yeah,
well, definitely well-known in the hardcore fan community.
But with it being on a massive soundtrack to a massive movie, Hot Summer Nights in 1986 was one of the songs on the Top Gun soundtrack.
So...
Taking My Breath Away was like the biggest, probably the biggest single from that album.
I can't think of it.
I
know what you're talking about.
Yeah.
Those were the big songs in the United States.
But yeah, I just love that song.
And the first, I'm sure for all of us here, the first time we heard it was on the Homecoming concert.
The Homecoming concert.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I didn't even know anything about, you know, I mean, I was little at the time, so I knew what the Top Gun album was, but I didn't realize it came from that, you know, soundtrack.
But yeah, that's one of my, that's one of my, that's my first favorite.
Yeah,
I knew that it was a studio version of it until I was much older.
Same
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