Glorious (Gloria Gaynor album)

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Released February 18, 1977 Release date 18 February 1977 Genres Disco, Dance music		Artist Gloria Gaynor Label Polydor Records Producers Gregg Diamond, Joe Beck

Glorious (1977) Gloria Gaynor's Park Avenue Sound (1978) Gloria Gaynor albums I've Got You, Park Avenue Sound, I Kinda Like Me, Experience Gloria Gaynor, I Have a Right

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Glorious is American singer Gloria Gaynor's fourth studio album. It was released in 1977 on Polydor Records.

The album was remastered and reissued with bonus tracks in 2016 by Big Break Records.

Gloria Gaynor – lead vocals

Kim Carlson, Jocelyne Shaw, Angela Howell – background vocals

Steve Love – rhythm guitar (guitar solo on "Why I Should Pay")

James Gregory – bass

Allan Schwartzberg – drums

Don Grolnick – piano, keyboards, Fender Rhodes, clavinet

Jack Waldman – piano, keyboards, orchestration

James Maelen – percussion, Latin percussion

Joe Beck – guitar solos, orchestration

Godfrey Diamond – percussion

Gregg Diamond – percussion, piano, orchestration

Joe Ferguson – alto saxophone solo on "This Side of the Pain"

George Young, Eddie Daniels, George Marge – saxophone

Marvin Stamm, Alan Rubin, John Frosk, Peter Ecklund – trumpet

Wayne Andre, Alan Rhaph, Barry Rogers – trombone

Gene Orloff – concertmaster, strings

Brad Baker – orchestration

Gregg Diamond, Joe Beck – producers, arrangers

Godfrey Diamond – engineer, mixing

Woszczyk Wieslaw, Trudy Cali, Lucy Lauri, Tom Duffy, Michael Barbiero, Jonathan Kats – assistant engineers

Dominick Romeo, Roy Jones – mastering

David Croland – cover

Beverly Parker – art direction

1Why Should I Pay3:38
2As Time Goes By5:05
3(Includes the Hands of Time) Most of All9:15

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