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Stories (Gloria Gaynor album)

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Stories
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 20, 1980
GenreDisco, R&B
LabelPolydor
ProducerDino Fekaris, Freddie Perren
Gloria Gaynor chronology
I Have a Right
(1979)
Stories
(1980)
I Kinda Like Me
(1981)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]

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

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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".[3]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Dino Fekaris and Freddie Perren, except where noted

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Ain't No Bigger Fool"4:33
2."I Let Love Slip Right Through My Hands"4:46
3."On a Diet of You"4:42
4."Lock Me Up"3:46
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."All My Life"Christine Yarian, Samuel F. Brown III4:25
6."Don't Read Me Wrong"Gloria Gaynor, Eddie Sierra3:47
7."The Luckiest Girl in the World" 5:10
8."Make Me Yours" 3:23

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Henderson, Alex. Stories review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  2. ^ Colin Larkin (2006). "Gaynor, Gloria". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 3 (4th ed.). Muze, Oxford University Press. p. 705. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4.
  3. ^ "Review: Gloria Gaynor – Stories" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 20. New York: Billboard Publications Inc. 17 May 1980. p. 66. ISSN 0006-2510. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022 – via World Radio History.
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