I Have a Right

I Have a Right
Studio album by Gloria Gaynor
Released	September 24, 1979
Genre	Disco
Length	47:27
Label	Polydor
Producer	Dino Fekaris, Freddie Perren
Gloria Gaynor chronology
Love Tracks (1978) I Have a Right (1979) Stories (1980)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
Smash Hits	4/10[3]

I Have a Right is Gloria Gaynor's seventh studio album, released in 1979. The track, "Let Me Know (I Have a Right)", was released as a single and reached No. 42 on the Billboard Hot 100.[4] The album has never been released on CD.

Reception

AllMusic called the opening track "Let me Know” "a very weak and contrived start" and "a poor person's 'I Will Survive'." However, "the rest of the material is excellent. From both a disco standpoint and a Northern soul standpoint, I Have a Right is a welcome addition to Gaynor's catalog."[1]

Smash Hits, however, said, "A desperately dull collection of over orchestrated nightclub songs, an out of date rhythm machine and a struggling soul singer bring you every disco cliché in the book without a shred of originality or personality to rescue it. Formula dance music for computers."[5]

Track listing

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

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Let Me Know (I Have a Right)"		8:24
2.	"Say Somethin'"	Dino Fekaris, Gloria Gaynor, Freddie Perren	5:16
3.	"You Took Me In Again"		6:43
4.	"Don't Stop Us"		4:11

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
5.	"Tonight"	Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim	7:19
6.	"Can't Fight the Feelin'"	B.J. Verdi, Freddie Perren	4:30
7.	"Midnight Rocker"		6:09
8.	"One Number One"		4:40

Personnel

• Gloria Gaynor - lead vocals
• Bob Bowles, Wah Wah Watson - guitar
• Pete Robinson - keyboards, synthesizer
• David Shields, Freddie Washington - bass guitar
• Freddie Perren - keyboards
• Bob Zimmitti - percussion
• Paulinho Da Costa - congas
• James Gadson - drums
• Doc Severinsen - trumpet
• Katie Kirkpatrick - harp
• Julia Waters, Maxine Waters, Marti McCall - backing vocals

References

1. Alex Henderson. "Gloria Gaynor I Have a Right". AllMusic.
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. Starr, Red. "Albums". Smash Hits (November 15–28, 1979): 31.
4. Hilburn, Robert (29 Dec 2000). "From the Vaults". Los Angeles Times. p. F22.
5. Red Starr (14 November 1979). "Albums". Smash Hits. No. 25.

External links

• I Have a Right at Discogs (list of releases)