en Stories (Gloria Gaynor album)

Stories
Stories
Studio album by Gloria Gaynor
Released	May 20, 1980
Genre	Disco, R&B
Label	Polydor
Producer	Dino Fekaris, Freddie Perren
Gloria Gaynor chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
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

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

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

Side one
No.	Title	Length
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.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
5.	"All My Life"	Christine Yarian, Samuel F. Brown III	4:25
6.	"Don't Read Me Wrong"	Gloria Gaynor, Eddie Sierra	3:47
7.	"The Luckiest Girl in the World"		5:10
8.	"Make Me Yours"		3:23

Personnel

Gloria Gaynor - vocals
Nathan East - bass guitar
Freddie Perren - keyboards
Bob Bowles - guitar
Bob Zimmitti - percussion
Ernie Watts - saxophone, flute
James Gadson - drums
Paulinho da Costa - congas
Nathan Watts - bass guitar
David T. Walker - guitar
Clarence McDonald - keyboards
Alan Estes - percussion
Gayle Levant - harp
Bobbye Hall - congas
Julia Waters - backing vocals
Maxine Waters - backing vocals
Stephanie Spruill - backing vocals

References

^ Henderson, Alex. Stories review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
^ 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.
^ "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.

External links

Stories at Discogs (list of releases)

[1] Henderson, Alex. Stories review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-04-03.

[larkin-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.

[bboardreview-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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