Stories (Gloria Gaynor album)

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.

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]

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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