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Gloria (Umberto Tozzi song)

"Gloria"
Umberto-tozzi-gloria.jpg
Artwork for some releases, including Italian release
Single by Umberto Tozzi
from the album Gloria
B-side "Aria di lei"
Released 1979 (1979)
Format
Genre
Length 4:25
Label
Writer(s)
Producer(s) Umberto Tozzi
Alternative cover art
7-inch Finnish vinyl release
"Gloria"
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Side-A label of the US 12-inch vinyl release, which was housed in a generic Atlantic sleeve and had no original cover art
Single by Laura Branigan
from the album Branigan
Released
  • June 1982 (1982-06) (US)
  • December 1982 (1982-12) (UK)
Format
Recorded
Genre
Length 4:50
Label Atlantic
Writer(s)
Producer(s)
Laura Branigan singles chronology
"All Night With Me"
(1982)
"Gloria"
(1982)
"Solitaire"
(1983)
Alternative cover art
Standard international (non-US) artwork
Music sample

"Gloria" (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɡlɔːrja]) is a 1979 love song that became an international hit. The song was originally written and composed in Italian by Umberto Tozzi and Giancarlo Bigazzi, and afterwards translated to English by Jonathan King. A 1982 cover version by Laura Branigan sold over two million singles in the United States alone.

Umberto Tozzi first recorded "Gloria" in 1979; that summer the song stayed on the Italian Top-10 chart for sixteen weeks, six of them at number 2. The song stayed four weeks at number 1 in both, Switzerland and – in a translated version – Spain. That same year saw Tozzi's "Gloria" achieve hit status in Austria at number 4, Belgium at number 3, the Netherlands at number 21, France at number 3, and Germany where the track reached number 8.

Tozzi's "Gloria" is a love song, as is the first English rendering of the song, recorded by its original English-language lyricist, Jonathan King, in November 1979; Tozzi later recorded and performed King's translated version of "Gloria". He also re-recorded the song with Trevor Veitch's and Laura Branigan's English lyrics; this version appears on his 2002 release, The Best of Umberto Tozzi.


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