Disco Dessert 3/12/21 - "Substitute" by Gloria Gaynor...

 

 

"Substitute" was a club hit for singer Gloria Gaynor. Appearing on her album Love Tracks, the single was written by Willie Wilson and originally recorded by the Righteous Brothers during their mid-70s comeback era. At first the "A-side" of the single, it would be soon overpassed by the "flip-side", "I Will Survive". On Billboard magazine's National Disco Action Top-40, the Love Tracks album was listed as a single entry, with those two songs along with "I Said Yes" and "Anybody Wanna Party?" listed as key cuts, where it spent three weeks at #1.

 

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Here's "I Said Yes" from the Love Tracks album...

...as well as "Anybody Wanna Party"...

Lastly, here's the "special disco version" of "Substitute" as heard in the clubs...