When Dino Fekaris produced Love Tracks in early 1979, he helped Gloria Gaynor deliver one of the best and most successful albums of her career.
And most of the time, the producer/songwriter is an asset on Gaynor's next album, I Have a Right.
The LP gets off to a very weak and contrived start with the opener "Let Me Know (I Have a Right)," which is nothing more than a poor person's "I Will Survive." There can only be one "I Will Survive," and Gaynor and Fekaris should have known better than to offer such a pale imitation.
But the rest of the material is excellent.
Fekaris serves Gaynor nicely on up-tempo disco-soul numbers like "Midnight Rocker" and "Don't Stop Us," as well as the slower, more 1960s-flavored Northern soul pearl "Say Somethin'." In the 1970s, Gaynor always included at least one cover on her albums, and on I Have A Right, the cover is the Stephen Sondheim/Leonard Bernstein classic "Tonight," which she transforms into a glossy disco barnburner.
From both a disco standpoint and a Northern soul standpoint, I Have a Right is a welcome addition to Gaynor's catalog.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let Me Know (I Have A Right) | Gloria Gaynor | Play | 08:22 | 19 MB | 41 MB |
| 2 | Say Somethin' | Gloria Gaynor | Play | 05:10 | 11 MB | 24 MB |
| 3 | You Took Me In Again | Gloria Gaynor | Play | 06:41 | 15 MB | 33 MB |
| 4 | Don't Stop Us | Gloria Gaynor | Play | 04:08 | 9 MB | 19 MB |
| 5 | Tonight | Gloria Gaynor | Play | 07:18 | 16 MB | 38 MB |
| 6 | Can't Fight The Feelin' | Gloria Gaynor | Play | 04:28 | 10 MB | 21 MB |
| 7 | Midnight Rocker | Gloria Gaynor | Play | 06:05 | 13 MB | 29 MB |
| 8 | One Number One | Gloria Gaynor | Play | 04:38 | 10 MB | 21 MB |
| 46 mins | 107 MB | |||||
| 46 mins | 229 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gloria Gaynor | Primary Artist, Vocals |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |