I Wish You Love (Gloria Gaynor album)
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I Wish You Love is Gloria Gaynor
's seventeenth album, and her first international release in 18 years. It is a return to her roots in Club/Dance
music, along with Urban contemporary
and Contemporary R&B
. The album includes two recent hit singles—2001's "Just Keep Thinking About You" (#1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart) and 2002's "I Never Knew" (also #1 Club Play, #30 Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
). First released in Europe in September 2002, the album followed in the U.S. in April 2003.
Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Gaynor is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits; "I Will Survive" , "Never Can Say Goodbye" , "Let Me Know " and "I Am What I Am" .-Early career:Gaynor was a singer with the Soul...
's seventeenth album, and her first international release in 18 years. It is a return to her roots in Club/Dance
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
music, along with Urban contemporary
Urban contemporary
Urban contemporary is a music radio format. The term was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop/rap, contemporary R&B, pop, electronica such as dubstep and drum and bass and Caribbean music...
and Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B
Contemporary R&B is a music genre that combines elements of hip hop, soul, R&B and funk.Although the abbreviation “R&B” originates from traditional rhythm and blues music, today the term R&B is most often used to describe a style of African American music originating after the demise of disco in...
. The album includes two recent hit singles—2001's "Just Keep Thinking About You" (#1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart) and 2002's "I Never Knew" (also #1 Club Play, #30 Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...
). First released in Europe in September 2002, the album followed in the U.S. in April 2003.
European Track listing
- "Gotta Be Forever" – 3:33 (Linda CliffordLinda Clifford (singer)Linda Clifford is an American R&B, disco and house music singer and actress, who scored hits from the 1970s to the 1980s, most notably "If My Friends Could See Me Now", "Bridge over Troubled Water", "Runaway Love" and "Red Light"....
, Kathy Brown , Pelle Ankarberg, Niclas Molinder, Joacim Persson) - "Gone Too Long" – 3:02 (Lamont DozierLamont DozierLamont Herbert Dozier is an American songwriter and record producer, born in Detroit, Michigan. Dozier has either co-written or produced several US Billboard #1 hits.-Career:...
, Jörgen Elofsson) - "Just No Other Way" – 4:00 (D. Deviller, S. Hossein, J. Kugell)
- "I Never Knew" (LP version) – 4:26 (Kasia Livingston)
- "All The Man That I Need" – 3:42 (Ankarberg, Persson, Molinder, Dennis)
- "Just Keep Thinking About You" – 3:06 (G. Catchey, H. Johnson)
- "I Wish You Love" – 3:43 (Bill Lee, Balewa Muhammed, Calvin Gaines, Rob Fusari, Eritza Laues)
- "Stronger" – 3:20 (Mary Brown, Fusari, Karl Kimmel)
- "Let It Rain" – 5:13 (Andy Goldmark, Jason Hess, Mark Mueller)
- "No One Can Love You More" – 4:11 (Kevin Clark, Berny Cosgrove, Tim Hegarty)
- "You Keep Running" – 3:03 (M. Brown, Fusari)
- "I'm Here for You" – 5:12 (Gloria Gaynor, Garianno Lorenzo)
- "I Will SurviveI Will Survive"I Will Survive" is a song first performed by American singer Gloria Gaynor, released in October 1978. It was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris...
" (English version) – 6:46 (Dino Fekaris, Freddie Perren) - "I Never Knew" (Hex HectorHex HectorHex Hector , is an American dance remixer. He won a Grammy in 2001 for "Best Remixer".-Biography:Hector was born in in Manhattan, New York, of a Puerto Rican mother and Cuban father, and was raised in the Washington Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan...
, HQ2 remix) – 4:16 (Livingston) - "I Will Survive (Spanglish version) – 4:42 (Fekaris, Perren)
American Track listing
- "Gotta Be Forever" – 3:33 (Linda CliffordLinda Clifford (singer)Linda Clifford is an American R&B, disco and house music singer and actress, who scored hits from the 1970s to the 1980s, most notably "If My Friends Could See Me Now", "Bridge over Troubled Water", "Runaway Love" and "Red Light"....
, Kathy Brown , Pelle Ankarberg, Niclas Molinder, Joachim Persson) - "Stronger" – 3:20 (Mary Brown, Fusari, Karl Kimmel)
- "I Wish You Love" – 3:43 (Bill Lee, Balewa Muhammed, Calvin Gaines, Rob Fusari, Eritza Laues)
- "Let It Rain" – 5:13 (Andy Goldmark, Jason Hess, Mark Mueller)
- "Gone Too Long" – 3:02 (Lamont DozierLamont DozierLamont Herbert Dozier is an American songwriter and record producer, born in Detroit, Michigan. Dozier has either co-written or produced several US Billboard #1 hits.-Career:...
, Jorgen Elofsson) - "Just No Other Way" – 4:00 (D. Deviller, S. Hossein, J. Kugell)
- "I Never Knew" (LP version) – 4:26 (Kasia Livingston)
- "Just Keep Thinking About You" – 3:06 (G. Catchey, H. Johnson)
- "No One Can Love You More" – 4:11 (Kevin Clark, Berny Cosgrove, Tim Hegarty)
- "You Keep Running" – 3:03 (M. Brown, Fusari)
- "All The Man That I Need" – 3:42 (Ankarberg, Persson, Molinder, Dennis)
- "I Never Knew" (Hex HectorHex HectorHex Hector , is an American dance remixer. He won a Grammy in 2001 for "Best Remixer".-Biography:Hector was born in in Manhattan, New York, of a Puerto Rican mother and Cuban father, and was raised in the Washington Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan...
, HQ2 remix) – 4:16 (Livingston) - "Pena" (Duet with Alexandre Pires) - 4:13 (Claudia Brant)