Laura is one of my favorite old skool singers. She passed away way to soon. She had such a powerful voice and was underrated in my opinion. If you get a chance to checkout her cover of the song The Power Of Love and the song Solitaire her voice explodes.
“Gloria” is such a dynamite song! Moves fast, just like the title subject, who makes rash decisions in her life. Laura Branigan was such a beauty! Gone too soon but never forgotten. She showed her sultry side in her track “Self Control” and the music video is really hot, too! The vid was directed by The French Connection/ The Exorcist director William Friedkin and was banned by MTV because they thought it was too risqué. The irony & hypocrisy of MTV when almost everything that has since aired on their network after they stopped playing music videos has been risqué in one way or another! “Gloria” & “Self Control” - two of my favorites tracks out of so many from the ‘80s!! Saeed, my man, you’re making me relive my youth! I love it, thank you!!
To hear her range, check out Solitaire and Shattered Glass. To hear her dance floor appeal check out Moonlight on Water. Love songs check out Power of Love and I Found Someone. Adult contemporary listen to How am I Supposed to Live Without You and Hold Me. Tearjerker songs are How Can I Help You Say Goodbye and It's Been Hard Enough Getting Over You.
wow, i remember this song being played almost every friday night at our home football games, it was the first song they played as the clock went to zero after we lost, so almost every other friday..lol
Laura had a beautiful, strong voice, and as others have said, many of her songs were covers, but she did so much justice to them. " Self Control" was another major hit for her. 2nd only to this one. I remember back in the day, people would have hurricane parties when hurricane Gloria was headed towards land. This is the song they played. Yeah, they were idiots for having a hurricane party. Gloria died way too young from a brain aneurysm. May she continue to rest in peace. Thank you, Saeed, for reacting to another beautiful soul. Much love to you and your family ❤️ 🫂.
Definitely want to check out Self Control. This is the first time i heard about hurricane parties. Thanks for watching. Much love to you and your family 🫂❤️
Laura Brannigan was one of the great disco divas. Maybe only Donna Summer was maybe more popular, her "State of Independence" is a great track with some baffling lyrics.
It was featured in the Netflix series Eric. In a scene were Benedict Cumberbatch is high on cocaine and alcohol, he hits the dancefloor and dances with an imaginary monster.
Love Laura Branigan!! She was my favorite singer after Donna Summer!! A couple of her songs I reccomend are Solitare, Shattered Glass, The Power of Love.
I remember watching this at the time. Had a huge crush on her. I was 10-12 years old. Would never admit it and didn't fully understand why. But I watched intently.
Yes indeed. Love Gloria and others she did, but The Power of Love is such a beautiful song, performed by a lovely and talented woman, unfortunately gone too soon.
As a kid my primary/elementary school would play the song "let's get physical" by Olivia Newton John. On the surface it's a song about exercise but if you actually listen to the lyrics it's way to dirty to have 8 year olds dancing too. Lol
@@bob2shred894 I am thinking about closing requests for a week or a month and only recording video's from the list. Still wont get a dent in it, but it could be fun 😀
@@SaeedReacts. im guessing it would be a tuff decision to do that considering the requests bring in some money. After your closed request period you could do requests on certain days only Or limit people like myself to one request per week.(ill try to behave myself). That way you would have more time to do your list. I'm curious to see where your list will take us.
@@SaeedReacts.She has written a few books as well. She is known as the mother of Punk. Her song is a mash up of Them w/ Van Morrison and her own Poem "Oath"
When this song came out, one of the tenants in our building would play it over and over. It got to the point all the tenants would sing along from the fire escapes! Great memory!🎶🎶🎶
Saeed, I think Laura Branigan have an amazing and powerful voice. When you reacted to the power of love by celine dion, i told you to check laura branigan version of the power of love. It's much better than celine. And a lot of your subscribers were agreeing with me. I tnink i send you a link in the react of celine dion power of love. I would love that you react to laura version. And I would love that you react to the prayer by celine dion and andrea bocelli, the originals singers. Big kiss from Lisbon. Ana
Think u got it wrong think Laura is actually on Gloria's case cause she Gloria thinks she's all that and it's apparently not true 😂 I'm having a hard time explaining. This is why she says if everybody wants u then why isn't anybody calling 😂 and alias because Gloria is just being a fake
The song was used in the film "Flashdance", Tozzi's version was used in "The Wolf of Wall Street". The Italian version, told from the perspective of the male singer, is about a man fantasising about his imaginary dream girl and telling how miserable his life is without her. Laura Branigan said, the lyrics of her version are about a girl "running too fast for her own steps". Laura Branigan's best known songs are covers but she had some great originals too like "The Lucky One" or "Heart of Me", the latter one with the French eurodisco pioneer Cerrone. For me, one of the most "uplifting happy music with thoughtfull and/or serious lyrics" song is "Désenchentée" by Mylene Farmer. The live performances are outstanding (one must always watch till the end). ruclips.net/video/X03vY9afNbo/видео.html
This song came out in 1982 and is being rediscovered by a whole new generation!! Laura Branigan had one of the Best and Most Powerful Voices of All Time!! Gloria has recently been heard as the Victory Theme of The St Louis Blues Hockey Team and has been heard in a lot of TV shows and in a number of movies...
Hey Saeed.....Hamburg calling. What a cool time-travel-sooo long not heard and so cool. She have a lot of very unique interpreted songs. Special is, that she can push her voice to this high level and is able to maintain it for the hole song. Really powerful ......thank you for remember her as an special artist, Löwi from HH
I cried when she died! She was such an amazing vocalist. This was during the time in the 80s when great female vocalists so empowering. That was our gym music great aerobics.
@@SaeedReacts.Sheena Easton, beautiful Scottish singer; Best New Artist Grammy winner, 1982; sang the title theme song “For Your Eyes Only” for the James Bond film of the same name released in 1981 starring Roger Moore as 007. I was 13 yrs old back in ‘81 & her vocals in “For Your Eyes Only” still captivate me today at 56 y.o.
I love Laura Branigan! I still have her CD. I have heard this song many many times. Just hearing this now and you saying it sounds like another song and Physical by Olivia Newton John another favorite. So, maybe that is what you are thinking of.
Just like Delilah (Tom Jones) becoming this happy singalong song for some reason....... ha... well the reason is the melody ofc....absolutely not the lyrics !
It's quite interesting to see how many young people are turning to 80's music. It was the best of times, but it was also the worst of times. The cold war, to name but one. The music of the 80s carried us through, made us believe things will work out for the best and in some strange way it actually done just that.
@@SaeedReacts. It's strange, but the song forever young by Alphville only makes sense now decades later with Russia and Ukraine war threatening to go nuclear. A line in the song refers to just that, hoping for the best, but expecting the worst, are you gonna drop the bomb or not.
I used to own a lovely little Silverline 2 berth caravan that I named "Gloria, The Glorious Caravan" after this song! And I sang it when I was in the caravan. With suitably altered lyrics. 😊
I hated this song when it came out. lmao My boyfriend at the time had an ex girlfriend named Gloria so that sealed this song's fate right there. I was 16 and very dramatic.
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What a wonderful song this was. Yes her voice is incredible & unique. So sad she passed away so young. 💔💔💔
A knockout, and one of the greatest voices in pop music history. Check out "The Power of Love," live, 1987.
I remember this, haven’t heard it in ages, so beautiful!!❤❤
Great song! Thanks for watching.
Extremely under rated voice
Laura is one of my favorite old skool singers. She passed away way to soon. She had such a powerful voice and was underrated in my opinion. If you get a chance to checkout her cover of the song The Power Of Love and the song Solitaire her voice explodes.
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*Laura Branigan - Self Control (Official Music Video)*
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I will add it to my list. Thanks!
please do
Self Control by Laura Branigan♡
Thanks for the recommendation!
I absolutely love this cover version! 💖
What a voice! She is so much better than Celine, Mariah etc..
At the time in 1982, there were comparisons to her and Donna Summer having a similar vibe
Was HUGE in the day!
Her Mom was my sister’s elementary school teacher
I still cannot fathom she died from a brain aneurysm so randomly. She lives on though and then some.
Very sad. And scary!
“Gloria” is such a dynamite song! Moves fast, just like the title subject, who makes rash decisions in her life. Laura Branigan was such a beauty! Gone too soon but never forgotten. She showed her sultry side in her track “Self Control” and the music video is really hot, too! The vid was directed by The French Connection/ The Exorcist director William Friedkin and was banned by MTV because they thought it was too risqué. The irony & hypocrisy of MTV when almost everything that has since aired on their network after they stopped playing music videos has been risqué in one way or another! “Gloria” & “Self Control” - two of my favorites tracks out of so many from the ‘80s!! Saeed, my man, you’re making me relive my youth! I love it, thank you!!
Great song! Thanks for sharing some info. Definitely want to check out Self Control.
@@SaeedReacts. Thank you!
If you watched the movie Flashdance, you would have heard this song when her friend was skating and fell.
To hear her range, check out Solitaire and Shattered Glass. To hear her dance floor appeal check out Moonlight on Water. Love songs check out Power of Love and I Found Someone. Adult contemporary listen to How am I Supposed to Live Without You and Hold Me. Tearjerker songs are How Can I Help You Say Goodbye and It's Been Hard Enough Getting Over You.
Solitaire reaction coming today
@SaeedReacts. Laura Branigan Solitaire? You posted the Carpenters... 🤔
She was a stunner...physically and vocally 💚🎵🎶
This was one of the hottest high energy disco songs in the gay clubs in the 1980s
FACTS!!
wow, i remember this song being played almost every friday night at our home football games, it was the first song they played as the clock went to zero after we lost, so almost every other friday..lol
Laura had a beautiful, strong voice, and as others have said, many of her songs were covers, but she did so much justice to them. " Self Control" was another major hit for her. 2nd only to this one. I remember back in the day, people would have hurricane parties when hurricane Gloria was headed towards land. This is the song they played. Yeah, they were idiots for having a hurricane party. Gloria died way too young from a brain aneurysm. May she continue to rest in peace. Thank you, Saeed, for reacting to another beautiful soul. Much love to you and your family ❤️ 🫂.
Definitely want to check out Self Control.
This is the first time i heard about hurricane parties.
Thanks for watching. Much love to you and your family 🫂❤️
@SaeedReacts. ooops I meant Laura, not Gloria..sheesh fingers and brain not on the same page here.
Laura Brannigan was one of the great disco divas. Maybe only Donna Summer was maybe more popular, her "State of Independence" is a great track with some baffling lyrics.
Hey Saeed! Love Laura Branigan's Gloria! Glad you liked this one too! Her voice is so powerful!
Love this! Thanks for watching, Deb!
Thank you for the heart! Taking the time to give them is awesome!
Was in high school when this was a hit!! I did not know about the Italian version. She was a power house.
TX Saeed. Greetings from South Africa
What a voice! And the music is so good too. Thanks for watching. Greetings from Belgium
Her other one , Self Control , was another of her hits , no. 1 in many countries back then, now it's an 80's classic .
It was featured in the Netflix series Eric. In a scene were Benedict Cumberbatch is high on cocaine and alcohol, he hits the dancefloor and dances with an imaginary monster.
Great voice!
Laura sounded like Donna summer
When you kmow it was originally Italian, I think the Euro-disco elements are easy to pick up on.
The song was in FLASHDANCE.
You gotta do Self Control - great 80s & nite song! ♥
Love Laura Branigan!! She was my favorite singer after Donna Summer!! A couple of her songs I reccomend are Solitare, Shattered Glass, The Power of Love.
Thanks for the recommendations!
I remember watching this at the time. Had a huge crush on her. I was 10-12 years old. Would never admit it and didn't fully understand why. But I watched intently.
Great memories! 😀
she got pipes, had a few hits, sadly died young.
IMO, she does The Power Of Love the best....
Yes indeed. Love Gloria and others she did, but The Power of Love is such a beautiful song, performed by a lovely and talented woman, unfortunately gone too soon.
This song was a huge anthem in dance clubs, along with "I Will Survive" and "We Are Family" particularly in the gay community.
I believe i do know the songs you mentioned. Maybe i should revisit them at some point.
❤❤❤❤R.I.P.😥💔💔
An absolute favorite from my college years. She was so great and died too young.
Another vocal powerhouse, while not as well known to reactors, is Linda Eder. I would start with Vienna.
Thanks for that recommendation!
One of the best vocal performances of all time IMHO.
As a kid my primary/elementary school would play the song "let's get physical" by Olivia Newton John. On the surface it's a song about exercise but if you actually listen to the lyrics it's way to dirty to have 8 year olds dancing too. Lol
Hmmm! I feel i need to revisit that song after this comment 😅
@@SaeedReacts. oh the list! Will it ever end!
@@bob2shred894 I am thinking about closing requests for a week or a month and only recording video's from the list. Still wont get a dent in it, but it could be fun 😀
@@SaeedReacts. im guessing it would be a tuff decision to do that considering the requests bring in some money.
After your closed request period you could do requests on certain days only
Or limit people like myself to one request per week.(ill try to behave myself). That way you would have more time to do your list.
I'm curious to see where your list will take us.
Good request.
You should check out Patti Smith's song Gloria. You would love the lyrics of that one. She is like a female Bob Dylan
That name sounds familiar. Must look her up.
@@SaeedReacts.She has written a few books as well. She is known as the mother of Punk. Her song is a mash up of Them w/ Van Morrison and her own Poem "Oath"
Please react to her performing Power of Love and Self Control
Thanks for the recommendations!
React to Gloria by Them
When this song came out, one of the tenants in our building would play it over and over. It got to the point all the tenants would sing along from the fire escapes! Great memory!🎶🎶🎶
I played it on repeat in mid-town Manhattan. Sorry, if it disturbed anyone.
Self Control is a good one too
Thanks for the recommendation!
Original from Umberto Tozzi
Elkie Brooks is worth checking out , AKA British Queen of the Blues .
This beat reminds me of Olivia Newton-John's Let's Get Physical
Yes! Definitely has a similar cadence to it.
Gloria U. TOZZI 1979. Physical 1981
here is the album version of the song , it is 4:55 .
This was in the movie FlashDance
The conflict between the music and the lyrics make this even more attractive and beautiful. Her voice and Scotch vibe her irresistible.
Saeed, I think Laura Branigan have an amazing and powerful voice. When you reacted to the power of love by celine dion, i told you to check laura branigan version of the power of love. It's much better than celine. And a lot of your subscribers were agreeing with me. I tnink i send you a link in the react of celine dion power of love. I would love that you react to laura version. And I would love that you react to the prayer by celine dion and andrea bocelli, the originals singers. Big kiss from Lisbon. Ana
@@AnaRafaelaDionísio I agree, she did the song way better than Celine
Definitely want to hear that one and hope i can get to it. Definitely interested in hearing it. Thanks again for the reminder, Ana.
Think u got it wrong think Laura is actually on Gloria's case cause she Gloria thinks she's all that and it's apparently not true 😂 I'm having a hard time explaining. This is why she says if everybody wants u then why isn't anybody calling 😂 and alias because Gloria is just being a fake
@@jmiltier-pu9dd Celine’s voice is prettier
Celine has a much better voice than her
Oh what beautiful talent!! Such a gorgeous voice! This came out the year my oldest was born. Man she died way too young! Heartbreaking!
They played the song in Flashdance.
Oh, the way I danced around my room to this song when I was young!
An Italian song .
I believe i mentioned this at the beginning of the video
The song was used in the film "Flashdance", Tozzi's version was used in "The Wolf of Wall Street".
The Italian version, told from the perspective of the male singer, is about a man fantasising about his imaginary dream girl and telling how miserable his life is without her. Laura Branigan said, the lyrics of her version are about a girl "running too fast for her own steps".
Laura Branigan's best known songs are covers but she had some great originals too like "The Lucky One" or "Heart of Me", the latter one with the French eurodisco pioneer Cerrone.
For me, one of the most "uplifting happy music with thoughtfull and/or serious lyrics" song is "Désenchentée" by Mylene Farmer. The live performances are outstanding (one must always watch till the end).
ruclips.net/video/X03vY9afNbo/видео.html
The tune is physical
This was originally an Italian song , yes !
Great singer .
RIP. Laura Branigan .
Another iconic 80s song! Great beat for dancing! I've heard this so much in movies and TV.
Try her version of Solitaire. It's powerful.
Solitaire reaction coming today
@SaeedReacts. you did Karen Carpenter not Laura Branigan. Laura is very different than Karen and I think you'll love her version top.
Disco balls mean dance, twirl, twirl, dance!
😀😀😀
you first time? That's the music of my youth and I'm not American either, but what's coming here from the US now, it's horrible!
I think you would also enjoy “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor. It was an enormous hit and became many women’s anthem, too!
I do know that song, or at least the chorus. Maybe i need to revisit it with the "reactor hat" on 😀
This song came out in 1982 and is being rediscovered by a whole new generation!! Laura Branigan had one of the Best and Most Powerful Voices of All Time!! Gloria has recently been heard as the Victory Theme of The St Louis Blues Hockey Team and has been heard in a lot of TV shows and in a number of movies...
Geez I miss her voice, another gone way too soon.
Hey Saeed.....Hamburg calling. What a cool time-travel-sooo long not heard and so cool. She have a lot of very unique interpreted songs. Special is, that she can push her voice to this high level and is able to maintain it for the hole song. Really powerful ......thank you for remember her as an special artist, Löwi from HH
This song is amazing and her voice is incredible! Definitely want to hear more of her music. Thanks for watching.
I cried when she died! She was such an amazing vocalist. This was during the time in the 80s when great female vocalists so empowering. That was our gym music great aerobics.
Another artist from then was Sheena Easton, Janet Jackson, Gloria Gaynor, Gloria Estafan.
Amazing voice.
I recognize these names, except the first one.
@@SaeedReacts.Sheena Easton, beautiful Scottish singer; Best New Artist Grammy winner, 1982; sang the title theme song “For Your Eyes Only” for the James Bond film of the same name released in 1981 starring Roger Moore as 007. I was 13 yrs old back in ‘81 & her vocals in “For Your Eyes Only” still captivate me today at 56 y.o.
The guitar riff of Pulp's "Disco 2000" comes from it, maybe that's what you've heard before. 😀
Thanks for letting me know about that!
I love Laura Branigan! I still have her CD. I have heard this song many many times.
Just hearing this now and you saying it sounds like another song and Physical by Olivia Newton John another favorite. So, maybe that is what you are thinking of.
I definitely had the cadence of that song in my mind, but wasnt sure. Thanks for reminding me!
This is a great cover
Just like Delilah (Tom Jones) becoming this happy singalong song for some reason....... ha... well the reason is the melody ofc....absolutely not the lyrics !
Yes, exactly!
This song was used in the movie "Flashdance". It's got a great soundtrack, and although it's a "chick flick" I loved the soundtrack and the movie
I saw that movie when i was a kid!
Loved this when I was a kid and still do. A great singalong song 😊
It's quite interesting to see how many young people are turning to 80's music. It was the best of times, but it was also the worst of times. The cold war, to name but one. The music of the 80s carried us through, made us believe things will work out for the best and in some strange way it actually done just that.
Some great music in that decade. And many great films too. A much needed escape, i imagine.
@@SaeedReacts. It's strange, but the song forever young by Alphville only makes sense now decades later with Russia and Ukraine war threatening to go nuclear. A line in the song refers to just that, hoping for the best, but expecting the worst, are you gonna drop the bomb or not.
I used to own a lovely little Silverline 2 berth caravan that I named "Gloria, The Glorious Caravan" after this song! And I sang it when I was in the caravan. With suitably altered lyrics. 😊
Awesome!
This wasn't my type of music but despite this 40 years later I still recall this song
I hated this song when it came out. lmao My boyfriend at the time had an ex girlfriend named Gloria so that sealed this song's fate right there. I was 16 and very dramatic.
I can totally get that 😅.