Gloria Gaynor ( born September 7, 1949 ) is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits ; " I Will Survive " ( Hot 100 number 1, 1979 ), " Never Can Say Goodbye " ( Hot 100 number 9, 1974 ), " Let Me Know ( I Have a Right )" ( Hot 100 number 42, 1980 ) and " I Am What I Am " ( R & B number 82, 1983 ).

When a goal is scored by Feyenoord in their home matches the song I Will Survive, covered by the Hermes House Band, but made famous by Gloria Gaynor in the 1970s is played.

State Fair ( 1933 ) is a movie directed by Henry King and starring Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, and Lew Ayres.

The movie is a romance starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell.

* Tommy ( J. B. Gaynor ) is a foster child whom Eric takes interest in.

The core of the band is the two remaining founder members – Jim Kerr ( vocals, songwriting ) and Charlie Burchill ( guitars, keyboards after 1990, other instruments, songwriting ) – and drummer Mel Gaynor ( who first joined the band in 1982 ).

Street Angel is a 1928 silent film about a spirited young woman ( Janet Gaynor ) who finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter ( Charles Farrell ).

Gaynor Barnes is now the presenter for the Calendar News bulletins at 6. 35am, 7. 10am and 8. 10am during GMTV on weekdays although she is still a stand-in presenter for Christine Talbot.

The kind of film in which Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor, and Victor Moore appear is what we have in mind.

* August 9, 1910 – Reformist Mayor William Jay Gaynor is shot in the throat in Hoboken, New Jersey by former city employee James Gallagher.

* Bonnie Tyler, singer whose birth name is Gaynor Hopkins

Lt. Theodore Gaynor, USMC ( American ) is a short-term member of the team introduced in the 1980s series, which takes place early in World War II.

The initial lineup also included the " Nick at Nite Movie ," which aired nightly and included such classic films as The Red House with Edward G. Robinson and A Star is Born with Janet Gaynor and Frederic March.

She made a cameo in the 1937 film A Star is Born, playing a movie studio receptionist who advises Janet Gaynor to go back home.

Mitzi Gaynor Donahue ( born May 2, 1962 in Yorba Linda, Orange County, California ) is an American actress, also credited and more popularly known as Mitzi Kapture.

Mitzi Gaynor ( born September 4, 1931 ) is an American actress, singer and dancer.

He tells her that the key to dealing with Krusty is to always be prepared to cater to his needs -- have a cigar at the ready, never directly look him in the eye, and pretend to know who Mitzi Gaynor is if he mentions her – he always does.

She then uses this reference when Krusty says Lisa is the best thing since ... " Mitzi Gaynor!

In the film Breakfast on Pluto the protagonist's search for his mother is centred around searching for a Phantom Lady who looks like Gaynor.

Gloria Gaynor returned to the recording studio in 2002, releasing her first album in over 15 years, entitled, I Wish You Love.

In 1976 Jody Pollard ( guitar, ex-Elmer Fudd ) replaced Pat O ' Farrell in a line-up with Shiels ( vocals / mandolin ), Bridgeman ( drums ), John Brady ( bass ) and Dave Gaynor ( drums ), recording the Phil Lynott-produced double A-sided single " Coming Home Again " / " Fight Your Heart Out " and unreleased track " Skid Row Flashback ".

The band moved to Townhouse Studios for recording sessions with producer Peter Walsh, who introduced them to a London-born drummer called Mel Gaynor, a 22-year old session musician with plenty of experience ( including a stint drumming for The Nolans ).

Mel Gaynor and John Giblin both contributed to the recording ( and, in Giblin's case, to some of the writing ) but both men had left the band by the time of the album's release, by which time the band was credited as a trio of Kerr, Burchill and MacNeil.

With Gaynor now out of the picture, the remaining instrumentation was covered by session musicians ( although Malcolm Foster was included among the bass players used for recording ).

After the tour, album recording sessions were interrupted by Kerr and Burchill ’ s decision to play live ( without Forbes, Taylor or Gaynor ) as part of the Proms tour ( a series of orchestral concerts featuring a mixture of light classical and pop music ).

Also in 1974, Gloria Gaynor released the first side-long disco mix vinyl album, which included a remake of The Jackson 5's " Never Can Say Goodbye " and two other songs, " Honey Bee " and " Reach Out ( I'll Be There )".

Capitalizing on the success of her first album, Gloria Gaynor quickly released her second album, Experience Gloria Gaynor, later that same year.

After her 1976 album, I've Got You, Gaynor shifted from her hit production team, to work with other productions.

In 1983, she released an album entitled Gloria Gaynor, in which she rejected disco for mid-tempo R & B and Pop style songs.

Gaynor would achieve her final success in the ' 80s with the release of her album I Am Gloria Gaynor in 1984.

Her 1986 album, The Power of Gloria Gaynor, was almost entirely composed of cover versions of other songs that were popular at the time.

In 2004, Gaynor re-released her 1997 album The Answer ( also released under the title What a Life ) as a follow up to her successful album I Wish You Love.

* Stories ( Gloria Gaynor album ), 1980

The 1976 double-disc live album of Rock n ' Roll standards Alive And Kickin featured Shiels, Bridgeman, Brady, Pollard, Gaynor and Ian Anderson.

Mel Gaynor left the band in 1992 to pursue session work and other projects, and for the next two years Simple Minds were on hiatus, releasing the compilation album Glittering Prize in 1992 to mark time.

Although Forbes played bass guitar on all album tracks, Gaynor only played on one song, " War Babies ".

Reverting to the Burchill / Kerr / Gaynor / Duffy line-up, Simple Minds recorded a new studio album, Graffiti Soul, which was released on 25 May 2009.

In early October 2010, a new line-up of Simple Minds ( Burchill, Kerr, Gaynor, Gillespie with new bassist Ged Grimes ) completed four weeks at the Sphere Recording Studios in London during which four songs were recorded and mixed for an extensive new compilation album to be called " Greatest Hits +" and for the forthcoming new Simple Minds studio album.

* Gloria Gaynor ( Disco version of the song, on 1975 MGM Records album Experience Gloria Gaynor, catalog number M3G 4997 )

The album included a guest appearance by Mel Gaynor, the drummer of Simple Minds.

Well-known late 1970s disco performers included Donna Summer, The Bee Gees, KC and the Sunshine Band, The Trammps, Van McCoy, Gloria Gaynor, The Village People, Chic, and The Jacksons — the latter which first dipped its toes into disco as The Jackson 5.

A modest success, it was followed by Kelly's last musical film for MGM, Les Girls ( 1957 ), in which he partnered a trio of leading ladies, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall and Taina Elg.

Gaynor also recorded a disco song called " Love Is Just a Heartbeat Away " in 1979 for the vampire movie Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula which featured a number of disco songs.

In 1980 and again in 1981, Gaynor released two disco albums which were virtually ignored in the United States due to the backlash against disco, which began late in 1979.

Other films shot in widescreen were the musical Happy Days ( 1929 ) which premiered at the Roxy Theater, New York City, on February 13, 1930, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell and a 12 year old Betty Grable as a chorus girl ; Song o ’ My Heart, a musical feature starring Irish tenor John McCormack and directed by Frank Borzage ( Seventh Heaven, A Farewell to Arms ), which was shipped from the labs on March 17, 1930, but never released and may no longer survive, according to film historian Miles Kreuger ( the 35mm version, however, debuted in New York on March 11, 1930 ); and the western The Big Trail ( 1930 ) starring John Wayne and Tyrone Power, Sr. which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on October 2, 1930, all of which were also made in the 70mm Fox Grandeur process.

For a number of years, Gaynor was the Fox studios foremost actress and was given the choice of prime roles, starring in such films as Sunny Side Up ( 1929 ), Delicious ( 1931 ), Merely Mary Ann ( also 1931 ), and Adorable ( 1933 ), as well as State Fair ( 1933 ) with Will Rogers and The Farmer Takes a Wife ( 1935 ), which introduced Henry Fonda to the screen as Gaynor's leading man.

Silent star Janet Gaynor and her costume-designer husband Adrian were the first owners of a spacious estate in Northridge, which was later sold to Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor.

Gaynor proved to have the combination of broad skills plus force of playing which the band wanted.

Gaynor was reinstated as a full-time member for the European tour ( which once again featured Mark Taylor on keyboards ).

This became Forbes / Gaynor And Friends and went on to play several gigs in Italy at the end of the year — some of which were illicitly billed as being Simple Minds concerts.

Street Angel was one of three movies for which Janet Gaynor received an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1929 ; the others were F. W. Murnau's Sunrise and Borzage's Seventh Heaven.

The film itself featured four main songs, which were performed by two or more of the drag queens as a part of their show within the film ; " I've Never Been to Me " by Charlene, " I Will Survive " by Gloria Gaynor, " Finally " by CeCe Peniston and " Mamma Mia " by ABBA.

Murnau, who was also resident at Fox at this time, he developed his own style of lushly visual romanticism in a hugely successful series of films starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, including Seventh Heaven ( 1927 ), for which he won the first Academy Award for Directing, Street Angel ( 1928 ) and Lucky Star ( 1929 ).