I Kinda Like Me

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I Kinda Like Me
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Studio album by Gloria Gaynor
Released June 15, 1981
Genre Disco, R&B
Label Polydor
Producer Gene McFadden, John Whitehead, Jerry Cohen
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I Kinda Like Me is the ninth album by Gloria Gaynor. It failed to make an impact because of the then current, now defunct Disco backlash. Includes the single, "Let's Mend What's Been Broken." It was dedicated to her then husband and manager, Linwood M. Simon.

Gloria Gaynor American singer

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".

Contents

This album was reissued on CD in Japan by Polydor (POCP-2182).

Compact disc Optical disc for storage and playback of digital audio

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982. The format was originally developed to store and play only sound recordings (CD-DA) but was later adapted for storage of data (CD-ROM). Several other formats were further derived from these, including write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video Compact Disc (VCD), Super Video Compact Disc (SVCD), Photo CD, PictureCD, CD-i, and Enhanced Music CD. The first commercially available audio CD player, the Sony CDP-101, was released October 1982 in Japan.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Kinda Like Me"Gloria Gaynor, Eddie Sierra6:12
2."Fingers in the Fire"Gloria Gaynor, Eddie Sierra3:20
3."Let's Mend What's Been Broken" Gene McFadden, John Whitehead, Jerry Cohen4:27
4."Yesterday We Were Like Buddies"Gene McFadden, John Whitehead, Victor Carstarphen5:52
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."I Can Stand the Pain"Gloria Gaynor, Eddie Sierra4:26
6."I Love You Cause"Gloria Gaynor, Eddie Sierra5:02
7."When You Get Around to It"Gloria Gaynor, Pam Tillis, Dana Thomas3:58
8."Chasin' Me into Somebody Else's Arms" Mark Barkan, Ritchie Adams5:16
9."The Story of the Joneses"Alfie Davison, Meri Merriwether, Tedd Lawson3:26

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References

  1. I Kinda Like Me review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-04-03.