The flipside, "I Will Survive," started taking off early the following year, replacing "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart at the top of Billboard's Hot 100 on March 10 for the first of three non-consecutive weeks at No. The single, with "Substitute" as the A-side, was released Oct. ![]() "He played it and gave it to his DJ friends, as we had asked him to. ![]() "We took it to Studio 54, to the DJ there," Gaynor says. So Gaynor and the song's producers went behind the label's back and took it to the only power higher than a major-label CEO in those days. Gaynor says Polydor executives didn't want to listen to the song at first because the president had chosen "Substitute" to be the single. They recorded the song with the time they had left at the end of a three-hour session and presented it to Polydor Records. ![]() If it's up to me, it won't stay on the B-side.'" How a Studio 54 DJ helped 'I Will Survive' break out "I said, 'What are you, stupid?! You're gonna put this on the B-side?! They said 'That's the deal we made.' I said, 'I don't care what deal you made. They didn't have a demo of "I Will Survive" in the studio so they wrote out the lyrics and handed the paper to Gaynor. 28, "Well, we think you're the one that we've been waiting for to record this song we wrote two years ago." ![]() They told Gaynor, who plays the Celebrity Theatre Friday, Jan.
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