Gloria - Laura Branigan no.2 in Billboard in 1982

"Gloria" is a pop song originally written and composed in Italian by Umberto Tozzi and Giancarlo Bigazzi, which – with English lyrics written by Trevor Veitch – became an international hit for Laura Branigan in 1982–83, selling more than two million singles in the US alone.Umberto Tozzi himself made the first recording of "Gloria" in 1979.^[1] That summer Tozzi's recording entered the Italian Top Ten for a stay of sixteen weeks, six of them at #2. It spent four weeks at #1 in both Switzerland and – in a translated version –Spain. That same year saw Tozzi's "Gloria" achieve hit status in Austria (#4), Belgium (#3 on the French chart), the Netherlands (#21), France (#3) and Germany, where the track reached #8 [3] despite a cover version by Gerd Christian.

The original version of "Gloria" was a love song as was the first attempt at an English version, which was cut by Jonathan King (#65 UK 11/1979).^[2]