Gloria (Umberto Tozzi Song) - Other Versions

Other Versions

Umberto Tozzi himself subsequently re-recorded "Gloria" with Veitch's English-language lyrics; this version appears on his 2002 release, The Best of Umberto Tozzi.

Prior to Laura Branigan's version repeating its US success in the UK British singer Elkie Brooks covered "Gloria" but Brooks' version was unreleased prior to inclusion on the 1986 compilation The Very Best of Elkie Brooks.

In 1982 Sheila recorded the song with French lyrics written by Claude Carrère and Jean Schmitt which, rather than being about a woman named Gloria, used the word in its Latin sense of "praise" to laud the French armed forces. Titled "Glori Gloria" – adding the French glori to the Latin gloria – the track was a Top Ten hit in France being the #7 biggest hit for the month of December 1982.

Also in 1982 Sylvie Vartan recorded "Gloria" with the same lyrics as the Branigan hit while Lena Valaitis had a single release of "Gloria" with a new German lyric written by Michael Kunze; as with Branigan's version, the Valaitis version was produced by Jack White.

In 1983 Carola recorded a 1982 Swedish rendering of "Gloria" – lyrics by Ingela Forsman – for her Främling album; also Mona Carita recorded a Finnish rendering of "Gloria" for her album Mikä Fiilis!

A version of "Gloria", amended into an advertising jingle with lyrics to suit the product, and complete with a soundalike vocalist to Branigan, was used in an Australian television commercial for the 1984 Mitsubishi Cordia.

Gloria Trevi, the top Mexican female vocalist of the 1990s, performed "Gloria" as an opening number in concert and recorded a studio version of the Spanish lyrics to be released in February 2012.

Australia's Young Divas included "Gloria" on their self titled album (2006).

Debbie Reynolds sings a snippet of "Gloria" in the "Lows in the Mid-Eighties" episode of the NBC sitcom Will & Grace which was broadcast November 23, 2000: Reynolds performs the song as the character "Bobbi Adler" in a sequence set in 1985.

"Gloria" was incorporated into the score of the stage musical Flashdance the Musical being sung by the characters Jazmin and Keisha in a scene in which a character named Gloria – formed by combining two characters: Jeanie and Tina Tech, from the original 1982 Flashdance – performs a pole dance routine. The character Gloria was introduced by Ruthie Stephens in the 2008–09 national tour of Flashdance the Musical in which Jazmin and Keisha were played by respectively Djalenja Scott and Carryl Thomas; Charlotte Harwood assumed the role of Gloria for the play's 2010–11 West End run in which Jazmin and Keisha were played by respectively Twinnie Lee Moore and Hannah Levane.

In 2010 South Korean actress Bae Doona headlined a television series named "Gloria" which was named by the Laura Branigan song; in the series, Bae portrays an aspiring singer who gets her start and ascends to fame by singing a Korean language cover the song "Gloria".

• In a nod to her hit, Branigan's rendition of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" performed on the Solid Gold Christmas special featured the background vocalists singing the phrase: "Gloria" evoking both Branigan's signature song and the Latin refrain of the Christmas carol "Angels We Have Heard on High."