That has a lot of meaning to me because that’s pretty much where it all started. The very neat thing is, after her passing, I was able to acquire a lot of her memorabilia, and I actually have the purple scarf that she wore on the float. I’m 51 years old right now, and I always tell people it’s one of those pinch-me stories because I was a fan and I ended up not only her manager but a very close friend. The original version of this song was performed by Italian pop singer, Umberto Tozzi, which he released in 1979. Gloria was included on Laura’s maiden album titled Branigan. “I went to concerts throughout the years, and pretty much anything that was Laura Branigan, any fact or anything, I just became really very knowledgeable about her career. The track became Laura Branigan’s signature song after its release as a single in June 1982. She rode down the street on a rocking-horse float, and there were no CDs or anything like that, so they had a little Sony Walkman cassette player sitting on the side of her and they just kept looping ‘Gloria.’ It was really a big deal.” “I think about sitting there watching that and then the journey my life took,” Golik said. I remember wanting to sit down and watch the parade because she was going to be on. She was a new artist, and ‘Gloria’ was all over the airwaves. I was 14 years old when ‘Gloria’ came out. “I actually grew up being a fan of Laura’s. “My story is a rather unique one,” Golik said. The 14-year-old Golik was glued to her TV in Pennsylvania, about 35 miles east of Pittsburgh. One of Kathy Golik’s first memories of Laura Branigan was in 1982, when the 30-year-old singer of the new hit song “Gloria” performed at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.
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