Gloria Gaynor Samuel L. Jackson, Charles Barkley, and Spike Lee sang "I Will Survive". In 2016, Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" was selected for induction into the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. On May 6, 2017, Gloria Gaynor performed with her band at the Library of Congress' celebration of disco music at Bibliodiscotheque, a disco dance party in the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson building. Due to the devastation wreaked by hurricane Harvey on the state of Texas in August 2017, Gaynor rewrote the lyrics to "I Will Survive," changing the title to "Texas Will Survive," and posted video of
Substitute (The Righteous Brothers song) version by Australian group Peaches also charted locally at the same time, but was out-charted by the Clout track. It was also covered by Gloria Gaynor in 1978 (U.S. #107) and by Polish-Swedish singer and actor Izabella Scorupco in 1990. Substitute (The Righteous Brothers song) "Substitute" is a song by Willie H. Wilson, recorded first by The Righteous Brothers and released as single from their album "The Sons of Mrs. Righteous" in 1975. In 1978, the song became a big hit for the South African band Clout, reaching No. 2 in the UK charts in August and being certified Gold