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
William J. Gaynor (fireboat) "William J. Gaynor"s hull. She had to call on a "wrecking tug" to open the "Sygna"s hatch before she could suppress the fire in the hold. On June 21, 1921, the "William J. Gaynor" was called to Barren Island in Jamaica Bay when a warehouse belonging to the United States Shipping Board was found to be ablaze. By the time the fireboat arrived land-based firefighters had been unable to prevent the fire from spreading to two of the Shipping Board's four derelict vessels. The freighters "Polar Bear" and the "City of Omaha" were also ablaze. The "William J. Gaynor" with