Enchantment, “Gloria” | Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶

In the 4^th edition of Throwback Vibez (2023), we recollect and reflect on “Gloria” by soul collective, Enchantment.  

The vibes, the vibes, those Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶! Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 is a column that celebrates awesome songs from the past.  The records that grace this column are older, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re ancient – no fossils 🦴! All genres of music are welcome. In the 4^th edition of Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 (2023), we recollect and reflect on 🎵 “Gloria”, performed by soul collective, 🎙 Enchantment. 

“Gloria / My Gloria / Things ain’t been the same / Since you went away.” Ah, those pesky matters of the heart – they always seem to be perfect fuel for the fire for a song! 🎙 Enchantment thrived from the success of 🎵 “Gloria”, which peaked at no. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 – not bad! Furthermore, the five-and-a-half-minute ballad marked the biggest single of the R&B collective’s career.  The vocals – lead and background – are epic, the production is lush (strings, winds, and keys), and the songwriting is memorable.

“It seems like / Only yesterday / I beheld your sweet face / And in my lonely room / My memories of your embrace.” Clearly, Enchantment is sentimental about Gloria – she’s one special girl. “Isn’t it funny / How time can change / All the things you want to believe,” lead singer and co-writer 🎙 Emanuel Johnson asserts, adding, “But time won’t change / The way I feel / Cause in my mind / It’s you and me / You and me.” Johnson penned “Gloria” alongside 🎼 ✍ 🎛 Michael Stokes, who is also responsible for that silky smooth production that’s idiomatic of the 1970s soul sound through and through.  What more is there to say about 🎵 “Gloria”?  This gem from 💿 Enchantment, the 1976 album by Enchantment, speaks for itself.

🎙 Enchantment • 💿 Enchantment • 🏷 Roadshow • 🗓 1976

Enchantment, “Gloria”: Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 No. 4 (2023) [📷: Brent Faulkner/ The Musical Hype; Roadshow; John Alan Sperry, PIRO via Pixabay]