Short answers, pulled from the story.
Gloria Gaynor recorded the song I Will Survive in 1978 during a three-hour session. The musicians spent most of the time on the A-side track called Substitute and had only thirty-five minutes to record the song that became the B-side.
Songwriter Dino Fekaris wrote the lyrics for the song I Will Survive after being fired from Motown Records. He teamed up with his collaborator Freddie Perren to create the track that was eventually given to Gloria Gaynor.
A promotional video for the song I Will Survive was filmed in 1979 at a New York discothèque called Xenon. The video featured a roller skater named Sheila Reid-Pender from a local group called The Village Wizards performing dance sequences.
The song I Will Survive is one of the best-selling singles in history to date with sales exceeding 15 million copies worldwide. It topped the Billboard charts and won Best Disco Recording at the 22nd Annual Grammy Awards.
In 2016, the Library of Congress deemed Gloria Gaynor's original recording of the song I Will Survive to be culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. The organization selected it for preservation in the National Recording Registry.
American rock band Cake covered the song I Will Survive for their second album Fashion Nugget in 1996. Lead singer John McCrea altered the lyrics to include profanity which Gloria Gaynor stated she did not like.