Don't Let Me Change The Way You Are

Gloria Loring (born Gloria Jean Goff; December 10, 1946) is an American singer and actress. Loring began her music career at age 14, singing with a folk group known as "Those Four". Gloria Loring released her first album in 1968. It was titled "Gloria Loring, Today" on MGM Records. She went on to perform on a wide range of television shows in the 70's, from The Carol Burnett Show to the Academy Awards ceremony. In 1979 and 1980, Loring and then husband Alan Thicke co-composed the theme songs to Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life. The first season of Facts had the cast performing the theme, but the remainder of the run (1980--1988) featured Loring's rendition of the song which remains a strong memory for '80s sitcom devotees. There were two versions of the Facts of Life theme song that Loring sang. One version was used from seasons two through six and a second used from seasons seven to nine. Her son Brennan was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1979. A year later, she joined 'Days of our Lives' and got the idea to create and self-publish the Days Of Our Lives Celebrity Cookbook to raise money for diabetes research. Volume One was published in 1981 and the followup Volume Two in 1983. The cookbooks, along with her recording A Shot in the Dark, raised more than one million dollars for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. She followed that success with three commercially published books, Kids, Food and Diabetes, Parenting a Child with Diabetes, and Living with Type 2 Diabetes: Moving Past the Fear. For the past 30 years, she has served as a spokesperson for JDRF. In 1980, when Loring joined the NBC daytime soap Days of our Lives as chanteuse Liz Chandler, the show was going through a dry spell at the time, with many veterans shown the door and many new faces alienating longtime fans. Of the nine new characters introduced in the 1980-1981 season, only Liz garnered a fan following, and was the only one to have her contract renewed. For three years, Loring dated Don Diamont, the actor who played the corrupt, long-lost son of her TV husband Dr. Neil Curtis. (Diamont would go on to find daytime stardom on The Young and the Restless as Brad Carlton.) In 1986, Loring scored a #2 Pop and #1 Adult Contemporary hit record in the United States with "Friends and Lovers," with Carl Anderson (also a #1 Country hit in 1986 for Eddie Rabbitt and Juice Newton under the title "Both to Each Other"). Loring originally performed "Friends and Lovers" on Days of our Lives dating back more than a year before the track finally hit the charts. Her performance of the song generated the largest mail response of any song in NBC daytime history. First recorded as a duet with Anderson (who would himself appear on Days of our Lives to sing the song with Loring) in 1985, the single would have to wait an entire year before its eventual 1986 release, due to legal hassles.[1] Loring left Days that same year and made sporadic film and television appearances over the next few decades. Her main efforts were spent in theater and in her recording career (though "Friends and Lovers" was her only major hit single). In 2003 Gloria released her first holiday album, You Make It Christmas. More recently Gloria has released "A Playlist" which includes a new recording of the song Friends and Lovers with Carl Anderson. Gloria made this recording just one year before Carl Anderson became sick and died. Loring is currently completing a spiritual autobiography, Coincidence is God's Way of Remaining Anonymous, and working with musician and producer Ted Perlman on a new recording project. Loring was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of Dorothy Ann (née Tobin), a singer, and Gerald Louis Goff, a salesman and trumpet player.[2] Loring was married to actor Alan Thicke (Growing Pains) from 1970 until 1986. The marriage produced two sons, Brennan and Robin. Robin started his own musical career as "Thicke". He has achieved success under his full name as a chart-topping R&B artist, and songwriter and producer for other artists, winning three Grammy Awards in the process. Robin married actress Paula Patton in 2005 after an eight-year relationship. Brennan married Kathleen "Dolly" MacDonald in 2007. They first met on the set of Days of Our Lives in 1985 playing children in the Christmas hospital scene. Brennan's son, Tyler, was born in May 2008, and Robin's son, Julian Fuego, was born April 2010. In 1994, Loring married production designer René Lagler. They initially met 24 years earlier on the set of Glen Campbell's variety series. They met again on a plane in 1993, and Loring said she knew this was the man she was going to marry. Loring has been honored with the Lifetime Commitment Award from JDRF, and received the Woman of Achievement Award from the Miss America Organization, an honor she shares with past recipients Barbara Bush, Roslyn Carter, and Hillary Clinton. She has been featured in Who's Who in America.

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[546959]

i like this song...........

[bbkoibaching]

One of my favorite... love this song from d 80s....

[lorevicmayol1]

i remember this song when i was in my high school days, alala ko bf ko. those we're the days though!!!

[animoni19]

At last!!! This is the song that I've been longing for...Thanks for the post... It reminded me of a guy,,,whose my first crush, my first love, my first boyfriend, and my first broken heart.

[animoni19]

At last!!! This is the song that I've been longing for...Thanks for the post... It reminded me of a guy,,,whose my first crush, my first love, my first boyfriend, and my first broken heart.

[ina8975albie]

ay nako nahanap ko din at salamat sayo audioslave0910. Ang tagal kong hinihintay na may mag post ng song na ito. 80s tong kantang ito, pinapanlaba pa ito sa Bagong Kampeon. Love it...

[MrRomeoduran]

one of my favorite song in the 90s, antagal ko ng naghanap ng song na ito sa you tube ngayon ko lang natagpuan. Thanks audioslave

[MonsterlyInLoveII]

wow may naalala ako dito hehehe ...one of my favorite and rare love song... galing! thumbs up fafa hatt!

-=MonZ=-