Laura Branigan: Death of a Singer, Life of a Song

By January there are chances of winning the Stanley Cup were point six percent, not six percent, which would be bad enough. Point six The team trudged into Philly to play the Philadelphia Flyers. We have a friend of ours from Philly. He invited us to this bar. That's St. Louis Blues player Robert Bortuzzo. He and four other players went out for some beers and cheese steaks the night before their game. I mean, why not, you know what?

This place is papped characters. And then there's one guy who just kept wanting them to play Gloria, playing Gloria, play Gloria. So they kept playing it Gloria, you know hit song from Laura Brann again. So the DJ kept playing Gloria over and over, and the places going nuts. The guys wind up having a pretty good time. They go home, sleep off the booze. They go out the next day and they win three nothing, a shutout. Alexander Stein, another player, says they went back to the locker room

that night and celebrated by playing Gloria. Throughout the course of the season, as a group, you try and find things that connect you more. They officially adopted Gloria as their wind song, and then the Boy you Love It. They won their next ten games playing Gloria. After everyone, it wasn't long before the song moved out of the locker room and into the arena, to the delight of thousands of screaming fans. We're no longer booing. A local

radio station played Gloria for twenty four hours straight. Gloria continues down. I hope you're not tired of again, because we're not. Let's go Blues baby. Lifelong fan Jim Patton got to play Gloria Tattoo with the Blues and with Laura, and then naturally fans started asking for Laura Brannigan to come sing Gloria in person. I thought all that would be cool. They brought her in for one of the games.

But there was one problem. So you say she died, Yeah, Laura Brannigan died in her sleep in two thousand four. But in two thousand nineteen, her chart topping hit took the Blues all the weight at the top the way it is over and the St. Louis Blues are the Stanley Cup tippets for the first time in franchise mystery. That's right. In five months they went from number thirty one to number one, worst to first go to my grave singing glorious? So who was Laura Branding in anyway?

Even her neighbors didn't know who. She was really underrated singer ever since he was a little kid. She could sing. There was like a little mischievous secret to that smile. And while I'm at it, who's Gloria? She's a little cuckoo. I'm not positive, but I think it's about a mentally disturbed woman. Was she a prostitute? Gloria from CDAs Sunday Morning and Simon and Schuster, I'm Morocca and this see mobituaries This mobid Laura Brandigan August two thousand four, death

of a singer life of a Song. Well, I wasn't a big Laura Brannigan fan back then, but I certainly am now, I certainly am. What did we listen to before Laura brand Again? Was there before Laura Brandon? This is my best friend, Mario. We grew up together listening to mostly show tunes. We both loved Cats. We had the record, and you pointed out that the LP was better because especially if We're is a double LP, because you could look at all the pictures of all the cats.

Broadway cast albums were an important part of our lives and our friendship. Don't cry for Men't for Avida. You didn't have the broadway cast album you had. I had the original pelopone original Broadway cast album. I thought you had Elaine Page. I had pre Elaine Page. Julie Couvington was the concert version. But while she wasn't a Broadway person, Laura Brannigan captivated us. Whisper in her voice is great. Oh, it's an amazing voice. And in fact, that's how I

learned what four octave means. She came along and I've read some article about her four octave range. I mean, she's obviously an attractive, pretty woman, but they never sort of marketed her effectively that way. Be factly, all she was selling really was the boys. But also she was as talented as she was and with her voice being so amazing, she was like a really average seeming person, like an accessible seeming right, but you could image and

sort of being friends with this woman. I could have imagined her going to Pile Junior High seriously totally, and even though she didn't go to junior high with us, it turns out our feelings on Laura or Laurie as she was known growing up, we're pretty right on. Yeah, she would sign anybody's autograph. She's just the same sweet kid we knew with fame. Mark brand Again is Laura's older brother. He hasn't spoken publicly about his sister since she died in two thousand four. So was she known

around the neighborhood as a kid with the pipes? Yeah? Yeah, Oh my god? Could she sing? As a family, we used to sing in church together sometimes, is that right? Yeah? Christmas, we'd we'd go around and sing Christmas carols in front of our neighbor's house, the whole family. Yeah. Yeah, And if you couldn't sing in the Brannigan House, which I

can't really you were the off key one. Laura was born in nine, the fourth of five kids to Jimmy and Kathleen Brannigan, and this musical Irish Catholic family lived in the small town of Armand, New York. When she was little, did she say I want to be a big recording star. No, she was very shy. It was never she never tried to get attention to herself. She just liked to sing, and oh, okay, great, And then I heard her sing seriously. I just was like, you know,

and were your parents supportive of her aspiration? Yes, they really were, especially my mother. No surprise there, Mark says. Their mom performed on a radio talent show as a kid and always sang around the house. All the neighbor kids used to come around outside the window where my mother would wash the dishes, and they'd sit there. She wouldn't know we were out there, and she would sing and all the little kids would clap. What would she

sing when she was washing dishes? Contemporary music from her background, and I don't remember exactly, And yeah, she sang that all the time. She put all the kids to bed, and we make her sing to us. It was great. There she here, she is? She looks at Ali Ryerson was one of Laura's best friends at Byram Hills High. We're looking at their high school year both that's me, look at you there. Ali is a professional floutist, so I couldn't resist making a request. That's great to remember

it that. What was our Monk like as a place to grow up? It was great? You know, I guess what they call a New York bedroom community? Do they have a nice house? They were middle class where they lived. It was not like the ritzy part of our Monk. What was her style in high school? Like? When she walked down the hall, was it like, there's Laurie. She had long, dark, flowing hair. It was always the perfect messy look. And I don't think on purpose at all.

It was that was the way that Laurie looked. She was very striking, but in a very natural way. Laura starred in the high school musical senior year. I think it was Pajama Game. So she played babe. Yes, that's I mean, that's a big belt role. You don't have a big voice to that. The kind of voice she had. One of the things I remember about her was her ability, her natural ability to harmonize, which is hard. It's really hard.

It's really hard. She just had a great ear. Now, Ali doesn't remember Mrs brand Again as exactly happy, go lucky. She was stern. That's what I remember, as Ali recalls, Laura's mom was working in a dress shop and one time the two teenage girls were gathering in the ladies room and I don't remember sitting on it, but for some reason, the sink came out of the wall. Oh my gosh, you sat on the sink in the ladies root and it came out. We denied that we sat

on it, but we might have hit it. And her mother was like kind of furious, Well, okay, you did rip the sink out of the wall. Well okay, I'm kind of on Mrs Brannigan's side on this one. And when I think that to it, I think you might be right. Laura wasn't the only brand Again trying to pull one over on her mother. My kid brother, Billy Billy, he put marijuana plants on the roof. You had a

rooftop marijuana garden. My mother fertilized. Your mother didn't realize along with her roses and she's sit probably watering there going it's a great day for the Irish. I've heard about your your sister pulling pranks. The best thing she did. She had a friend named Ethan who was going over to prep school and taking the s s France. Laura and Ali and their friend Lisa went to see this friend off on a cruise ship. One thing led to another. We're giggling and a little tipsy, and I said, why

don't we just stay on the ship. So we did. Yep. The three girls stowed away and once they were found own, it was too late to turn back. We're on our own. It's a five day crossing. Their parents are cold, but the punishment will have to wait. The girls are giving cabins and waila. They're on vacation. We have five French waiters for the three of us. I know they gave us a bottle of wine. I'm pretty sure I've seen these movies starring Marilyn Monroe, Ravel or something like you.

Was there any romance on the ship. Well, one of our waiters, Mario, I knew it was going to be a waiter, and you mentioned the five waiters. I had a little flirtation with him. I don't know about Lori, but Ali does have a distinct memory from that trip of Laura doing what she loved most a few times. I don't know if it's like a ballroom or a lounge or something like that, an empty room with a grand piano. I would find Lori in there at the piano,

playing and singing. That's a wonderful memory. I remember the time that you gave me the votes. Now they prest in the pages of Vault. And after high school, Laura moved to New York City to study drama. She joined the folk rock band Meadow. I'm getting a strong Godspell vibe here. I mean, this was the early seventies after all, And a few years later she hit the road as a backup singer for Leonard Cohen. Then she landed a big time manager, Sid Bernstein, the man who brought the

Beatles to America. He called Laura the next Judy Garland. Soon she booked a TV commercial for three m It was the first time a lot of people saw and heard her and said got her in her room with legendary Atlantic Records head A'm it aired again. I got up and I said, Laura you're going to be an Atlantic artist, and I think you're going to be a star. But for a couple of years it was a touch and go. They knew Laura was great, but they couldn't

figure out exactly what to do with her. She recorded a bunch of materials, but her first Album's got shelved until finally something clicked. It has an amazing beginning because instead of yeah, instead of like sort of like slowly building up, it just like a now and says it's coming. The song it was like jumper cables. It is a song with velocity, right velocity. It has its own velocity and you are not going to get in a way. It is gonna pummel you down. It's what I Have.

The Tiger tried to do right. I Have The Tiger was a perfectly fine pop song in its day, but it was like saying, boom, boom boom, we are doing this, and Gloria doesn't try to do that. It just doesn't. Gloria was Laura Brannigan's breakout hit, a certified platinum single that earned her a Grammy nomination and a spot on the TV police drama A Chip Audition for You, With the kind of like foxes, um, why don't you listen

to our tape? Here? While it hovered a number two on the charts and never quite made it to the tippy top, Gloria stayed on the Billboard Hot one hundred for thirty six weeks. If you don't like doing the math, that's eight and a half months. If I were doing a soundtrack for my day, I wouldn't know where to put it. Because it works well getting out of bed, the alarm goes off, walking to work. It works for like striding down the hallway and delivering some paper that's

that the boss is going to rave about. Isn't it odd there have not been covers. I can't think of any mainstream hit that has either successfully sampled or covered. Gloria and Laura kept it up five a new album every year, with more top ten hits. One of the things that really kind of gets my cross is and people think she's a one hit wonder. She's not a one hit wonder. Oh oh, arm Alright, let's talk about these other songs a little bit. Self control is a

whole topic. It's entire podcast. It's a great song, it's sort of a complex song. The night I remember the video being so weird like she was. She was kind of like in this House of Horror type thing. Everyone had these creepy masks. It was a little sort of eyes wide shot. The director of the Self Control video music video is William friedkin oh right, Yes, in The Exorcist, the French Connection, the Boys in the Band, and Self Control the video. Yes, but she had three really big

hits she had Gloria self Control Solitaire. I mean I throw in there, how am I supposed to live without? That was a big hid that's right. Laura was the first to sing this song, written by a then unknown Michael Bolton. She gave his career a huge boost. Another songwriter who hit it big with Laura Diane Warren. Even if you don't know her name, you definitely know her songs. Diane's work includes songs for Share, Aerosmith, Selene Dion, Lady Gaga, and a lot more. But before all of them, there

was Laura Brandagan. Was that a breakthrough for you when she sang Solitaire? I mean it was the first time anything with my name on it went top ken, So it was pretty cool. Diane was just starting out when she wrote new English lyrics to a French song on called Solitaire. Laura sang it and the song went to number seven. How would you describe her voice? It was ballsy, and it had power, and it had passion. It's just one of those just larger than life voices. I mean,

I love those kind of voices. And when Diane Warren says a voice has power, I mean, you're the authority on that. To me, she's one of the best singers I ever worked with. Like Solitaire, several of Laura's early hits were English language covers of European songs. It might surprise you that Gloria was originally an Italian love song by the singer Umbert Totosi. Okay, they changed the lyrics and, as Laura put it, gave it an American cap and

with that kick, it's sore. It's been featured every place, from Flashdance to South Park, Grand Theft Auto to the assassination of Gianni Versacci. Let's face it, the St. Louis Blues needed Gloria, not the other way around. What is it about a song like Gloria that it just keeps coming back? I mean, it's a great melody A and then what that lyric is singing about this character like this happy music, edulent melody with this kind of tragic character.

The lyrics certainly don't describe a happy character. I think you've got to slow down before you start to blow it. I think you're headed for a breakdown, so be careful not to show it what happens. I think there's so many people they get in the fast name and they lose the essence of themselves and they're so concerned with keeping up. That's Laura herself weighing in on the meaning of the song. And so what I'm doing in the song glory is telling it glory. But I slow down.

That was and just a few years later, Laura's career did slow down, much sooner than she probably wanted. She had her last top twenty hit, the Lucky One. What happened. Laura's relatable, she's beautiful, and she's got that voice. Um. You know, when I first got into this business, I knew nothing about it, and um I got involved with the wrong people. They could have gone the next step and really developed her as an artist. This is Diane Warren again. She should have had a long career. Turns

out the cracks were starting to show early. She fired her manager, Sid Bernstein, just as Gloria was climbing the charts. Her relationship with her next manager ended up in a legal dispute. Then someone new took the helm. I know you're married to your manager. That's right. He's in a supporting role. You can trust him. Yes, Laura had married attorney Larry crew Tech nine months after meeting him in crew Tech was closely involved with her career from the

very beginning. I wasn't able to gather much insight into him. Wore their relationship though. Diane Warren only remembers one thing about him. Remember we're in really tight leather pants, that's remember. And I don't sense a lot of love lost between Laura's brother Mark and his brother in law. We didn't fight with him, but there was no simpatico between us. Give him a holiday card, you know, Happy Thanksgiving, and you know, and Laura's high school friend Ali never even

met him. You know, Laurie kind of drifted off. And how did you feel about that? Sad and a little bit disappointed. In those days, you would print postcards and mail them out. Laurie was on my mailing list, and I would always write a note to her. Did you see each other or speak at all during the nineteen seventies that whole decade? I don't think we did. You never got any response, nothing, nothing. Laura also fell out

of touch with her former bandmates from Meadow. One explanation maybe that she basically needed to erase five years from her life. You see, fans thought Laura was born in The truth is she was born in ninety two. The record company made her do it, and the only way we even found out about it was because many years after her death, the AP issued a correction. I remember reading on my computer and being kind of stunned. Mario's right. The Associated Press issued a correction to her obituary almost

thirteen years after Laura died. But how did the APE even find out? It all started in spring two thousand and fourteen. This is Swedish Laura Brannigan, superman steeg Akia person many people just call Misstigue. A retiree living in a Swedish seaside village. Steve spent hundreds of hours on his computer doing research. I love it. People are collecting stamps or whatever. I am collecting all stuff I can

found of Laura Brannigan. One thing. This Swedish sleuth uncovered a great photo of the Brannigan family in their kitchen together in nineteen fifty four. There's a baby Laura right in the middle. It was a gold mine. I think the real significance in this news coming to light when Laura finally broke out with Gloria. She was thirty years old, not old in normal people terms, but certainly not young in the pop music world. When you first heard the age she was putting out there, did you kind of

roll your eyes and go, come on? It didn't bother me as far as Laurie was concerned. I knew that that wasn't her choice. She would follow her team, and I think she was right too. It's hard, yeah, navigating the music business, pop stardom, trying to stay on top while doing what's right for you for your career. It's a lot. Heading into the nine nineties, she was still putting out albums, but there were fewer and farther in between.

So why such a long time. There are lots of obsessive Laura Brannigan fans out there that are wondering, where have you been? Everybody says that that's TV and radio host Ernie Manoose talking to Laura about her album Over My Heart. Does your management ever say to you, Laura, don't do this again. Do not take three years. We need you out there. No, no, I have a new manager, frank Le, so take care of the old one. Yep. She'd taken on yet another manager, but the hits had

dried up. How frustrating it must have been to be Laura in the nineties when she knew she could still sing the hell out of a song, but the songs weren't going to her. Laura believed that this one would have put her back on top Celine Dion's hit from Titanic, My Heart Will Go On. I know perfect. You can hear the frustration in her voice on this phone call. I can hear you, and I can hear her singing it. Why is it you have that magic? When Laura started out,

her motivation seemed so pure. After Gloria hit, she went on American Bandstand and Dick Clark asked her about her future. What do you hope for the next ten years. I just always want to sing. I just always want to sing. Now. Contrast that with Madonna, who was on just over a year later, What are your dreams? What's like to rule the world, Ladies and gentlemen, this is Madonna. I don't think Laura wanted to rule the world, but I don't

think she wanted to fade away either. In any case, Over My Heart turned out to be Laura's last album. Not long after its release, her husband was diagnosed with colon cancer. Laura put her career on hold to take care of him. He died two years later, around the same time her older brother Jimmy died. Then a few years later, she fell from a ladder and broke both her legs. The grueling recovery meant more time away from

her music. Here's her brother Mark again. That was a lot too for her to deal at that time, really really tough. The rehab of that monsters monsters, and you know, the public they want to hear you. And if they don't hear you and see you, it's not that they forget about you. It's just that you're not on their mind. But for a group of die hard fans, Laura was and still is on their mind. Tell me where the

Spirit of love event is? Remember that woman on the phone with Laura High There that's Kathy golic A mo Yes. I met her at a Hilton Garden Inn on Long Island, New York, where she was holding this year's Spirit of Love memorial gathering, in annual meeting of Laura Brannigan fans. When we come back to the hotel, it's like saying family there. Kathy started as a fan, became a friend, and now keeps Laura alive online. If you follow Laura

brand Again on Twitter, you're reading Kathy's posts. She was even in St. Louis when the Blues won the Stanley Gloria's played and they would play a three or four times, so we were one of the last ones to leave the arena. Tell me the trip. Did you know anything about pro ice hockey before this? Casually? Casually she's filled

one of the hotel conference rooms with memorabilia. I spotted a German movie poster and again and Ruth Gordon, Okay, that's Laura dubbed into German in the movie Muggsy's Girls. It's sort of like a female animal house. In case you haven't seen Muggsy's Girls, it's about a sorority that enters a mud wrestling competition in Las Vegas in order to save their house. It's not Shakespeare, but hey, Ruth

Gordon was on board. Legend a great actress. Even years after they had made this movie together, she used to get together with Laura the Russian tabroom. Laura had a grander ambitions as an actress. I think she did. I think she did. Yeah. Cathy plans activities for the whole weekend, no matter what the turnout, and this year the turnout was modest, with just four fans. One of those die hards is Colin Strong. This is my fourth year, fourth

year in a row. I'm a merchant mariner, so I go different places around the world South Korea, Japan, Dubai, and Long Island. This past year, Colin brought something special to the event, a trophy that Laura won in Tokyo and this is the grand prize. Happy. I'm not thinking that this thing is a big Colin found it on eBay asked was it expensive A little bit? I'll take that as a yes. Supervan. Scott Thomas came up from Virginia. Last night at the beach. Were just sitting around having

a little reflection. You know, everybody got two roses and we tossed him in the ocean for do you feel a bond with the other fans? Definitely. Scott met Laura after seven show in Virginia Beach, where he says she invited him to take a ride in her limo, but nothing happened. So I mean Huggan's kissing and stuff like that, as Betty it now, Scott was already dating the woman he's now married to. And how does she feel about his trip to New York this weekend? Didn't like it.

I don't like it one bit. And finally, I'm a light housekeeper with the Canadian Coast card Stanley West table and you're holding a candle as it were for Laura. Stanley came by himself. He didn't know anyone here. He traveled three thousand miles from British Columbia, Canada because of Laura Brannigan. I could possibly say I'm here today because of her. In a more literal sense, I had a very bad personal break up in and it was her voice that called me back from the edge, Stanley sense

is something deeply empathetic in Laura's voice. It's almost as though she's speaking to you in a way saying I've been there even now. This heartrending sound isn't something that just superbands here. It's something people noticed about Laura from the beginnings. And you have a soulful quality in your in your voice, almost a sadness. That's Johnny Carson interviewing Laura back Edith Off at all. That's interesting. I was thinking of Edith Poff when I was listening to you sing.

Edith Poff was the iconic French shantouse known for her torch songs and a life beset by tragedy. Oh that was her favorite singer of all the time. She turned me onto you off. I mean, she just loved it. Mark Brannigan also hears the pain in his sister's voice. She could break your heart with a song, you know, and you'd see she was crying so and songwriter Diane Warren says, you can't teach that kind of passion. You either have soul and feeling or you know. And she

did this extra layer, this depth to Laura's voice. She alluded to its roots during a conversation with Joan Rivers, you do a lot of sad song. Now what are you drawing is your life? And say it or I had not well, it has been you know, I had had a rough time growing up, and um, I think I don't do a lot of that, okay, and it's okay. I can't know for sure what Laura is referring to there, but one person we haven't talked about is Laura's father. My father was to say he had been very successful

on Wall Street, very successful after World War Two. I don't know by the time we all got to be in the teens he was. He was not not in good shape. Her childhood was not Oh Roses. This is her high school friend Ali Ryerson. Again, her father, who was a wonderful man, would be gone for a few days and then come back. He would have been better off had he never had a drink in his life.

Let's just put it that way, you know. In the liner notes to Self Control and al Them, which came out the year after Laura's father died, Laura writes, for Dad, now I know you're listening, let me read you something. Her unhappy personal life in unadorned though dramatic style underlined her expressive voice, and she was able to move audiences with her passionate renditions of songs that were often about love and Loss. That's not about Laura Brown again. It's

from an Encyclopedia entry on Edith Poff. I'm going to see Laura Brannagan tomorrow night of Madison Square Garden, and I have some advice for her. Open and clothes with Gloria, do it a couple of times in between. That's David Spade from an old Saturday Night Live. It's a funny bit. While there's so much more to Laura Brandigan, she will always be remembered for Gloria, and I don't think that's

a bad thing. In one interview, she said, look, I end every concert with Gloria and people just go crazy. And I bet I'd like to think that she never resented that. I think she was grateful to sing that song because that's the song that really made our star. This is Tommy Biokos. At the end of our set list, we would do self Control set Gloria. In the early two thousands, Laura, after recovering from her injuries, was attempting to come back twenty years after the release of Gloria.

Tommy was in her band while on tour together, he and Laura started dating. She also started recording a new album and writing a cookbook. The idea towards the end was to have her cookbook, the new CD and a world tour and hit the world that once was she a great cook exceptional. At the time, Laura was living on Long Island with her mother, who had developed Alzheimer's.

She would take her into the recording sessions my mother, but my sister took her everywhere, took her everywhere, and in her world it was Laura and everybody was happy, and it's so sweet. She she was a sweet person. Yeah. In the summer of two thousand four, Laura started getting headaches and then on the morning of August, Mark got a call from the caretaker at the house nine in the morning. I thought, she said, my mother died, and I said, okay, well let me speak to Mary, and

she goes, no, Mori's dead. Laura died of a brain aneurism after going to sleep the night before. She was fifty two. I was driving on and I heard the news that Laura Brannigan had had died. I pulled off and I called my brother John and we cried together. You called me that morning when you heard the news. He said, you know, I'm genuinely sad about this. She

was the big star, but she was also hours. It was a personal thing, that's exactly right, And it was a lesson in mortality and maybe like the end of our youth in some respect, because I know you. But it was the most beautiful voice. It was the most beautiful voice. And I remember her brother Mark was so angry. He was so angry to have lost her. There was a private funeral service for Laura, but her mother wasn't there. You know, I never told my mother she died. I um.

I told her she was in Europe. She was doing a tour in California, and we would send our friends envelopes that they would put from different parts of the world to my mother from Mauri. Why what I was going to tell her that her daughter died after losing my older brother. I mean, that was the compassionate thing to do. Oh sure, And she never knew. You know, some people think it was a new Goaldie that brought the St. Louis Blue to victory, but I think it

was Laura. When I heard that that hockey team was doing it, I don't follow hobby. I said to myself, they're they're going to have a run because that song, it's got a lot of kara behind it, you know. So did they end up winning anything? Mark? They won the whole thing. They won the Stanley Cup. That's amazing. And they were in the last place, they were down in the dumps. They heard that song and they said that's going to be the anthem and it went right.

That's unbot You've done good for me. She wasn't a one hit wonder. She hasn't been forgotten. There was something compelling behind that big sound. She's saying with power and substance, sadness and warmth and that voice. It's still here. Next time on Mobituaries, the Orphan Train and the largest mass migration of children in American history. Well a quarter million children were moved to west from fifty four A quarter million people. That's like the population of Cleveland. That's a

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