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

Mobituaries with Mo Rocca

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Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 20.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The St. Louis Blues hockey team had the worst record in the NHL in January 2019, before deciding to adopt the 1982 hit song Gloria as their anthem. They ended up winning the Stanley Cup. But many of their fans didn't even know that the woman who sang that song had died back in 2004. Mo talks to Laura Branigan's brother, her high school best friend, songwriter Diane Warren (who wrote her first hit song for Branigan) and attends a reunion of fans to tell the poignant story of an undersung pop star whose voice lives on.

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0:30.0	In January 2019, the St. Louis Blues hockey team was in last place.
0:41.8	Dead last.
0:42.8	All the wheels seem to have fallen off the wagon.
0:44.6	There's a lot of concern around the St. Louis Blues.
0:46.8	There's no doubt about it.
0:47.8	There's no grit.
0:48.8	There's no excitement.
0:50.0	The NHL season had started in October.
0:52.7	This is unbelievable.
0:53.9	A couple of months later, their own fans booed them during and after again.
1:00.8	By January, there are chances of winning the Stanley Cup were 0.6%, not 6%, which would
1:07.7	be bad enough, 0.6%.
1:11.4	The team trudged into Philly to play the Philadelphia Flyers.
1:16.0	We have a friend of ours from Philly.
1:18.0	He invited us to this bar.
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