1. Gloria Loring-Lagler was born on Gloria Jean Goff, December 10,1946 and is an American singer and actress.
18 Facts About Gloria Loring
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Gloria Loring is known for playing Liz Chandler on Days of Our Lives for six years.
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Gloria Loring began her music career at age 14, singing with a folk group known as Those Four.
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Gloria Loring released, as a single, an early cover version of Joni Mitchell's "Chelsea Morning" in 1968.
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Gloria Loring went on to perform on a wide range of television shows in the late 1960s and 1970s, from The Carol Burnett Show to the Academy Awards ceremony.
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Gloria Loring performed "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" and performed a duet with Vinton on "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do".
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Gloria Loring 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.
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In 1980, when Gloria Loring joined the NBC daytime soap Days of Our Lives as chanteuse Liz Chandler, the show was going through a dry spell, with many veterans dropped and many new faces alienating long-time fans.
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For three years, in real-life, Gloria Loring dated Don Diamont, the actor who played Carlo Forenza who was murdered by her TV husband Dr Neil Curtis.
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In 1986, Gloria Loring scored a No 2 Pop and No 1 Adult Contemporary hit record in the United States with "Friends and Lovers", with Carl Anderson.
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Gloria Loring originally performed "Friends and Lovers" on Days of Our Lives more than a year before it hit the charts.
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Gloria Loring left Days in 1986 and made sporadic film and television appearances over the next few decades.
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In 2003, Gloria Loring released her first holiday album, You Make It Christmas.
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Gloria Loring's book, Coincidence Is God's Way of Remaining Anonymous, is a spiritual autobiography of how a series of coincidences transformed her life.
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Gloria Loring was married to actor Alan Thicke from 1970 until 1986.
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Gloria Loring has two sons with Thicke, Brennan and singer Robin.
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Gloria Loring has been honored with the Lifetime Commitment Award from JDRF, and received the Woman of Achievement Award from the Miss America Organization.
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Gloria Loring has been featured in Who's Who in America.