“She was a beautiful person, She had a beautiful voice. She sounded real good!’’
“People say to me that I was the soundtrack to their lives,’’ she said. “It makes you feel really good to feel you’re a part of someone’s life you don’t even know. That something you’ve done has affected someone.’’
United States President Barack Obama said:
"Michelle and I were saddened to hear about the passing of Donna Summer. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Donna truly was the 'Queen of Disco.' Her voice was unforgettable, and the music industry has lost a legend far too soon. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Donna's family and her dedicated fans."
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Donna Summer (née LaDonna Adrian Gaines) (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012) was an American singer and songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Summer was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the United States Billboard chart, and she also charted four number-one singles in the United States within a 13-month period.
Born into a devoutly Christian middle class African American family in Boston, Massachusetts, Summer first became involved with singing through church choir groups before joining a number of bands influenced by the Motown Sound. Influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she became the front singer of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she spent several years living in West Germany, where she married Helmut Sommer, whose surname she adopted as her stage name.
Returning to the United States, Summer co-wrote the song "Love to Love You Baby" with Pete Bellotte; music producer Giorgio Moroder convinced her to sing it herself, and it was released to mass commercial success in 1975, particularly on the disco scene. Over the following years, Summer followed this success with a string of other disco hits, such as "I Feel Love", "MacArthur Park", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls" and "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)". Becoming known as the "Queen of Disco", she regularly appeared at the Studio 54 club in New York City, while her music gained a particularly large following within the gay community. Struggling with depression, she subsequently became a born-again Christian in 1980.
Diagnosed with lung cancer, Summer died on May 17, 2012, at her home in Naples, Florida, after a battle with the disease. She was posthumously described as the "undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom" who reached the status of "one of the world's leading female singers." Her work with Moroder on the song "I Feel Love" has also been described as "really the start of electronic dance" music, by Moroder himself.
In December 2012, it was announced that Summer would be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.
"Music just evolves, people just get tired of it, and they move on to something else," she told the paper. "In that period people were in a dance mood. They wanted to be lifted up, they wanted to have fun, they didn't want to think.
"You were coming out of the Vietnam war, the 60's , the protest era, and I was coming out of it as well. I think people were just in a different mind set. When dance music came out, with that beat and that movement, it was a switch," she said.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Iron Arny) & Donna Summer
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Barbra Streisand & Donna Summer (1979)
Donna Summer & Giorgio Moroder
Donna Summer ~ Greatest Hits (1974~2008)
Birth name: LaDonna Adrian Gaines
Also known as Donna Gaines
Born: December 31, 1948, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died: May 17, 2012 (aged 63)
Naples, Florida, U.S.
Genres: Pop, disco, dance, rock, R&B
Occupations: Singer, songwriter
Instruments: Vocals, piano
Years active: 1968–2012
Associated acts: Giorgio Moroder, Brooklyn Dreams
Donna Summer (née LaDonna Adrian Gaines) (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012) was an American singer and songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner, Summer was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the United States Billboard chart, and she also charted four number-one singles in the United States within a 13-month period.
Born into a devoutly Christian middle class African American family in Boston, Massachusetts, Summer first became involved with singing through church choir groups before joining a number of bands influenced by the Motown Sound. Influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she became the front singer of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she spent several years living in West Germany, where she married Helmut Sommer, whose surname she adopted as her stage name.
Returning to the United States, Summer co-wrote the song "Love to Love You Baby" with Pete Bellotte; music producer Giorgio Moroder convinced her to sing it herself, and it was released to mass commercial success in 1975, particularly on the disco scene. Over the following years, Summer followed this success with a string of other disco hits, such as "I Feel Love", "MacArthur Park", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls" and "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)". Becoming known as the "Queen of Disco", she regularly appeared at the Studio 54 club in New York City, while her music gained a particularly large following within the gay community. Struggling with depression, she subsequently became a born-again Christian in 1980.
Diagnosed with lung cancer, Summer died on May 17, 2012, at her home in Naples, Florida, after a battle with the disease. She was posthumously described as the "undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom" who reached the status of "one of the world's leading female singers." Her work with Moroder on the song "I Feel Love" has also been described as "really the start of electronic dance" music, by Moroder himself.
In December 2012, it was announced that Summer would be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.
"Music just evolves, people just get tired of it, and they move on to something else," she told the paper. "In that period people were in a dance mood. They wanted to be lifted up, they wanted to have fun, they didn't want to think.
"You were coming out of the Vietnam war, the 60's , the protest era, and I was coming out of it as well. I think people were just in a different mind set. When dance music came out, with that beat and that movement, it was a switch," she said.
Summer in a recording studio in 1977.
Donna Summer ~ Greatest Hits (1974~2008)
Donna Summer | Format: Audio CD
Artist: Donna Summer
Album: Greatest Hits (1974~2008)
Original Release Date: December 31, 2012
Format: CD, Album, Remastered, HD
Country: America (U.S.A.)
Genre: Pop rock, Folk rock, Funk, Hi-NRG, Disco, Electronic, Pop, R&B, Soul, Rock, Dance, Gospel, New Wave, Adult Contemporary, Disco-rock, Dance-pop, Dance-rock, Post-disco/Nu-Disco
Label: Groovy/Casablanca/Oasis/Geffen/Warner Bros./Atlantic/PWT/Mercury/Burgundy
© Groovy Records
© Casablanca Records/PolyGram
© Oasis Records
© Geffen Records
© Warner Bros. Records
© Atlantic Records
© Waterman Entertainment (PWT)
© Mercury Records
© Burgundy Records
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1 I'm Free (1984) |4:31
Written by Donna Summer, Bruce Sudano, Michael Omartian
Album: Cats Without Claws
Released: September 4, 1984
Recorded: 1984
Genre: Dance, Gospel, Pop, R&B
Label: Geffen
Producer: Michael Omartian
Cats Without Claws is the twelfth album released by Donna Summer. Summer had achieved monumental fame during the disco era of the 1970s, and by now was signed to Geffen Records. That previous album, She Works Hard for the Money, had been her most successful since the disco era, and as a result, its producer Michael Omartian was asked to produce the new album as well. Again the majority of tracks were written by Summer and Omartian, though a couple of other writers were credited including Summer's husband Bruce Sudano.
© 1984 Geffen Records | © 1984 Warner Bros. Records
2 Lucky (1979) |4:37
Written by Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Joe "Bean" Esposito, Edward "Eddie" Hokenson, Bruce Sudano
Album: Bad Girls
Released: July 1980/April 25, 1979
Recorded: January—March 1979
Genre: Disco, R&B, Pop, Soul, Rock
Label: Casablanca
Producer: Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
Bad Girls is the seventh studio album by American pop singer Donna Summer, released April 25, 1979 on Casablanca Records. Originally issued as a double album, it incorporates such musical styles as disco, soul, and rock. Bad Girls became the best-selling album of Summer's recording career, achieving double platinum sales certification in the United States, and selling approximately four million copies total worldwide.
© 1979 Casablanca Records/PolyGram
3 Oh Billy Please (1984) |4:56
Written by Donna Summer, Michael Omartian
Album: Cats Without Claws
Released: September 4, 1984
Recorded: 1984
Genre: Dance, Gospel, Pop, R&B
Label: Geffen
Producer: Michael Omartian
Cats Without Claws is the twelfth album released by Donna Summer. Summer had achieved monumental fame during the disco era of the 1970s, and by now was signed to Geffen Records. That previous album, She Works Hard for the Money, had been her most successful since the disco era, and as a result, its producer Michael Omartian was asked to produce the new album as well. Again the majority of tracks were written by Summer and Omartian, though a couple of other writers were credited including Summer's husband Bruce Sudano. Although Summer requested "Oh Billy Please" as the first single, again Geffen and his executives rejected her request.
© 1984 Geffen Records | © 1984 Warner Bros. Records
4 The Woman In Me (1982) |3:55
Written by Michael Clark, John Bettis
Album: Donna Summer
Released: July 19, 1982
Recorded: 1982
Genre: R&B, Adult Contemporary, Dance, Rock
Label: Geffen
Producer: Quincy Jones
Donna Summer is the tenth studio album of American singer Donna Summer, released in 1982, and is currently out of print. It featured the Top 10, Grammy-nominated "Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)" single. "The Woman in Me" is the third and final single from Donna Summer's self-titled 1982 album. This lush, sensual ballad briefly returned Donna to the US Top 40. During the course of the song, Summer alternates between her soft bedroom voice and an amazed cry-out. James Ingram contributed on background vocals.
© 1982 Geffen Records | © 1982 Warner Bros. Records
5 People, People (1983) |4:06
Written by Donna Summer, Bruce Sudano, Michael Omartian
Album: She Works Hard for the Money
Released: May 10, 1983
Recorded: 1982-1983, Lion Share Studios, Los Angeles, CA.; Hollywood Sound Recorders, Hollywood, CA.; Rhema Studio, Beverly Hills, CA.
Genre: Pop, Soul, R&B, Dance-pop, Dance-rock, Post-disco, New Wave
Label: Mercury
Producer: Michael Omartian
"People, People" is a song by Donna Summer from her 1983 album She Works Hard for the Money and was released as a single exclusively in The Netherlands. The catchy pop tune is about missing children.
© 1983 Mercury Records
6 Sunset People (1979) |6:27
Written by Pete Bellotte, Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey
Album: Bad Girls
Released: July 1980/April 25, 1979
Recorded: January—March 1979
Genre: Disco, R&B, Pop, Soul, Rock
Label: Casablanca
Producer: Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
"Sunset People" is a song by Donna Summer taken from her very successful album Bad Girls. Bad Girls is the seventh studio album by American pop singer Donna Summer, released April 25, 1979 on Casablanca Records. Originally issued as a double album, it incorporates such musical styles as disco, soul, and rock. Bad Girls became the best-selling album of Summer's recording career, achieving double platinum sales certification in the United States, and selling approximately four million copies total worldwide.
© 1979 Casablanca Records/PolyGram
7 Need-A-Man Blues (1975) |4:45
Written by Giorgio Moroder & Pete Bellotte
Album: Love to Love You Baby
Released: August 27, 1975
Recorded: May–June 1975, Musicland Studios (Munich, West Germany)
Genre: Soul, Disco, R&B
Label: Casablanca/Oasis
Producer: Pete Bellotte
Love to Love You Baby is the second album by Donna Summer, and her first to be released internationally and in the United States. Her previous album Lady of the Night was released only in the Netherlands. Love to Love You Baby was released in the US on August 27, 1975.
© 1975 Casablanca Records/PolyGram | © 1975 Oasis Records
8 Spring Reprise (1976) |3:52
Written by Giorgio Moroder & Pete Bellotte
Album: Four Seasons of Love
Released: October 11, 1976
Recorded: 1976
Genre: R&B, Disco
Label: Casablanca
Producer: Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
Four Seasons of Love is the fourth album released by singer Donna Summer. Released on October 11th, 1976, this concept album became her third consecutive successful album to be certified gold in the US.
© 1976 Casablanca Records/PolyGram
9 Looking Up (1980) |3:58
Written by Donna Summer, Pete Bellotte, Giorgio Moroder
Album: The Wanderer
Released: October, 1980
Recorded: 1980
Genre: Pop rock, New Wave
Label: Geffen
Producer: Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
The Wanderer is the eighth studio 1980 album by Donna Summer. It was her first release on Geffen Records and became a Top 20 album in the United States, with the title track single reaching the #3 on Billboard's Hot 100.
© 1980 Geffen Records | © 1980 Warner Bros. Records
10 A Runner With The Pack (1981) |4:08
Written by Pete Bellotte
Album: I'm a Rainbow
Released: August 20, 1996 (original 1981 double album was never officially released. Released on single CD format in 1996)
Recorded: 1981
Genre: R&B, Dance, Rock, New Wave
Label: Geffen/Mercury (1996 CD issue)
Producer: Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
I'm a Rainbow is the ninth studio album (third double album) recorded by Donna Summer. Recorded in 1981 but shelved, it would not be released until 1996. I'm a Rainbow, a dance-oriented double album, was set to be its follow-up (Summer had gained much success during the 1970s with double albums).
© 1981 Geffen Records | © 1996 Mercury Records
11 Romeo (1981) |3:19
Written by Pete Bellotte & Sylvester Levay
Album: I'm a Rainbow
Released: August 20, 1996 (original 1981 double album was never officially released. Released on single CD format in 1996)
Recorded: 1981
Genre: R&B, Dance, Rock, New Wave
Label: Geffen/Mercury (1996 CD issue)/Casablanca (Flashdance)
Producer: Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
I'm a Rainbow is the ninth studio album (third double album) recorded by Donna Summer. Recorded in 1981 but shelved, it would not be released until 1996. I'm a Rainbow, a dance-oriented double album, was set to be its follow-up (Summer had gained much success during the 1970s with double albums). "Romeo" appeared on the 1983 Flashdance soundtrack.
© 1981 Geffen Records | © 1996 Mercury Records | © 1983 Casablanca Records/PolyGram
12 All Systems Go (1987) |4:12
Written by Donna Summer, Harold Faltermeyer
Album: All Systems Go
Released: September 15, 1987
Recorded: Oasis Studio, Munich, Union Studio, Munich
Genre: Pop, Dance, R&B
Label: Geffen
Producer: Harold Faltermeyer, Peter Bunetta, Rick Chudacoff, Richard Perry, Donna Summer, Keith Nelson, Jeffrey Lams
All Systems Go is the thirteenth album by Donna Summer, released in 1987; it would be her final release on Geffen Records where Summer had a mostly rocky tenure since 1980. This album was a commercial and critical failure, selling slightly more than 100,000 US copies at the time of its deletion. All Systems Go was a composite of tracks recorded at various points between 1983 and 1987. "All Systems Go" is the final single from the Donna Summer album of the same name. Edited from its original album version, it became a minor hit in the United Kingdom, where it reached #54 on the UK Singles Chart.
© 1987 Geffen Records | © 1987 Warner Bros. Records
13 Voices Cryin' Out (1987) |5:20
Written by Donna Summer, Harold Faltermeyer
Album: All Systems Go
Released: September 15, 1987
Genre: Pop, Dance, R&B
Label: Geffen
Producer: Harold Faltermeyer, Peter Bunetta, Rick Chudacoff, Richard Perry, Donna Summer, Keith Nelson, Jeffrey Lams
All Systems Go is the thirteenth album by Donna Summer, released in 1987; it would be her final release on Geffen Records where Summer had a mostly rocky tenure since 1980. This album was a commercial and critical failure, selling slightly more than 100,000 US copies at the time of its deletion. All Systems Go was a composite of tracks recorded at various points between 1983 and 1987.
© 1987 Geffen Records | © 1987 Warner Bros. Records
14 I Don't Wanna Get Hurt (1989) |3:29
Written by Matt Aitken, Mike Stock, Pete Waterman
Album: Another Place And Time
Released: April 24, 1989
Recorded: 1989 at PWL, London
Genre: Pop, Dance, Freestyle
Label: Atlantic/PWL
Producer: Stock Aitken Waterman, Donna Summer
Another Place and Time is the fourteenth album by American singer Donna Summer, released in 1989. The album was produced by Stock Aitken Waterman and featured Donna's final Top 10 hit "This Time I Know It's for Real". "I Don't Wanna Get Hurt" is the second single from the album Another Place and Time by Donna Summer. The whole album was written and produced by British team Stock Aitken & Waterman (SAW) and was mainly in the style of their "hit factory" sound.
© 1989 Atlantic Records | © 1989 Pete Waterman Entertainment (PWT) | © 1989 Warner Bros. Records
15 This Time I Know It's For Real (1989) |3:39
Written by Donna Summer, Matt Aitken, Mike Stock, Pete Waterman
Album: Another Place And Time
Released: March 31, 1989 (US)/April 24, 1989
Recorded: 1988 at PWL, London
Genre: Dance-pop, Synthpop, House, Pop, Dance, Freestyle
Label: Atlantic/PWL
Producer: Stock Aitken Waterman, Donna Summer
Another Place and Time is the fourteenth album by American singer Donna Summer, released in 1989. The album was produced by Stock Aitken Waterman and featured Donna's final Top 10 hit "This Time I Know It's for Real". "This Time I Know It's for Real" is a song originally recorded by Donna Summer, and released in 1989 as the first single from her album Another Place and Time. Like the rest of the album, the song was written and produced by the British Stock Aitken & Waterman team, though Summer also had a hand in writing this song, as well as three other songs on the album from which this single was culled. The video was directed by Dieter Trattmann.
© 1989 Atlantic Records | © 1989 Pete Waterman Entertainment (PWT) | © 1989 Warner Bros. Records
16 Work That Magic (1991) |5:01
Written by Donna Summer, Keith Diamond, Eve Nelson, Anthony Smith, Larry Henley
Album: Mistaken Identity
Released: August 23, 1991
Recorded: 1991, Unique Recording Studios, NYC
Genre: Pop, Dance, Soul, Urban, R&B, New jack swing
Label: Atlantic/Warner Bros.
Producer: Keith Diamond
Mistaken Identity is the out of print fifteenth album by Donna Summer, released in 1991. Since making her name as the biggest female star of the disco era in the 1970s, Summer had experimented with different musical genres throughout the 1980s with varying degrees of success. For Mistaken Identity, Summer adopted a more urban style. "Work That Magic" is a song from the album Mistaken Identity by Donna Summer. In some countries' editions of the album (including the UK), the version of the song was a remix by ISA. This version was released as a single in the UK (in place of "When Love Cries", which had been a single in America and Europe). While most of the album had quite an urban feel, this song was much more of a dance number. It peaked at number 74 in the UK Singles Chart.
© 1991 Atlantic Records | © 1991 Warner Bros. Records
17 There Goes My Baby (1984) |4:07
Written by Benjamin Nelson, Lover Patterson, George Treadwell, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
Album: Cats Without Claws/The Drifters
Released: September 4, 1984/April 24, 1959
Recorded: 1984
Genre: Dance, Gospel, Pop, R&B
Label: Geffen
Producer: Michael Omartian
Cats Without Claws is the twelfth album released by Donna Summer. Summer had achieved monumental fame during the disco era of the 1970s, and by now was signed to Geffen Records. That previous album, She Works Hard for the Money, had been her most successful since the disco era, and as a result, its producer Michael Omartian was asked to produce the new album as well. Again the majority of tracks were written by Summer and Omartian, though a couple of other writers were credited including Summer's husband Bruce Sudano. "There Goes My Baby" is a song written by Ben E. King (Benjamin Nelson), Lover Patterson, George Treadwell, Jerry Leiber, and Mike Stoller, and produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Drifters. Donna Summer's version of "There Goes My Baby" was the first single from her 1984 album Cats Without Claws. The single became a moderate hit, peaking at #21 on the US Hot 100, and in the top twenty of the US R&B chart. Summer's version of this song features an electro-pop sound and was accompanied by a high-quality music video featuring Summer and husband Bruce Sudano as a down-on-their-luck couple at the outbreak of World War II. With this single, Summer earned her nineteenth US Top 40 hit.
© 1984 Geffen Records | © 1984 Warner Bros. Records
18 The Wanderer (1980) |3:47
Written by Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summer
Album: The Wanderer
Released: September, 1980/October, 1980
Recorded: 1980
Genre: Pop rock, New Wave
Label: Geffen
Producer: Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
The Wanderer is the eighth studio 1980 album by Donna Summer. It was her first release on Geffen Records and became a Top 20 album in the United States, with the title track single reaching the #3 on Billboard's Hot 100. "The Wanderer" marks a change in style for the queen of 70's disco, incorporating heavy New Wave styled synth riffs and a shuffling beat.
© 1980 Geffen Records | © 1980 Warner Bros. Records
19 Love To Love You Baby (1975) |16:51
Written by Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
Album: Love to Love You Baby
Released: November 26, 1975/August 27, 1975
Recorded: May–June 1975, Musicland Studios (Munich, West Germany)
Genre: Soul, Disco, R&B, Funk
Label: Casablanca/Oasis
Producer: Pete Bellotte
Love to Love You Baby is the second album by Donna Summer, and her first to be released internationally and in the United States. Her previous album Lady of the Night was released only in the Netherlands. Love to Love You Baby was released in the US on August 27, 1975. "Love to Love You Baby" is a song by American singer Donna Summer released in 1975. It became one of the first ever disco hits to also be released in an extended form.
© 1975 Casablanca Records/PolyGram | © 1975 Oasis Records
20 I Feel Love (1977) |5:54
Written by Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
Album: I Remember Yesterday
Released: July 2, 1977
Recorded: 1977
Genre: Hi-NRG, Disco, Electronic, Pop, R&B
Label: Casablanca
Producer: Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
I Remember Yesterday is the fifth original album by American singer Donna Summer, released on May 13, 1977, seven months after the release of her previous album. The song constituted the "future" segment of the album, which represented a stylistic progress through time. The title track of the I Remember Yesterday album represented the 1940s, "Love's Unkind" the 1950s, "Back in Love Again" the 1960s and the album concluded with the futuristic "I Feel Love".
© 1977 Casablanca Records/PolyGram
21 Lady of the Night (1974) |3:58
Written by Giorgio Moroder & Pete Bellotte
Album: Lady of the Night
Released: February 1974 in The Netherlands only
Recorded: Germany, 1974
Genre: Pop rock, Folk rock
Label: Groovy
Producer: Pete Bellotte
Lady of the Night is the first album by American singer Donna Summer. The album, which was produced by Pete Bellotte, was released in 1974 only in The Netherlands, and spawned the minor hit singles "The Hostage" and "Lady of the Night" in that country. The songs, written by the Moroder/Bellotte team, are mostly of the pop/rock/folk variety.
© 1974 Groovy Records
22 Once Upon A Time (1977) |4:02
Written by Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
Album: Once Upon a Time
Released: October 31, 1977
Recorded: 1977
Genre: Pop, Disco
Label: Casablanca
Producer: Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
Once Upon a Time is the sixth album by American singer Donna Summer, released on October 25, 1977. It was her first double album telling a modern-day Cinderella-themed story through means of disco music.
© 1977 Casablanca Records/PolyGram
23 On the Radio (1979) |4:01
Written by Donna Summer & Giorgio Moroder
Album: On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II/Foxes/Live and More/Bad Girls
Released: November 23, 1979/October 15, 1979
Recorded: 1979
Genre: Disco, Soul, R&B, Pop, Disco-rock
Label: Casablanca
Producer: Giorgio Moroder
On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II is a double compilation album released by Donna Summer on October 15, 1979. It was her fourth consecutive double album, and also made her the first person ever to take three consecutive double albums to the Number One spot on the U.S. album chart. This would become Summer's third multi-platinum album to date. It was written for the soundtrack to the film Foxes and included on Summer's first international compilation album On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & 2. On the Radio proved to be Summer's final release with Casablanca Records.
© 1979 Casablanca Records/PolyGram
24 MacArthur Park (1979) |3:55
Written by Jimmy Layne Webb
Album: On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II/Live and More/Bad Girls
Released: October 15, 1979, 1978 (Single)
Recorded: 1978-1979
Genre: Disco, Soul, R&B, Pop, Disco-rock
Label: Casablanca
Producer: Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
"MacArthur Park" is a song by Jimmy Webb, originally composed as part of an intended cantata. On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II is a double compilation album released by Donna Summer on October 15, 1979. It was her fourth consecutive double album, and also made her the first person ever to take three consecutive double albums to the Number One spot on the U.S. album chart. This would become Summer's third multi-platinum album to date. On the Radio proved to be Summer's final release with Casablanca Records.
© 1979 Casablanca Records/PolyGram
25 I'm A Fire (2008) |7:10
Written by Donna Summer, Sebastian Arocha Morton, Al Kasha
Album: Crayons
Released: March 11, 2008/May 20, 2008
Recorded: 2005—2008
Genre: Nu-Disco, Pop, R&B, Dance-pop, Hip hop, Bossa nova
Label: Burgundy
Producer: Nathan DiGesare, Toby Gad, Jamie Houston, Greg Kurstin, Lester Mendez, Sebastian Morton, J.R. Rotem
Crayons is the seventeenth and final studio album by American singer Donna Summer. Released in May of 2008 through Sony Burgundy in the United States, it was her lone album of original material since 1991's Mistaken Identity and would be her last before her death on May 17, 2012. "I'm a Fire", reached number-one on the Billboard dance/club chart, giving Summer her 13th number-one hit on that chart. "I'm a Fire" is the first single from Donna Summer's album, Crayons. The club single reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart giving Summer her 13th number-one and giving her the longest timespan between first (1975) and most recent (2008) Hot Dance Club Play chart #1s.
© 2008 Burgundy Records (Sony Music Entertainment)
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The Donna Summer story...
Once upon a time, a young girl stood in front of the parishioners in a Boston church. She opened her mouth to sing, and a huge voice came out - moving the congregation to tears. At that moment the girl heard the voice of God tell her, "You're gonna be famous." From that time on, the girl knew that she was destined for greatness. That girl grew up to become Donna Summer.
Most people know about her hits. Great songs like "Last Dance", Hot Stuff", "On The Radio" and "She Works Hard For The Money." What most people don't know is that Donna started off as Donna Gaines in a rock band called The Crow. And that when the band broke up, she left school to be in the German production of the the musical Hair. Once in Germany, there was no stopping Donna. She was active in musical theater, playing in such shows as Showboat, Porgy And Bess, and The Me Nobody Knows, and in 1971 she cut her first solo record, "Sally Go 'Round The Roses"
By 1974, and now going by the name Donna Summer, she was doing a great deal of session work which brought her into contact with producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. Together they recorded "The Hostage", a song which became Donna's first hit in Europe. An album and a few more European hits followed. Then in 1975, Donna recorded "Love To Love You Baby", the song that finally brought her success in America. The rest is history. Since then she has racked up fourteen top ten hits, four number one singles, three platinum albums, five Grammy awards and twelve other Grammy nominations. She is the first female artist to have three number one solo singles in one year ("MacArthur Park", "Hot Stuff" and "Bad Girls") and she is the only artist to have three number one double albums in a row (Live And More, Bad Girls, and On The Radio).
Over the years Donna has proven herself to be a consummate artist and songwriter - she has written or co-written many of her hits, and is currently writing a musical based on her life story. Most recently she has done a benefit performance for GMHC at Carnegie Hall that raised over $400,000 for that organization. She also inked a multi-album deal with Epic Records and her first release for her new label was a live CD recorded at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom. This concert was videotaped and became the highest rated concert special for a solo artist that VH1 ever broadcast.
In 2007, she signed a new deal with Burgundy Records (an imprint of Sony/BMG) and in 2008 she released her first album of all newly written and recorded material in 17 years. The album is called Crayons and with it came the number one dance single, I'm A Fire - making Donna the only artist to ever have a number one dance single in every decade since the 70s. Over three decades after her first success, Donna was poised to start a whole new chapter in her career - showing the world that the Queen was indeed back. But unfortunately, that was not meant to be.
She passed away on May 17, 2012 from cancer. In 2013 she will be posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - a long overdue official recognition of her incredible musical legacy.
Donna Summer, queen of disco, dies at 63 after cancer battle
Here is the statement from the family via NBC News:
"Early this morning, we lost Donna Summer Sudano, a woman of many gifts, the greatest being her faith. While we grieve her passing, we are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy. Words truly can't express how much we appreciate your prayers and love for our family at this sensitive time."
"Queen of Disco" Video!
Donna Summer ~ Lady of the Night (1974)
Donna Summer ~ Love To Love You Baby (1975)
Donna Summer ~ Spring Reprise (1976)
Donna Summer ~ I Feel Love (1977)
Donna Summer ~ Once Upon A Time (1977)
Donna Summer ~ Lucky (1979)
Donna Summer ~ Sunset People (1979)
Donna Summer ~ On The Radio (1979)
On The Radio 1983 (Live)
Donna Summer ~ MacArthur Park (1979)
Donna Summer ~ Looking Up (1980)
Donna Summer ~ The Wanderer (1980)
Donna Summer ~ A Runner With The Pack (1981)
Donna Summer ~ Romeo, A Hot Summer Night With Donna 1983
Romeo, Live in Lloret De Mar, Spain 1990
Early 80's Classic "Flashdance" Donna Summer Great Theme
Donna Summer ~ The Woman In Me (1982)
Donna Summer ~ People, People (1983)
Donna Summer ~ I'm Free (1984)
Donna Summer ~ Oh Billy Please (1984)
Donna Summer ~ There Goes My Baby (1984)
Donna Summer ~ All Systems Go (1987)
Donna Summer ~ Voices Cryin' Out (1987)
Donna Summer ~ I Don't Wanna Get Hurt (1989)
Donna Summer ~ This Time I Know It's For Real (1989)
Donna Summer ~ Work That Magic (1991)
Donna Summer ~ I'm A Fire (2008)
Donna Summer ~ Live & More Encore (1999)
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