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Donna Summer - Bad Girls (1979)

2010-05-21T13:49:17Z

Donna Summer - Bad Girls (1979)


01. Hot Stuff (Pete Bellotte, Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey) - 5:14
02. Bad Girls (Donna Summer, Joe "Bean" Esposito, Eddie Hokenson, Bruce Sudano) - 4:55
03. Love Will Always Find You (Pete Bellotte, Giorgio Moroder) - 3:59
04. Walk Away (Pete Bellotte, Harold Faltermeyer) - 4:28
05. Dim All The Lights (Donna Summer) - 4:40
06. Journey To The Center Of Your Heart (Pete Bellotte, Giorgio Moroder) - 4:36
07. One Night In A Lifetime (Pete Bellotte, Harold Faltermeyer) - 4:12
08. Can't Get To Sleep At Night (Bob Conti, Bruce Sudano) - 4:40
09. On My Honour (Donna Summer, Harold Faltermeyer, Bruce Sudano) - 3:31
10. There Will Always Be A You (Donna Summer) - 5:03
11. All Through The Night (Donna Summer, Bruce Roberts) - 5:57
12. My Baby Understands (Donna Summer) - 3:57
13. Our Love (Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder) - 4:52
14. Lucky (Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Joe "Bean" Esposito, Eddie Hokenson, Bruce Sudano) - 4:37
15. Sunset People (Pete Bellotte, Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey) - 6:24

Personnel:
- Donna Summer - lead and background vocals, composition, production
- Keith Forsey - drums, percussion
- Scott Edwards, Bob Glaub, Harold Faltermeyer - bass
- Jai Winding - piano
- Harold Faltermeyer - piano, Rhodes, D6, all synthesizers
- Jeff Baxter, Jay Graydon, Paul Jackson - guitar
- Al Perkins - pull guitar, pedal steel guitar
- Dan Wyman - synthesizer programming on 13, 14
- Steve Madaio, Jerry Hey, Gary Grant - trumpets
- Gary Herbig - saxophones
- Dick Hyde, Bill Reichenbach - trombones
- Sid Sharp/Concertmaster - strings
- Trevor Veitch - musical contractor
- Stephanie Spruill, Maxine L.Willard, Julia Tillman - background vocalists

Bad Girls marked the high-water mark in Donna Summer's career, spending six weeks at Number One, going double platinum, and spinning off four Top 40 singles, including the chart-topping title song and "Hot Stuff," which sold two million copies each, and the million-selling, Number Two hit "Dim All the Lights." Producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte recognized that disco was going in different directions by the late '70s, and they gave the leadoff one-two punch of "Hot Stuff" and "Bad Girls" a rock edge derived from new wave. The two-LP set was divided into four musically consistent sides, with the rocksteady beat of the first side giving way to a more traditional disco sound on the second side, followed by a third side of ballads, and a fourth side with a more electronic, synthesizer-driven sound that recalled Summer's 1977 hit "I Feel Love." Though remembered for its hits, the album had depth and consistency, concluding with "Sunset People," one of Summer's best album-only tracks. The result was the artistic and commercial peak of her career and, arguably, of disco itself. ---William Ruhlmann, AMG

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Donna Summer - Four Seasons Of Love (1976)

2012-05-22T18:22:59Z

Donna Summer - Four Seasons Of Love (1976)


1 Spring Affair 		8:30
2 Summer Fever 		8:04
3 Autumn Changes 		5:29
4 Winter Melody 		6:28
5 Spring Reprise 		3:50

One is inclined to resist this package of self-conscious stardom concepts -- the LP version sported its own 1977 calendar featuring La Summer dressed up as winter, spring, summer, and Marilyn Monroe vamping on the subway grating (fall, presumably), and the four "seasonal" dancey suites promise more and say less than the typical Summer intimate "touch-me" would deliver without any hype. Fortunately, the music has a mind of its own. The rhythms push and go poof as delicately as ever; the horn section mutes and jazzes the melody; the beats stop, run, and stop again whenever they damn please; and Summer expresses private rapture in falsetto as she smooches, oohs, and ahs onto the mix like lipstick traces. Oh, rapture indeed. --- Michael Freedberg, Rovi

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Donna Summer - I'm a Rainbow (1996)

2012-05-19T16:37:29Z

Donna Summer - I'm a Rainbow (1996)


1 I Believe (In You) 	Faltermeyer, Forsey 	4:31
2 True Love Survives 	Bellotte, Summer 	3:36
3 You to Me 	Bellotte, Levay 	4:39
4 Sweet Emotion 	Bellotte, Levay 	3:44
5 Leave Me Alone 	Faltermeyer, Forse 	4:04
6 Melanie 	Moroder, Summer 	3:38
7 Back Where You Belong 	Faltermeyer, Forsey 	3:52
8 People Talk 	Moroder, Summer 	4:15
9 To Turn the Stone 	Bellotte, Moroder 	4:20
10 Brooklyn 	Bellotte, Levay, Summer 	4:35
11 I’m a Rainbow 	Sudano 	4:06
12 Walk on (Keep on Movin') 	Bellotte, Moroder 	3:49
13 Don't Cry for Me Argentina 	Lloyd Webber, Rice 	4:27
14 A Runner With the Pack 	Bellotte 	4:06
15 Highway Runner 	Moroder, Summer 	3:27
16 Romeo 	Bellotte, Levay 	3:17
17 End of the Week 	Bellotte, Levay 	3:38
18 I Need Time 	Bellotte, Moroder, Summer 	4:23

Originally scheduled for release in 1981, the double-album I'm a Rainbow was shelved at the last minute. In the proocess, it became legendary among Donna Summer fanatics. In 1996, I'm a Rainbow was finally released as a single compact disc. Like most of Summer's recordings from the late '70s and early '80s, it was produced by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, who give the stylish disco a sleek, sexy sheen. The difference between I'm a Rainbow and its predecessors -- and, indeed, its sequels -- is the subject matter. Throughout I'm a Rainbow, Summer turns in some of her most personal, introspective lyrics and singing, which gives the album an emotional force her albums sometimes lacked. In fact, given the quality of the music, it's hard to see why this was shelved at the time because it is stronger than the majority of her official studio albums. ---Leo Stanley, allmusic.com

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Donna Summer - The Ballad Collection [2009]

2010-06-05T20:00:08Z

Donna Summer - The Ballad Collection [2009]


01 Can't we just sit down
02 Sand On My Feet
03 On my honor
04 Winter melody
05 What child is this
06 There will always be a you
07 The woman in me
08 A man like you
09 Grand illusion
10 All through the night
11 Be Myself Again
12 Whispering waves
13 My baby understand
14 Sweet romance
15 Once upon a time
16 Full of Emptiness
17 Dim all the lights
18 The way we were

Donna Summer - December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012)

Born LaDonna Adrian Gaines in Boston, Massachusetts in 1948, Donna Summer, was an American singer/songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s. With a mezzo-soprano vocal range, she was a five-time Grammy Award winner and the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the US Billboard chart. "Love To Love You Baby", "I Feel Love", "Hot Stuff", and "On The Radio" are only four classics of international electronic pop music Donna Summer is well known for. She had her solo-singing debut in the gospel choir of the Grant A.M.E. Church in Boston, U.S.A., at 10 years old and fronted Boston’s psychedelic rock band Crow at 17 when she began her career at 19 in Munich, Germany. There she performed on October 24, 1968 in the German opening night of the musical ‘Haare’ (‘Hair’). In 1973 she met legendary music producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte and three years later “Love To Love You Baby” made her an international star. The 17 minutes long ambient house symphony ‘Love To Love You Baby’ with its jazzy bassline was written in 1975 in the Munich MusicLand studios by Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and Pete Bellotte.

In 1977, Summer released the concept album I Remember Yesterday which included her second top ten single, the minimalist ground-breaking "I Feel Love” which reached number six in the US and number one in the UK. Her greatest hits album released in 1979 was a double album entitled On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes 1&2 which reached number one in the US, becoming her third consecutive number one album. Seeking out different music styles, in 1980 Summer released The Wanderer where a new wave and more rock sound replaced the disco sound of Summer's previous releases. In 2008, Summer released Crayons, her first studio album of fully original material in 17 years, and in 2009 she performed alongside the Norwegian Radion Orchestra at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo in honour of Barack Obama.

Donna Summer died on May 17, 2012 at her home in Key West, Florida at age 63 following a battle with breast cancer. ---amazon.com

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Donna Summer – On The Radio (1979)

2010-10-19T19:31:10Z

Donna Summer – On The Radio (1979)


01. On The Radio 04:01
02. Love To Love You Baby 04:15
03. Try Me, I Know We Can Make It 03:18
04. I Feel Love 03:21
05. Our Love 03:44
06. I Remember Yesterday 04:45
07. I Love You 03:11           play
08. Heaven Knows 03:31
09. Last Dance 04:56
10. MacArthur Park 03:55
11. Hot Stuff 02:55
12. Bad Girls 03:05            play
13. Dim All The Lights 04:11
14. Sunset People 04:32
15. No More Tears 11:43
16. On the Radio (Long Version) 05:51

Disco diva Donna Summer was born LaDonna Adrian Gaines, in Boston in 1948. Teaming up with Italian producer Giorgio Moroder in the mid 70s, her first success came with the European hit "The Hostage" in 1974. Two years later she cut a 17-minute version of the steamy "Love to Love You Baby", which became a massive disco hit and reached No.2 in the pop charts, despite being banned by some radio stations. In 1977 she topped that achievement with the futuristic "I Feel Love". It topped the charts in the UK and across Europe, and hit No.6 in America. The song is now considered a landmark in the history of disco and dance music. 1978's "Last Dance" was another million-selling single, reaching No.3 in the US and winning Summer her first of five Grammy awards. Summer's 1979 double-album Bad Girls yielded three more massive hits: the back-to-back chart-toppers "Hot Stuff" and "Bad Girls", and "Dim All the Lights" (which shamefully only reached No.2). In the mid-80s, Summer's impact began to wane and her career faded away. However, she is still very highly regarded today thanks to "Love to Love You Baby" and "I Feel Love".

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