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Compilation, Stereo. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1999 CD release of "Classic Donna Summer" on Discogs.
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31 de dic. de 2023 · Today, Donna Summer is mostly remembered for an incredible string of hit songs and chart-topping double-albums that helped introduce the world to disco and electronic dance music in the 1970s,...
- 17 min
- True Love Survives
- She Works Hard For The Money
- Dinner with Gershwin
- Love’s Unkind
- No More Tears
- Grand Illusion
- Bad Girls
- Macarthur Park
- Dim All The Lights
- Hot Stuff
Sessions for Donna Summer’s I’m a Rainbow were interrupted when her label boss David Geffen fired producers Giorgio Moroder and Peter Bellotte. The unfinished album was eventually released in 1996 – a remix collection is out this week– revealing at least one killer in the classic Summer mode. True Love Survives shines, even in demo form.
Perhaps the fact that she was mired in a costly legal battle with her record company lent Summer’s vocal its edge on She Works Hard for the Money. Its sound is very 1983 – glossy pop-rock – but something about her vocal and the lyrics, apparently inspired by seeing an exhausted restroom attendant at an expensive restaurant, cuts through.
The jazz-influenced soul of singer-songwriter Brenda Russell was strikingly original –her 1979 single Way Back Whensounds like prog disco, if such a thing can be imagined. Dinner With Gershwin was more straightforward, but still off-beam by late 80s pop standards. A terrific song, brilliantly delivered and a highlight of Summer’s post-Moroder caree...
I Remember Yesterday was another concept album, this time with each track representing a different era of music (I Feel Love was supposed to symbolise the future, a brief it more than fulfilled). Love’s Unkind, meanwhile, is a glorious girl-group pastiche: dancefloor beat, melody as sweet and snappy as bubblegum.
A duet with Barbra Streisand that rivals I Will Survive for both camp grandiloquence and fierce up-yours-mate post-breakup energy, No More Tears careers joyously along at warp speed, its sheer pace seeming to presage the shift from disco to hi-energy in some US gay clubs.
The Wanderer was a relative commercial failure, but it’s a better and far more adventurous album than that suggests, as Grand Illusion proves: an enveloping psychedelic swirl of electronic sound, topped off with a vocal that sounds unexpectedly like Kate Bush. Not what anyone expected from Donna Summer, which may have been the problem.
There is a whole sub-genre of disco consisting of other producers attempting to mimic the Chic sound; see DJ Dave Lee’s 2015 compilation of knock-off singles, Le Freak. Perhaps Bad Girls belongs on it – check the guitar, horns and backing vocals – but if it is a homage, it’s of the highest quality: the song is well up to the standards of its chief ...
A work of crazy genius. It’s certainly a unique mind that listens to Richard Harris’s floridly preposterous 1968 single MacArthur Park and thinks: “This could do with camping up a bit.” Cue Syndrums, massed backing vocals and a string arrangement that makes the original’s sound unassuming. Summer’s vocal, meanwhile, is superb.
You tend to hear more about Moroder and Belotte’s sonic innovations than about what an incredible singer Summer was. Dim All the Lights – a beautiful song, written by Summer alone – redresses the balance. Check the note she hits at 0:46 and holds for 16 seconds.
Eradicate from your mind The Full Monty and – worse – a visibly mortified Prince Charles joining in with the film’s dance routine on a visit to Sheffieldand concentrate on the sound of Hot Stuff: the tautness of its disco-rock hybrid backing, the pop smarts of its songwriting, Summer’s raw performance.
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- Alexis Petridis
17 de may. de 2022 · Melissa Ruggieri. USA TODAY. 0:00. 1:21. It’s too easy to reduce Donna Summer to her "queen of disco" moniker. No doubt, her glistening dance anthems defined an era, but nearly 50 years after...
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- Melissa Ruggieri
Donna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), [2] known professionally as Donna Summer, was an American singer and songwriter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s and became known as the "Queen of Disco", while her music gained a global following. [3] [4]
Donna Summer | 01-01-1999. Duración total:1 h 14 min. Escucha Classic Donna Summer - The Universal Masters Collection por Donna Summer en Deezer. Love To Love You Baby, She Works Hard For The Money, I Feel Love...
9 de feb. de 2009 · Classic by Donna Summer released in 2009. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
