Donna Summer

Released: March 5, 1976

Songwriter: Giorgio Moroder Pete Bellotte

Producer: Giorgio Moroder Pete Bellotte

Wasted
I'm so wasted
Empty since you left me
I still need him and want him
Without him I'm nothing
If I can't do something
To get him to come home on to me

Wasted
Love's been wasted
Guess I'm not too brainy
I was selfish and foolish
I used and abused him
And laughed when he threatened to walk out
But now he's done it

He was like the moon
He had his darker side
But he could be the sun
Shining in the light

Wasted
Sure I'm wasted
Knowing he don't love me
Such a sad thing about him
To know that I love him
And nothing I say or I do will return
Say I'm wasted

He was like the moon
He had his darker side
But he could be the sun
Shining in the light

Wasted
Sure I'm wasted
Knowing he don't love me
Wasted
Sure I'm wasted
Knowing he don't love me..

As the unquestioned queen of disco, the one and only Donna Summer lit up the late 70s and 80s with flashy, exuberant vocals and automatic earworms. Born LaDonna Adrian Gaines on Dec. 31, 1948, Summer moved to Germany after being cast in a Munich production of Hair. There, she happened to meet Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, and the trio conglomerated to form a dynamic music team. With Moroder, Summer forged together her first album, The Hostage, which reached moderate success in Northern Europe. Summer’s big break, however, would come later with the release of 1975’s sexual “Love to Love You Baby”, which became one of disco’s first mainstream hits and reached #2 on the Billboard Charts.

1977 came around with the concept album I Remember Yesterday, which featured the Top 10 single “I Feel Love”. The next year, Summer hit the silver screen with the movie Thank God It’s Friday, whose soundtrack featured one of her own the iconic “Last Dance.” This would later become one of the disco legends' signature songs. “Dance” would take home an Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Grammy, and a Golden Globe, and it jumped to a peak of #3 on the charts.

Yet Summer’s illustrious career was far from finished – Summer’s first live album Live and More featured the single “MacArthur Park”, a melting ballad that was a cover of the Jimmy Webb ballad of the same name. “Park” became Summer’s first – and perhaps most memorable – No. 1 hit, and cemented her status as a vocalist as well as a performer. With the track, she became the first female in modern rock history to hold the top spot in both the Hot 100 and the Billboard 200. 1979, though, would really be the peak of her career.

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