Donna Summer

Songwriter: David Tyson Eddie Schwartz

Producer: Harold Faltermeyer

No escaping
No spell is over me
Fantasy's fact you see in my life

Time and motion
Seem to have made a stop
And if the whole world passes by
I wouldn't bat an eye

If you say you were mine

Fascination all I do is
Fascination dream of you

Such devotion
I've never felt before
You opened up a door in my life

No tomorrow
Could there be without you
And if you should say goodbye
I think that I would die

Fascination all I do is
Fascination dream of you

I can't think about anything else
But you

There's nothing I can do
Oh no, oh no
Nothing I can do
Nothing I can do

I can't think about anything else
But you
There's nothing I can do

Fascination all I do is
Fascination dream of you
Fascination all I do is
Fascination dream of you
Fascination...

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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