Donna Summer

Released: September 15, 1987

Songwriter: Hannes Treibe Andy Slovic Donna Summer Pit Floss Harold Faltermeyer

Producer: Harold Faltermeyer

Sitting by an open door
With rain dropping in my face
Then lightning strikes across the room
I fall in your embrace
It was our lovely rendezvous
You're better than anyone ever knew

A gentle face, a fiery heart
With nothing to conceal
That's what it takes to hold me down
A man with ground appeal
Oh, while I draw you to my soul
I feel the fire of love taking control

Jeremy, when I think of you
The good times that we have
A melody sings out to me
My heart's at your command
Jeremy
Oh, baby, oh, baby, oh, baby
Oh-oh-oh...
You're the only one who cared

Silent nights are lonely nights
Whenever we're apart
And every moment you're away
I hide you in my heart
Oh, while I draw you to my soul
I feel the fire of love taking control

'Cause Jeremy, when I think of you
And all the good times that we have
The melody sings out to me
And holds my heart at your command
Jeremy
Oh, baby, oh, baby, oh, baby
Oh-oh-oh

Jeremy, you see
That we are two of a kind
We could stay together, baby
For all time
We can live without each other
But it wouldn't be the same
'Cause I am you and you are me
It's never gonna change

Oh-oh-oh...
Oh-oh-oh...

Jeremy, when I think of you
And all the good times that we have
The melody sings out to me
And holds my heart at your command
Jeremy
Oh, baby, oh, baby, oh, baby, yeah
Oh-oh-oh

Jeremy
Oh, baby, oh, baby, oh, baby
I love you so
Oh-oh-oh...
Ooh, baby
When I look at you
I see your smiling face
Inside my heart every day
Don't you ever go away, yeah
Ooh, baby, baby, baby

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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