Donna Summer

Released: September 15, 1987

Songwriter: Donna Summer Bruce Sudano Harold Faltermeyer

Producer: Harold Faltermeyer

Uuhh, uuhh, uuhh...

Overheating
Heart is speeding up
Now I want you to tell me
Just what's been going on

Your body is freezing
Got all the symptoms of
Someone who's fooling around
With some radioactive love

Any minute you can start
Going out of your mind
I wanna tell you
'Cause it's no crime
The meter's showing
All of your vital signs

Say it's
LOVE SHOCK
Welcome to my world
You've been infected by a
Non-stop electronic girl
Say it's
LOVE SHOCK
This time it's for sure
And I tell you that it won't stop
'Cause they got no cure
Got no cure

You might as well face it
Highly contagious vibe
And if you're good at reading
Well read right between the lines
Supersonic catatonic male
I think you're coming around
But you're still looking very pale

Any second you could start
Losing track of the time
Wanna tell ya and it's no lie
'Cause the meter's
Showing all of your
Vital sign

Say it's
LOVE SHOCK
Welcome to my world
You've been infected by a
Non-stop electronic girl
Say it's
LOVE SHOCK
This time it's for sure
And I tell you that it won't stop
'Cause they got no cure
Got no cure

Such an extraordinary
Modern day romance
Uhhh yeah
There's nothin' you can do to fight it
Take a chance
Go on and take a chance

Say it's
LOVE SHOCK
Welcome to my world
You've been infected by a
Non-stop electronic girl
Say it's
LOVE SHOCK
This time it's for sure
And I tell you that it won't stop
'Cause they got no cure
Say it's
LOVE SHOCK
Welcome to my world
You've been infected by a
Non-stop electronic girl
Say it's
LOVE SHOCK...

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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