Donna Summer

Released: March 20, 1989

Songwriter: Pete Waterman Mike Stock Matt Aitken

Producer: Stock Aitken & Waterman

If you went away
And I had to live my life without you
If the loving died
I just don't know what I would do

All my life I've been
The one to cry when things went wrong
Oh, oh, all my life
I've been the only one

Don't tell me now I'm not the only one
Don't break my heart, say I'm the only one
You promised me a love forever
So let me never ever hear you say
I'm not the only one

I believe in love
And I built my life around you
I believe in us
And I'm sure that all our dream will come true

So don't ever say
There's someone else inside your heart
Someone else to take my place
And tear our love apart

Don't tell me now I'm not the only one
Don't break my heart, say I'm the only one
You promised me a love forever
So let me never ever hear you say
I'm not the only one

All my life I've been
The one to cry when thing went wrong
Oh, oh, all my life
I've been the only one

Don't tell me now I'm not the only one
Don't break my heart, say I'm the only one
You promised me a love forever
So let me never ever hear you say
I'm not the only one
Don't tell me now I'm not the only one
Don't break my heart, say I'm the only one

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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