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Can’t Get to Sleep at NightDonna Summer

Released: April 25, 1979

Songwriter: Bruce Sudano Bob Conti

Producer: Pete Bellotte Giorgio Moroder

Can't get to sleep at night

Can't get sleep tonight, no matter how I try
Can't get you off of my mind, can't get to sleep tonight

Spoke to you today, called on the telephone
You sounded very far away
Baby I love you, I still love you

Can't get to sleep tonight, no matter what I do
Just can't get you off of my mind, stuck on you
Stuck like glue

We both live separately, I've found somebody new
And he's real, real good to me, but baby, I love you
I still love you

Can't get to sleep at night

Don't want to believe that it's over
I keep telling myself one more time
So I lie awake with a heartache
You're always on my mind
Haunting my memory
Think about you all the time

Can't get to sleep tonight, no matter how I try
Just can't get you off of my mind, stuck to you

Spoke to you today, called you on the telephone
You sounded very far away
But I love you, I still love

Can't get to sleep tonight, no matter what I do, what I do
Just can't get you off of my mind

Can't get to sleep tonight, no matter how I try
Just can't get you off of my mind...

Can't get to sleep tonight, just can't get you off of my mind

Donna Summer

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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