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LuckyDonna Summer

Released: April 25, 1979

Songwriter: Giorgio Moroder Joe Esposito Eddie Hokenson Donna Summer Bruce Sudano

Producer: Pete Bellotte Giorgio Moroder

[Intro]

[Verse 1]
Scared and lonely
Going out for the night
Shakin' all over
And wishing I'd never come here
He pulled up in a cloud of smoke
So much was said
But nobody spoke a word

[Verse 2]
So I took a chance
And he followed me home
I knew he wouldn't beg
So I gave in without fighting
Been so long
Since I loved this way
So I asked him if he would stay for a while

[Chorus]
Lucky comes easy
Lucky's not shy
And if you're lucky
You'll go for a ride
For a ride

[Verse 3]
We talked for a while
And he told me it was nice
We laughed and we cried and
I knew that I could love him
He got up to say goodbye
I said where you going
He said that he must leave

[Chorus]
Lucky comes easy
Lucky's not shy
And if you're lucky
You'll go for a ride
For a ride
Lucky comes easy
Lucky's not shy
And if you're lucky
You'll go for a ride
For a ride

[Bridge]
Lucky takes you out for a ride
For a ride
Lucky takes you out for a ride

[Outro]
Lucky comes easy
Lucky's not shy
And if you're lucky
You'll go for a ride
Lucky comes easy
Lucky's not shy
And if you're lucky
You'll go for a ride

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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