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One Night in a LifetimeDonna Summer

Released: April 25, 1979

Songwriter: Harold Faltermeyer Pete Bellotte

Producer: Giorgio Moroder Pete Bellotte

[Verse-1]
There's more to question than answers
And sand will slip through your hands
And love is faster than lightning
So grab it while you can mm, mm, mm...

Well I've been searching forever
Between the bad and the good
But now I know what I'm missing
And I wanna make it with you

[Hook]
One night in a lifetime
One life in a night
One night in a lifetime
And babe it's gotta be tonight
Babe it's gotta be tonight

[Chorus]
One night in a lifetime
One life in a night
One night in a lifetime
And baby it should be tonight
Baby it should be tonight

[Bridge]
One night in a lifetime
One night, one night, one night
In a lifetime, one night

[Verse-2]
They say that love is a gamble
And luck will play a trick or two
But I'll risk all of my loving
I'd put my last buck on you

[Hook]
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[Hook]
[Chorus]

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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