Donna Summer

Released: September 11, 1984

Songwriter: Michael Omartian Donna Summer

Producer: Michael Omartian

Right outside the window
Something's happening
A man he stares into a TV screen
From the next apartment we hear music
Bleeding through the scene

TV pand the bedroom, woman's sleeping
Hand are sprawled out loosely across the bed
She must be pretty rich
'cause I can see all the diamonds on her neck

And there's always someone watching
Eyes
TV's on and someone watching
Eyes

Silent sunbeams falling across the window
Suddenly she awake with surprise
Day and night they always go so quickly
In TV time

Her husband rushes in and in the meantime
She just slightly smiles and turns her head
He just whispers something to her softly
God knows what he said

And there's always someone watching
Eyes
TV's on and someone watching
Eyes

You know it wasn't very long
Before the two of they were kissing
She was his wife, he was her man
But they knew what they were missing

And there's always someone watching
Eyes
TV's on and someone's watching
Eyes
In the kitchen someone's watching
Eyes
And the maid and butler's watching
Eyes

TV's on somebody's watching
TV's on somebody's watching

And there's always someone watching
Eyes
TV's on and someone's watching
Eyes

They're getting in through your eyes
Don't let them poison your mind

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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