Donna Summer

Released: September 11, 1984

Songwriter: Ben E. King Mike Stoller Jerry Leiber George Treadwell Lover Patterson

Producer: Michael Omartian

All alone I sit looking out at the window
And the rain just keeps coming on down
Well, I cried to myself so many things I've done wrong
Now I'm watching you walk out

There goes my baby moving on down the line
Wonder where, wonder where
Wonder where he is bound
I broke his heart and made him cry
Now I'm alone, so all alone
What can I do? What can I do?

(There goes my baby.) What can I do?
(There goes my baby.)
Said I'll sing this sad, sad song. (There goes my baby.)
Oh, oh, oh
I broke his heart and I made him cry
Now I'm alone, so all alone
What can I do? What can I do?

Where is he going?
How is he? What is he going through?
Where is he going and what on earth could he be going through?
I wanna know

There goes my baby moving on down the line
Wonder where, wonder where
Wonder where he is bound
I broke his heart and made him cry
Now I'm alone, so all alone
What can I do? What can I do?

Where is he going?
How is he? What is he going through?
Where is he going and what on earth could he be going through?
I wanna know

There goes my baby moving on down the line
Oooh, baby. Come on home. Oh, oh, oh
I broke his heart and made him cry
Now I'm alone, so all alone
What can I do? What can I do?

(There goes my baby.) Sing this song forever
(There goes my baby.) Till we're back together
(There goes my baby.) Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, ohhh
(There goes my baby.) Wee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee
(There goes my baby.)
There goes my baby

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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