Donna Summer

Released: May 20, 2008

Featuring: Ziggy Marley

Songwriter: Ziggy Marley Greg Kurstin Donna Summer Danielle Brisebois

Producer: Greg Kurstin

Hey hey oh
Hey hey oh
Donna, what's going on?
1 2 3
We're like crayons melting in the sunshine
Take a big eraser and wipe out the line
Oh, oh what's up? Tell me what's a-happening
Say you want love but why ain't you sacrificing?
We're like crayons melting in the sunshine
I'll color your world if you color mine
Oh, oh what's up? Tell me what's a-happening
Say you want love but why ain't you sacrificing?
Now come on over you, sleepyhead
It's time to color my dress in red
It don't matter if it's day or night
We play in color not in black in white
Come on, let's color the world in green
Let's make a difference in the way we dream
We're going to color a smiling face
On the people of the human race
1 2 3
I'll take a walk on the wild side
Don't be afraid, you can be mine
In and out, in and out, in and out of the lines
Take a walk on the wild side
Don't be afraid, you could be mine
In and out of the lines, in and out, in and out of the lines
We're like crayons melting in the sunshine
Take a big eraser and wipe out the line
Oh, oh what's up? Tell me what's a-happening
Say you want love but why ain't you sacrificing?
We're like crayons melting in the sunshine
I'll color your world if you color mine
Oh, oh what's up? Tell me what's a-happening
Say you want love but why ain't you sacrificing?
If we mix in some pink and blue
We get a beating heart of purple hue
Mellow yellow when the day is done
Becomes the orange of the setting sun
1 2 3, come on
I'll take a walk on the wild side
Don't be afraid, you can be mine
In and out, in and out, in and out of the lines
Take a walk on the wild side
Don't be afraid, you could be mine
In and out of the lines
[Incomprehensible]
We're like crayons melting in the sunshine
Take a big eraser and wipe out the line
Oh, oh what's up? Tell me what's a-happening
Say you want love but why ain't you sacrificing?
We're like crayons melting in the sunshine
I'll color your world if you color mine
Oh, oh what's up? Tell me what's a-happening
Say you want love but why ain't you sacrificing?
Red is the color of the blood in our veins, oh
And like the rainbow we are one the same, just one yeah
Yellow is the color of the sun we share
And the green grass is everywhere
We're like crayons melting in the sunshine
Take a big eraser and wipe out the line
Oh, oh what's up? Tell me what's a-happening
Say you want love but why ain't you sacrificing?
We're like crayons melting in the sunshine
I'll color your world if you color mine
Oh, oh what's up? Tell me what's a-happening
Say you want love but why ain't you sacrificing?
We're like crayons melting in the sunshine
Take a big eraser and wipe out the line
Oh, oh what's up? Tell me what's a-happening
Say you want love but why ain't you sacrificing?
We're like crayons melting in the sunshine
I'll color your world if you color mine
Oh, oh what's up? Tell me what's a-happening
Say you want love but why ain't you sacrificing?

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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