Donna Summer

Released: July 19, 1982

Songwriter: Danny Sembello Michael Sembello David Batteau

Producer: Quincy Jones

[Intro]
Whoa-oh, yeah, yeah

[Verse 1]
Perfect love you will never find
Say goodbye to what's left behind
Your release is way overdue
Let your tears be a friend to you

[Chorus]
If it hurts just a little (Be glad of it)
Don't get caught in the middle (Thinking 'bout it)
If it hurts just a little (Be glad of it)
If you try, you will see what will be
Hurts just a little

[Verse 2]
Silent eyes make your public life
And the lies can be cold as ice
How could you ever be so blind
Bet you never ever ever thought
That love could be so kind

[Chorus]
If it hurts just a little (Be glad of it)
Don't get caught in the middle (Thinking 'bout it)
If it hurts just a little (Be glad of it)
If you try, you will see what will be
Hurts just a little

[Bridge]
Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh

C'mon baby
(C'mon baby, c'mon sugar, c'mon honey)
C'mon darlin'
(C'mon baby, c'mon sugar, c'mon honey)
Sometimes it hurts
(C'mon baby, c'mon sugar, c'mon honey)
It's a crime of passion
That's just what it means to me

[Chorus]
If it hurts just a little (Be glad of it)
Don't get caught in the middle (Thinking 'bout it)
If it hurts just a little (Be glad of it)
If you try, you will see
If it hurts just a little (Be glad of it)
Don't get caught in the middle (Thinking 'bout it)
If it hurts just a little (Be glad of it)
If you try, you will see

[Outro]
(C'mon baby, c'mon sugar, c'mon honey)
Sometimes it hurts
(C'mon baby, c'mon sugar, c'mon honey)
Sometimes it hurts
(C'mon baby, c'mon sugar, c'mon honey)
Well, if you try, you will see
(C'mon baby, c'mon sugar, c'mon honey)
Sometimes it hurts
(C'mon baby, c'mon sugar, c'mon honey)
Oh, it hurts so bad
(C'mon baby, c'mon sugar, c'mon honey)
If you try, you will see

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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