Donna Summer

Released: July 19, 1982

Songwriter: John Bettis Michael James Bruce Clark

Producer: Quincy Jones

[Intro Spoken:]
You know, baby
I'm so happy to be here
You and I

And I just wanna let you know
That I'd follow you to the end of the world
And let you know that I care

And I want you to know that
If you need me
I'll always be there

[Verse 1:]
Dancing close
Feeling restless
It's a slow, sultry night

It'll be a lifetime
Til sunrise
If you don't stay with me tonight

I feel your breath caress my shoulder
As your heart reads my mind
You don't have to tell me anything
I can see everything in your eyes

[Chorus:]
It's so easy with you
I don't need an excuse
To be the woman in me

It's so hard to believe
That I'm feeling so free
To be the woman in me

Baby, there's so much
No man has ever touched of
The woman in me

[Spoken Verse:]
I love you, baby
Oh

[Verse 2:]
I might be trembling
But I'm no scared
It's just my desire
Breaking free

I've never had a change like this before
To unlock all the doors
To the woman in me

[Repeat Chorus:]

[Bridge:]
Like the dark side of the full moon
I've) never shown
What I'm showing to you

[Repeat Chorus:]

[Repeat x3:]
It's so easy with you
To be the woman in me

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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