Donna Summer

Released: November 8, 1994

Songwriter: Bruce Sudano Donna Summer Eric Silver

Producer: Michael Omartian

We never know
Where the winds of love
Will carry
Our hearts unfold
Into the hands of time
Nothing will ever change
This love we share
No matter what it takes
I will be there

When the sun goes high
You pray for
Clouds to break
Reach up to the sky
And pray for it to rain
When the times get hard
You rely on
Your faith
Will be together
If there's any way at all
It there's any way at all

Don't be afraid
Cause we're in
This love together
Will ride the waves
'til we reach the other side
Your love is life to me
None can compare
No matter what it takes
I will be there

When the sun goes high
You pray
Clouds to break

If there's any way
At all
We'll be together baby
If there's any way
At all
We'll be together forever and
Ever

Reach up to the sky
And pray for it to rain
When the times get hard
You rely on
Your faith
Will be together
If there's any way at all
If there's any way at all

If there's any way at all...

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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