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This Time I Know It’s for RealDonna Summer

Released: February 13, 1989

Songwriter: Pete Waterman Matt Aitken Mike Stock Donna Summer

Producer: Stock Aitken & Waterman

[Verse 1]
What would I have to do
To get you to notice me too?
Do I stand in line?
One of a million admiring eyes

[Pre-Chorus]
Walk a tightrope way up high
Write your name across the sky

[Chorus]
I'm going crazy just to let you know
You'd be amazed how much I love you so, baby
When I get my hands on you, I won't let go
This time I know it's for real

[Verse 2]
Should I write or call your home?
Shout it out with a megaphone?
Radio, TV news
Got to find a way to get the message to you

[Pre-Chorus]
Say I love you with a neon sign
Anything to make you mine

[Chorus]
I'm going crazy just to let you know
If I wait too long for you, I might explode, oh baby
I've been around the block enough to know
This time I know it's for real

[Bridge]
Ooo, baby
This time, this time
This time, this time
Oh, baby
This time, this time
Oh, baby

[Pre-Chorus]
Walk a tightrope way up high
Write your name across the sky

[Chorus]
I'm going crazy just to let you know
You'd be amazed how much I love you so, baby
When I get my hands on you, I won't let go
This time I know it's for real

I'm going crazy just to let you know
If I wait too long for you, I might explode, oh baby
I've been around the block enough to know
This time I know it's for real

Donna Summer

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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