Donna Summer

Released: October 5, 1981

Songwriter: Sylvester Levay Pete Bellotte

Producer: Pete Bellotte Giorgio Moroder

[Verse 1]
My baby wears his heart on his sleeve
And with a look on his face
He says
Please, please, please
Love it
Everything he wants
Love it
Everything he wants
I just can't hesitate
When he wants what he wants

[Refrain]
Oh, chucka
Oh, chucka
Oh, chucka
Oh, chucka

And I say
Oh, chucka
Oh, chucka
Oh, chucka
Oh, chucka

[Verse 2]
Last night
He calls on the telephone
And only two in the morning
I just want to sleep on
But he's got a way with words
And he got a way with charm
And at three in the morning
He's back into my arms

[Refrain]
And I say
Oh, chucka
Oh, chucka
Oh, chucka
Oh, chucka

And I say
Oh, chucka
Oh, chucka
Oh, chucka
Oh, chucka

[Chorus]
He's the boy
He's the boy
He's the boy
He's the boy
He's my Romeo
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

He's the boy
He's the boy
He's the boy
He's the boy
He's my R-O-M-E-O
Romeo

He's the boy
He's the boy
He's the boy
He's the boy
He's my Romeo
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

He's the boy
He's the boy
He's the boy
He's the boy
He's my Romeo

[Post-Chorus]
My, my, my Romeo
My, my, my Romeo
My, my, my Romeo
My, my, my Romeo

[Verse 3]
He looks so good that girls
Stop and stare
But I'll zoom on the mob
With a double long dare
I'm not gonna let him go
I'm not taking any chance
It's a one in million mad romance

[Refrain]
And I say
Oh, chucka
Oh, chucka
Oh, chucka
Oh, chucka

And I say
Oh, chucka
Oh, chucka
Oh, chucka
Oh, chucka

[Chorus]
He's the boy
He's the boy
He's the boy
He's the boy
He's my Romeo
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

He's the boy
He's the boy
He's the boy
He's the boy
He's my R-O-M-E-O
Romeo

He's the boy
He's the boy
He's the boy
He's the boy
He's my Romeo
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

He's the boy
He's the boy
He's the boy
He's the boy
He's my Romeo

[Bridge]
My, my, Romeo
My, my, Romeo
He's my Romeo
My, my, my Romeo
He's my Romeo
My, my, my, my, Romeo
He's my Romeo
My Romeo
My, my, my Romeo

[Outro]
My Romeo
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
My Romeo
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
My Romeo
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

[Fade Out]

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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