Donna Summer

Released: October 5, 1981

Songwriter: Pete Bellotte Sylvester Levay

Producer: Giorgio Moroder Pete Bellotte

Our love is an endless river
Keeps on flowing on and on forever
Each dream like a forest flower
Keeps on growing every hour

We can almost touch the horizon's edge
So reaching further
Then we can even light up the star ahead
I know we are bound by destiny
We will always be

You to me are everything
You to me are everything
My whole world's devoted to you
For you there's not a thing I wouldn't do
You to me are everything

Our love is a perfect circle
Has no start or end
It can't be broken
Stronger than a moment's weakness
It knows no secrets
We both believe it

No one's ever gonna come between
The love we're sharing
And no one's gonna steal the way God dreamed
'Cause there's more to words that words could say
How can I explain?

You to me are everything
You to me are everything
My whole world's devoted to you
For you there's not a thing I wouldn't do
You to me are everything

You to me are everything
You to me are everything
You to me are everything
You to me are everything
You to me are everything

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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