Donna Summer

Released: August 28, 1978

Songwriter: Bob Conti Donna Summer Virgil Weber

Producer: Giorgio Moroder Pete Bellotte

[Intro]
You know, ladies and gentlemen
Please know this
I really love my man
And I want, exactly what he's got
And I don't ever mind giving him every
Bit of my love
And baby, you know
I've got a lot to give

[Verse]
I got fire in my touch
There's nothing I won't do
And I bend over backwards
Just to give it all to you

[Chorus]
'Cause there's only one man
That can handle all this love
And there's only one man
That I want to be with tonight
'Cause there's only one man
That can squeeze me tight

(Only one man in my life)
And that's you
And cutie pie, you and you, ooh!
(You and you and you) And you

And that's you
And you
And you and you and you

Said there's only one man
That can handle all this love
And there's only one man
That I want to be with tonight
Yeah, there's only one man in my life
And that's you

[Outro]
Thank you!
Thank you so much

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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