Donna Summer

Released: March 5, 1976

Songwriter: Donna Summer Giorgio Moroder Pete Bellotte

Producer: Pete Bellotte Giorgio Moroder

Try me, try me, try me, try me
Just one time
Try me, try me, try me, try me
Anytime, oh try me for love
Baby, don't you think you should?

Fill me, fill me, fill me, fill me
Full of love
Fill me, fill me, fill me, fill me
To the top, oh, fill me with love
Baby, is my loving good?

I just wanna feel your body close to mine
I just wanna share my lovin', baby, all the time
All the time

Oh, try me, try me, try me, try me
Just one time
Try me, try me, try me, try me
Anytime, oh try me for love
Baby, won't you try me for love?

I just wanna feel your body close to mine
I just wanna share your lovin', baby, all the time
All the time

Oh, try me, try me, try me, try me
Just one time
Try me, try me, try me, try me
Just one time
Baby, won't you try me for love?

Try me (Try me, try me, try me, try me
Just one time)
Oh, try me (Try me, try me, try me, try me
Just one time)
Baby, try me (Try me, try me, try me, try me
Just one time)
I want you to try me (Try me, try me, try me, try me
Just one time)
Oh now baby, please? (Try me, try me, try me, try me
Just one time)
I want you to try me (Try me, try me, try me, try me
Just one time)
Oh, try me (Try me, try me, try me, try me
Just one time)
Baby, try me (Try me, try me, try me, try me
Just one time)

Ooh, try me
Baby, you're tryin' me
Oh, try me
Oh, try me
Oh, try me
Oh, baby, you're tryin' me
Oh, babe, you're tryin' me
Baby, baby, please, try me
Try me
Oh, try me (Try me)
Oh, you're tryin' me (Oh, try me)
Oh (Try me)
(Oh, try me)

(Try me)
(Oh, try me)
(Try me)
(Oh, try me)
(Try me, try me
Oh, try me)
(Try me, try me
Oh, try me)
(Try me, try me, try me
Oh, try me)

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, we can make it

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, we can make it

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, we can make it

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, we can make it

Try me
Oh, try me
Baby, try me
Oh, try me
Feel it, try me
Oh, try me (I know we can make it)
Baby, try me (Try me, try me, try me)
Oh, try me (I know we can make it)
Try me (Try me, try me, try me)
I know we can make it (I know we can make it)
Try me (Try me, try me, try me)
I know we can make it (I know we can make it)
Try me (Try me, try me, try me)
I know we can make it (I know we can make it)
Try me (Try me, try me, try me)
I know we can make it (I know we can make it)

You got an easy way to make me cry
Cryin' out for you
And I can tell by the hungry way you look
That you know just what to do

We can make it, if we try
We can make it, touch the sky
We can make it, if we try
We can make it, get on high

I wanna come up there with you right now
And reach the stormy top
I wanna hold on tight with all my might
And pray you'll never stop

We can make it, if we try
We can make it, touch the sky
We can make it, if we try
We can make it, get on high

We can make it, if we try
We can make it, touch the sky

We can make it, if we try
We can make it, touch the sky
We can make it, if we try
We can make it, get on high

We can make it, if we try
We can make it, touch the sky

Try me, I know we can make it
I know if we try (If we try, try, try)
Try me, I know we can make it
I know if we try (If we try, try, try)
Try me, I know we can make it
I know if we try (If we try, try, try)
Try me, I know we can make it
I know if we try

Try me, I know we can make it
I know if we try (If we try, try, try)
Try me, I know we can make it
I know if we try (If we try, try, try)
Try me, I know we can make it
I know if we try (If we try, try, try)
Try me, I know we can make it
I know if we try

Try me
I know we can make it
Try me
I know we can make it
Try me
I know we can make it
Try me
I know we can make it

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, we can make it

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, we can make it

We can make it, if we try
We can make it, touch the sky
We can make it, if we try
We can make it, get on high

Try me
Oh, try me
Try me
Baby, try me
Oh, try me (Oh, try me)
Try me
Baby, try me (Try me, try me)
Oh, try me (Oh, try me)
Try me (Try me, try me)
Baby, try me (Oh, try me)
Oh, try me (Try me, try me)
Baby, try me (Oh, try me)
(Try me, try me)
Baby (Oh, try me)
(Try me, try me)
Baby, try me (Oh, try me)
(Try me, try me)

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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Live and More

From the albums

A Love Trilogy (1976)
Live and More (1978)
On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II (1979)
Billboard Top Dance Hits 1976 (1992)

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