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Dim All the LightsDonna Summer

Released: April 25, 1979

Songwriter: Donna Summer

Producer: Pete Bellotte Giorgio Moroder

[Intro]
Dim all the lights sweet darling
'Cause tonight it's all the way
Turn up the old victrola
Gonna dance the night away

[Verse-1]
Love just don't come easy
No it seldom does
When you find the perfect love
Let it fill you up

[Chorus]
Dim all the lights sweet darling
'Cause tonight it's all the way, hey baby
Turn up the old victrola
Gonna dance the night away

Love just don't come easy
No it seldom does
When you find the perfect love
Let it fill you up

Dim all the lights, sweet honey
'Cause tonight it's you and me
No need to worry darlin'
Cause it's for eternity

[Hook]
Love don't come easy
This you know I understand
Want to be your woman
If you'll be my man
Let yourself go freely and I'll
Show you things that you've dreamed of
Don't think that you're dreaming
We've found the perfect love
And I'm like a cup come fill me up

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
Do what you want
You can use me all up
Take me bottom to top
Don't leave even one drop

[Interlude]
No, no, no do it tonight
You know the moment's so right
Turn my brown body white
Come on dim all the lights

[Outro Chorus]
Dim all the lights sweet darlin'
'Cause tonight it's all the way, hey baby
Turn up the old victrola
Gonna steal you heart away, hey baby
Dim all the lights sweet darlin'
Dim it, dim it, and dance the night away
Dim all the lights sweet honey
Gonna steal your heart away, keep on dancin'
Dim all the lights the lights sweet darlin', nothing
Nothing, can steal my heart away

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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