Donna Summer

Songwriter: Donna Summer

Producer: Michael Omartian

You and me we're together, loving
Eyes can always stray
Loving hearts will always find
The way
Don't pass through my life like a
Season
Don't hurry by like a highway sign
Hear with your heart while I tell you
What's on my mind

Do believe I fell in love
Do believe I fell in love
Ooh yeah

If I make mistakes please forgive me
Oh Charlie B don't you run away
Forget your pride I'll tell you that
I'm going to stay
'cause love knows no pain, knows
No worry
Love is the same for all times
Hear with your heart while I tell you
What's on my mind

Do believe I fell in love
Do believe I fell in love
Ooh yeah

Ooh let me love you

Ooh let me kiss you
Baby I'm fallin', your love is a callin'
The night is wasting away
It used to be you, and I knew at
The dawning
Our love would last more than a day
And every single little word is true
I still love you

Do believe it
Do believe that I'm fallin' in love
Do believe it
Do believe that I'm fallin' in love
Do believe it
Do believe that I'm fallin' in love
Do believe it
Do believe that I'm fallin' in love

I'm going to love you like nobody's
Loved you
Come rain or shine
I'm going to need you like nobody's
Needed you before

Do believe it
Do believe that I'm fallin' in love
Do believe it
Do believe that I'm fallin' in love

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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