Donna Summer

Songwriter: Michael Omartian Jay Graydon Donna Summer Bruce Sudano

Producer: Michael Omartian

Girlfriend can we talk
Well I have something to say
Girl when you're dealing with
Your man
There just ain't no easy way, no
Easy way

Woman treat that man real good
Woman like you know you should
God he made the woman
God he made the man
Knew just what he wanted in his
Master plan
Want your man to love you with all
His heart and soul
Let him be who he is
Let him take control

You're a woman and you got the
Right to be one
Let him know it
Let your life begin to show some

Woman treat that man real good
Woman like you know you should

Want him to be faithful
Love and understand
Want him to be kind
Be your lovin' man

Forget about the hard times
Think about the good
That's when he will treat you just
The way he should

You're a woman and you got the
Right to be one
Let him know it
Let your life begin to show some

Woman treat that man real good
Woman like you know you should

Woman treat that man real good
Woman like you know you should

You're a woman and you got the
Right to be one
You're a woman
You're a woman and you got the
Right to be one
You're a woman

Woman, woman, woman, woman
Woman, woman, woman, woman

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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She Works Hard for the Money

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She Works Hard for the Money (1983)

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