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They Can’t Take Away Our MusicDonna Summer

Songwriter: B. B. Dickerson Charles Miller Eric Burdon Harold Brown Howard Scott Lee Oskar Lonnie Jordan Papa Dee Allen

Ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh

Don't let no one
No one get you down
'Cause if they do
If they do I'll be around

I want you near
Standing here by my side
So my dear wipe
Those tears from your eyes

Ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh

Don't let no one
No one get you down
'Cause if they do
If they do I'll be around

I want to see
You round me all the time
I want you to know that I am yours
And you are mines

Let nobody get you down
(Hey)
Let nobody get you down
Let nobody get you down

Let nobody get you down
Let nobody get you down
Let nobody get you down
(You keep me happy all the time)

Let nobody get you down
(You keep me happy, happy all the time)
Let nobody get you down
(You, you, you, you, you, you, you, you)

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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