Donna Summer

Released: October 20, 1980

Songwriter: Giorgio Moroder Pete Bellotte Donna Summer

Producer: Giorgio Moroder Pete Bellotte

Looking up, again
I'm coming back to life
I'm coming back to life
Looking up, to you
If was really up to you
You had to pull me through
Looking up

Looking up, a change is
Coming over me
I know now that I'm free
Looking up, I find
I'm walking tall and proud
And happy all the time

Looking up
I'm looking up
Looking up
I see my troubles far behind
Looking up
(I'm looking up)
Looking up
I feel I'm rising to the top
Looking up

Looking up, a change is
Coming over me
I know now that I'm free
Looking up, I find
I'm walking tall and proud
And happy all the time

Looking up
I'm looking up
Looking up
I see my troubles far behind
Looking up
(I'm looking up)
Looking up
I feel I'm rising to the top
Looking up

Someone that understands
Is there until the end
To hold the light for me
The light that help me see
And in my darkest hours
Will come with sunny showers
To help me to forget
Oh I so glad we met
And since that rainy day
The clouds just stay away
You chase them with your love
The greatest love I've known
'cause in the darkest hour
You come with sunny showers
My life is your today
Don't ever go away

Looking up
I'm looking up
I see my trouble far behind
Looking up
(I'm looking up)
Looking up
I feel I'm rising to the top...

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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