Donna Summer

Released: October 20, 1980

Songwriter: Pete Bellotte Keith Forsey

Producer: Giorgio Moroder Pete Bellotte

I was weak and I was blind
You know I never ever wanted to put
Our love on the light

You were right, and I was wrong
I should have listened to the words
You said
But I was too headstrong

So if you've heard this all before
Don't let me carry on no more

Stop me, stop me if you think you've
Heard this one, this one
Stop me, stop me if you think you've
Heard this one
Stop me, stop me if you think you've
Heard this one, this one
Stop me, stop me, stop me

You said I lied, you said I cried
But I had to say something fast in case
You threw me aside

I didn't know, I couldn't guess
If I only would have known I never
Would have been in this mess

But if you've heard this all before
Don't let me carry on no more

Stop me, stop me if you think you've
Heard this one, this one
Stop me, stop me if you think you've
Heard this one
Stop me, stop me if you think you've
Heard this one, this one
Stop me, stop me, stop me

But if you've heard this all before
Don't let me carry on no more

Stop me, stop me if you think you've
Heard this one, this one
Stop me, stop me if you think you've
Heard this one
Stop me, stop me if you think you've
Heard this one, this one
Stop me if you think you've
Heard this one, this one
Stop me if you think you've
Heard this one, this one

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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