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Post by Rob Durkee on May 17, 2012 11:05:25 GMT -5
Donna Summer, who died May 17, 2012 of cancer, was the Queen of Disco. She was 63.
Her breakthrough hit, “Love To Love You Baby,” reached #2 in early 1976 and saved the label, Oasis, from going out of business.
She had top 10 pop hits with “I Feel Love” and “Last Dance” before really hitting big. In late 1978, there was “MacArthur Park,” a #1 hit and remake of the 1968 Richard Harris hit.
In the summer of 1979, she did what very few, if any, solo women, could ever do…have 2 songs in the top 3 with “Hot Stuff” and “Bad Girls”. The latter was her biggest hit, spending 5 weeks at #1 and ranking #2 for the 1979, trailing only “My Sharona” by the Knack.
Her last #1 was “No More Tears (Enough Is Enough),” a late 1979 duet with Barbra Streisand.
Among her other hits were “Dim All The Lights,” “On The Radio” and the anthem for working women, “She Works Hard For The Money.”
She had a 1989 comeback hit with “This Time I Know It’s For Real.”
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 11:14:03 GMT -5
OMG, I cant believe it, this year is really a disaster for the music.
RIP.
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Post by pizzzzza on May 17, 2012 11:38:56 GMT -5
OMG, I cant believe it, this year is really a disaster for the music. RIP. I concur! Wow - I just heard it on the radio after the DJ played "Last Dance".......... This one is going to hit me real hard........ The hardest part about getting older is losing family and friends along the way. |
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Post by seminolefan on May 17, 2012 11:41:32 GMT -5
She will sorely be missed.  |
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Post by Mike on May 17, 2012 11:44:49 GMT -5
She had a 1989 comeback hit with “This Time I Know It’s For Real.” What's crazy is, just yesterday I was listening to both of the Radio & Records countdowns (meaning, both Rick's and Casey's shows) from 6/17/89, where the song was hitting the Top 10 (and as it turns out, peaking).  It's worth noting, especially in light of that headline, that as late as 2010, she was still scoring #1 hits on the Dance chart - her latest coming with "To Paris With Love" (on the November 6 chart). R.I.P. |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 11:52:16 GMT -5
This year sucks in the death department. It's more than just music. Like I said a couple of weeks ago, this is making 2009 look tame.
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Post by dukelightning on May 17, 2012 11:55:01 GMT -5
Wow another sudden and unexpected death. It was 14 years and one day earlier that I lost my mom to cancer.
It's really a pity when an artist leaves us that was still contributing to the music industry. She contributed as much as anyone the last 35+ years.
RIP Donna.
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Post by atruefan on May 17, 2012 12:22:49 GMT -5
This is truly a sad day for music in general, and most definitely disco music in particular. While Summer fought hard to avoid being labeled a disco artist (I recall an interview once where she said she had never sung a song with the word "disco" in it), her name will forever be singularly synonymous with that genre.
She most definitely branched out into fields of music. She won two Grammy awards for inspirational recordings. But even within the realm of disco, she was all over the map; winning a rock Grammy for "Hot Stuff."
During my youth, when disco was a pivotal component of my love of pop music, I would always look forward to Donna's next record. Unlike a lot of disco albums where you had one hit and the rest was filler, Summer's early albums were always filled with great songs. You would be hard pressed to find a better combination than Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 12:32:31 GMT -5
Just curious, when musicians (or big name people associated with music like Dick Clark recently) does anyone else pull out some of the old shows from when their songs were on the chart and listen as a personal tribute to the person in question?
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Post by pizzzzza on May 17, 2012 13:03:15 GMT -5
To show you the non-value of most vinyl albums, I recently won an auction on E-bay....bid $5 for 75 ALBUMS.......and won the bid, which shocked me.
In that group were FIVE Donna Summer albums.....
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on May 17, 2012 13:19:24 GMT -5
She was truly the disco queen, and then by the time disco reached its peak, she became more of a pop singer than anything else.
It's interesting to note that, a night or two ago, I heard "She Works Hard For The Money" at a club in the virtual world called Second Life. The last song by Donna Summer I would hear before I found out the surprising news that Donna had passed away.
She did the last dance of her life, and now she's doing many more dances with the angels on that big disco dance floor in the sky.
R.I.P., Donna Summer, and thank you for some great upbeat music. You will truly be missed by many fans. Robin Gibb will likely be joining you very soon, I am pretty sure.
Makes me wonder, if Premiere will air 5/28/1983 on May 26, will we hear "She Works Hard For The Money" that week? I think that was her last top ten hit before 1989, if I recall.
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Post by pizzzzza on May 17, 2012 13:57:50 GMT -5
SO if you could narrow it down to just one song, what's your favorite Donna Summer song?
I like a LOT of her songs, but my favorite would be one that wasn't such a big hit, but really loved the song...."State of Independence"
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2012 14:14:39 GMT -5
Hot Stuff. To me it's the song that defines 1979 for me.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on May 17, 2012 15:12:03 GMT -5
I loved DOnna and her music and this really saddens me.
My favorites are Macarthur Park, Love To Love You Baby and the almost 12 minute version of No More Tears.
I'll definitely be doing a tribute to her next week!
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Post by Michael on May 17, 2012 18:18:04 GMT -5
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