Summer very quickly earned the title The Queen of Disco and was sometimes called The First Lady of Love. The contract with Summer led to the rise of the label and the label’s identity as the one and only real disco label. The song went overseas to the Untited States and Casablanca‘s Neil Bogart wanted to sign Summer. The song went on to be a global phenomenon and a huge hit.
The moaning and groaning was spectacular and even led to boycotts, but the tide could not be turned. In 1975 Love To Love You Baby was released. She liked the show and even returned twice. At times artists were dismissed on air, because the presenters didn’t like what they heard or felt like doing something else.
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She did well in Holland, starting in 1974, when she performed the song The Hostage at the anarchist music tv show Van Oekel’s Discohoek, which was a parody of the regular pop show Toppop. She ended up in Germany, fell in love and married Helmuth Sommer and decided to use Donna Summer as her stage name. Tickets: $56-$266 88, Summer in Van Oekel’s Discohoek 1974 Where: Golden Gate Theatre, 1 Taylor St., San Francisco And, now, it’s heading for San Francisco.īook by Colman Domingo, Robert Cary and Des McAnuff, music and lyrics by Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte, Paul Jabara and others, presented by BroadwaySF “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical” had its world premiere in 2017 at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. “The Queen of Disco” was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.Ģ1. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City.Ģ0. She reportedly believed that she had gotten lung cancer from inhaling the toxic fumes and dust from Sept. The great vocalist, who had accomplished so much during her career, died from lung cancer on May 17, 2012, at her home in Naples, Florida. 1 dance hits - “I’m a Fire,” “Stamp Your Feet” and “Fame (the Game).”ġ8. She delivered her 17th and final studio album, “Crayons,” in 2008. Summer influenced countless artists and her songs have been sampled by such acts as Nas, the Pet Shop Boys and Beyonce.ġ7. She won five Grammys in all and was nominated 18 times.ġ6. Although rightfully known as “The Queen of Disco,” Summer actually excelled in a number of different genres and won Grammys for her work in R&B, rock, gospel and dance music. “Last Dance,” the hit song from soundtrack to the fun 1978 film “Thank God It’s Friday,” would really make a splash at the big award shows, taking home a Grammy for best female R&B performance as well as both the Golden Globe and Oscar for original song.ġ5.
1 singles - “MacArthur Park,” “Hot Stuff,” “Bad Girls” and the Barbra Streisand duet “No More Tears (Enough is Enough)” - in a single 12-month period.ġ4. Summer reached the height of her popularity at the end of the ‘70s, charting an amazing four No. And her fans apparently liked them as well, given that Summer was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums - “Live and More,” “Bad Girls” and “On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II” - hit No.
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Summer recorded several concept albums, such as her two offerings from 1977 - “I Remember Yesterday” (which combined modern disco with musical styles of the past) and “Once Upon a Time” (an update on the classic Cinderella tale).ġ2. 1 dance hits, including “Try Me, I Know We Can Make It,” “Winter Melody,” “Love’s Unkind” and “I Feel Love,” solidly positioning herself as “The Queen of Disco.”ġ1. Summer quickly followed up “Love to Love You Baby” with many other No. The sexy song was reportedly inspired by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg’s provocative “Je t’aime… moi non plus,” which was released in 1967, but had found its way back to the charts in the mid ‘70s.ġ0. Then a much longer version was recorded - clocking in at 17 minutes and filling all of the first side of the 1975 album of the same name - and it became a massive hit at discos.ĩ.
“Love to Love You Baby” began as a standard three-minute single and was basically ignored. But there was reportedly a printing mistake on the label, exchanging an “o” with a “u,” and the result was Donna Summer. The single was supposed to be credited to Donna Sommer. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)ħ. Donna Summer performs at NBC’s “Today” show in 2008, the same year she released her final album, “Crayons.” NEW YORK – MAY 30: Singer Donna Summer performs on NBC’s “Today Show” in Rockefeller Plaza on in New York City. The album is best remembered for the single “The Hostage,” which became a hit in Europe but didn’t make it to the U.S.
In 1974, Sommer released the full-length studio debut “Lady of the Night,” featuring songs written by Bellotte and Moroder. While doing backup vocal work in the studio with Three Dog Night, the singer met producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte and the three formed a partnership that would produce hit after hit.Ħ.