Donna Summer - Hot Stuff 1979

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Sittin' here eatin' my heart out waitin' Waitin' for some lover to call Dialed about a thousand numbers lately Almost rang the phone off the wall CHORUS: Lookin' for some hot stuff baby this evenin' I need some hot stuff baby tonight I want some hot stuff baby this evenin' Gotta have some hot stuff Gotta have some lovin' tonight I need hot stuff I want some hot stuff I need some hot stuff Lookin' for a lover who needs another Don't want another night on my own Wanna share my love with a warm blooded lover Wanna bring a wild man back home REPEAT CHORUS Sittin' here eatin' my heart out, no reason Won't spend another night on my own I dialed about a hundred numbers baby I'm bound to find somebody home REPEAT CHORUS (fade)

Brief biography courtesy of Wikipedia
Donna Summer (born LaDonna Adrian Gaines, on December 31, 1948) is a American singer, songwriter, and artist, best known for a string of dance hits in the late 1970s that earned her the title "Queen of Disco" and as one of the few disco-based artists to have longevity on the charts into the late 1980s. Though she's most notable for her disco hits, Summer's repertoire has expanded to include traditional R&B, rock, mainstream pop and even gospel. Summer is also known for her exquisite vocal range and power. One of the most successful female hitmakers of the rock era, Summer still holds the record for having three consecutive double albums go to the top of the album charts and also became the first female artist to have three number-one singles in a twelve-month period. Since 1979, Summer has held the record in both the US and the UK for the longest note held by a woman in a hit pop song. The sixteen-second note can be heard in her single "Dim All The Lights". Born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, she was one of seven children raised by devout Christian parents. She sang in church, and in her teens joined a rock group called The Crow, so named because Donna was the only black member of the group. At eighteen, Gaines left home and school to take up a supporting role in the Broadway musical, "Hair". The show moved to Germany shortly afterwards and Gaines eventually became a German resident and performed in the German versions of several musicals including "Godspell" and "Show Boat". She settled in Munich and also performed with the Viennese Folk Opera. In 1971, Gaines released a single in Europe entitled "Sally Go 'Round the Roses", her first solo recording. The single was unsuccessful, however, and she had to wait until 1974 to launch a solo career. Gaines married Austrian actor Helmuth Sommer ("Summer" is an Anglicization of his last name) in 1972 and gave birth to daughter Mimi the following year. Summer did various musical jobs in studios and theaters for several years, including the pop group FamilyTree from 1974-75. While singing back-up for groups such as Three Dog Night, she met producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. With these producers, Summer signed a contract in the Netherlands and issued her first album, Lady of the Night, which included the European hit, "The Hostage". The single made #1 in France and Belgium, and #2 in the Netherlands. Its follow-up, the title track of the album, also gained some degree of European success. In the late summer of 1975, Summer approached Moroder and Bellotte with an idea for a song. She had come up with the lyric "Love To Love You, Baby" as the possible title for the song. Moroder in particular was interested in developing the new disco sound that was becoming increasingly popular, and used Summer's idea to develop the song into a raunchy disco track. He had the idea that she should moan and groan orgasmically, but Summer was initially reticent. Eventually she agreed to record the song as a demo to give to someone else (possibly singer Penny McLean). She has stated that she was not completely sure of some of the lyrics, and parts of the song were improvised during the recording (she later stated on a VH-1 "Behind The Music" program that she pictured herself as Marilyn Monroe acting out the part of someone in sexual ecstasy). Moroder was so astounded with Summer's orgasmic vocals and her imaginative moans and groans that he insisted she should release the single herself. Summer reluctantly agreed and the song, titled "Love To Love You", was released to modest success in Europe. When it reached America and the hands of Casablanca president Neil Bogart, however, he was so ecstatic over the demo that he requested Moroder to produce a twenty-minute version of the song. Summer, Moroder and producer Pete Bellotte cut a seventeen-minute version, renamed it "Love To Love You Baby", and Casablanca signed Summer and issued it as a single in November 1975. Casablanca distributed Summer's work in the U.S., while other labels distributed it in different nations during this period. "Love To Love You Baby" was Summer's first big hit in America, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in early 1976 and becoming her first number-one Hot Dance Club Play chart hit. The seventeen-minute cut became one of a recurring trend of single song, side-long disco versions, with French disco acts Cerrone, the Alec. R. Costandinos helmed Love And Kisses and many others following suit. The album (side one of which was completely taken up with the full-length version of the title track) was also released in 1975 and was soon certified gold. The song was branded "raunchy" by some music critics and was even banned by some radio stations for its graphic content. Time magazine later reported that a record 22 orgasms were reached in the making of the song. In some areas of the music press, Summer was dubbed "the first lady of love." Two successful, gold-selling concept albums followed - A Love Trilogy featured the singles "Try Me (I Know We Can Make It)" and "Could It Be Magic" and Four Seasons of Love which featured the discofied "Spring Affair" as well as "Winter Melody". Summer was becoming increasingly known among disco fans but appeared to be a one-hit wonder otherwise with no pop success. Both albums had a high sensual/fantasy content, although Summer felt uneasy with her image. The 1977 album I Remember Yesterday, another concept album, showed the Summer/Moroder/Bellotte team combining the disco sound with sounds of the past, present and future. The song representing the future, "I Feel Love" , originally released as a "B" side to the R&B ballad "Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)", became a landmark recording, finally giving Donna another Pop and R&B hit - reaching number six on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and number one in the UK and various other European countries. "I Feel Love" earned her a second US Gold 45 as well. The song was arguably the first song to use techno and electronic sounds in dance music. A version of I Feel Love released in 1982, with additional overdubs by Disco lightman turned synthesist and producer, the late Patrick Cowley, took the eight-minute and thirteen-second extended version and overlayed new elements, causing an underground sensation. Summer released another album in 1977 called Once Upon a Time, a concept album telling a modern-day "rags to riches" story through the means of electronic disco which is regarded by some fans as some of her best work. In 1978, Summer acted in the film Thank God It's Friday, and released the hit single "Last Dance". Written by Paul JabaraÑwho also co-wrote "It's Raining Men", "The Main Event (Fight)" and "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)"Ñthe song became another monumental hit for Summer, reaching number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and resulting in her first Grammy win. Jabara took home the Oscar after the song was nominated for Song of the Year. Summer also recorded a side-long version of Serge Gainsbourg's "Je T'Aime (Moi Non Plus)" which was very similar in style to "Love To Love You Baby", initially shelved and later released as a part of the Thank God It's Friday soundtrack. That same year, she released her first live album, Live And More. This was also Summer's first #1 album (Donna actually knocked Linda Ronstadt out of the top slot), and included her first Number One American pop single, a cover of the Jimmy Webb-penned "MacArthur Park", originally made famous by the late actor/singer Richard Harris. The version found on the Live and More album was a longer version and incorporated two other tracks, including "Heaven Knows" which also featured vocals by Joe Esposito (singer) of the Brooklyn Dreams (group member Bruce Sudano would later become romantically involved with Summer). "Heaven Knows" became another Gold US 45 and another Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. In 1979, she released the landmark double album Bad Girls. Unlike other disco albums, it mixed rock, blues, and soul into electronic disco beats. It yielded three top-of-the-chart singles: the back-to-back Number One hits "Hot Stuff" and "Bad Girls", and the #2 hit "Dim All The Lights". "Bad Girls (song)|Bad Girls" also became Donna's first #1 song on Billboard's R&B Singles chart. With US record sales at an all-time apex in 1979, Summer cashed in considerably with five consecutive US Gold singles (three of which went on to Platinum status) that year alone. "Hot Stuff" won Summer a second Grammy, for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Bad Girls became Summer's second #1 album and her most successful one, selling over two million copies in the US and seven million worldwide. Once again, Summer's music was years ahead of its time, and elements of Bad Girls would surface in the 1980s from such artists as the Eurythmics, New Order, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, Madonna, Laura Branigan, Bronski Beat, and many other New Wave and techno bands. Several different artists were involved in the writing of Bad Girls including Bruce Sudano, with whom Summer had worked the previous year on her "Heaven Knows" single. The two grew closer during the making of this album and became engaged. During this period, Donna Summer became the first woman ever to have two songs in the top three of Billboard's Hot 100 during the same week, with "Bad Girls" and "Hot Stuff". Just a few months later, she accomplished the same feat again, with "No More Tears" and "Dim All the Lights". During the summer of 1979, she played an astounding eight sold-out nights at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles. Summer's first international compilation album, On The Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & 2, was her third #1 US album, and the first #1 album of the 1980s according to the "Billboard" album chart. With this, Summer became the first artist to have three consecutive number-one double albums. The album also contained two new tracks - "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", a duet with Barbra Streisand, and "On the Radio", a song written for the film Foxes. Both were big hits when released as singles, the former becoming Summer's fourth and final number-one pop hit in the U.S. Afterwards, disagreements and fractions between Summer and Casablanca Records led to her exit from the label in 1980. Despite initial inclinations toward retirement, Summer was given a lucrative offer by David Geffen and became the first artist to be signed to his new Geffen label in 1980. At the time, Summer's record deal was said to be one of the biggest for a female artist. She also became a born again Christian during this time and used her newfound religion as a guiding force within her life. Summer's first Geffen release, 1980s The Wanderer, was something of a departure, as it was in some ways closer to a rock/New Wave affair. Though two of the songs were hits on the dance charts, songs like the title track, and accompanying singles "Cold Love" and "Who Do You Think You're Foolin'?" saw Summer attempting to reach the same audience dominated by contemporaries like Blondie and Pat Benatar. The million-selling title track was another Summer smash, hitting #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earning her yet another Gold single in the States. The album sold several million copies worldwide but was a commercial dissapointment in the US, selling only 600,000 in the US and falling rapidly off the charts. It nevertheless earned a Gold album certification in the US. A second release, I'm a Rainbow, a dance-oriented double album which also featured elements of soul, R&B, period British techno-pop and even synth-based disco, was shelved by Geffen (although two of the tracks would surface during the 1980s on the Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Flashdance film soundtracks) because he believed Summer needed fresh production. Reluctantly, Summer left Moroder after seven years of collaboration, and began work with Quincy Jones. In 1982 she released Donna Summer, and the new production from Quincy Jones got her back in the Top Ten of the Pop, R&B, and Dance charts with "Love Is In Control (Finger on the Trigger)". A second single, "State of Independence", on which Michael Jackson sang background along with a veritable "who's who" of the music world (which was one of the inspirations for "We Are the World"), became a sizable international hit (#1 in The Netherlands). "State of Independence" had been originally written and performed by the duo Jon & Vangelis (Jon Anderson and Vangelis Papathanassiou), on their second album "The Friends of Mr. Cairo", released in 1981. Summer followed with a modest hit, The Woman In Me, later recorded by Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart. In 1983, Summer scored her biggest triumph since Bad Girls with the release of the She Works Hard For The Money single and album. The song became a pro-feminist anthem and was a staple on BET and MTV, making her the first black female artist to have a video air in heavy rotation on the latter channel. The infectious track was also - surprisingly - Donna's biggest-ever R&B hit (#1 for three weeks). Released on PolyGram's Mercury Records, the success of the She Works Hard For The Money album permanently poisoned Summer's relationship with Geffen. Album liner notes on the "Cats Without Claws" album pointedly alluded to "thanking David for staying out of the kitchen this time and hopefully enjoying this meal that Donna prepared for him". PolyGram would also be responsible for releasing The Summer Collection in 1985, which contained some of her disco classics as well as tracks from She Works Hard For The Money, and later The Dance Collection in 1987, which showcased Summer's disco songs in the form of their extended remixes. A second single from the She Works Hard for the Money album, the reggae-flavored "Unconditional Love" (which also featured vocals by black British group Musical Youth), was also an early MTV favorite. The further single and 12" release "Stop, Look and Listen" unfortunately did not have much impact. Despite the album hitting the Top 10 and attaining a Gold album certification from the RIAA in the US, She Works Hard for the Money marked the end of Summer's record-selling prime. Her subsequent Geffen releases saw Donna in decline and did not fare well. 1984's Cats Without Claws (which sold a mere 400,000 copies in the US) and 1987's All Systems Go (with less than half of the previous albums sales) stalled on the charts with no major hits. Summer left Geffen in 1988 to sign with Atlantic Records. Rumors have circulated among fans that as well as the I'm a Rainbow album, Summer had more unreleased material turned down by Geffen during her time with them. Her disco style was emulated by such singers as Barbara Pennington, Claudja Barry, Irene Cara, the late Laura Branigan, Evelyn Thomas, Miquel Brown and Earlene Bentley, singing in the keyboard-based dance and Hi-NRG club hits of the early-mid 1980s era. These somewhat lesser known, more underrated, and often independent label singers together filled the void as "Disco Queens", especially with gay audiences. (In fact, it is worth noting that during this period the gay community realized its own heritage as purveyors of Disco music as opposed to the greater straight Rock fan base, and therein may lay some of the reason for Disco's demise.) Her pop culture position would be usurped entirely in 1985 by Madonna, who would echo both Summer's early "sex-vixen" persona and her mainly dance-music style. Summer briefly regained her hit luster again in 1989 with Another Place and Time, an album-length collaboration with England's Top Dance-pop Production Team Stock Aitken Waterman. "This Time I Know It's For Real" became her fourteenth Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hit in U.S. A second single, "I Don't Wanna Get Hurt", was a Top Ten UK hit. The third single, "Love's About To Change My Heart", became a moderate pop and dance chart hit. The fourth single was "When Love Takes Over You" and the fifth and final single from the album was "Breakaway". The album sold several million copies worldwide, but topped off at a dissapointing 300,000 copies in the States. In 1991, she released Mistaken Identity, which was an attempt at incorporating new jack swing and urban adult contemporary R&B into her music. The album failed to appear on the Billboard Album Chart but did make it to #97 on the Top R&B Albums chart. Summer scored a moderate Urban chart hit with "When Love Cries" (#18 R&B), and an underground club hit with "Work That Magic." In 1992, Summer received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The year also saw her collaborate with Giorgio Moroder for the first time in over a decade with the song "Carry On". First featured on his Forever Dancing album, the following year the track would be featured on the double album The Donna Summer Anthology. This compilation also featured two exclusive remixes from the unreleased I'm a Rainbow album recorded back in 1981. It would be a while before her next release as she decided to take some time out to spend with her family. A gospel-influenced Christmas album entitled Christmas Spirit in 1994 became Summer's first full-length album in over three years, and a new compilation entitled Endless Summer (both released by PolyGram) also contained a couple of new tracks, including "Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)", which became a huge hit on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. In 1995, a re-release of "I Feel Love" (with newly recorded vocals) as a dance remix, became a hit again in the UK, reaching #6 there. The following year she would score another Top 10 there with a new remix of "State of Independence". In 1996, Summer's album I'm a Rainbow was finally released by Polygram's Mercury Records, to the delight of her fans. In 1998, Summer was the first artist to receive a Grammy award for Best Dance Recording for her 1992 collaboration with Giorgio Moroder, "Carry On", after the song was remixed and released as a single. In 1999, Summer starred in a televised live concert on the VH1 network entitled 'Donna Summer - Live and More Encore. The special earned the network their highest ratings of the year, second only to their annual Divas concert. Performing a string of her classics and new singles, she also sang "Dim All the Lights" as a tribute to Rod Stewart. Summer acknowledges that she wrote the song for Stewart but recorded it herself. A CD (on the Epic label) and DVD of the special were released, returning the singer back to the U.S. albums chart. Summer scored two #1 dance hits that year with "I Will Go With You" and "Love Is the Healer" (both found as new studio tracks on the live album). During that year, Summer recorded the theme song for PokŽmon: The Movie 2000, entitled "The Power Of One". Around this time, Summer also recorded the song "Dreamcatcher" for the Naturally Native Original Soundtrack. In 2003, Donna Summer released a greatest-hits compilation called The Journey, which rocketed into the UK Top 10 in the following year thanks to her appearance on an ITV1 show. Discomania found Summer co-presenting & singing a number of her hits: a "Hot Stuff"/"Bad Girls" medley, "MacArthur Park", "Last Dance", & a duet with Westlife on "No More Tears (Enough is Enough)" - which appeared on the Discomania soundtrack album. On September 20, 2004, Summer was among the first artists to be inducted into the newly formed Dance Music Hall of Fame in New York City. She was inducted in two categories, Artist Inductees, alongside fellow disco legends The Bee Gees and Barry White; and Record Inductees, for her classic hit "I Feel Love". Summer added to her achievements in October 2004 when she performed "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch at Game 2 of the 2004 World Series at Boston's Fenway Park. Two of her most recent singles, "You're So Beautiful" (2004) and "I Got Your Love" (2005) reached the Top 10 on both the Hot Dance Airplay and Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts. Today, Summer and her family make their home in Nashville, Tennessee. In July 2006, Summer joined forces with Pure Tone Music, an A&R consulting and full service independent music company located just outside of New York City. She was touring extensively in mid-2006, and incorporating covers of other artists into her set, one of them being Sade's "Pearls". Summer's official web site announced an upcoming CD on the Burgundy label to be released in Spring, 2007. Summer has hinted that her upcoming album will be more political, and is currently fundraising for the incumbent Democratic governor of Tennessee. In 1972, Summer married her first husband, Helmuth Sommer, and moved to Germany to star in musicals, which resulted in her learning to speak fluent German. With Sommer, she gave birth to her first child, Mimi. The couple divorced in 1976, but Donna had anglicized Sommer to Summer and begun her professional singing career in 1974 as Donna Summer. In 1978, she collaborated with the R&B Pop group the Brooklyn Dreams for the hit "Heaven Knows" (duet vocals by Joe Esposito). While at the session recording the single, she met Bruce Sudano. The duo began a romance that culminated in their July 16, 1980, marriage, and later the birth of daughters Brooklyn and Amanda. Today, Mimi and Amanda sing alongside their mother, while Brooklyn has been seen acting in TV shows, including the since-canceled My Wife and Kids. Summer is still married to Sudano, and she is a grandmother of three. During her lengthy career, Summer has dealt with controversy both professionally and personally. Her first hit, "The Hostage" was banned in Germany, and other radio stations banned her music for being sexually suggestive, with "Love to Love You Baby" being an example. In 1991, during the height of the Gulf War, Summer's song "State Of Independence" was banned from US radio play alongside many other songs that were deemed to have an inflammatory effect on the population. Rumors persisted that Summer was in fact a man in drag and not a woman, a rumor Summer addressed in 1989 on The Arsenio Hall Show. A far more painful incident came in the early 1980s with reports that she had made anti-gay remarks associated with the AIDS epidemic. Her songs were banned for a number of years in some gay establishments over these rumors. Summer has long denied such allegations, and finally took legal action against a newspaper which printed the rumors during a review of a concert. Summer tearfully stated, "I never said anything that was written about me in that article". To make amends, Summer has since played for AIDS benefits and has donated proceeds to AIDS research. As recently as 2006, she was asked about the rumors by a Canadian newspaper. "So many people in my audiences are gay. I canÕt live my life trying to assure people of anything. You have to live knowing who you are. I think that my actions and the person that I am speak louder than somebody elseÕs misgivings or lies about me", Summer responded. "They print all kinds of things about people all the time but you canÕt run after every single lie. You tell people the truth and if they choose to believe you, they do." Regardless, even among gays, her brilliant talent and musicianship (aided by Giorgio Moroder) are lovingly embraced as the epitome of the disco era, as is her subsequent support in fighting AIDS.

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