ernestsewell said:

It seemed like such a serious song, when I was 10.

I would track it down tonight, too, but it's a school night...

ThreadBare said:

I LOVE that song. The MacArthur Park Suite is just pure heaven when I listen to this. Donna Summer knows she's the bomb!

ThreadBare said:

Honestly, I still don't know what the hell she's talking about in that song. But I love it anyway.

ernestsewell said:

MacArthur Park:

Funny lyrics: "someone left the cake out in the rain, I don't think I can take it, cuz it took so long to bake it, and I've never have that recipe again",

sounds strange, I still this great Donna Summer- song....

thedance said:

And what's with the sweet green icing? Were green cakes en vogue back in the 70's? I never had a green cake for a birthday growing up. Did I miss the trend, or was it all a dream in Ms. Summer's mind? lol

thedance said:

The song is part of cantata, which also contained, "By The Time I Get To Phoenix and "Wichita Lineman". All three songs are a continuation of the same story.

The thread is still going strong. I've actually been on a Disco trip the last couple of days and I'm listening to Donna stuff now. I'm jamming to the Bad Girls CD. I would love to see Prince do something with "Bad Girls" or "Sunset People". Hell even "Lucky" and "Love Will Always Find You".

PurpleRain747 said:

Me too. She fertile as hell too. She had like 6 kids or something. Prince shoulda collabor83d all up in that!!! musical genius babies. I dunno why i even posted. Dayum this thr3ad!

How did i miss this thread! Luv Donna Summer and i can some how see Prince listening to her for inspiration during the Bad girls era mixing Dance with Rock.

And at the person that said Rick james and Donna look alike that was a running in the 80's Iam sure same wig and everything.

^ damn that does look like they wear the same wig. must have been either the Dirty Diana or the Peaches 9000.

You just named some of my favorites from that album. And don't forget "Our Love". That one was years ahead of it's time.

That was me. I stole it from VH1's "I Love The 80s" a few years ago. I can't remember but I think it was Sheila E. that said it.
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everybody dressed the same in the 70s. they all dressed like Donna

vainandy said:

Yeeees!!!!! That song is pure FIRE!!!!! It's still sounds fresh, current and ahead of its time.

Another great disco album from Donna Summer: "Once Upon A Time", from 1977:




1. Once Upon A Time
2. Faster And Faster To Nowhere
3. Fairy Tale High
4. Say Something Nice
5. Now I Need You
6. Working The Midnight Shift
7. Queen For A Day
8. If You Got It Flaunt It
9. Man Like You
10. Sweet Romance
11. Dance Into My Life
12. Rumour Has It
13. I Love You
14. Happily Ever After

And "On The Radio" - a great compilation,
the way songs are edited / mixed into each other is great imo, from fall 1979:




1. On the Radio
2. Love to Love You Baby
3. Try Me, I Know We Can Make It
4. I Feel Love
5. Our Love
6. I Remember Yesterday
7. I Love You
8. Heaven Knows
9. Last Dance
10. MacArthur Park
11. Hot Stuff
12. Bad Girls
13. Dim All the Lights
14. Sunset People
15. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) - Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer
16. On the Radio [Long Version]


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DesireeNevermind said:

Prince and gang look questionable those days

thedance said:

Great albums. My mom had both of those on Vinyl from way back in the day!

tamewar said:

They looked all kinds a queer but hey it was the 70s. Wasn't nobody looking quite right back then.

Im real glad i started this thread now...I hope there's someone out there listening to her music for the first time who's been inspired to look her up.....



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Joyinrepatition said:

That was awesome. Wasn't that on HBO back in the day? I remember seeing this when i was very little. I don't remember this song for some reason. Great stuff and most importantly, REAL MUSIC!

I cant remember the song where she interacts with the audience, and they go nuts.That's the one i was looking for...?

Here have another.....
How gorgeous does she look peeps?

wa wa we wa !!!!...

Tell me about it. They say first impressions are a motherfucker. Well, this performance was the very first time I ever laid eyes on Prince. First of all, I didn't know if he was black or white. Then, I thought, he must be a "foreigner" (I was only in the 7th grade ). Then, the next thing was, I had been called the word "queer" and "fag" for a few years and never knew what it meant. Of course I asked my mother what those words meant and naturally she said...."don't listen to those bastards, you can't be gay because you're not grown" but I kinda put two and two together and could figure out that these names were coming at me for being "sissy-like". Anyway, I may have not known what race Prince was right off the bat but looking at that appearance and those gestures, I knew I was looking at what I was being called by my classmates. And all through the years, I don't care what anybody says or Prince himself, I know a fellow whore when I see one. First impressions are definately a motherfucker.

One wrong move and her cat's gonna come out.

Ok is it me are does Prince Party like it's 1999 sound like Donna's Cold Love

vainandy said:

That one thing I like about Prince those days he always keep people guessing and does him even till this day men and some women think of him as a gay men oh wells

Hey did y'all know back in the day people put out a rumor that Donna Summer was a man? And she was preggers with her first child too. I never thought she was beautiful but she sho don't look like no dude. Dayum the things folks will say when you don some Rick James hair.


The first song of hers I ever heard was Bad Girls. A song about hookin back then. Man she was bold.

Joyinrepatition said:

wow, she looks fine.

I would love to have this show on DVD, but I doubt it exists.