Don't forget these:











You bitches better work!


And does anyone remember the television special she had that year and performed "Bad Girls"?



At the end of the song, she was arrested and thrown in the back of a police car.

I remember Donna's television special.It aired in January 1980.During a campy performance of "Bad Girls",Donna plays a hooker and she gets arrested at the end.She asks the officer "Are you taking me to the jailhouse?" and he replies "No...I'm taking you to my house".

VinnyM27 said:

a little trivia...

The song "Last Dance" was recorded in the summer of 1977,which means that it could have easily wound up on the 'Once Upon A Time' album (which was released in the fall).But label president Neil Bogart decided to save it for the movie 'Thank God It's Friday' which came out a year later.

DavidEye said:

As Frank from "Everybody Loves Raymond" would say: "Holy Crap!" I'd love to see that.

Absolutely LOVE this album. I was about 5 when it came out and my Dad had it on 8-track. I played it to death!!!! The 8-track had a different runnning order, so I remember being freaked out when I heard the vinyl version years later ("What are they doing? That song doesn't come next!") And I remember the TV special as well. I remember begging my Mom to let me watch it. Totally agree with all the posts about how this album truly brought disco to a whole other level. If you think about, it's really Donna's farewell to disco. She's trying so many different things. Definitely one of my all-time faves, and doesn't sound nearly as dated as some of her stuff before or after. The techno genre owes a LOT to her and Giorgio. ("Our Love" rocks to this day! Try blasting it on a really good system.). For some reason when I hear Madonna's "Ray of Light" CD, I immediatley think of Donna in her heyday. Definitely a masterpiece, as was her criminally underrated and forgotten follow-up, THE WANDERER!

Ramonachris said:

Note that New Order lifted one of the hooks from Our Love, and used it in Blue Monday (I'm sure you know that intro synth thumping from BM --> listen for it in OL).

Ramonachris said:

Interestingly,on the vinyl version of this album,the song order is arranged in a unique way.The first record contains Side One but when you flip it over,it's Side Four! The second album contains Side Two and when you flip it over,it's Side Three.The vinyl versions of 'Once Upon A Time' and 'Live And More' are done the exact same way.At the time,I thought this was odd.

I agree with you about Madonna's 'Ray Of Light'.Many of Madonna's recent techno-styled songs had to have been inspired by Giorgio Moroder's groundbreaking productions from the late 70s.In fact,you could almost think of William Orbit as a modern-day Giorgio,lol.

DavidEye said:

it IS odd, though

CinisterCee said:

We were discussing this on another site,and someone explained why the records were arranged this way.Supposedly,it made it easier for DJs (I'm sure Finess could better explain this,lol).Also,back in the day,we had stereos in which you could place one album a few inches on top of the other...lol... so when the first record finished playing,the other record would "slip" down and begin playing.So you could listen to Side One and when it was over,Side Two would "slip down" and begin playing,without you having to get up and turn the record over,lol.

VinnyM27 said:

It was a cool TV special....some parts were cheesy,but overall,it was really entertaining.In one segment,Donna is reading a bedtime story to her daughter Mimi,and she starts singing "Fairy Tale High".Another segment is basically a video for the song "Sunset People",showing Donna playing different characters.I wish they would release this show on DVD,along with her 1983 concert special 'A Hot Summer Night'.

You are really taking me back now. I remember those old record players. Remember when we also could put a small stack of 45s on the spindle and one would drop after each one was finished playing. It was like having your own jukebox.

vainandy said:

oh hell yeah,I remember those! We're showing our age here,lol.

DavidEye said:

That would be great but I doubt it would ever happen. Hell, I think Cher had on of these specials (I think I saw clips from in on BTM) and I think it was Oscar nominated and everything but that's not out on DVD and last year (or was it 2003?) she was very popular again with "Very Best Of Cher" CD, her NBC concert, which became a DVD and the tour, which is still going on (is it four years now?). Maybe, just maybe the 1983 concert is possible if some company requires the rights to lots of those old concerts and just starts mass releasing them (kind of like the "20th Century" DVDs with only five music videos).