I am listening to her album Bad Girls right now, and honeslty, what a dance/disco masterpiece! I have heard her songs here and there over the years, but I am pretty young so I didn't grow up with her music. Yet, I listen to it and it is almost timeless to me. I still feel something from it, something fresh. I know most people here are Prince fans, but are any of you as appreciative of Donna Summer as I am? Even though I am pretty late.

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In my opinion, Donna is the most underrated artist in music. I think it is a damn shame...

There's lots of love for Donna here. Yes, Bad Girls is a masterpiece.

From what I know of hers, I love her cause my parents did too and have some record singles, and others I discovered on my own. She has a few nice songs on her Crayons album too.

I love her! My Dad plays her songs a lot for parties.

ultra sexy +

beautiful voice +

super feminine +

statuesque +

still fresh +

love +

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Donna Summers

I think she embodies everything about the disco period and for that she is truly iconic!!!!

I would love to get into her music one day. Last Dance is my shit!!

Donna is criminally underrated! She can do it all, disco, new wave, rock, dance, yet people still peg her as a disco queen , she is much more than that! She is such a classic beauty, and an incredible singer!

There was a poster here called Leecappella who used to post one of her tunes everyday. Just type in Summer Song Of The Day in the search box.

jbrown83 said:

Donna is criminally underrated! She can do it all, disco, new wave, rock, dance, yet people still peg her as a disco queen , she is much more than that! She is such a classic beauty, and an incredible singer!

Please show us Donna's versatility

Check out The Wanderer, its got some great new wavy rock on it, it's not a disco album at all, also check out I'm A Rainbow, VERY eclectic album! Also on her last album Crayons check out Slide Over Backwards, a swamp rock tune that would make Tina Turner proud!

I would post some vids, but not sure how, hopefully another org member will do that .

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Always on playlist!!

And I really like her post-disco work too.

She's Beautiful

She's Classy

She's Humble

and this woman still has an amazing VOICE, I mean... AMAZING!

Sorry, I HAD TO 2 LIVE performances of MELODY OF LOVE!!

Thank u tritocin! Donna can do it all! Her voice can suit ANY genre!

She sang the hell outta Melody of Love. Smokin hot vocals!!! Can't wait to dig in more, thanks

Donna Summer is not underrated OR overrated.

Donna Summer is legend! Without her musical legecy within disco, post-disco, AND dance-pop, there is no Madonna, Kylie Minogue, OR Katy Perry for that matter.

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Amen!

Now I feel like playing The Queen is Back

Not to sound like a narcissist or anything like that, but as j put it (dang all this janet talk today!) we were born with blood of kings and queens and can't be stopped

alphastreet said:

Now I feel like playing The Queen is Back

Not to sound like a narcissist or anything like that, but as j put it (dang all this janet talk today!) we were born with blood of kings and queens and can't be stopped

I'm starting to like you for some strange reason.... you seem genuine.

I've loved Donna since I was a 10 years old! People tend to put her in the "Disco" box...but she has some amazing ballads as well...http://www.youtube.com/wa...y5s079w5z8

(I still don't know how to post videos right...) but check out her ballads..."On My Honor", "Can't We Just Sit Down (and talk it over)", "There Will Always Be A U", "Lush Life"...trust me...you'll be glad U did!

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benjaminira said:

I've loved Donna since I was a 10 years old! People tend to put her in the "Disco" box...but she has some amazing ballads as well...http://www.youtube.com/wa...y5s079w5z8

(I still don't know how to post videos right...) but check out her ballads..."On My Honor", "Can't We Just Sit Down (and talk it over)", "There Will Always Be A U", "Lush Life"...trust me...you'll be glad U did!

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hey ben=]

all you have to do is

So just do that and the video should come up

I've loved Donna since I heard the sizzling sound of Hot Stuff leap off spinning vinyl in the 70s and blast through my stereo speakers! There is no one like her--she is in a class by herself!

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bunnyscotcooper said:

I am listening to her album Bad Girls right now, and honeslty, what a dance/disco masterpiece! I have heard her songs here and there over the years, but I am pretty young so I didn't grow up with her music. Yet, I listen to it and it is almost timeless to me. I still feel something from it, something fresh. I know most people here are Prince fans, but are any of you as appreciative of Donna Summer as I am? Even though I am pretty late.

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Hell yeah. Lots of Prince fans like Donna Summer's music and it's not surprising. Prince is an artist that throws down hard and so is Donna. Before I got into Prince in 1979, Donna was to me then what he became when I discovered him.

And the "Bad Girls" album is one of my favorite albums of alltime. Every song on the album is great, as well as the order of the songs on the album and the way they segue into each other, all the way down to the album artwork with the hookers hanging out and the nightlife scenes. My favorite is the picture on the back of the album where you can see Donna through the windshield of a car with a man's hand on the steering wheel with a $50 bill in his hand. I love some whores. Whores have always been my role models so naturally, when I discovered Prince a few months after that album, I simply just substituted one whore for another whore.

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MickyDolenz said:

There was a poster here called Leecappella who used to post one of her tunes everyday. Just type in Summer Song Of The Day in the search box.

To MickyDolenz: It's s nice to be remembered:)

To BunnyScotCooper: How nice to see a youngster get into the woman who's been at the top of my favorite singer's list since I was a little boy. I don't know exactly how old you are, but, nonetheless, I hope you get into her other albums as well. Doesn't really matter which one. Although, I would suggest all. I no longer do the Summer Song Of The Day here except maybe on rare occasions, but, if you'd like, I do present one each Sunday on my Facebook page and you can befriend me there if you so desire. The rest of the week, it's songs featuring other artists, but I sometimes throw Donna in on another day of the week in addition to Sunday, just because I like her so much:) Her vocal versatility is what I love and the fact that she puts out songs that are from various genres instead of one. She's partially why I like different kinds of music as opposed to just one. Of course, the fact that when I first saw the Bad Girls album cover from a distance, I thought she had no eyebrows is also another reason that peaked my interest. Haha. Always take a little Summer with you:)

http://www.facebook.com/p...mp;sk=wall

Hopefully, something new from Donna is a brewing. This looks like a guest appearance on her nephew's song:

http://rapdirt.com/omega-...dio/20594/

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I DO!!!!!!

She has a wonderful voice

I broke with Janet Jackson back in '77 or '78 so I could be with Donna instead. Then I broke up with Donna to be with Diana 'round '80 or '81, but Donna took me back in '83.

I've been on youtube a bit watching her concer that was on HBO back in the day. She's bad!

Of course!

She my second mother...in my head

jbrown83 said:

Donna is criminally underrated! She can do it all, disco, new wave, rock, dance, yet people still peg her as a disco queen , she is much more than that! She is such a classic beauty, and an incredible singer!

That's true, she actually wanted to be a rock singer, because she was influenced by Janis Joplin's career, but she pulled back on that idea because there was not a market or audience for a black female rock singer at the time.

leecappella said:

MickyDolenz said:

There was a poster here called Leecappella who used to post one of her tunes everyday. Just type in Summer Song Of The Day in the search box.

To MickyDolenz: It's s nice to be remembered:)

To BunnyScotCooper: How nice to see a youngster get into the woman who's been at the top of my favorite singer's list since I was a little boy. I don't know exactly how old you are, but, nonetheless, I hope you get into her other albums as well. Doesn't really matter which one. Although, I would suggest all. I no longer do the Summer Song Of The Day here except maybe on rare occasions, but, if you'd like, I do present one each Sunday on my Facebook page and you can befriend me there if you so desire. The rest of the week, it's songs featuring other artists, but I sometimes throw Donna in on another day of the week in addition to Sunday, just because I like her so much:) Her vocal versatility is what I love and the fact that she puts out songs that are from various genres instead of one. She's partially why I like different kinds of music as opposed to just one. Of course, the fact that when I first saw the Bad Girls album cover from a distance, I thought she had no eyebrows is also another reason that peaked my interest. Haha. Always take a little Summer with you:)

http://www.facebook.com/p...mp;sk=wall

Hopefully, something new from Donna is a brewing. This looks like a guest appearance on her nephew's song:

http://rapdirt.com/omega-...dio/20594/

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I will definitely check out more of her stuff! Yeah I'm a 90s baby, so I missed out on a lot of good music. Uh, I don't have Facebook, so...yeah. Thanks for the heads up though!

I appreciate the fact that she can sing a large majority of the human population under the table .