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Thread started 07/23/12 12:33am

SoulAlive

Donna Summer "Winter Melody" (rare 1976 promo clip)

This was the second single from Donna's 1976 Four Seasons Of Love album.Who knew there was a video for it?!

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Reply #1 posted 07/23/12 6:20am

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Wow! That's real groovy! Never saw that one before.

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Reply #2 posted 07/23/12 7:51am

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Great find! I love that album.

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Reply #3 posted 07/23/12 12:27pm

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Reply #4 posted 07/23/12 12:34pm

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I was just thinking that,it's a shame that Donna never had a "hit" ballad hmmm People only saw her as a 'disco artist' and her ballad singles never really caught on with the public.A year after "Winter Melody",she released another outstanding ballad "Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)" but it failed too.Radio DJs' flipped the record over and played the B-side instead ("I Feel Love").

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Reply #5 posted 07/23/12 5:11pm

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SoulAlive said:

I was just thinking that,it's a shame that Donna never had a "hit" ballad hmmm People only saw her as a 'disco artist' and her ballad singles never really caught on with the public.A year after "Winter Melody",she released another outstanding ballad "Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)" but it failed too.Radio DJs' flipped the record over and played the B-side instead ("I Feel Love").



She did a lot of fine ballads, but there aren't many that come to mind that were ever that 'single worthy'. CWJSD was one of the best of them. The Woman In Me, too.

I bet even releasing one of the Bad Girls ballads wouldn't have worked.
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Reply #6 posted 07/24/12 5:07am

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SoulAlive said:

I was just thinking that,it's a shame that Donna never had a "hit" ballad hmmm People only saw her as a 'disco artist' and her ballad singles never really caught on with the public.A year after "Winter Melody",she released another outstanding ballad "Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)" but it failed too.Radio DJs' flipped the record over and played the B-side instead ("I Feel Love").

She did a lot of fine ballads, but there aren't many that come to mind that were ever that 'single worthy'. CWJSD was one of the best of them. The Woman In Me, too. I bet even releasing one of the Bad Girls ballads wouldn't have worked.

another great one was "Love Has A Mind Of Its Own",the third single from the She Works Hard For The Money album.A wonderful ballad that flopped as a single confused if that song had been recorded by somebody else (a singer who is known for their ballads,like Barbra Streisand),it would have been a smash hit.

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From what I can remember, this was probably her most successful ballad. It went Top 30 Pop and Top 20 R&B.

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