alphastreet said:

1970s by far and "Bad Girls" is one of my favorite albums of all time. That album is perfection from the songs, to the order in which they were placed on the album, and from the way they segued into each other. Even down to the artwork on the album cover which folds out and shows multiple scenes of hookers hanging out. It made whoring look so much fun. I used to stare at those pictures while listening to the album and knew I wanted to be a whore. Befofe I discovered Prince in 1979, Donna Summer was "it on a stick" for me. When I saw Prince on "American Bandstand" prancing around, looking gay as hell, slinging that pretty hair, flaunting that huge hoop in his right ear, while playing that hard ass music that people don't normally associate with someone gay, I could relate to that even more so he was the only one that could overthrow her for me at the time. I tell people all the time that I just simply went from loving one whore to another.

vainandy said:

JayCrawford said:

vainandy said:

1970s by far and "Bad Girls" is one of my favorite albums of all time. That album is perfection from the songs, to the order in which they were placed on the album, and from the way they segued into each other. Even down to the artwork on the album cover which folds out and shows multiple scenes of hookers hanging out. It made whoring look so much fun. I used to stare at those pictures while listening to the album and knew I wanted to be a whore. Befofe I discovered Prince in 1979, Donna Summer was "it on a stick" for me. When I saw Prince on "American Bandstand" prancing around, looking gay as hell, slinging that pretty hair, flaunting that huge hoop in his right ear, while playing that hard ass music that people don't normally associate with someone gay, I could relate to that even more so he was the only one that could overthrow her for me at the time. I tell people all the time that I just simply went from loving one whore to another.

Looool! I never understood why Donna Summer was obsessed with hooker's during her prime. Believe it or not in the UK we didn't have Dick Clark's show at all in fact throughout the 70s and 80s in the UK we only had 3-4 TV channels and TV would switch off by itself at a certain time and it wouldn't return until the next day 😂 So many shows we didn't have that you Americans have like Dick Clark, Arsenio Hall, Regis and Kathy... I personally don't even know how I even know about them.

Don't forget Soul Train!

purplethunder3121 said:

JayCrawford said:

purplethunder3121 said:

Don't forget Soul Train!

Wait... Are you from the UK as well Purple Thunder?

Nope, just wanted to add to the list. Soul Train--that was the best. Except for The Midnight Special.

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kitbradley said:

I also used to believe that was obsessed with hookers,lol...to the point that,when I heard a new song from her,I would sometimes wonder if it was yet another reference to prostitution.

As you know,she released an early album in 1974 titled Lady Of The Night and yes,the title track is about a hooker...."don't you try no funny stuff,cause Lady can be tough",she sings.

In 1982,she released the Quincy Jones' produced single "Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)".In the first verse,I thought she was singing "I guess I missed the target.....caught up in a different 9 to 5 of course,the correct lyric is "caught up in a different line of fire".

And then,a year later,when I first heard the single "She Works Hard For The Money",I thought "oh here she goes again",lol

JayCrawford said:

Looool! I never understood why Donna Summer was obsessed with hooker's during her prime.

kitbradley said:

She was def the Queen of Disco in the 70s. But for me her best albums were 1982's "Donna Summer" and 1991's "Mistaken Identity". Her voice was more the focal point on both albums. My favorite song, "Let There Be Peace" comes from the latter album.

man,I haven't listened to Mistaken Identity in a long,long time when it came out in 1991,I remember thinking that the song "Fred Astaire" should have been a single.I think it could have been the "Last Dance" of the 90s.It's a fun,dynamic dance track.

SoulAlive said:

I also used to believe that was obsessed with hookers,lol...to the point that,when I heard a new song from her,I would sometimes wonder if it was yet another reference to prostitution.

As you know,she released an early album in 1974 titled Lady Of The Night and yes,the title track is about a hooker...."don't you try no funny stuff,cause Lady can be tough",she sings.

In 1982,she released the Quincy Jones' produced single "Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)".In the first verse,I thought she was singing "I guess I missed the target.....caught up in a different 9 to 5 of course,the correct lyric is "caught up in a different line of fire".

And then,a year later,when I first heard the single "She Works Hard For The Money",I thought "oh here she goes again",lol

JayCrawford said:

Looool! I never understood why Donna Summer was obsessed with hooker's during her prime.

I love to play that one right behind "Bad Girls". Even if it wasn't about hookers, dammitt, I was gonna make it about them.

Soul...Do you ever recall reading that Donna (back in the early 80's) was planning on doing a feature film?...I could have sworn I read that somewhere back then.

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SoulAlive said:

SoulAlive said:

SPYZFAN1 said:

Soul...Do you ever recall reading that Donna (back in the early 80's) was planning on doing a feature film?...I could have sworn I read that somewhere back then.

Yeah,I remember hearing that.If I remember correctly,she was going to play somebody else....Josephine Baker or someone like that? When David Geffen signed her to his label in 1980,he promised that he would turn her into a movie star.It never happened and she was pissed.But at least we got to see her in the film ‘Thank God It’s Friday’.

Well, I missed out on hearing about that one back in the day. Guess I wasn't reading the right magazines...

Thanks Soul!..Yes, I think it was Joesphine Baker. I think she was slated to do a biopic on a blues (or gospel singer) too. She probably should have hooked up with the team that put Cher out there in cinema land.....I remember she also had a big lawsuit with Casablanca/Mercury-Polygram and I think she won......That move might have made some people think twice on working with her.

SoulAlive said:

SPYZFAN1 said:

Soul...Do you ever recall reading that Donna (back in the early 80's) was planning on doing a feature film?...I could have sworn I read that somewhere back then.

Yeah,I remember hearing that.If I remember correctly,she was going to play somebody else....Josephine Baker or someone like that? When David Geffen signed her to his label in 1980,he promised that he would turn her into a movie star.It never happened and she was pissed.But at least we got to see her in the film ‘Thank God It’s Friday’.

Donna, The Commodores, and the soundtrack was the only good thing about that movie. Oh....and the DJ too. Damn, he was hot! But most of the rest of the movie was stale humor. The movie felt like a disco version of "The Love Boat".

SoulAlive said:

I admit,some of the humor doesn’t really work but I like the movie it made me wish that I was an adult during that period,so I could go to the discos and have fun.That “zoo” disco in the film looked great!!

I rented it once from Blockbuster back in the 1990s and only watched it once. About a year or two ago, I was in Dollar General and saw the DVD for $5 so, cheesy or not, I had to have it for my collection. I've watched it several times since then so now I can remember some of the content of the movie. That girl in the wig was totally annoying with all that "You Tarzan, me Jane" talk. And during The Commodores performance, they were totally getting down and I loved that explosion on the stage. Then, it just had to get ruined but that fool swinging down from a rope in a Tarzan outfit. Except for "Saturday Night Fever", it seems like all those disco movies were cheesy but I still watch them. I've even got "Roller Boogie" and that one was even more cheesy. And don't even get me started on the breakdancing movies. "Beat Street" was the best of those and it had it's cheesy moments also. I'm just soooooo glad that "Purple Rain" wasn't like those. But then Prince had to ruin it with "Graffiti Bridge" which was worse than all those movies.

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SoulAlive said:

I admit,some of the humor doesn’t really work but I like the movie it made me wish that I was an adult during that period,so I could go to the discos and have fun.That “zoo” disco in the film looked great!!

When you watch the movie,do you ever notice that there are a ton of songs in it that are not on the 3-LP soundtrack? I guess they couldn't fit them all.I keep hoping that they'll do a remastered box set that includes all those songs.

vainandy said:

SoulAlive said:

I admit,some of the humor doesn’t really work but I like the movie it made me wish that I was an adult during that period,so I could go to the discos and have fun.That “zoo” disco in the film looked great!!

I rented it once from Blockbuster back in the 1990s and only watched it once. About a year or two ago, I was in Dollar General and saw the DVD for $5 so, cheesy or not, I had to have it for my collection. I've watched it several times since then so now I can remember some of the content of the movie. That girl in the wig was totally annoying with all that "You Tarzan, me Jane" talk. And during The Commodores performance, they were totally getting down and I loved that explosion on the stage. Then, it just had to get ruined but that fool swinging down from a rope in a Tarzan outfit.

lol....I found an old post that I did many years ago

speaking of the music...it's amazing that they were able to cram so many songs into this film.In addition to the 19 songs on the 3-LP soundtrack,there are a number of additional songs that can be heard throughout the film....


"It's Serious" by Cameo
"Let's Make A Deal" by G.C. Cameron and Syreeta
"Easy" by the Commodores
"Brick House" by the Commodores
"Romeo And Juliet" by Alec R. Costandinos
"You're The Person I Feel" by 5th Dimension
"From Here Til Eternity" by Giorgio Moroder
"Dance All Night" by Cuba Gooding
"I'm here Again" by Thelma Houston
"You Can Always Tell A Lady By The Company She Keeps" by D.C. LaRue
"Meco's Theme" by Meco
"Down To Love Town" by The Originals
"Love To Love You Baby" by Donna Summer
"I Am What I Am" by Village People
"Hollywood" by Village People


I'm a completist.I really wish they had released a 'Thank God It's Friday' Volume 2 soundtrack with the songs listed above.Hell,they could still release it

SoulAlive said:

lol....I found an old post that I did many years ago

speaking of the music...it's amazing that they were able to cram so many songs into this film.In addition to the 19 songs on the 3-LP soundtrack,there are a number of additional songs that can be heard throughout the film....


"It's Serious" by Cameo
"Let's Make A Deal" by G.C. Cameron and Syreeta
"Easy" by the Commodores
"Brick House" by the Commodores
"Romeo And Juliet" by Alec R. Costandinos
"You're The Person I Feel" by 5th Dimension
"From Here Til Eternity" by Giorgio Moroder
"Dance All Night" by Cuba Gooding
"I'm here Again" by Thelma Houston
"You Can Always Tell A Lady By The Company She Keeps" by D.C. LaRue
"Meco's Theme" by Meco
"Down To Love Town" by The Originals
"Love To Love You Baby" by Donna Summer
"I Am What I Am" by Village People
"Hollywood" by Village People


I'm a completist.I really wish they had released a 'Thank God It's Friday' Volume 2 soundtrack with the songs listed above.Hell,they could still release it

I didn't realize it was a triple album since I have the CD instead of the vinyl. It is two CDs but I just assumed that they put each record onto a separate CD like they did with "Sign O The Times".

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I'm sure they probably felt the price would be too expensive if they put a fourth LP in the set. I can't even imagine what the price of the 3 LP set costed back then. I remember Donna Summer's "Bad Girls" was around $14 and that was very expensive back then considering that single LPs were like $7.99. When Prince's "1999" came out, which was the first double album I had bought since "Bad Girls", I was relieved to see that it only costed $10.99.

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I'm also wondering how "Thank God It's Friday" was packaged since it had 3 LPs. "Bad Girls", as well as all the other double albums I have from that time such as "Live And More", "Saturday Night Fever", and "Grease" fold out with two pockets to place each record in. Prince's "1999" was the first that I saw only had one pocket but with both records in the same pocket.

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I still have the album with the merchandise order form. ..Almost forgot that Debra Winger was in that film.

SPYZFAN1 said: