"Dinner with Gershwin" is song written by Brenda Russell

Brenda Russell

Brenda Russell is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboardist. Known for her eclectic musical style, her recordings have encompassed several different genres, including pop, soul, dance, jazz and adult contemporary...

. It was first recorded by Donna Summer

Donna Summer

LaDonna Adrian Gaines , known by her stage name, Donna Summer, is an American singer/songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Summer is a five-time Grammy winner and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach...

 in 1987, which Russell co-produced with Richard Perry

Richard Perry

Richard Perry is an American music producer. Perry began as a performer in his adolescence, but shifted gears after graduating college and rose through the late 1960s and early 1970s to become a highly successful and popular record producer with over a dozen gold records to his credit by 1982...

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"Dinner With Gershwin" was the first single off Summer's All Systems Go

All Systems Go (Donna Summer album)

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album which was Summer's first album of new material released in four years. "Dinner With Gershwin" returned Summer to the Billboard

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R&B Top Ten - at #10 - for a final time but became the first lead single off a Donna Summer album of new material since 1978 to fall short of the Pop Top 40, peaking at #48.

"Dinner With Gershwin" was better received on the UK charts entering the Top 30 in November 1987, with Summer's 19 November appearance on Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops

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- her first - assisting the track to a #13 peak.

The song was edited from the original album version for its release as a single, and the 12" edition also contained an exclusive non-album track called "Tearin' Down The Walls."

Brenda Russell later recorded her own version of the song for her 1990 album Kiss Me With The Wind

Kiss Me With The Wind (Brenda Russell album)

Kiss Me With The Wind is the fifth studio album by the American singer/songwriter Brenda Russell, released in 1990.-Album History:After the success of her fourth album, Get Here , Russell collaborated again with a variety of different producers and songwriters...

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Track listing

7" - Geffen Records 7-28418 / Warner Bros. - 258 237-7

1. "Dinner with Gershwin" – 4:12
2. "Dinner with Gershwin (Instrumental)" – 4:52

12" - Warner Bros. U 8237 T

1. "Dinner with Gershwin (Extended Version)" – 7:43
2. "Dinner with Gershwin (LP Version)" – 4:35
3. "Tearing Down the Walls" – 3:59
   • Also released as a picture disc (U 8237 TP)

Personnel

• Richard Perry - Producer
• Brenda Russell - Associate Producer, Additional Synthesizer, Backing Vocals
• Steve Lindsey - Synthesizer, Organ, Piano, Drum Programming
• Donald Griffin - Guitar
• Howie Rice - Clav
• Stanley Clarke - Clav Concept
• Larry Klein - Fretless Bass, Additional Synthesizer
• Gary Herbig - Clarinet
• Collyer Spreen - Percussion
• Terral (Terry) Santiel - Additional Percussion
• Bunny Hull, Joe Turano, Maxie Anderson - Background Vocals
• Glen Holguin - Engineering
• Steve Peck - Additional Engineering
• Ken Felton, Kraig Miller, Scott Maddox - Second Engineer

Chart positions

Chart (1987)	Peak position
Canadian RPM RPM (magazine) RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,... Singles Chart	39
Irish Singles Chart Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured...	13
Dutch GfK GfK The GfK Group, established in 1934 as Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung is Germany's largest market research institute, and the fourth largest market research organisation in the world, after Nielsen Company, Kantar Group, and IMS Health... chart	43
Dutch Top 40 Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...	34
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	13
U.S. Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Hot 100	48
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Hot Dance Club Play The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...	13
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales	16
U.S. Billboard Hot Black Singles	10