The Donna Summer Anthology
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The Donna Summer Anthology is a double compilation album by the American singer released by Polygram Records in 1993
. The compilation featured the majority of Summer's best known songs right from the start of her success to the present day. Summer had originally made her name during the disco
era in the 1970s and in the decade that followed had experimented with different styles. Most of the tracks on this compilation are the original album versions of the songs, which were sometimes edited down for their release as a single. Included for the first time are two remixed tracks from her then previously unreleased I'm a Rainbow album, which had been recorded in 1981
but had been shelved by her record company at the time. The album also featured the Giorgio Moroder
-penned and produced song "Carry On"', marking the first time Summer and Moroder had worked together since 1981. Summer and Moroder, together with Pete Bellotte
had written the vast majority of her 1970s disco hits. Four years later, "Carry On" would be remixed and become a big dance hit. It also won Summer a Grammy for Best Dance Recording, her first win since 1984 and her fifth win in total.
This collection remains the closest to a traditional "box set" (usually three or four compact discs) of Summer's work because it contains then-unreleased material (selections from "I'm a Rainbow"), an unreleased (as a single) LP track ("Friends Unknown"), and the "MacArthur Park" promotional single.
Disc two
1993 in music
This is a summary of significant events in music in 1993.-January–February:*January 8 – The U.S. Postal Service issues an Elvis Presley stamp. The design was voted on in February 1992....
. The compilation featured the majority of Summer's best known songs right from the start of her success to the present day. Summer had originally made her name during the disco
Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...
era in the 1970s and in the decade that followed had experimented with different styles. Most of the tracks on this compilation are the original album versions of the songs, which were sometimes edited down for their release as a single. Included for the first time are two remixed tracks from her then previously unreleased I'm a Rainbow album, which had been recorded in 1981
1981 in music
See also:* Timeline of musical eventsThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1981.-January–April:*January 10 – A revival of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance opens at Broadway's Uris Theatre, starring Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith.*January 24 –...
but had been shelved by her record company at the time. The album also featured the Giorgio Moroder
Giorgio Moroder
Hansjörg "Giorgio" Moroder is an Italian record producer, songwriter and performer based in Los Angeles. When in Munich in the 1970s, he started his own record label called Oasis Records, which several years later became a subdivision of Casablanca Records...
-penned and produced song "Carry On"', marking the first time Summer and Moroder had worked together since 1981. Summer and Moroder, together with Pete Bellotte
Pete Bellotte
Peter J. Bellotte is a British songwriter and record producer, most famous for hismain body of work with Donna Summer alongside his partner Giorgio Moroder...
had written the vast majority of her 1970s disco hits. Four years later, "Carry On" would be remixed and become a big dance hit. It also won Summer a Grammy for Best Dance Recording, her first win since 1984 and her fifth win in total.
This collection remains the closest to a traditional "box set" (usually three or four compact discs) of Summer's work because it contains then-unreleased material (selections from "I'm a Rainbow"), an unreleased (as a single) LP track ("Friends Unknown"), and the "MacArthur Park" promotional single.
Tracklisting
Disc one- "Love to Love You BabyLove to Love You Baby (song)"Love to Love You Baby" is a song by American singer Donna Summer released in 1975 . It became one of the first ever disco hits to also be released in an extended form.-Song information and original release:...
" (Original Single Version) (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) - 3:21 - "Could It Be MagicCould It Be Magic"Could It Be Magic" is a song by Adrienne Anderson and Barry Manilow. It was included on Manilow's 1973 debut album, Barry Manilow.Due to its popularity, it was released as a single in 1975, two years after it had originally been recorded, where it reached #6 in the United States.Manilow's...
" (US Single Version) (Anderson, Manilow) - 3:54 - "Try Me, I Know We Can Make ItTry Me, I Know We Can Make It"Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" is a song by Donna Summer from her Love Trilogy album released in 1976. Summer's breakthrough had come in the form of the disco song "Love to Love You Baby" which in its entirety lasted almost seventeen minutes and took up the entire first side of the album of the...
" (US Single Version) (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) - 4:46 - "Spring AffairSpring Affair"Spring Affair" is a song by Donna Summer from her 1976 album Four Seasons of Love. The song tells of the beginning of a new relationship. At the time of its release, Summer had already started to make her name as the leading female disco singer by releasing frankly sexual songs that were...
" (US Single Version) (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) - 4:02 - "Love's UnkindLove's Unkind"Love's Unkind" is a single by Donna Summer from her album, I Remember Yesterday, which combined modern disco beats with sounds of previous decades. "Love's Unkind" has stories of high school crushes and love triangles. It became one of her biggest hits in the UK, peaking at number three, while it...
" (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) - 4:26 - "I Feel LoveI Feel Love"I Feel Love" is a song by Donna Summer, taken from her 1977 concept album I Remember Yesterday.The song constituted the "future" segment of the album, which represented a stylistic progress through time...
" (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) - 5:51 - "Once upon a Time" (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) - 4:00
- "Rumour Has It" (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) - 4:54
- "I Love YouI Love You (Donna Summer song)"I Love You" is a single by Donna Summer which became a number 10 hit in the UK Singles Chart and reached number 37 in the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1977....
" (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer" - 4:41 - "Last DanceLast Dance (song)"Last Dance" is a hit 1978 song by singer Donna Summer. The song appeared on the Thank God It's Friday movie soundtrack. It was written by Paul Jabara and was co-produced by Summer's regular collaborator Giorgio Moroder, along with Bob Esty...
" (Jabara) - 4:57 - "MacArthur ParkMacArthur Park (song)"MacArthur Park" is a song by Jimmy Webb, originally composed as part of an intended cantata. The song was initially rejected by The Association. Richard Harris was the first to record it, in 1968; the song was subsequently covered by numerous artists. Among the best-known covers are Donna Summer's...
" (Promotional 12" Mix) (Webb) - 6:25 - "Heaven Knows" (Single Version) (with the Brooklyn DreamsBrooklyn Dreams (group)The Brooklyn Dreams was a successful singing group of the late 1970s and early 1980s mixing R&B harmonies with contemporary dance/disco music and best-known for a number of collaborations with singer Donna Summer. The band consisted of Joe "Bean" Esposito, Eddie Hokenson and Bruce Sudano...
) (Bellotte, Mathieson, Moroder, Summer) - 3:52 - "Hot StuffHot Stuff (Donna Summer song)"Hot Stuff" is a hit single released by American singer Donna Summer in 1979 as the first single release from her Bad Girls album through Casablanca Records...
" (12" Mix) Bellotte, Faltermeyer, Forsey) - 6:46 - "Bad GirlsBad Girls (song)"Bad Girls" is a 1979 single released by American singer Donna Summer, co-written by Summer and the Brooklyn Dreams. The inspiration for her to write the song came after one of her assistants was offended by a police officer who thought she was a street prostitute.A rough version of the song had...
" (Esposito, Hokenson, Sudano, Summer) - 4:56 - "Dim All the LightsDim All the Lights"Dim All the Lights" is a song by Donna Summer released as a single in the latter half of 1979. Taken from her Bad Girls album and produced by longtime collaborator Giorgio Moroder with Pete Bellotte, the track combines Summer's trademark disco beats with a more soulful/R&B-esque sound...
" (Summer) - 4:23 - "Sunset PeopleSunset People"Sunset People" is a song by Donna Summer taken from her very successful album Bad Girls. The album, released on Casablanca Records, had already produced several chart-topping singles for the disco star, but Summer had resigned from the label and taken a lawsuit against them...
" (Bellotte, Faltermeyer, Forsey) - 6:24
Disc two
- "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)No More Tears (Enough is Enough)"No More Tears " is a duet from 1979 by Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand. While Summer was famous for her disco material and Streisand for her more easy listening and soundtrack work , this song fused both sounds with a slow beginning which then develops into a disco song...
" (Duet With Barbra StreisandBarbra StreisandBarbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...
) (ColumbiaColumbia RecordsColumbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
Single Version) (Jabara, Roberts) - 4:41 - "On The RadioOn the Radio (Donna Summer song)"On the Radio" is a single by Donna Summer released in 1979 on the Casablanca record label. It was written for the soundtrack to the film Foxes and included on Summer's first international compilation album On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & 2. It was released as a single and became, in...
" (Moroder, Summer) - 5:50 - "The WandererThe Wanderer (Donna Summer song)"The Wanderer" is a song by American singer Donna Summer. Summer made her name as the queen of the disco genre during the 1970s while signed to Casablanca Records. She left the label in 1980 following a dispute and became the first ever artist to be signed to the new Geffen label...
" (Moroder, Summer) - 3:45 - "Cold LoveCold Love"Cold Love" is the second single from the Donna Summer album The Wanderer. Although the song did not gain as much success as its predecessor, it peaked at 33 in the US Pop Singles chart, it did receive a Grammy nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.Vocally, this song contrasts with the...
" (Bellotte, Faltermeyer, Forsey) - 3:38 - "I'm a Rainbow" (Remix) (Sudano) - 4:04
- "Don't Cry for Me, ArgentinaDon't Cry for Me, Argentina"Don't Cry for Me Argentina" is a song from the 1978 musical Evita with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. Sung by the title character Eva Perón, it was titled “It's Only Your Lover Returning” before Rice settled on the eventual name...
" (Remix) (Lloyd Webber, Rice) - 4:20 - "Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)"Love Is in Control " is a hit single from Donna Summer's self-titled 1982 album.-Background:Summer's 1980 The Wanderer album - the inaugural release on Geffen Records - had been certified gold in America although it did not enjoy numerous hit singles as some of her '70s releases had enjoyed...
" (Jones, Ross, Temperton) - 4:19 - "State of IndependenceState of Independence"State of Independence" is a song originally written and recorded by Jon and Vangelis for their 1981 album The Friends of Mr. Cairo.- Jon and Vangelis version :...
" (Anderson, Vangelis) - 5:49 - "She Works Hard For The MoneyShe Works Hard for the Money (song)"She Works Hard for the Money" is a 1983 hit single by singer Donna Summer. It was the first single released from the album of the same name.-Premise:The song, co-written by the singer, told a story of a woman who "works hard for [her] money"...
" (Omartian, Summer) - 5:18 - "Unconditional LoveUnconditional Love (Donna Summer song)"Unconditional Love" is the second single from the Donna Summer album She Works Hard for the Money released in the Autumn of 1983. Though uncredited, it also features vocals by British reggae act Musical Youth, who charted in the US with Pass the Dutchie earlier in 1983...
" (Omartian, Summer) - 4:41 - "There Goes My Baby" (Nelson, Patterson, Treadwell) - 4:06
- "Supernatural LoveSupernatural Love"Supernatural Love" is the second single from Donna Summer's 1984 Cats Without Claws album. The typically 1980s synthesised song was remixed for its release as a single and became a minor hit in the US...
" (Omartian, Sudano, Summer) 3:34 - "All Systems GoAll Systems Go (Donna Summer song)"All Systems Go" is the final single from the Donna Summer album of the same name. Edited from its original album version, it became a minor hit in countries such as the United Kingdom, where it reached number fifty-four....
" (Faltermeyer, Summer) - 4:10 - "This Time I Know It's for RealThis Time I Know It's for Real"This Time I Know It's For Real" is a song originally recorded by Donna Summer, and released in 1989 as the first single from her album Another Place and Time...
" (Stock, Aitken, Waterman, Summer) - 3:36 - "I Don't Wanna Get HurtI Don't Wanna Get Hurt"I Don't Wanna Get Hurt" is the second single from the album Another Place and Time by Donna Summer. The whole album was written and produced by British team Stock Aitken & Waterman and was mainly in the style of their "hit factory" sound...
" (Stock, Aitken, Waterman) - 3:26 - "When Love CriesWhen Love Cries"When Love Cries" is a single by Donna Summer from her 1991 album Mistaken Identity. Released as a single in the U.S. and some European countries , it was remixed and edited from its original version on the album, and showed a much more urban feel than the sound normally associated with Summer....
" (Diamond, Henley, Nelson, Smith, Summer) - 5:14 - "Friends Unknown" (Diamond, Smith, Smith, Summer) - 3:44
- "Carry OnCarry On (song)"Carry On" is a song written by Giorgio Moroder and Marietta Waters and recorded by Donna Summer. The song was first released on Moroder's 1992 album Forever Dancing...
" (Moroder, Waters)
Charts
Single| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | "Carry On" | UK's single chart | 65 |