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Dance music's greatest diva, Donna Summer, and its greatest
producer, Giorgio Moroder, have reunited on a
Summer-headlining album for the first time in 22 years with
two new recordings -- bonuses on the two-CD set The Joumey:
The Very Best Of Donna Summer (UTV /Mercury/UMj, released
September 30, 2003. "That's The Way" and
"Dream-A-Lot's Theme" are the pair's first
collaborations on a Summer album since 1981's "I'm A
Rainbow". (1992's one-off "Carry On" won the
first Grammy for Best Dance Recording when issued in the US.
in 1997.)
Just as Summer's autobiography Ordinary Girl: The Journey
reaches bookstores on October 14,2003, The Joumey: The Very
Best Of Donna Summer also looks back at her extraordinary
career. The 18 classic selections, each digitally remastered,
include all 14 of her Top 10 por hits (12 produced by Moroder,
often collaborations with Pete Bellotte; the majority
co-written by Summer). Spanning 1975-1999 and a handful of
labels, the collection boasts two platinum and six gold
singles. A bonus disc features extended 12" mixes of
"I Feel Love," "Hot Stuff," "She
Works Hard For The Money" and "This Time 1 Know It's
For Real."
Summer broke through in 1975 with "Love To Love You
Baby," which went #2 pop and gold, creating history for a
17-minute song. Her cover of Barry Manilow's "Could It Be
Magic," "I Feel Love" and "I Love
You" followed before she crystallized the disco
phenomenon with 1978's gold "Last Dance" from Thank
God It's Friday, the film in which she appeared. The song also
won an Oscar as well as a Grammy (Best R&B Female Vocal
Performance); her first of five Grammys in four different
categories.
She continued her gold streak with Jimmy Webb's
"MacArthur Park" and #4 scored with "Heaven
Knows" before 1979's Bad Girls spun off the #1 platinums
"Hot Stuff' (Grammy winner for Best Rock Female Vocal
Performance) and "Bad Girls," and gold "Dim All
The Lights." Summer became the first woman with three
solo #1 s in one year with "Hot Stuff," "Bad
Girls" and "MacArthur Park."
Ending the decade were the #1 gold "No More Tears (Enough
Is Enough)," a duet with Barbra Streisand, and the gold
"On The Radio," which titled her greatest hits
package, her third consecutive #1 double album, marking her as
the on1y solo artist in history with that distinction.
Summer opened the '80s by becoming the first artist signed to
Geffen Records, debuting with "The Wanderer." In
1982 she teamed with Quincy Jones for "Love Is In Control
(Finger On The Trigger)" and a cover of the Jon
Anderson-Vangelis track "State Of Independence.."
1983's "She Works Hard For The Money" produced by
Michael Omartian preceded a hiatus broken by 1989's "This
Time I Know It's For Real" produced by British dance pop
juggernaut Stock Aitken Waterman. Her most recent hit single,
"I Will Go With You (Con Te Partiro)," debuted at a
1999 VH-1 concert before an adoring audience of both baby
boomers and their offspring.
With the new songs on The Journey: The Very Best Df Donna
Summer, the joumey for one of pop's greatest singer continues.
CD PRESS CONTACT:
Sujata Murthy, Universal 310/865-7812
Todd Nakamine, Universal 310/865-7797
RADIO CONTACT:
Elliot Kendall, Universal 310/865-9852
TRACKS
& LYRICS (Click on the titles)
DISC
1
1. Love
to Love You Baby
2. Could
It Be Magic
3. I Feel
Love
4. I Love
You
5. Last
Dance
6. MacArthur
Park
7. Heaven
Knows
8. Hot Stuff
9. Bad Girls
10.Dim All
the Lights
11.No More
Tears (Enough Is Enough)
12.On
the Radio
13.The
Wanderer
14.Love
Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)
15.State
of Independence
16.She
Works Hard for the Money
17.This
Time I Know It's for Real
18.I Will
Go With You (Con Te Partiro)
19.That's
the Way
20.Dream-A-Lot's
Theme (I Will Live for Love)
DISC
2
1 I Feel
Love 12" single remix 8:18
2 Hot Stuff
12" single remix 6:43
3 This
Time I Know It's For Real 12" extended remix
7:23
4 - Dream-A-Lot's
Theme (I Will Live For Love) 12" extended remix
9:15
5 You're So
Beautiful ( The Ultimate Club Mix) 10:50
Important
notice regarding the lyrics: The lyrics provided to the songs
listed above are the ones that appear on the original albums
by Donna Summer. So, since this is a greatest hits
compilation, which usually include edit versions, there may be
some differences and/or missing parts between the lyrics and
the actual version on the record.
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