DONNA SUMMER & GIORGIO MORODER DISCOGRAPHY 1974-1981+

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Number of tracks: 216.
Cover art: original albums + CD re-issues.





David Bowie, liner notes compilation 'Sound and Vision' 1989:

"One day in Berlin ... (Brian) Eno came running in and said, 'I have heard the sound of the future!' … he puts on "I Feel Love", by Donna Summer … He said, 'This is it, look no further. This single is going to change the sound of club music for the next fifteen years.' Which was more or less right."

Madonna: 'Confessions Tour' 2006, Slantmagazine.com, review:

"...the show begins with the singer fabulously emerging from a disco ball to sing a medley of "Future Lovers" and that song's impetus, the greatest dance song of all time, Donna Summer's "I Feel Love." ..."

NME.com Giorgio Moroder biography:

"Moroder formed a production team with Pete Bellotte. The duo's breakthrough came about with the discovery of Donna Summer, who was one of the backing singers they used for recording sessions. Liking her voice and striking appearance, they recorded two singles, "The Hostage" and "Lady Of The Night". Two albums followed: Lady Of The Night in 1974 and Love To Love You Baby in 1975. The latter's 17-minute epic title track was a groundbreaking recording, technologically ahead of its time and aimed squarely at the thriving disco scene. "Love To Love You Baby" was a pulsating, sensual single (compared by some to Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg's version of "Je T'Aime ... Moi Non Plus"), distinctive for Summer's sexual sighs and groans that punctuated the final stages of the record. It was a worldwide hit, as well as a controversial one, and a phenomenon on the disco scene, typified by New York's thriving clubs, such as The Gallery, The Paradise Garage and Studio 54. Moroder continued to produce other artists and Summer's subsequent albums. Summer's "I Feel Love" (taken from I Remember Yesterday) continued where "Love To Love You Baby" left off and was an electronic production masterpiece, especially considering the technology available at the time. It was another apex in disco's history and confirmed Summer's unintentional rise to the role of disco prima donna."


IMDB.com Donna Summer biography:

"Donna Summer was the Queen of Disco in the 1970s with a pop/dance/rock sound that was a hybrid of American soul and European synthesizer based music. Summer's musical career was launched on stage in Munich, Germany, in productions of Hair and Porgy & Bess. In Germany, she hooked up with producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, and delivered the orgasmic "Love to Love You Baby" which brought her worldwide fame. Summer was the first female artist to garner back-to-back multi-platinum double albums and the first female artist to incorporate synthesizers as well as the first artist to create an extended play song. Musically, she diversified into pop and rock, while career-wise, she appeared in the disco movie Thank God It's Friday (1978), for which the song, "Last Dance" won a Best Song Oscar, as well as numerous American TV music specials. Her career reached its zenith in 1980 with the release of the critically-acclaimed record "The Wanderer", a diverse fusion of rock and dance which is still considered to be the forerunner of such range of artists as Billy Idol, Whitney Houston and Alanis Morissette."


Allmusic.com Donna Summer biography:

"Donna Summer's title as the "Queen of Disco" wasn't mere hype — she was one of the very few disco performers to enjoy a measure of career longevity, and her consistent chart success was rivaled in the disco world only by the Bee Gees. Summer was certainly a talented vocalist, trained as a powerful gospel belter, but then again, so were many of her contemporaries. Of major importance in setting Summer apart were her songwriting abilities and her choice of talented collaborators in producers/songwriters Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, which resulted in a steady supply of high-quality (and, often, high-concept) material. But what was more, few vocalists could match the sultry, unfettered eroticism Summer brought to many of her best recordings, which seemed to embody the spirit of the disco era perfectly. The total package made Summer the ultimate disco diva, one of the few whose star power was even bigger than the music.

Summer was born LaDonna Andre Gaines on December 31, 1948, and grew up in Boston's Mission Hill section. Part of a religious family, she first sang in her church's gospel choir, and as a teenager performed with a rock group called the Crow. After high school, she moved to New York to sing and act in stage productions, and soon landed a role in a German production of Hair. She moved to Europe around 1968-1969, and spent a year in the German cast, after which she became part of the Hair company in Vienna. She joined the Viennese Folk Opera, and later returned to Germany, where she settled in Munich and met and married Helmut Sommer, adopting an Anglicized version of his last name. Summer performed in various stage musicals and worked as a studio vocalist in Munich, recording demos and background vocals. Her first solo recording was 1971's "Sally Go 'Round the Roses," but success would not come until 1974, when she met producers/songwriters Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte while working on a Three Dog Night record. The three teamed up for the single "The Hostage," which became a hit around Western Europe, and Summer released her first album, Lady of the Night, in Europe only. In 1975, the trio recorded "Love to Love You Baby," a disco-fied reimagining of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin's lush, heavy-breathing opus "Je T'aime...Moi Non Plus." Powered by Summer's graphic moans, "Love to Love You Baby" became a massive hit in Europe, and drew the attention of Casablanca Records, which put the track out in America. It climbed to number two on the singles charts, and became a dance-club sensation when Moroder remixed the track into a 17-minute, side-long epic on the LP of the same name.

In the wake of "Love to Love You Baby," albums (as opposed to just singles) became an important forum for Summer and her producers. The 1976 follow-up Love Trilogy contained another side-long suite in "Try Me (I Know We Can Make It Work)," and demonstrated Moroder and Bellotte's growing sophistication as arrangers with its lush, sweeping strings. Four Seasons of Love, released later in the year, was a concept album with one track dedicated to each season, and 1977's I Remember Yesterday featured a variety of genre exercises. Despite the album's title, it produced the most forward-looking single in Summer and Moroder's catalog, the monumental "I Feel Love." Eschewing the strings and typical disco excess, "I Feel Love" was the first major pop hit recorded with an entirely synthesized backing track; its lean, sleek arrangement and driving, hypnotic pulse laid the groundwork not only for countless Euro-dance imitators, but also for the techno revolution of the '80s and '90s. It became Summer's second Top Ten hit in the U.S., and she followed it with Once Upon a Time, another concept album, this one retelling the story of Cinderella for the disco era.

Summer's albums were selling well, bolstered by her popularity in the dance clubs, and she was poised to become a major pop hitmaker as well. Her acting turn in the 1978 disco-themed comedy Thank God It's Friday produced another hit in "Last Dance," which won her a Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal (as well as an Oscar for songwriter Paul Jabara). Doubtlessly benefiting from the added exposure, the double-LP set Live and More became Summer's first number one album later that year. It featured one side of new studio material, including a disco cover of the psychedelic pop epic "MacArthur Park" that became her first number one pop single early the next year. Her 1979 double-LP Bad Girls featured more of her songwriting contributions than ever, and went straight to number one, as did the lusty singles "Bad Girls" and the rock-oriented "Hot Stuff," which made Summer the first female artist ever to score three number one singles in the same calendar year. Her greatest-hits package On the Radio also topped the charts, the first time any artist had ever hit number one with three consecutive double LPs; the newly recorded title track became another hit, and Summer's duet with Barbra Streisand, "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)," became her fourth number one single.

At the peak of her success, Summer decided to leave Casablanca, and became the first artist signed to the new Geffen label. Sensing that the disco era was coming to a close, Summer attempted to modify her style to include more R&B and pop/rock on her first Geffen album, 1980's The Wanderer; the album and its title track were both hits. Not wanting to alienate her core audience, Summer returned to pure dance music on an attempted follow-up; however, Geffen deemed I'm a Rainbow not worthy of release  - it was finally issued in 1996. Summer ended her collaboration with prodcers Moroder and Bellotte but in 1992 she reunited with Moroder for the non-LP single "Carry On," which won the inaugural Grammy for Best Dance Recording in 1998."




TRACK LIST:

Lady of the Night (1974)
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01. Lady of the Night
02. Born to Die
03. Friends
04. Full of Emptiness
05. Domino
06. The Hostage
07. Wounded
08. Little Miss Fit
09. Let's Work Together Now
10. Sing Along (Sad Song)

Love to Love You Baby (1975)
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01. Love to Love You Baby (12 Inch & Album Version)
02. Full of Emptiness
03. Need-a-Man Blues
04. Whispering Waves
05. Pandora's Box
06. Full of Emptiness (Reprise)
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07. Love to Love You Baby (Original 7 Inch Version)
08. Love to Love You Baby (Alternate 7 Inch Version)

A Love Trilogy (1976)
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01. Try Me, I Know We Can Make It (12 Inch & Album Version)
02. Intro: Prelude to Love
03. Could It Be Magic
04. Wasted
05. Come with Me
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06. Try Me, I Know We Can Make It (7 Inch Version)
07. Could It Be Magic (7 Inch Version)
08. Intro: Prelude to Love - Could It Be Magic (Non-Stop Suite)

Four Seasons of Love (1976)
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01. Spring Affair 
02. Summer Fever
03. Autumn Changes
04. Winter Melody
05. Spring Reprise
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06. Spring Affair (7 Inch Version)
07. Winter Melody (7 & 12 Inch Version)
08. Four Seasons of Love - Side 1 (Non-Stop Suite)
09. Four Seasons of Love - Side 2 (Non-Stop Suite)

Soundtrack - The Deep (1977)
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01. Theme from The Deep (Down Deep Inside) (7 Inch Version)
02. Theme from The Deep (Down Deep Inside) (12 Inch Version)
Producer: John Barry

I Remember Yesterday (1977)
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01. I Remember Yesterday 
02. Love's Unkind
03. Back in Love Again
04. I Remember Yesterday (Reprise)
05. Black Lady
06. Take Me
07. Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)
08. I Feel Love (Album & 7 Inch Version)
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09. I Remember Yesterday (7 Inch Version)
10. Love's Unkind (7 Inch Version)
11. Back in Love Again (7 & 12 Inch Version)
12. I Feel Love (Edited Version)
13. I Feel Love (12 Inch Version)
14. I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley 12 Inch Mega Mix, 1982)
15. I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley 12 Inch Mega Edit, 1982)
16. I Feel Love (Rollo & Sister Bliss Remix, Radio Edit, 1995)
17. I Feel Love (Rollo & Sister Bliss Monster Remix, 1995)
18. I Feel Love (Masters at Work 86th St. Mix, 1995)
19. I Feel Love (Summer '77 RE-EQ '95)
20. I Feel Love (Almighty Definitive Mix, 2005)
21. I Remember Yesterday - Side 1 (Non-Stop Suite)

Once Upon a Time (double album, 1977)
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01. Once Upon a Time
02. Fairy Tale High
03. Faster and Faster to Nowhere
04. Say Something Nice
05. Now I Need You
06. Working the Midnight Shift
07. Queen for a Day
08. If You Got It Flaunt It
09. A Man Like You
10. Sweet Romance
11. (Theme) Once Upon a Time
12. Dance Into My Life
13. Rumour Has It
14. I Love You
15. Happily Ever After
16. (Theme) Once Upon a Time
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18. I Love You (7 Inch Version)
19. Rumour Has It (7 Inch Version)
20. Once Upon a Time (7 Inch Version)
21. Once Upon a Time - Rumour Has It - I Love You (Non-Stop Suite, 1993 'Anthology' Edit)
22. Once Upon a Time - Act One (Non-Stop Suite)
23. Once Upon a Time - Act Two (Non-Stop Suite)
24. Once Upon a Time - Act Three (Non-Stop Suite)
25. Once Upon a Time - Act Four (Non-Stop Suite)

Soundtrack - Thank God It's Friday (1978)
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01. With Your Love
02. Last Dance (Album & 12 Inch Version)
03. Last Dance (Reprise)
04. Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summer: Je T'aime (Moi Non Plus)
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05. Last Dance (7 Inch Version)
06. Last Dance ('On the Radio' Mix, 1993 'Anthology' Edit)
07. With Your Love (7 Inch Version)
08. With Your Love (12 Inch Version)
09. With Your Love (12 Inch Version, 1987 'Dance Collection' Edit)

Live and More (double album, 1978)
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Live:
01. Once Upon a Time
02. Fairy Tale High
03. Faster and Faster to Nowhere
04. Spring Affair
05. Rumour Has It
06. I Love You
07. Only One Man
08. I Remember Yesterday
09. Love's Unkind
10. My Man Medley (The Man I Love - I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good - Some of These Days)
11. The Way We Were
12. Mimi's Song
13. Try Me, I Know We Can Make It
14. Love to Love You Baby
15. I Feel Love
16. Last Dance
Studio:
17. MacArthur Park Suite (MacArthur Park - One of A Kind - Heaven Knows (with Brooklyn Dreams) - MacArthur Park (Reprise)) (Original Album Version)
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18. MacArthur Park (7 Inch Version)
19. MacArthur Park ('Promotional Single Version', 1993 'Anthology' Edit)
20. Heaven Knows (with Brooklyn Dreams) (7 Inch Version)
21. MacArthur Park Suite (Alternate Mix, 2003 'Bad Girls Deluxe Edition' Edit)

Bad Girls (double album, 1979)
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01. Hot Stuff
02. Bad Girls
03. Love Will Always Find You
04. Walk Away
05. Dim All the Lights
06. Journey to the Centre of Your Heart
07. One Night in a Lifetime
08. Can't Get to Sleep Tonight
09. On My Honor
10. There Will Always Be a You
11. All Through the Night
12. My Baby Understands
13. Our Love
14. Lucky
15. Sunset People
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16. Bad Girls (Demo Version)
17. Hot Stuff (7 Inch Version)
18. Hot Stuff (12 Inch Version)
19. Bad Girls (7 Inch Version)
20. Bad Girls (12 Inch Version)
21. Dim All the Lights (7 Inch Version)
22. Dim All the Lights (12 Inch Version)
23. Sunset People (7 Inch Version)
24. Our Love (7 Inch Version)
25. Walk Away (7 Inch Version)
26. Walk Away (12 Inch Version)
27. Hot Stuff (12 Inch Version) - Bad Girls (Album Version) (Non-Stop Suite, 1987 'Dance Collection' Edit)
28. Bad Girls - Side 1 (Non-Stop Suite)
29. Bad Girls - Side 2 (Non-Stop Suite)
30. Bad Girls - Side 4 (Non-Stop Suite)

On the Radio - Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & 2 (double album, 1979) 
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01. On the Radio
02. Love to Love You Baby
03. Try Me, I Know We Can Make It
04. I Feel Love
05. Our Love
06. I Remember Yesterday
07. I Love You
08. Heaven Knows (with Brooklyn Dreams)
09. Last Dance
10. MacArthur Park
11. Hot Stuff
12. Bad Girls
13. Dim All the Lights
14. Sunset People
15. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) (duet with Barbra Streisand) ('On the Radio' Album & 12 Inch Version)
16. On the Radio (Long Version)
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17. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) (7 Inch Version)
18. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) ('Wet' 7 Inch Version)
19. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) ('Wet' Album Version)
20. On the Radio (7 Inch Version)
21. On the Radio ('Foxes' Soundtrack & 12 Inch Version)
22. On the Radio - Side 1 (Non-Stop Suite)
23. On the Radio - Side 2 (Non-Stop Suite)
24. On the Radio - Side 3 (Non-Stop Suite)

The Wanderer (1980)
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01. The Wanderer
02. Looking Up
03. Breakdown
04. Grand Illusion
05. Running for Cover
06. Cold Love
07. Who Do You Think You're Foolin'
08. Night Life
09. Stop Me
10. I Believe In Jesus

I'm a Rainbow (1981 double album, released 1996)
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01. I Believe (In You) (duet with Joe Esposito)
02. True Love Survives
03. You to Me
04. Sweet Emotion
05. Leave Me Alone
06. Melanie 
07. Back Where You Belong
08. People Talk
09. To Turn the Stone
10. Brooklyn 
11. I'm a Rainbow
12. Walk On (Keep on Movin')
13. Don't Cry for Me Argentina
14. A Runner With the Pack
15. Highway Runner
16. Romeo 
17. End of the Week
18. I Need Time
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19. Don't Cry for Me Argentina (1993 'Anthology' Remix)
20. I'm a Rainbow (1993 'Anthology' Remix)

Giorgio Moroder featuring Donna Summer: Carry On (1992-1998)
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01. Carry On (Original Mix, 1992)
02. Carry On (Original Extended, 1992)
03. Carry On (Original Instrumental, 1992)
04. Carry On (Outta Control Radio, 1997)
05. Carry On (Hysteria Radio, 1997)
06. Carry On (Slammin' Cox Radio, 1997) 
07. Carry On (Outta Control Extended, 1997)
08. Carry On (Hysteria Mix, 1997) 
09. Carry On (Slammin' Cox Mix, 1997)  
10. Carry On (Hot Tracks Mix, 1997)
11. Carry On (Hysteriastrumental, 1997) 
12. Carry On (Definitive Radio Mix, 1998)
13. Carry On (Fired Up Radio Mix, 1998)
14. Carry On (12" Fired Up Mix, 1998)
15. Carry On (12" Definitive Mix, 1998)
16. Carry On (Diddy's Hard for the Money Mix, 1998)
17. Carry On (Euro Mix, 1998)
18. Carry On (Untidy Dub, 1998)
19. Finale 
Remixes by Outta Control, Eric Kupper, Chris Cox, J. Mark Andrus, Almighty (Martyn Norris & Jon Dixon), Diddy, Gemini & Maureen & Tidy Trax. 



SOURCES: Love to Love You Baby, A Love Trilogy, Four Seasons of Love, I Remember Yesterday, Once Upon a Time, Live and More, On the Radio - Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & 2, The Wanderer (1975-1980 albums, 1987-1992 CD re-issues Casablanca Records/PolyGram), The Summer Collection (1985 compilation, 1987 CD re-issue, Mercury/PolyGram), Walk Away - Collector's Edition - The Best of 1977-1980 (1980 compilation, 1990 CD re-issue, Casablanca/PolyGram), Barbra Streisand: Wet (1979 album, 1990 CD re-issue, CBS Records/Columbia), The Dance Collection - A Collection of Twelve Inch Singles (1987 compilation, 1990 CD re-issue, Casablanca/PolyGram), Giorgio Moroder: Forever Dancing (1992 CD album, Virgin Records Germany), Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summer: Carry On (1992 CD single, Virgin, Germany), The Donna Summer Anthology (1993 CD compilation, Casablanca/Mercury/PolyGram), Soundtrack - Thank God It's Friday (1978 album, 1994 CD re-issue, Casablanca/PolyGram), Endless Summer - Donna Summer's Greatest Hits (1994 CD compilation, UK edition, Casablanca/Mercury/PolyGram), I Feel Love '95 (1995 CD singles, Parts 1 & 2, UK, Manifesto/Casablanca/Mercury/PolyGram), Lady of the Night (1974 album, 1996 CD-reissue, Repertoire Records Germany), I'm A Rainbow (shelved 1981 album, 1996 CD release, Casablanca/PolyGram), Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summer: Carry On (1997 CD single, US, Interhit), Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summer: Carry On (1998 CD singles, Parts 1 & 2, UK, Almighty Music), Master Series (1999 CD compilation, Mercury/PolyGram), Bad Girls (1979 album, 2003 CD Deluxe Edition, Casablanca/Def Jam Island Group/Universal Music Group), The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer (2003 CD compilation, US edition, UTV/Universal Music), The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer (2003 CD compilation, UK edition, Universal Music), V/A: Almighty Downunder Volume 3 (2005 CD compilation, Almighty Music), Gold (2005 CD compilation, Hip-O/Mercury/Universal Music).