"The Ultimate Collection (2003 Donna Summer album) The Ultimate Collection is a greatest hits three-CD compilation of recordings by American singer Donna Summer released in the Netherlands in early 2003. Unlike most of Summer's compilations, the 32-bit remastered ""Ultimate Collection"" includes the 16-minute album version of her breakthrough hit, ""Love to Love You Baby, the original 12"" versions of ""Theme from The Deep (Down Deep Inside)"", ""Last Dance"", ""Hot Stuff"", ""Bad Girls"", the original album or single versions of her biggest hits as well as the early European singles ""The Hostage"" and ""Lady of the Night"". Disc three contains live"
"an international disco smash. In the U.S., it became Summer's first US Top 40 hit, spending two weeks at #2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in February 7 & 14 1976 being held off the number one spot by Paul Simon's ""50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"" and logged four weeks atop the ""Billboard"" Dance Club Songs chart, as well number three on the ""Billboard"" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. In the UK, upon release in January 1976, the song reached #4 on the UK Singles Chart in spite of the BBC's initial refusal to promote it. They also refused"
"jockeys decided to favour the B-side to avoid the lyrics being heard, they would still have to announce the track's title. McCartney took the rhythm section parts from the A-side and overdubbed lead guitar lines (played by himself and McCullough) and an Irish penny whistle. Seeking to emulate the low-fidelity quality of Jamaican reggae singles, where instrumental dubs were commonly used as B-sides, McCartney gave the track a muddy-sounding mix, with barely any high-end sound. The song was immediately banned in the United Kingdom, being banned by the BBC, Radio Luxembourg and the Independent Television Authority (ITA). BBC Radio 1"
"biggest hits were ""Mony Mony"" by Tommy James and the Shondells (number 1 in the UK in 1968) and ""Je t'aime... moi non plus"" by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin (1969). Jane Birkin's panting sounds in this song (as if the pair was making love in the recording studio) resulted in it being banned in many countries. In Italy, Spain and Sweden the broadcasting of the record was prohibited. In the UK the BBC refused to broadcast it. Originally the record had been released by Fontana Records, but the record company's management withdrew it after it had reached number 2"
"was also a 1981 hit for Conway Twitty, topping the country music charts. The Bee Gees' overwhelming success rose and fell with the disco bubble. By the end of 1979, disco was rapidly declining in popularity, and the backlash against disco put the Bee Gees' American career in a tailspin. Radio stations around the US began promoting ""Bee Gee-Free Weekends"". Following their remarkable run from 1975 to 1979, the act would have only one more top 10 single in the US, and that would not come until 1989. Barry Gibb considered the success of the ""Saturday Night Fever"" soundtrack both"
"with the disco backlash in the US, the tracks were left unreleased. Although disco music had been declared ""dead"" in the US in a backlash in 1979, several songs which continued and advanced the exuberant surge of uptempo dance music managed to scale the US pop charts in the intervening years, notably Blondie's ""Call Me"" in 1980, Laura Branigan's ""Gloria"" in 1982, and Irene Cara's ""Flashdance (What A Feeling)"" in 1983. Unwilling to use the term ""disco"", the phrase ""high energy"" had come into usage, probably begun in England in the early 1980s. By 1984 Ian Levine had re-established himself"
"in May 2012, while Dara, who also toured with Donna, is now living in Atlanta, Georgia. At Donna's funeral, the sisters performed ""We've Come This Far By Faith"". Sunshine (American band) Sunshine is a disco act whose members were the sisters of singer Donna Summer: Linda Gaines (now Lotman), Dara Bernard, Jenette Yancy and lead singer Mary Ellen Bernard. Their 1978 number one Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play hit ""Take It to the Zoo,"" which was featured on the ""Thank God It's Friday"" film and soundtrack, was co-written by Summer (with Bruce Sudano and Joe ""Bean"" Esposito), who also sings"
"Best Original Song. The song was a hit on the US Dance Chart, as well as a top-five hit in the UK, and a top-ten hit in the Netherlands. Down Deep Inside ""Down Deep Inside"" is the theme song from the 1977 film ""The Deep"". The film's score was written by British composer John Barry and the lyrics to the main theme were added by disco singer Donna Summer. The track was released as a single and became a hit in some European countries, including the U.K. The film soundtrack LP also contained a slower tempo version of the song,"
"with songs found on her concept albums), the song played for a considerable amount of time (over six minutes), however, the song was edited for its release as a single. Winter Melody ""Winter Melody"" is a song by American singer and songwriter Donna Summer released as a single in early-1977 from her ""Four Seasons of Love"" album. It became a top 30 hit in the UK, where it peaked at #27. By this time Summer was making her name as the queen of disco music, though this song is a soul ballad. The song represented the ""winter"" phase of the"
"Work That Magic ""Work That Magic"" is a 1991 song from the album ""Mistaken Identity"" by Donna Summer. It is the second single from the album. In some countries' editions of the album (including the UK), the version of the song was a remix by ISA. This version was released as a single in the UK (in place of ""When Love Cries"", which had been a single in America and Europe). While most of the album had quite an urban feel, this song was much more of a dance number. It peaked at number 74 in the UK Singles Chart."
"Work That Magic ""Work That Magic"" is a 1991 song from the album ""Mistaken Identity"" by Donna Summer. It is the second single from the album. In some countries' editions of the album (including the UK), the version of the song was a remix by ISA. This version was released as a single in the UK (in place of ""When Love Cries"", which had been a single in America and Europe). While most of the album had quite an urban feel, this song was much more of a dance number. It peaked at number 74 in the UK Singles Chart."
"label, as she left the music industry to care for her husband, who had been diagnosed with cancer. Dim All the Lights ""Dim All the Lights"" is a song by American recording artist Donna Summer that bowed at #70 in August 25, 1979 and peaked at #2 November 10-17, 1979 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. It was blocked from becoming the third number one hit from the album by ""Heartache Tonight"" by the Eagles the first week and ""Still"" by Commodores the next week. Taken from her ""Bad Girls"" album and produced by her longtime collaborator Giorgio Moroder with Pete"
"would continue to be issued by Atlantic in Germany and France). As a result, some of her former labels released hits compilation albums in an attempt to cash in on losing her: GTO even scored a Top 5 placing in the United Kingdom with ""The Greatest Hits of Donna Summer"". Summer remained with Casablanca, who helped make her one of the biggest stars in music and ""The Queen of Disco"" until the end of 1979, when she left due to personal and professional disputes with them and filed a lawsuit against them. Summer became the first ever artist to be"
"movie was released to poor reviews and died at the box office. Despite its triple platinum start, the soundtrack LP's sales bombed after the film's release. In turn, record dealers flooded PolyGram with returned LPs. The resulting losses nearly wiped out the profits the company had made on both the ""Saturday Night Fever"" and ""Grease"" soundtracks. When the disco craze ended in 1979, and record sales for both the Bee Gees and Casablanca's Village People plummeted, the company's fate was sealed. PolyGram also experienced losses with the defection of Casablanca's Donna Summer to newly formed Geffen Records as well as"
"single was ""Stilettos and Lipstick"" backed with ""Do the Swim"", released in 1975. She also created a disco version of the song ""Fever"" in 1976 which was again backed with ""Do the Swim"". The B-side of both of these releases became better known, perhaps helped by a performance on British television in which she accidentally (and repeatedly) exposed her breasts. While edited out of the original broadcast in 1975, the unedited version was shown worldwide on bloopers shows (beginning with the British show ""It'll be Alright on the Night"" in 1977). Following this notoriety, another effort was made to promote"
"Down Deep Inside ""Down Deep Inside"" is the theme song from the 1977 film ""The Deep"". The film's score was written by British composer John Barry and the lyrics to the main theme were added by disco singer Donna Summer. The track was released as a single and became a hit in some European countries, including the U.K. The film soundtrack LP also contained a slower tempo version of the song, and an extended version of the original later appeared on a CD version of Summer's 1978 ""Live and More"" album.The song was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for"
"had sold over a million copies. The song generated controversy due to Summer's moans and groans, and some American stations, like those in Europe with the initial release, refused to play it. Despite this, ""Love to Love You Baby"" found chart success in several European countries, and made the Top 5 in the United Kingdom despite the BBC ban. Casablanca wasted no time releasing the album ""A Love Trilogy"", featuring ""Try Me, I Know We Can Make It"" No. 80 and Summer's remarkable rendition of Barry Manilow's ""Could It Be Magic"" No. 52, which was followed by ""Four Seasons of"
"Sunshine (American band) Sunshine is a disco act whose members were the sisters of singer Donna Summer: Linda Gaines (now Lotman), Dara Bernard, Jenette Yancy and lead singer Mary Ellen Bernard. Their 1978 number one Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play hit ""Take It to the Zoo,"" which was featured on the ""Thank God It's Friday"" film and soundtrack, was co-written by Summer (with Bruce Sudano and Joe ""Bean"" Esposito), who also sings background on the track. The planned album, ""Sunshine Watching Daddy Dance"", was pulled at the last minute. Mary Ellen continued to perform with Donna until her sister's death"
"with her third number one double album. The genre started to become increasingly commercialized, and the large number of disco songs flooding the radio airwaves in 1978-1979 resulted in a growing backlash against it, as epitomized by the ""Disco Demolition Night"" stunt by a Chicago disc jockey at a July 1979 baseball game at Comiskey Park. The popularity of the genre waned, and 1980s, declared dead by the rock deejays of the nation, ""Funkytown"" by Lipps Inc was one of the last disco hits. Along with the demise of disco came the end of the orchestrations and musical instruments (such"
"to exclude sales from record shops that sold their own records (in this case, Virgin), in a deliberate effort to prevent the controversial song from reaching the number-one spot and causing wider offence. The Frankie Goes to Hollywood song ""Relax"" generated controversy due to its suggestive lyrics; the chorus contained double entendres such as ""when you want to suck to it"" and ""when you want to come"", which were interpreted as being oblique references to oral sex and ejaculation respectively. On 11 January 1984, Radio 1 morning DJ Mike Read stopped the song on-air during a chart rundown to point"
"Mistaken Identity (Donna Summer album) Mistaken Identity is the fifteenth studio album by Donna Summer, released on August 23, 1991. Since making her name as the biggest female star of the disco era in the 1970s, Summer had experimented with different musical genres throughout the 1980s with varying degrees of success. For ""Mistaken Identity"", Summer adopted a more urban style. The album was not a commercial success and failed to chart on both the US ""Billboard"" 200 and UK Albums Chart. However, it spent a single week on the US ""Billboard"" R&B Albums chart, at #97. The first single released"
"Unconditional 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 had scored a Top 10 Pop and R&B hit in the US with ""Pass the Dutchie"" earlier in 1983. The song was a commercial disappointment, peaking at #43 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and #40 on the Cashbox Chart, though it performed significantly better on the R&B chart (reaching the Top Ten). In the UK, it became Summer's fourteenth"
"from the album, ""When Love Cries"", peaked at #77 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and #18 on the ""Billboard"" R&B charts. ""Work That Magic"" was released as a single in the United Kingdom and reached #74 in the UK Singles Chart. Production Mistaken Identity (Donna Summer album) Mistaken Identity is the fifteenth studio album by Donna Summer, released on August 23, 1991. Since making her name as the biggest female star of the disco era in the 1970s, Summer had experimented with different musical genres throughout the 1980s with varying degrees of success. For ""Mistaken Identity"", Summer adopted a"
"the single was refused airplay by the BBC, probably due to its death theme, although some have speculated that it was considered likely to encourage violence between mods and rockers. It charted three times on the UK Singles Chart: number 11 in 1965; number 3 in 1972 (by which time the BBC ban had been lifted); and once again at number 7 in 1976, when its sales figures as a reissue on two different labels (Charly and Contempo) were combined to arrive at its chart position. The record also reached number 1 in Australia. In 2004, ""Rolling Stone"" ranked the"
"several other artists. It had the effect of setting off disco mania in the United States. the Bee Gees' soundtrack to ""Saturday Night Fever"" became the one best selling album of all time. The Bee Gees and Donna Summer became the genres mega stars. The Bee Gees had 9 number 1 singles, and 12 top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. Donna Summer had 4 number 1 singles, and 8 top 5 hits, 9 top 10s during the second half of the decade. Summer would be the first female artist of the modern era, to have the number"
"and released in late 1978, it went on to sell nearly half a million copies, peaking at number seven in the UK Singles Chart. In its biggest week, orders were coming in for 20,000 copies a day, which would have put it at number one. The pressing plant only managed to press and distribute 20,000 copies and it dropped down to number 11. The record doomed their career as an act to one-hit wonder status. BBC Radio refused to play the follow-up, ""Headlights"", because of its controversial content (a truck driver menaces lone girl on isolated back road), and because"
"contentious relationship evidenced by Summer's 1981 album ""I'm a Rainbow"" being shelved and the singer being forced by Geffen to leave her longtime producer Giorgio Moroder to record the 1982 album ""Donna Summer"" with Quincy Jones. Recent litigation had determined that Summer still owed Casablanca Records an album. Donna decided to go with Michael Omartian as producer to fulfill the contract. PolyGram issued these tracks on the Mercury label as ""She Works Hard for the Money"" with the title cut issued as advance single on May 10, 1983: the ""She Works Hard for the Money"" single became Summer's biggest hit"
"name and lyrics of the song (which constantly repeated the word 'Sì') could be accused of being a subliminal message and a form of propaganda to influence the Italian voting public to vote 'Yes' in the referendum. The song remained censored on most Italian state TV and radio stations for over a month. An English language version of the song, ""Go (Before You Break My Heart)"", reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1974. One of her other songs, ""Alle Porte del Sole"" (released in 1973), was re-recorded in English (as ""Door of the Sun"") and Italian"
"artist. This went on for the five weeks that ""Relax"" was at number one. It then began a slow decline on the charts, falling back as far as number 31 in May 1984 before returning to number two in July whilst Frankie's follow-up single ""Two Tribes"" held the UK number-one spot. In the end, ""Relax"" remained on the Top 75 for 48 consecutive weeks and returned in February 1985 for four more, giving a total of 52. The ban became an embarrassment for the BBC, especially given that UK commercial radio and television stations were still playing the song. Later"
"ranked the song 10th in its 100 Greatest Dance Songs in 2006. Marked by ""little more than Donna Summer simulating an orgasm over a background of blaxploitation cymbals, wah-wah guitars, a funky-butt clarinet riff, and some synth chimes, ""Love to Love You Baby"" […] was extended into a seventeen-minute minisymphony at the behest of Casablanca Records chief Neil Bogart, who wanted a soundtrack for his sexual exploits. The song reached number two in the American charts and was largely responsible for the development of the twelve inch single."" Donna Summer has since been forced to stop performing ""Love to Love"
"the matter, saying, ""It really doesn't matter what sex Lola is, I think she's alright"". Some radio stations would fade the track out before implications of Lola's biological sex were revealed. On 18 November 1970, the song was banned in Australia because of its ""controversial subject matter"". The BBC banned the track for a different reason. The original song recorded in stereo had the word ""Coca-Cola"" in the lyrics, but because of BBC Radio's policy against product placement, Ray Davies was forced to make a 6000-mile round-trip flight from New York to London and back on June 3, 1970, interrupting"
"in Europe, including a Number One in Germany. To obtain a bouzouki sound on the recording, an electrified mandolin was used. The song was inspired by music from the film sound track of Zorba The Greek. The combined UK and European sales were over one million. However, in October 1966, the British music magazine ""NME"" commented that dozens of US radio stations had banned the record, because the lyrics were considered too suggestive. The group responded by recording a new version in London with a different set of words, which was rush-released in the US, as the original single was"
"after the first week with the producer citing 'financial problems'. He then went on to use Dani Harmer as an excuse, as shortly after the tour's cancellation, she announced that she would be taking part in the tenth series of Strictly Come Dancing. Creatives of the show and Dani Harmer's management team have stated that these rumours were untrue. The proposed tour schedule was as follows: Disco Inferno (musical) Disco Inferno is an award-winning 1970's jukebox musical written by Jai Sepple. Set in the East End of London in 1976, the show features a host of memorable songs from the"