Donna Summer - Endless Summer [1994][Best Of][FLAC]FLAWL3SS

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Donna Summer - Endless Summer

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Artist...............: Donna Summer

Album................: Endless Summer

Genre................: Pop

Source...............: CD

Year.................: 1994

Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy (Secure mode) / Level 8 & TSSTcorp CDDVD SE-S204N

Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)

Version..............: 1.2.1 20070917

Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 77 %)

Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit

Tags.................: VorbisComment

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Ripped by............: Warlordhunter on 8/22/2008

Posted by............: Warlordhunter on 8/25/2008





Included.............: NFO, M3U, LOG, CUE

Covers...............: Front Back



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Tracklisting

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1. (00:04:17) Donna Summer - Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)

2. (00:03:25) Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby

3. (00:03:57) Donna Summer - Could It Be Magic

4. (00:03:50) Donna Summer - I Feel Love

5. (00:03:22) Donna Summer - Last Dance

6. (00:03:59) Donna Summer - MacArthur Park

7. (00:03:24) Donna Summer - Heaven Knows

8. (00:03:51) Donna Summer - Hot Stuff

9. (00:03:57) Donna Summer - Bad Girls

10. (00:04:05) Donna Summer - Dim All The Lights

11. (00:04:47) Donna Summer - No More Tears (Enough is Enough)

12. (00:04:05) Donna Summer - On The Radio

13. (00:03:47) Donna Summer - The Wanderer

14. (00:04:22) Donna Summer - Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)

15. (00:04:28) Donna Summer - State of Independence

16. (00:04:35) Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money

17. (00:03:39) Donna Summer - This Time I Know It's For Real

18. (00:04:16) Donna Summer - Any Way At All



Playing Time.........: 01:31:37

Total Size...........: 450.15 MB



NFO generated on.....: 8/25/2008 12:47:53 AM





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Donna Summer (born LaDonna Adrian Gaines December 31, 1948) is an

American singer-songwriter and musician who gained prominence during the

disco era of music.



Summer was trained as a gospel singer prior to her introduction in the music

industry, as were many then-contemporary music artists. However, Summer's

notable songwriting capabilities, in addition to her collaborations with

producer-songwriters Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, were able to set her

apart from rivals in the industry.



Though she is most notable for her disco hits, Summer's repertoire has

expanded to include contemporary R&B, rock, mainstream pop, and even

gospel. Summer is one of the most successful female recording artists of the

1970s and 1980s, and still holds the record for having three consecutive

double albums hit #1 on the Billboard charts. She also became the first female

artist to have four number-one singles in a twelve-month period. According to

her official MySpace page, Summer has sold over 130 million records

worldwide



Born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, she was one

of seven children raised by devout Christian parents. She sang in church, and

in her teens joined a funk group called The Crow, so named because Donna

was the only black member of the group. At eighteen, Gaines left home and

school to take up a supporting role in the Broadway musical, Hair.

Unsuccessful in getting a the part in the Broadway show (Melba Moore got

the role), she was offered the European Tour when the show moved to

Germany, where Summer also performed in the German versions of several

musicals including Godspell and Show Boat. She settled in Munich and also

performed with the Viennese Folk Opera and the pop band Munich Machine.



In 1971, Gaines released a single in Europe entitled "Sally Go 'Round The

Roses", her first solo recording. The single was unsuccessful, however, and

she had to wait until 1974 to launch a solo career. Gaines married Austrian

actor Helmuth Sommer ("Summer" is an Anglicization of his last name) in 1972

and gave birth to daughter Mimi the following year. Summer did various

musical jobs in studios and theaters for several years, including the pop

group FamilyTree from 1974-75



Early success and notoriety

While singing back-up for groups such as Three Dog Night, she met producers

Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. With these producers, Summer signed a

contract in the Netherlands and issued her first album, Lady of the Night,

which included the European hit, "The Hostage". The single made #1 in

France and Belgium, and #2 in the Netherlands. Its follow-up, the title track

of the album, also gained some degree of European success.



In the summer of 1975, Summer approached Moroder and Bellotte with an

idea for a song. She had come up with the lyric "Love to love you, baby" as

the possible title for the song. Moroder was interested in developing the new

disco sound that was becoming increasingly popular, and used Summer's lyric

to develop the song into a disco track. He had the idea that she should moan

and groan orgasmically, but Summer was reticent. Eventually she agreed to

record the song as a demo. She has stated that she was not completely sure

of some of the lyrics, and parts of the song were improvised during the

recording. Donna later stated on a VH-1 "Behind The Music" program that she

pictured herself as Marilyn Monroe acting out the part of someone in sexual

ecstasy). Moroder was so astounded with Summer's orgasmic vocals that he

insisted she release the single herself. The song, titled "Love to Love You",

was released to modest success in Europe. When it reached America and the

hands of Casablanca president Neil Bogart, however, he was so ecstatic over

the demo that he asked Moroder to produce a twenty-minute version of the

song. Summer, Moroder and producer Pete Bellotte cut a seventeen-minute

version, renamed it "Love To Love You Baby", and Casablanca signed

Summer and issued it as a single in November 1975. Casablanca distributed

Summer's work in the US while other labels distributed it in different nations

during this period.



"Love To Love You Baby" was Summer's first big hit in America, reaching #2

on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in early 1976 and becoming her first

Number-One Hot Dance Club Play chart hit. The album (side one of which was

completely taken up with the full-length version of the title track) was also

released in late 1975 and was soon certified Gold for sales of over 500,000

US copies. The song was branded "graphic" by some music critics and was

even banned by some radio stations for its explicit content. Time magazine

reported that 22 orgasms were simulated in the making of the song, and

some of the music press dubbed Summer "the first lady of love." Two

successful, Gold-selling concept albums followed: A Love Trilogy which

featured the single "Could It Be Magic" and Four Seasons Of Love which

featured the uptempo "Spring Affair" as well as the ballad "Winter Melody"

which was a top 30 hit in the UK - the first of Donna's singles to be aired on

Radio 1 and a hit on the US R&B charts.



The 1977 album I Remember Yesterday, another concept album, found the

Summer/Moroder/Bellotte team combining the Disco sound with musical

elements of the past, present and future. The song representing the future,

"I Feel Love" became a landmark recording, giving Donna another Pop and

R&B hit reaching #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and number one in

the UK. "I Feel Love" earned her a second US Gold Single as well. The song's

use of raw techno and electronic sounds was revolutionary and popularized

synthesizers in dance, rock, and the burgeoning new wave.



Summer released another album in 1977, Once Upon A Time, a concept album

telling a modern-day Cinderella "rags to riches" story through the means of

electronic disco.





Continued success in music

In 1978 Summer acted in the film Thank God It's Friday and released the

single "Last Dance" which became her third US million-selling single. Written by

the late Paul Jabara � who also co-wrote "It's Raining Men", "The Main Event

(Fight)" and "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" � the song became

another major hit for Summer, reaching #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and

resulting in her first Grammy win. Jabara took home the Oscar after the song

was nominated for Song Of The Year. Summer also recorded a side-long

version of Serge Gainsbourg's "Je T'Aime (Moi Non Plus)" which was very

similar in style to "Love to Love You, Baby", initially shelved and later released

as a part of the Thank God It's Friday soundtrack.



That same year, Donna released her first live album, Live and More. It

knocked Linda Ronstadt's triple Platinum 'Living In The USA' out of the #1

position on Billboard's Album Chart. This was Summer's first #1 album as well

as her first to reach the million-selling Platinum mark. It included her first #1

American Pop single, a cover of the Jimmy Webb-penned "MacArthur Park" -

another Gold-certified US 45 - originally made famous by the late actor/singer

Richard Harris. The studio part of the album included the tracks "One Of A

Kind" and "Heaven Knows" which also featured vocals by Joe "Bean" Esposito

of the Brooklyn Dreams (group member Bruce Sudano would later become

romantically involved with Summer). "Heaven Knows" became another Gold

US Record and another Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.



Summer was also a guest artist on Kiss bassist Gene Simmons's 1978

eponymous solo album.





Bad Girls and the break from disco

In 1979, Summer released the landmark double-album Bad Girls. Unusual for a

disco album, it mixed Rock, Funk, Blues and Soul into electronic beats. It

yielded three consecutive million-selling singles: the back-to-back #1 hits "Hot

Stuff" and "Bad Girls", and the #2 hit "Dim All The Lights". "Bad Girls" also

became Summer's first #1 song on Billboard's R&B singles chart. With US

record sales at an all-time apex in 1979, Summer had a straight run of five US

Gold singles (three of which went on to Platinum status) that year alone. "Hot

Stuff" won Summer a second Grammy, for Best Female Rock Vocal

Performance. (Interestingly, the Grammies had a Best Disco Recording Award

only once, in 1980, won by Gloria Gaynor for her I Will Survive single.) Bad

Girls became Summer's second #1 album and the most successful album of

her entire career - going Multi-Platinum in the US. Summer and Bruce Sudano

grew closer during the making of this album and became engaged. During this

period, Summer had two songs in the top three of Billboard's Hot 100 during

the same week, with "Bad Girls" and "Hot Stuff". Just a few months later, she

accomplished the same feat again, with "No More Tears" and "Dim All the

Lights". During the summer of 1979, she played eight sold-out nights at the

Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles.



Summer's first compilation album, On The Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & 2,

was a global smash and her third straight #1 US album - also going multi-

platinum. With this, Summer became the first artist to have three consecutive

number-one double-albums. The album also contained two new tracks - "No

More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", a Platinum-selling #1 duet with Barbra

Streisand, and the Grammy-nominated Top Five Gold hit "On the Radio", a

song written for the film Foxes. The Streisand-Summer duet was her fourth

and final #1 Pop hit in the U.S - and her fourth #1 single in 12 months.

Afterwards, disagreements between Summer and Casablanca Records led to

her exit from the label in 1980. Summer was given a lucrative offer by David

Geffen and became the first artist to be signed to his new Geffen label in

1980.





The Wanderer and She Works Hard for the Money

Summer's first Geffen release, 1980's The Wanderer, was something of a

departure, in some ways closer to a rock/new wave affair. The title track,

and accompanying singles "Cold Love" and "Who Do You Think You're Foolin'?"

saw Summer attempting to reach the same audience dominated by

contemporaries like Blondie and Pat Benatar. The title track was another

million-selling hit, reaching #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earning her yet

another Gold single in the States. The album peaked at #13 on the US album

charts and earned a Gold album certification in the US. Her next album, I'm a

Rainbow, a new wave - oriented double album which also featured elements

of Soul, R&B, period British techno-pop and even synth-based Disco, was

shelved by Geffen (although two of the tracks would surface during the

1980s on the Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Flashdance film

soundtracks). Reluctantly, Summer left Moroder after seven years of

collaboration, and began work with Quincy Jones.



In 1982 Geffen released the Gold-certified, self-titled Donna Summer, and

the new production from Quincy Jones was again in the Top 10 of the Pop,

R&B, and Dance charts with the Grammy-nominated "Love Is In Control

(Finger On The Trigger)". A second single, "State of Independence", on which

Michael Jackson sang background along with a veritable "who's who" of the

music world, became a sizable international hit but a minor hit in the US. One

more single from the album followed, "The Woman In Me", later recorded by

Ann Wilson & Nancy Wilson of the rock group Heart. It peaked at #33 on the

Hot 100 and #30 on the R&B chart.



In 1983 Summer scored her biggest triumph since Bad Girls with the release of

the album, She Works Hard for the Money. The title track became one of her

most played songs. The Grammy-nominated hit also became a pro-feminist

anthem and was a staple on MTV, making her the first black woman to have a

video air in heavy rotation on the channel. The single was also Summer's

biggest-ever R&B hit (#1 for three weeks) and had frequent play on BET. It

was released on PolyGram's Mercury Records to settle a legal dispute

following PolyGram's absorption of Casablanca. It was Summer's 6th LP in a

row to feature a Billboard Top Ten Hit. A second single from the She Works

Hard For The Money album, the reggae-flavored "Unconditional Love"

featured vocals by British band Musical Youth and outsold the first single in

the UK, but stopped short of the US Top 40.



Her subsequent Geffen releases did not fare as well. 1984's Cats Without

Claws peaked at #40 on Billboard's Album Chart while 1987's All Systems Go

stalled at #122 on the chart with no major hits. The first single, Dinner with

Gershwin was a sizable international hit as well as being a Top Ten US R&B

hit. However, it was not enough to heal the difficult relationship with David

Geffen. Summer left Geffen Records in 1988 to sign with Atlantic Records

when he refused to release her next LP; ironi