Donna Summer "The Journey: The Very Best Of Donna Summer"

The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer is a compilation album by American singer Donna Summer released by Universal Music on September 30, 2003. It features most of Summer's best known songs from the 1970s disco era, during which she became the most successful female of that genre, plus some of her hits from the 1980s, during which time she experimented with different genres.

The Journey was released in the UK on the back of her appearance on the TV special Disco Mania which celebrated the 1970s disco era and saw Summer performing her 1979 duet "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (originally with Barbra Streisand) with Irish boy band Westlife.

The album was also released in the US with a slightly different track listing—both on the album itself and also on the 'limited edition bonus disc'.

Three new songs were recorded for the collection, including "You're So Beautiful" and "Dream-A-Lot's Theme (I Will Live for Love)", both of which were released as promotional singles. The UK version of the compilation placed the two new recordings "That's the Way" and "Dream-A-Lot's Theme" on the limited edition bonus disc—these two tracks are consequently not available on the UK single-disc edition of The Journey.

Track listings:

UK edition

1. "Love to Love You Baby" Summer, Moroder, Bellotte 3:22
2. "Could It Be Magic" Anderson, Manilow 3:54
3. "I Feel Love" Summer, Moroder, Bellotte 3:46
4. "Down Deep Inside (Theme From "The Deep")" Barry, Summer 4:25
5. "Love's Unkind" Bellotte, Moroder, Summer 4:28
6. "I Love You" Summer, Moroder, Bellotte 3:18
7. "Last Dance" Jabara 3:19
8. "MacArthur Park" Webb 3:54
9. "Heaven Knows" Summer, Moroder, Mathieson, Bellotte 3:39
10. "Rumour Has It" Bellotte, Moroder, Summer 5:04
11. "Hot Stuff" Faltermeyer, Forsey, Bellotte 3:50
12. "Bad Girls" Sudano, Summer, Hokenson, Esposito 3:57
13. "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (Duet With Barbra Streisand) Roberts, Jabara 4:48
14. "On the Radio" Summer, Moroder 4:05
15. "Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)" Ross, Jones, Temperton 4:19
16. "State of Independence" Anderson, Vangelis 4:25
17. "She Works Hard for the Money" Summer, Omartian 4:10
18. "Dinner with Gershwin" Russell 4:39
19. "This Time I Know It's for Real" Summer, Stock, Aitken, Waterman 3:36

Donna Summer "This Time I Know It's for Real (Single & Video)"

"This Time I Know It's for Real" is a song by American singer-songwriter Donna Summer, released on February 13, 1989, as the first single from her 14th studio album, Another Place and Time (1989), by Atlantic Records and Warner Bros. Records. Like the rest of the album, the song was written and produced by the British Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) team, though Summer also had a hand in writing this song.

The song became Summer's biggest hit in the United Kingdom since 1979, reaching number three and spending a total of 14 weeks in the UK Singles Chart top 75. It reached number seven in both the United States and Canada, becoming Summer's 14th and final top-10 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 as well as the last top-40 hit of her career. The song was also successful on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart, peaking at number two.

Summer became aware of SAW after her husband, Bruce Sudano, drew her attention to their work during a visit to Europe. She was further encouraged by Rick Astley's subsequent success, saying she "loved his production". Hitting it off with the producers immediately, Summer recalled that the song came together on their first day working together, a rare case of "hitting the nail on the head the first time". While she was enthusiastic, her then US label boss David Geffen wanted a rockier sound with more guitars from the SAW sessions, a dictate which was immediately refused by Pete Waterman.

With Geffen Records ending her US deal due to an impasse over the new material, this was Summer's first US single to be released on Atlantic Records. Since 1980 she had been signed to Geffen, but her work across Europe had always been distributed by Warner Bros.' main label. This would continue to be the case following her signing to Atlantic.

"This Time I Know It's for Real" reached the top-ten in the majority of the countries in which it was released. In the US, it charted for 17 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 with a peak at number seven in its tenth week on the chart on June 24, 1989, thus becoming Summer's 14th and last top ten hit in the country, six years after the top three hit "She Works Hard for the Money". It also reached number two on the Billboard Adult Contemporary, number five on the Dance Club Songs, and number one on the Dance Singles Sales chart. In the UK, "This Time I Know It's for Real" charted for 14 weeks and hit number three in its fifth week, on 19 March 1989, thus marking Summer's return in the top ten after ten years of absence, her previous top ten hit being "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", released in 1979. In Continental Europe, "This Time I Know It's for Real" achieved its highest position in the Flanders part of Belgium where it reached number two, being blocked from the number one slot by Madonna's "Like a Prayer" which topped the chart then, and featured on the chart for 12 weeks. In France, after a debut at number 43, it reached number six twice and remained in the top 50 for a total of 18 weeks, becoming Summer's highest peak position in the country. It was also a top-three hit in Finland and Norway, attained number four in Ireland, number five in the Netherlands, number six in Denmark and number seven in Canada. In addition, it peaked within the top-20 in Sweden, West Germany, Spain and Italy, and barely made top-40 in Australia where it charted for ten weeks. On the Music & Media's European Hot 100 Singles chart, "This Time I Know It's for Real" spent 26 weeks with two weeks at a peak of number seven, and being much aired on radios, had a 17-week chart run on the European Airplay Top 50 where it reached number eight.

Track listings:

7-inch single

1. "This Time I Know It's for Real" – 3:36
2. "Whatever Your Heart Desires" (original mix) – 3:50

12-inch maxi

1. "This Time I Know It's for Real" (extended version) – 7:20
2. "Whatever Your Heart Desires" (original mix) – 3:50
3. "This Time I Know It's for Real" (instrumental) – 3:34

Donna Summer "She Works Hard For The Money (Single & Video)"

"She Works Hard for the Money" is a song by American singer Donna Summer from her eleventh studio album She Works Hard for the Money (1983). The song was written by Michael Omartian and Summer, and produced by the former. It was released as the lead single on May 10, 1983 from the album by Mercury Records. It became a hit for Summer, reaching number one for a three-week stay atop the Billboard R&B singles chart (her first since 1979), number three on the Billboard Hot 100, and number three on the Billboard Dance Club Play chart. The single ended up as Billboard's 15th-best performing song of 1983. In addition, Summer earned a nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 1984 Grammy Awards, where she performed the song live as the opening for the ceremony.

Co-written with Omartian, the song tells a story of a hard-working blue-collar woman. It was based on Summer's inspiration she had on the night of February 23–24, 1983, after the 25th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony when she attended an after-party at the West Hollywood restaurant Chasen's. Summer encountered a restroom attendant named Onetta Johnson who was exhausted from working long hours. Summer herself described the scene in December 1986 on the television program You Write the Songs:

I was at Chasen's at a party for Julio Iglesias and I went to the ladies' room with my manager [Susan Muneo] and there was a little woman... First of all we walk in the room and we heard a TV set going, and I thought to myself "what kind of restaurant is this, that they would have a television in the ladies' room? This must be pretty posh." And so we peeked around the corner, and there was a little lady sitting there with her head tilted to the side and she was just gone—she was asleep. And the TV was just blasting loud. And I looked at her and my heart just filled up with compassion for this lady, and I thought to myself, "God, she works hard for the money, cooped up in this stinky little room all night." Then I thought about it, and I said, "She works hard for the money... She works hard for the money... Susan! She works hard for the money! This is it! This is it! I know this is it!"

Summer quickly wrote down the title and presented it the next day at the house of her producer Omartian; he helped her flesh out the words and music, to become the final song written for the album. Johnson agreed to be photographed for the album's rear cover, standing in a diner with Summer, the two wearing matching waitress outfits. The first verse of the song starts "Onetta there in the corner stand".

The song is performed in the key of G♯ minor in common time with a tempo of 136 beats per minute. Summer's vocals span from G♯3 to D♯5.

In a Zellers commercial In Canada in 1994 The song with altered lyrics was changed to “You Work Hard For Your Money So We’re Gonna Treat You Right “

The accompanying music video for the song, directed by Brian Grant, debuted on MTV and became the first video by an African American female artist to be placed in "heavy rotation" (a term used by MTV at the time to indicate a frequently-aired video). The video shows a woman, working as a waitress in a diner, who is burdened with many situations in her life such as work and raising two unruly children. It is also seen that she has abandoned her hopes of being a ballerina. Summer appears as an observer through a kitchen window, a woman who assists the fallen-down protagonist of the video, and, at the end, a leader of a troupe of women, in various work uniforms, who have taken to the streets to signify their independence and gain recognition for their "hard work". The protagonist is also seen dancing in the street with them.

In a parody of the image created by this song, and its cover art picture, Summer herself appears in the Frank Sinatra video for "L.A. Is My Lady", released in 1984, as a waitress who serves a patron and then wipes her brow.

There are two versions of the music video. One is the single edit; the other remains faithful to the original length of the album version of the song.

Donna Summer "The Wanderer (Single & Video)"

"The Wanderer" is a song by American singer Donna Summer, released as the lead single from her 1980 eighth album of the same name, which was the first for her new label Geffen Records after recording her previous albums with Casablanca Records. Despite the label change, Summer continued to work with Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, who had produced the majority of her hits in the late 1970s. However, it marks a change in style for The Queen of Disco, incorporating new wave styled synth riffs and a shuffling beat.

This first 45 from the album became a big hit for Summer in the United States, peaking at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks. and reaching number two in Cash Box magazine as well. It was Summer's eleventh single to sell over a million copies in the United States. In Canada, the song spent four weeks at number four. A 12" promotional single was issued, however, unlike all her Top 40 hits prior to this one it was not an extended version.

"The Wanderer" incorporates heavy new wave styled synth riffs and a shuffling beat. Vocally, it was a return to her understated 1975 debut sound - soft, whispery phrases were the norm in this song, taking on an almost Elvis Presley effect, instead of the power belt she had used often since her 1977 album Once Upon a Time and 1978 hit single "Last Dance".

Various Artists "The Disco Years (Lost In Music) Volume Four"

The Disco Years (Lost In Music) Volume Four is a Disco/Soul/Funk CD compilation, released by Rhino Records in 1992.

Track Listing:

1. Chic Good Times 3:45
2. Norma Jean* High Society 3:41
3. Sister Sledge He's The Greatest Dancer 3:36
4. Sheila & B. Devotion Spacer 3:50
5. Diana Ross I'm Coming Out 3:59
6. Norma Jean* I Like Love 5:45
7. René & Angela I Love You More 3:39
8. KC & The Sunshine Band Keep It Comin' Love 3:54
9. Kool & The Gang Fresh 4:07
10. Musique In The Bush 4:04
11. Inner Life I'm Caught Up (In A One Night Love Affair) 4:25
12. Change A Lover's Holiday 4:02
13. Peech Boys Don't Make Me Wait 4:14
14. C-Bank Featuring Jenny Burton One More Shot 8:34
15. Freeez I.O.U. 3:51
16. Donna Summer Hot Stuff 4:31
17. Change Paradise 3:59
18. Sister Sledge Lost In Music 3:23

Tracks 6, 7, 12 and 15 are CD bonus tracks. 

This compilation ℗ 1992 Rhino Records Inc.

Dave Koz "At The Movies"

At the Movies is the eighth studio album by saxophone player Dave Koz. It was released by Capitol Records on January 30, 2007. The album peaked at number 2 on Billboard Jazz Albums chart.

Donna Summer "Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger) (Single & Video)"

"Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)" is a Grammy-nominated single from Donna Summer's self-titled 1982 album.

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. Summer had prepped her next album, I'm a Rainbow — a double set which continued her association with Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, but David Geffen, compelled by the need for what he considered a guaranteed smash, had shelved I'm a Rainbow and assigned Summer to record an album with producer Quincy Jones. Jones was a much sought-after producer at the time, particularly due to his association with Michael Jackson's album Off the Wall.

"Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)" was the lead single off the Jones' produced album Donna Summer. It was written by Jones and Rod Temperton (formerly of funk band Heatwave) — who'd also written Jackson's "Rock with You". Summer reports that the recording process for this album was challenging, as she was pregnant at the time and unhappy over I'm a Rainbow' being shelved by Geffen Records.

The single was issued in three different versions: the 7" single release (3:42), the LP version (4:19), and a 12" single version (7:04). The 12" version features a "Dance Remix" on Side One and an "Instrumental Version Featuring Ernie Watts On Sax Solo" on Side Two. Both are remixes by Craig Kostich and Bruce Swedien.

A music video features Donna Summer dancing in a room full of pop art. She wore a black satin outfit to disguise her pregnancy as she was expecting her baby, Amanda Grace. The video also featured clips of Donna dancing during a photo shoot wearing a blue dress.

"Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)" became a major hit, peaking at no. 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on the week of September 25, 1982, giving Summer her sixteenth top 40 hit, and reaching no. 4 on the US R&B Chart. It was Summer's best R&B showing since "Bad Girls" in 1979—even using police whistles in the song as in "Bad Girls". Although the parent album was certified gold in the US, it did not produce any more major hits and did not prove the powerhouse album Geffen Records had hoped for.

Ironically, Summer would have her biggest success in the 1980s while on Geffen's roster with her next album She Works Hard for the Money and its title song — which were released by Mercury Records in a one-off arrangement to settle Summer's split with the soon-to-be-defunct Casablanca Records, whose catalogue now resided with Mercury and Casablanca's parent company PolyGram.