Donna Summer

LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), known by her stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late-1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach No. 1 on the United States Billboard album chart and charted four number-one singles in the U.S. within a 12-month period. Summer has reportedly sold over 140 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.

While influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she became the front singer of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she left New York and spent several years living, acting, and singing in Europe, where she met music producers, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte.

Summer returned to the U.S., in 1975 with commercial success of the song 'Love to Love You Baby', followed by a string of other hits, such as "I Feel Love", "Last Dance", "MacArthur Park", "Heaven Knows", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "Dim All the Lights", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (duet with Barbra Streisand), and "On the Radio". She became known as the "Queen of Disco", while her music gained a global following.

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Donna Summer (album)

Donna Summer is the tenth studio album of American singer Donna Summer, released in 1982. It featured the Top 10, Grammy-nominated "Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)" single.

Back story

Having left Casablanca Records, with whom she had had some of the biggest selling and most popular hits of the disco era in the 1970s, Summer had signed to Geffen Records in 1980 and had continued working with Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, with whom she had written the vast majority of her hits. However, label owner David Geffen had been disappointed with the chart performance of The Wanderer, Summer's debut album for Geffen and rather than release the followup; I'm a Rainbow which Summer had recorded with Moroder/Bellotte, Geffen had Summer record a new album with Quincy Jones from whom a production credit - given Jones' track record particularly his work with Michael Jackson - Geffen felt would guarantee a commercial smash. The resultant Donna Summer album was the first time the singer had worked with a producer other than Moroder and Bellotte since 1974 save for the one-off track "Down Deep Inside (Theme from "The Deep")" which was produced by John Barry for the film The Deep, and the No More Tears (Enough is Enough) duet with Streisand which was co-produced by Gary Klein of The Entertainment Company.

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Last Dance

Last Dance may refer to:

In music:

  • Last Dance (band), a band that recorded for record label 4AD
  • Last Dance (album), a 2014 album by Keith Jarret and Charlie Haden
  • "Last Dance" (song), a 1978 song by Donna Summer
  • Last Dance, a 1995 album by Jason Rebello
  • "Last Dance", a 1973 song by Neil Young from Time Fades Away
  • "Last Dance", a 1977 song by Chuck Mangione from Feels So Good
  • "Last Dance", a 1983 song by George Clinton from You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish

    • In film and television:

  • Sista dansen, a 1993 film
  • Last Dance (1996 film), starring Sharon Stone
  • Last Dance (2002 film), a documentary featuring the Pilobolus dance company
  • Last Dance (2012 film), an Australian film
  • "Last Dance" (Flashpoint), an episode of Flashpoint
  • "The Last Dance" (The Vampire Diaries), an episode of the television series The Vampire Diaries

    • See also

  • The Last Dance (disambiguation)
  • One Last Dance (disambiguation)
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    Last Dance (1996 film)

    Last Dance is a 1996 film starring Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid and Peter Gallagher.

    Plot

    Cindy Liggett (Sharon Stone) is waiting on death row for a brutal double murder she committed in her teens, 12 years earlier. Clemency lawyer Rick Hayes (Rob Morrow) tries to save her, based on the argument that she was under the influence of crack cocaine when she committed the crime of which she was found guilty and that she is no longer the same person she had been at the time of the murder.

    Cast

  • Sharon Stone as Cindy Liggett
  • Rob Morrow as Rick Hayes
  • Randy Quaid as Sam Burns
  • Peter Gallagher as John Hayes
  • Jack Thompson as The Governor
  • Jayne Brook as Jill
  • Pamala Tyson as Linda, Legal Aid Attorney
  • Skeet Ulrich as Billy, Cindy's Brother
  • Don Harvey as Doug
  • Diane Sellers as Inmate Reggie
  • Patricia French as Guard Frances
  • Ralph Wilcox as Warden Rice
  • Buck Ford as D.A. Rusk
  • Dave Hager as Detective Vollo
  • Christine Cattell as Louise
  • Peg Allen as Helen
  • Meg Tilly as stripper

    • Production

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    Last Dance (album)

    Last dance is a 2014 joint album by American pianist and composer Keith Jarrett and American jazz double bass player Charlie Haden known for their long collaboration from the 1960s onward. The duo had a joint album Jasmine in 2010.

  • "My Old Flame" (10:18)
  • "My Ship" (9:36)
  • "Round Midnight" (9:34)
  • "Dance of the Infidels" (4:23)
  • "It Might As Well Be Spring" (11:54)
  • "Everything Happens to Me" (7:12)
  • "Where Can I Go Without You" (9:32)
  • "Every Time We Say Goodbye" (4:25)
  • "Goodbye" (9:07)

    • Charts

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    Podcasts:

    Donna Summer

    ALBUMS

    Berlin to Rotterdam Mix

    Released 2008

    Rock Rock Rock Remixes

    Released 2008

    Panther Tracks

    Released 2008

    Death After Life

    Released 2003

    Donna Summer vs. OVe-NaXx

    Released 2003

    This Needs to Be Your Style

    Released 2003

    To All Methods Which Calculate Power

    Released 2001

    Donna Summer

    ALBUMS

    Donna

    Released 2014

    I Feel Love: The Collection

    Released 2013

    Love to Love You Donna

    Released 2013

    The Dance Collection: A Compilation of Twelve Inch Singles

    Released 2013

    Donna Summer

    Released 2011

    Crayons

    Released 2008

    The Universal Masters Collection: Classic Donna Summer

    Released 2007

    Na Na Hey Hey

    Released 2006

    20th Century Masters: The Christmas Collection: The Best of Donna Summer

    Released 2005

    Lady of the Night

    Released 2005

    Gold

    Released 2005

    The Ultimate Collection

    Released 2004

    The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer

    Released 2004

    20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Donna Summer

    Released 2003

    Bad Girls

    Released 2003

    VH1 Presents Live & More Encore!

    Released 1999

    Greatest Hits

    Released 1998

    I'm a Rainbow

    Released 1996

    Nice to See You

    Released 1995

    Greatest Hits

    Released 1995

    Christmas Spirit

    Released 1994

    Endless Summer: Donna Summer's Greatest Hits

    Released 1994

    The Donna Summer Anthology

    Released 1993

    A Love Trilogy

    Released 1992

    This Time I Know It's for Real

    Released 1991

    I Remember Yesterday

    Released 1991

    Mistaken Identity

    Released 1991

    The Best of Donna Summer

    Released 1990

    Another Place and Time

    Released 1989

    All Systems Go

    Released 1987

    A Blue Live Lady

    Released 1983

    Hot Summer Night

    Released 1983

    She Works Hard for the Money

    Released 1983

    Donna Summer

    Released 1982

    Walk Away: The Best of Donna Summer (1977-1980)

    Released 1980

    The Wanderer

    Released 1980

    On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II

    Released 1979

    Live and More

    Released 1978

    Once Upon a Time...

    Released 1977

    Four Seasons of Love

    Released 1976

    Love to Love You Baby

    Released 1975

    20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Donna Summer, Volume 2

    The Summer Collection: Greatest Hits

    Shout It Out

    Greatest Hits History

    Best of Donna Summer

    The Wanderer / She Works Hard for the Money

    Cats Without Claws

    Grand Collection

    Born: 1948-12-31

    Died: 2012-05-17

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    Faster And Faster To Nowhere (In Albumlive And More)

    by: Donna Summer

    Spoken:
    Somebody tell me how to get outta here
    tell me how to get out
    Oh I'm running faster, faster and faster to nowhere
    'cause the city's closing tighter and tighter around me
    it's a nightmare, daymare, it's a badmare
    no matter which way-mare
    So keep running faster, faster faster and faster to nowhere
    Spoken:
    Unlock it here
    you put me in here you did that
    somebody help me get outta here
    I need you please, oh
    People pushing, shoving, rushing on into the future
    windows open, closing, in a way that they just never used to
    Oh there's violence lurking in the alleys
    where no one should dare go
    so keep running faster, faster and faster to nowhere
    Spoken:
    You put me in here
    you're responsible you didn't help me
    somebody
    you see the city is closing in on me
    please, oh
    Trip to nowhere, trip to nowhere, trip to nowhere
    we're gonna take a little
    trip to nowhere, trip to nowhere, trip to nowhere
    faster and faster...




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