Donna Summer - I Got Your Love

I Got Your Love was recorded in late 2005 and released both as a download single and on CD by Mercury Records/Universal Music, "I Got Your Love" became another dancefloor hit for Summer, reaching #4 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in early 2006. "I Got Your Love", was written by Bruce Roberts and released in a wide range of club mixes, by Ralph Rosario, L.E.X. and Eddie Baez.

Track List:

1. I Got Your Love (Ralphi Rosario Extended Vocal) 9:51
2. I Got Your Love (Ralphi Rosario Dub) 9:20
3. I Got Your Love (L.E.X. Club) 10:55
4. I Got Your Love (L.E.X. Radio Edit) 3:33
5. I Got Your Love (Eddie Baez Anthem Mix) 8:39
6. I Got Your Love (Original Radio Edit) 3:56

Donna Summer on ET's Disco Week

From ETOnline.com
Whatever Happened to Your Fave Disco Divas?

Disco fever continues with the spotlight on Disco Divas, and there was no greater diva back in the day than DONNA SUMMER, with hits such as "Hot Stuff," "Last Dance" and "Bad Girls" crowning her the queen of the scene.

Our MARK STEINES actually caught up with the disco queen this past August, while she was performing part of her summer tour for her latest CD, The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer. At the height of her fame, Donna says she considered herself more of a comedian than a sex symbol, and she was definitely not a diva, despite the fact that the term is tossed around loosely.

"I just think it's funny," she says. "There are so many people out there trying to be divas; I didn't try to be a diva. If people saw me as a diva, you know, I didn't know what a diva was. I wasn't trying to be anything but myself. So if that kind of coined that imagery of a diva, I wasn't."

These days the grandmother -- and proud of it -- lives in Nashville, which she calls a "writer's kingdom." And while many people may be surprised at her choice of locales, she points out that she has always sung a variety of music in her shows, including country. But she is there first and foremost as a songwriter.

"I have been very blessed and fortunate to have invested well," Summer revealed. "There have been times when I wished I had saved more money, but I am blessed because I am a songwriter, so I always have publishing money when I don't work. People cut commercials and they put in things. That is like found money. I used to be a pretty wild spender, but with age you become wise."

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What Do Vanessa Williams, Willie Nelson, Hilary Duff, Donna Summer, and RadioShack Have in Common?

Musical Stars Join 16 Others on Series of Holiday Music CDs Being Sold Exclusively at RadioShack Stores Nationwide

(Summary)
FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH) will help customers sing in the holidays in style with a collection of music CDs that will be sold exclusively at its 5,000 company stores in the United States starting this month. The collection will feature holiday music collections from such popular artists as Vanessa Williams, Willie Nelson and Amy Grant, as well as three different compilation CDs with music from The Pointer Sisters, Patti Austin, Al Jarreau, Natalie Cole, Donna Summer, Anita Baker, Take Six, Fourplay, Hilary Duff, Jesse McCartney, Raven Simone, Aliana Lohan, and many more.

The CDs were created by World Digital Media Group (WDMG), an integrated media and content company founded by Chris Christian, a multiple Grammy and Dove Award-winning record producer, performer, songwriter, and record label executive.

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Donna Summer: The Diva's Back!

From ETOnline.com

DONNA SUMMER is still "Hot Stuff" as MARK STEINES discovered backstage at the Universal Ampihitheater.

Back in the '70s, DONNA SUMMER earned the title Disco Queen with chartbusters such as "Love to Love You Baby," "On the Radio" and "Last Dance." These days the music icon is still "Hot Stuff," as MARK STEINES discovered when he caught up with her backstage at the Universal Amphitheater. Donna was at the domed venue performing as part of her summer tour for her latest CD The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer.

"It is a different time," she admits. "I am older. The crowd is probably older, some of them. But I think it has a different vibe. It is almost emotional now for me and the audience. I think that now a lot of the songs are mixed with memories of their youth and are poignant and even sad, so when they come to the concert, the expression on people's faces is different."

Donna is different, too. There are certain songs from her heyday that she just doesn't want to sing anymore.

"'Love to Love You Baby' is one of those songs," she shares. "I didn't perform it for the last 20 years or so. Just recently, I felt it was okay again, so I have been doing a snippet of it. Not the way I used to do it, but it is a song that people know me as having sung in the beginning and people like to hear it." Continue Reading>>

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Donna Summer Proves Hot Stuff in RiverPlace Performance

By Dave Howell

Special to The Morning Call

Donna Summer opened Friday night with ''She Works Hard For The Money.'' And she did.

Summer went all out for her Musikfest RiverPlace show, with a band that included nine strings, three horns, two backup singers and her husband Bruce Sudano playing a silver grand piano at the top of the set. A superb light show and a rotating silver disco ball paid homage to the former disco queen's roots.

The 56-year-old Summer's voice has lost none of the power that the enthusiastic crowd remembered from her late-1970s hits. She looked resplendent, wearing three different gowns during the show.

Summer covered her biggest hits, including ''Last Dance,'' ''Hot Stuff,'' ''MacArthur Park,'' ''I Love You'' and ''No More Tears (Enough Is Enough),'' the latter as a duet with her sister Mary Bernard. Summer even did shorter versions of her early chartbusters ''Love To Love You Baby'' and ''I Feel Love.''

There were some unexpected features during the 90-minute show. Summer brought up five audience members to sing the background to ''On the Radio.'' Summer performed ''Natural Woman,'' George Gershwin's ''The Man I Love,'' Charlie Chaplin's ''Smile'' and the Moody Blues' ''Nights in White Satin.''

She spoke to the audience about many of her songs. After Summer explained it was a 25th anniversary present from her husband, Sudano moved to center stage to sing his ''Le Imagine Café.''

During the show, there were tongue-in-cheek references to being a diva, but Donna Summer proved that no one deserves the title more than she does.

Dave Howell is a freelance writer.

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The Endless Summer

Disco diva Donna Summer is "Hot Stuff" in Holmdel

Published in the Asbury Park Press 08/5/05

BY ED CONDRAN
CORRESPONDENT

DONNA SUMMER IN CONCERT
WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday
WHERE: PNC Bank Arts Center, Exit 116, Garden State Parkway, Holmdel
TICKETS: $20-$67.50
INFO: (732) 335-8698

During the mid- to late-1970s, disco reigned and so did Donna Summer. The charismatic singer was the disco queen.

But Summer also transcended the short-lived genre. Many of her hits, such as "I Feel Love" and "Love to Love You Baby," have a sleek, propulsive, orchestrated feel that screams "Eurodisco." "Bad Girls" and "Hot Stuff" were rock/disco fusion."

The songs are a lot deeper than some people might think," Summer said. "Sure, they were on the disco charts but there were a lot of different elements in those songs. I'm so proud of what enabled me to get where I am. The songs I sing are great songs."

Summer's hits have endured. Many of her tracks are still radio staples, and Summer once again will deliver the hits Saturday at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel.

"I still love to perform," Summer said. "That's something I have never gotten tired of doing. I get out there and just focus on the music, which is something I've always done."

While Summer was focusing on the music during her heyday, those on the business side took a little more than their share.

"I was robbed in terms of finances over the years by things that were taken that shouldn't have been," Summer said.

Summer doesn't look back in anger.

"I'm not bitter," Summer said. "I was with a company (Casablanca) that really started the dance movement. (Casablanca's President Neil Bogart) was very insightful. He taught me a lot. I learned stuff I'll never forget and I have a long career because of it."

Summer has survived some bad choices. A curious recording of "Protection," written by Bruce Springsteen, and some regrettable albums (1984's "Cats Without Claws" and 1991's "Mistaken Identity") could not stop the queen of disco.

"I've been very fortunate to last this long and still have so many fans," Summer said. "Everybody's career ebbs and flows. I feel like my career is going very well again. I'm incredibly thankful. I just love the fact that I can have the opportunity to get up there on a stage and there is an audience out there to hear me and the songs."

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Not Hot Enough? Summer's on the Way

By JOEY GUERRA
For The Chronicle

DONNA SUMMER, WITH THE HOUSTON SYMPHONY
When: 8 tonight
Where: Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana
Tickets: $36-$86; 713-224-7575

Donna Summer hasn't been to a club in a very long time — years, really.

That's surprising news from the once-and-eternal disco goddess, whose signature hits — I Feel Love, On the Radio, Last Dance, Bad Girls — can still guarantee a packed dance floor at just about any club around the world on a Saturday night.

Since her breathy 1975 introduction via the satin-kissed, sultry grooves of Love to Love You Baby, Summer has sold millions of albums, earned five Grammy awards and scored 14 Top 10 pop hits — including four No. 1 singles.

More recent releases I Will Go With You, Love Is the Healer and You're So Beautiful have also topped the dance charts and have introduced Summer to a new legion of club bunnies.
"I don't get to go out in the clubs much," Summer, 56, admits. "I would love to go out and just do a dance tour — just go to every club and just pop in. Don't tell everybody, just show up, just to see what it's like."

For now, fans will have to make do with Summer's very scheduled appearance tonight at Jones Hall with the Houston Symphony. It's the diva's first major tour in five years. Despite the large, formal venue, fans will still likely be in glitter-ball heaven.

Summer promises spiffy sets, a few choice covers (including Nights in White Satin, Smile and Natural Woman) and plenty of between-song chatter.

Summer's defining disco work — and more — is chronicled smashingly on two recent collections: The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer, which comes packaged with a bonus disc of epic remixes; and the double-disc Gold, which includes more obscure tracks alongside the hits.
There's also a stellar deluxe edition of Summer's 1978 Bad Girls album, which includes sweltering 12-inch mixes of her biggest hits, lush liner notes and the original demo of the title track.

"I (wanted) to produce good, cutting-edge, synthesized — and real — music that kind of was just out there on the edge of the technology," Summer says of her durable catalog. "I still feel that way."

Summer's full-throttle vocals were sometimes overshadowed by the innovative sound of her music, but her technique has only improved with age. She can still slink her way around a classic disco ditty and raise the rafters during a soaring gospel number. She credits her voice's longevity to vocal exercises and a healthy lifestyle.

"I think that (my voice) is a gift from God," she says. "You want to maintain the quality of your voice by being kind to it, by loving it. I really want to honor that voice, and I want to keep learning."

Summer's music also has proved successful for many American Idol hopefuls, who regularly perform her songs on the show. Younger stars like Joss Stone and Mariah Carey have also thanked the disco queen for her legacy.

"You don't know what influence you have, and it's such an incredibly beautiful gift when someone sings a song that you've written," Summer says.

Summer plans to start recording new material in October and if all goes well, release an album next spring. One new song, I Got Your Love, will be available beginning Tuesday on iTunes, her first new offering in several years.

"As your career goes around and you seem to hit rock bottom, the pendulum swings up again ... (and) you have other things to say."

Donna Summer, Universal Partner for Single

(Reuters, Saturday July 16)

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Donna Summer has entered a one-off deal with Universal for her new single, "I Got Your Love."

Beginning July 26, the track will be available for digital download at iTunes. "I Got Your Love" was written by the singer and Bruce Roberts, a longtime friend and collaborator of Warner Music chief Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

Summer, who is spending the summer on tour, is in discussions with labels to secure an album deal.

Reuters/Billboard

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