Love to Love You Baby
Donna SummerReported release: 1975Date needs verification | Recent carryover
Source year-end #41Supplied note - not independently verified
The sensual and passionate aspects of love.
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15 catalog entries, grouped by year.
ARTIST ESSENTIALS
Explore Artist EssentialsDonna Summer: a curated listening guide
Begin with the central disco recordings, then explore extended album tracks, vocal collaborations and the later pop and dance records.
25 selections with release evidence; 12 beyond the yearly lists.
About Donna Summer
Donna Summer was a Boston-born singer and songwriter whose early church singing and European musical-theater work preceded her recording career. In Munich she developed a partnership with Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, combining expressive vocals with extended disco arrangements and electronic rhythms. Her late-1970s records also drew on rock, soul and orchestral pop. Subsequent albums explored new wave, R&B and contemporary dance production, with studio work continuing through Crayons in 2008.
Artist background sources
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - Donna Summer induction essay by Harry Weinger
Career history supporting the Boston and church background, European musical theater, Munich partnership, stylistic range and later recording work through Crayons. No song-inspiration, sales-total, chart-record or present-day claim is made. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-18. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
1976
1978
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Written for the film "Thank God It's Friday," the song was inspired by the end-of-night atmosphere in disco clubs.
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Donna SummerRelease: 1978Source checked
Screenshot additions: 1970s listResearched recording background
The full MacArthur Park Suite closes Donna Summer's 1978 Live and More album. It joins MacArthur Park to One of a Kind and Heaven Knows before returning to a MacArthur Park reprise, with Giorgio Moroder and Pete...
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Summer's observations of prostitutes in Los Angeles
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A disco song about setting a romantic mood.
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The desire for passionate romance
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Donna SummerReported release: 1978Date needs verification | Recent carryover
Source year-end #12Supplied note - not independently verified
Cover of Jimmy Webb's 1968 song about lost love
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Donna Summer was a Boston-born singer and songwriter whose early church singing and European musical-theater work preceded her recording career. In Munich she developed a partnership with Giorgio Moroder and Pete...
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A rock-influenced song about an unfeeling lover.
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Donna SummerReported release: 1979Date needs verification | Recent carryover
Source year-end #74Supplied note - not independently verified
A disco song about setting a romantic mood.
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Donna Summer was a Boston-born singer and songwriter whose early church singing and European musical-theater work preceded her recording career. In Munich she developed a partnership with Giorgio Moroder and Pete...
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A rock-influenced departure from Summer's disco sound.
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Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)
Donna SummerReported release: 1982Date needs verification
Source year-end #59Supplied note - not independently verified
Produced by Quincy Jones, it's about taking control in a relationship.
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She Works Hard for the Money
Donna SummerReported release: 1983Date needs verification
Source year-end #15Supplied note - not independently verified
Inspired by a restroom attendant Summer met at a Grammy Awards party.
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Summer's comeback and her certainty about a new love in her life.
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1960-2025. Each year contains 150 selections.