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The Donna Summer Anthology

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Released
  
September 21, 1993

Length
  
156:35

Release date
  
21 September 1993

Recorded
  
1975-1993

Artist
  
Donna Summer

Label
  
Casablanca Records

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The Donna Summe Anthology (1993)
  
Christmas Spirit (1994)

Genres
  
Disco, Pop music, Soul music, Rock music, Rhythm and blues, Dance music, Reggae

Producers
  
Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte, Gary Klein

Similar
  
Donna Summer albums, Disco albums

The Donna Summer Anthology is a double compilation album by the American singer Donna Summer, released by Polygram Records in 1993. The compilation featured the majority of Summer's best known songs right from the start of her success to the present day. Summer had originally made her name during the disco era in the 1970s and in the decade that followed had experimented with different styles. Most of the tracks on this compilation are the original album versions of the songs, which were sometimes edited down for their release as a single. Included for the first time are two remixed tracks from her then previously unreleased I'm a Rainbow album, which had been recorded in 1981 but had been shelved by her record company at the time. The album also featured the Giorgio Moroder-penned and produced song "Carry On"', marking the first time Summer and Moroder had worked together since 1981. Summer and Moroder, together with Pete Bellotte had written the vast majority of her 1970s disco hits. Four years later, "Carry On" would be remixed and become a big dance hit. It also won Summer a Grammy for Best Dance Recording, her first win since 1984 and her fifth win in total.

Contents

Until 2016's "Ultimate Collection", a 3-CD set, this collection remained the closest to a traditional "box set" (usually three or four compact discs) of Summer's work because it contains then-unreleased material (selections from "I'm a Rainbow"), an unreleased (as a single) LP track ("Friends Unknown"), and the "MacArthur Park" promotional single.

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Love to Love You Baby" (Original Single Version) (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) - 3:21
  2. "Could It Be Magic" (US Single Version) (Anderson, Manilow) - 3:54
  3. "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" (US Single Version) (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) - 4:46
  4. "Spring Affair" (US Single Version) (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) - 4:02
  5. "Love's Unkind" (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) - 4:26
  6. "I Feel Love" (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) - 5:51
  7. "Once upon a Time" (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) - 4:00
  8. "Rumour Has It" (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) - 4:54
  9. "I Love You" (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer" - 4:41
  10. "Last Dance" (Jabara) - 4:57
  11. "MacArthur Park" (Promotional 12" Mix) (Webb) - 6:25
  12. "Heaven Knows" (Single Version) (with the Brooklyn Dreams) (Bellotte, Mathieson, Moroder, Summer) - 3:52
  13. "Hot Stuff" (12" Mix) Bellotte, Faltermeyer, Forsey) - 6:46
  14. "Bad Girls" (Esposito, Hokenson, Sudano, Summer) - 4:56
  15. "Dim All the Lights" (Summer) - 4:23
  16. "Sunset People" (Bellotte, Faltermeyer, Forsey) - 6:24

Disc two

  1. "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (Duet With Barbra Streisand) (Columbia Single Version) (Jabara, Roberts) - 4:41
  2. "On The Radio" (Moroder, Summer) - 5:50
  3. "The Wanderer" (Moroder, Summer) - 3:45
  4. "Cold Love" (Bellotte, Faltermeyer, Forsey) - 3:38
  5. "I'm a Rainbow" (Remix) (Sudano) - 4:04
  6. "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" (Remix) (Lloyd Webber, Rice) - 4:20
  7. "Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)" (Jones, Ross, Temperton) - 4:19
  8. "State of Independence" (Anderson, Vangelis) - 5:49
  9. "She Works Hard for the Money" (Omartian, Summer) - 5:18
  10. "Unconditional Love" (Omartian, Summer) - 4:41
  11. "There Goes My Baby" (Nelson, Patterson, Treadwell) - 4:06
  12. "Supernatural Love" (Omartian, Sudano, Summer) 3:34
  13. "All Systems Go" (Faltermeyer, Summer) - 4:10
  14. "This Time I Know It's for Real" (Stock, Aitken, Waterman, Summer) - 3:36
  15. "I Don't Wanna Get Hurt" (Stock, Aitken, Waterman) - 3:26
  16. "When Love Cries" (Diamond, Henley, Nelson, Smith, Summer) - 5:14
  17. "Friends Unknown" (Diamond, Smith, Smith, Summer) - 3:44
  18. "Carry On" (Moroder, Waters)

Songs

1Love to Love You Baby3:22
2Could It Be Magic3:57
3Try Me - I Know We Can Make It4:48

References

The Donna Summer Anthology Wikipedia
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