People don't understand the power of this whole song the lyrics the meaning the love in it is amazing. Since I was the same age as her daughter when this came out I have loved it since. Sometimes I wake up and it is calling me to listen to it ❤️
CHILLLSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. So poignant, Donna's daughter opening up the song, then singing with her mom, with such power!!. AND then the rest of the fam comes out. Rest in peace Donna Summer, at home with the Lord. Your going home took a piece, of so many of us, with you. Thank you for showing me what true greatness looked like.
Was that some of her family? She does thank daughter Mimi and her nephews & neices in the closing credits. I thought the folk at the end was her band and the acts (e.g.Musical Youth) who'd played on the set-list that night?
@@durtyragoux cheers bud! I was just a bit curious... but not enough to re-watch the end credits again. Because they dressed the backing singers as black diner 'waitresses' and there was some very young children, I thought she'd portrayed the final stage as "normal, average everyone". That was just my first, and only, impression. ymmv? 👍 🙂 Cheers 👍 P. S. If you reply (again) I'll end up re-watching the credits again slowly. 🙄 🙂
What I like about this video is that it was all shot without goreography and rehearsals. People from different population groups who move spontaneously to the rhythm of the music
@stephenrichmond917 isn't she beautiful 😍 have you noticed she never looks up at the audience, but still held her confidence, loved Donna, and thank you for replying ❤️
Wow. Could you just imagine Jon Anderson being invited out on stage to sing that with her? They would have sounded so incredible together. She really kept the spirit of the original Jon & Vangelis recording, too. Such a magical piece of music and Donna Summer did it justice!
My God, I swear I watched this performance literally every day as a young kid. Donna was my first favorite singer, and I had this home video. This was like a ritual for me from the time I was about 7 to 8 years old. Something about the song always enthralled me, and seeing her daughter up on stage with her fascinated me, too. I'm glad that I found a clean copy of the VHS again a few years back (I wore out the first long ago!)
This Lady knew how to take us to church! She was and continues to be (through her music) a blessing from God. This❤️song❤️never❤️fails❤️to❤️move❤️me!!!
❤❤❤❤❤I ĺove her as well as her songs. She & God in the name of Christ are & always will be in my heart forever!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤ R.I.P. Donna, I will never ever forget you & through your being & your music, I will ɓless the Lord for as ĺong as he let's me draw breath. Thank you for being my idol!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
Brian Eno just brought me here. I knew if Eno liked this, spoke highly of this piece, its accomplishments. Just beautiful, I saw Jon and Vangelis do this, Kudos girl.
I first heard this song when I was nine. Dad had bought a VCR and his workmate gave him this concert on VHS. It was one fun show. We sang and danced to along. Then this song played and I just burst into tears. My sister and Mum thought it was the weirdest thing. I couldn't articulate what it was then. Now I can. It was the only way my young mind and soul could react to a work of such beauty. It was visceral and divine. Thank you Lord for blessing us with Donna Summer. Dang, I'm crying again.
I agree 💯 percent with you on that comment, I love this song and I have an album with this song on it!!! So awesome!!!👍👍👼😢💔. She's surely will be missed!!!! I listen to her music all the time!!!! God bless her soul 😇. RIP, Donna Summer!!!!!
This song out of no where on uTube. I'm glad it did because Babylon/America & the World needs to hear this beautiful song by Donna Summers plus her family, band, singers etc. Just beautiful & the lyrics overall. Donna, rest in peace with the almighty God in his heavenly kingdom. ❤love❤
That's your opinion. The facts are that this version is much more accessible and simple while Vangelis and Jon's version was much more complex musically. Accessible always "wins" with the majority. All versions are great. But the original has my utmost respect.
Thank god, I am part of a generation that can fondly reflect and enjoy Donna Summer's trademark 70s hits. Clearly a defined elegant diva in a class of her own. Along with Diana Ross. She defined elegance that seems to be missing in today's music culture. This HBO special, I remember my family crowding around the TV to see Donna Summer. Thanks for the upload, reminded of fond memories, 70s and 80s.
Damn, I just got up, got inspired to post a link to this to a friends fb page and I'm in tears.. not heard it in a while.. an amazing song, just stunning.. an anthem
March 21, Great anthem for the coming together of HUMANITY, in Unity we stand against this absurd insult to our collective intelligence, what would Jesus say... 🙌🙏🌟
I am! I LOVE this song, always have. I heard it for the first time on the tv special this video came from. I found it so intense it made me cry - to this day, it makes me cry when I hear it. It is a deeply spiritual song for me. I couldn't find out the name of it but one day in 1992 on the radio was this song performed by Moodswings. Thank you, Donna Summers.
I cannot think of one performer today that has even 1/10 th of Donna Summer's talent. She never misses a note she is pure perfection. With auto tune and all the technology in the music industry who would even know who can sing like her. It is effortless. God bless you Donna & your beautiful family. I recently heard an interview with her husband Bruce & he spoke so lovingly about her. He said he is finally at the point he wants to talk about her & share her with her fans. It took 2 years to get to this point.
I am a UK National, although my son lives in Nashville, USA. I visit twice a year so know Tennessee quite well, and just tracked down Donnas place of rest outside Nashville, so therefore will visit a place of rest and lay flowers, and pay my respect and gratitude on behalf of her fans in the UK, once this COVID ban lifts.
I remember this concert coming on HBO when I was a kid. My Mom video taped it & she played it over & over again. This is 1 of my many favorites by her. May she R.I.P. ✝️🕊🪽🐑🙏😇🖤
Must have listened to this and watched the video thousands of times ... I WISH someone could upgrade the video ... Love Donna Summer and this will live on forever ... Miss you ♥
Hermoza voz de la grandiosa Donna, cuanto la extraño!, gran alegría encontrar este video para revivir momentos de esperanza e ilusión. ¡Gracias! Beautiful voice of the great Donna, how much I miss her! Great joy to find this video to relive moments of hope and excitement. Thank you!
Donna, this is just as moving now in 2022 (me: 53) as when I sang it in the 70’s, same age of this sweet child on stage with you. Always the SOUL of this song!! Thank you :-)
The first time I saw this was on HBO in the early 80s I finally found it on RUclips it I'm a 69 years old and the song Donna's voice and everyone in the video bring me to tears my have things changed
And I'm glad I can say I was around when this song released originally...and loved donna summer but this song remember..and glad I was around when released thank you donna for such a beautiful voice song and your music shared xxx
I do know the original song by J & V - this version makes tears stream down my face every time I watch it. We are lucky to have heard her. I agree with the other posters that God favoured us with her presence.
I don't know how I spent 13 years with this on the internet but I just got to see it. This performance is beautiful and uplifting. You can tell she felt this song. It spoke to something in my soul since I first heard the original. It's a loving rendition, where she only built upon it, rather than strip it out like some do when making a song theirs.
Tell your Dad you love him. Tell your mum you love her. Tell your wife. Tell your husband. Tell your sister and brother. It's too late to tell them when they are gone. We love you Donna, god bless. Yours is a special talent and dignity that will always live. Rest In Peace. x
Donna was SO good. Yes she was the Queen of Disco but she had such an amazing voice She sand so many great songs. This be one of them. Donna you truly are at the top of my list. Thank you for being with us to show us your talent.
I drove my neighbor crazy last night listening over and over of the studio version of this song but felt there was something missing so I decided to watch this version, is it any wonder why God took Donna, yes someone might say she wasn't perfect but her heart was in the right place. This version just blew me away as I can only imagine a lot of you felt the same, Donna does such a good version of this song, here she does more than her best. As we get older a lot of great performers will pass on leaving their legacy of music,memories, hope and love. You tube hopefully will continue to keep the memory of performers like Donna Summer forever in our hearts and our hips swinging to the beats.
A very nice cover of Jon Anderson's song he wrote with Vangelis. She takes some poetic license by adding scripture but considering Jon created the lyrics on the spot as he was singing the spiritual origins are pretty clear. Checkout Todmobile's version with Jon Anderson himself singing.
So well said you made me cry. I was a very defiant precocious confused boy of 13 in the tumultuous throws of puberty desperately needing to know why I wasn't like most of the other boys and praying to God almighty the things my classmates were calling me behind my.back were not, could not be true. I loved Donna so much in the movie, "Thank God It's Friday", that I almost forgot John Travolta jn, Saturday Night Fever", completely. My Mother crossed her fingers and bought me the double set albumin collection of ON THE RADIO even though it had "that vulgar song" on it. "But at least it has that nice disco duet with Barbra Streisand on there. Now that's a woman that can sing O'Leary", and I won't bore you with the diatribe or soliloquy that accompanied about having to turn off Barbra's Mic and amplifier so she didn't drown Donna out. Wouldn't have carried it that far if I didn't want to see who at this point can tell me if they can guess in which direction my sexual identity went, haha. So my crush on Donna Sumner crushed me when my new peer group turned against her for her nerve to speak what was actually said out of love, I later in life came to realize. Love for our creator and love for the fans that adored her, wishing she could save us from what she felt would be permanent separation from the greatest love ever. She couldn't hate the thought of that and I worry it crushed her when her fans turned on her much more painfully than her devotion to what she believed and was taught to believe crushed Charles Emerson Riley or Paul Lynd. I never turned on you Donna but I AM ashamed to say I didn't play her songs at the decibel my neighbours had become accustomed to hearing them. Eh, enough mistakes have been made by all and all is forgiven and that's that. Donna's talent WILL always be remembered in my heart, my story, and yes I pray as well here on u-tube. I'm 52 yrs old and proud to say this Gay man's current neighbours can hear Donna Summers belt out Hot Stuff and State of.... at the same decibel my old ones did or louder with my hearing going. My love and prayers to her family and those closest to her that shall always know the pain of losing her including those in my own LGBT community who foolishly have yet to forgive her just as I'm sure she would have it herself had she not received her glory before we were able to let her go.
This is what America needs right now
The WORLD
my words exactly
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HARRIS Walz 2024💙🇺🇸🩵🌀👠
My thought too ❤
What a song! Rest in peace legend
Enjoying this soul touching masterpiece in September 2024
November actually... Immediately I heard Quincy passed
Donna and her daughter.beautiful .
May the Spirit of God rest on you
His Love will follow you wherever you go
Just look at her, no plastic surgery. She was so natural and beautiful. May the Good Lord God bless her soul.
Best comment ever.
And one of the best singers ever
I don't know why but this song always makes me tear up.
I can understand that Paula wishing you well .
Me too .. I remember watching as a kid when her concert came on HBO…Such a beautiful and powerful song ..Soo many memories 😭
Me too❤
Holy Spirit
Same 🥲 ❣️
People don't understand the power of this whole song the lyrics the meaning the love in it is amazing. Since I was the same age as her daughter when this came out I have loved it since. Sometimes I wake up and it is calling me to listen to it ❤️
I do understand the meaning of this song, it brings tears to my eyes when I listen to it. May people’s eyes be opened before it’s too late 🙏🏼
Qui est cette petite ? 💋
@@petegniefchantal4647 C'est sa fille "Mimi" - née en 1973 à Munich.🙂
Have you ever heard of Jon Anderson or YES?
@@finalflowerchild There´s one version I like too: the one of Anderson himself together with Todmobile 🙂 ruclips.net/video/80sL3gfNz1Y/видео.html
CHILLLSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. So poignant, Donna's daughter opening up the song, then singing with her mom, with such power!!. AND then the rest of the fam comes out. Rest in peace Donna Summer, at home with the Lord. Your going home took a piece,
of so many of us, with you. Thank you for showing me what true greatness looked like.
Was that some of her family? She does thank daughter Mimi and her nephews & neices in the closing credits. I thought the folk at the end was her band and the acts (e.g.Musical Youth) who'd played on the set-list that night?
@@TeddyBear-ii4yc that was Mimi singing w her.
@@TeddyBear-ii4yc perhaps it was a mix of family, friends, and other performers, Im not sure.
@@durtyragoux cheers bud! I was just a bit curious... but not enough to re-watch the end credits again.
Because they dressed the backing singers as black diner 'waitresses' and there was some very young children, I thought she'd portrayed the final stage as "normal, average everyone". That was just my first, and only, impression. ymmv? 👍 🙂
Cheers 👍
P. S. If you reply (again) I'll end up re-watching the credits again slowly. 🙄 🙂
@@TeddyBear-ii4yc I think it was a representation that we are all one, from a spiritual perspective.
Absolutely Perfect. Donna Summer was so much more than the Disco Queen.
still goosebumps in 2024, love you donna
@@jeas1516 , she was incredible! I was blessed to see her twice in concert.
me too.....this song goes right to my soul.........
What I like about this video is that it was all shot without goreography and rehearsals. People from different population groups who move spontaneously to the rhythm of the music
This is how you bring a grown Man to tears! Beautiful!
A special time gone by. We need this now.
Amen brother
I'm right there with you!!!
i´m 54 soon, cry each time....
Sniff...
If Only the world would stand up and come together
she always said 9/11 gave her cancer and was right.we still love and miss you girl.thanks for your time with us! xxx
I love this verion of that song. I remember Donna Summer, and miss her a lot.
Sorry, it means version. SORRY
Lovely song so well performed by Donna and her daughter. Thanks Jon and Vangelis!
Is that her daughter the little girl in yellow
@@carolharris9038Yes, that's young Mimi Sommer.
@stephenrichmond917 isn't she beautiful 😍 have you noticed she never looks up at the audience, but still held her confidence, loved Donna, and thank you for replying ❤️
The greatest ever confidence in singing I’ve ever seen, just totally priceless.
Wow. Could you just imagine Jon Anderson being invited out on stage to sing that with her? They would have sounded so incredible together. She really kept the spirit of the original Jon & Vangelis recording, too. Such a magical piece of music and Donna Summer did it justice!
Donna Summer was so intelligent! She sang meaningful song/lyrics about the State of Independence, from her heart and soul!❤
God bless this wonderful performer, singer, and person. So sadly missed.
This song is a mantra. Calling out to God from any path chosen.
My God, I swear I watched this performance literally every day as a young kid. Donna was my first favorite singer, and I had this home video. This was like a ritual for me from the time I was about 7 to 8 years old. Something about the song always enthralled me, and seeing her daughter up on stage with her fascinated me, too. I'm glad that I found a clean copy of the VHS again a few years back (I wore out the first long ago!)
ME TOO, IT IS A CALLING IN UNITY. 👍
Quincy Jones 👍
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Me too…
That her daughter? That's so cute. thanks for sharing
I’ve have been playing this song on repeat for the last week..obsessed in 2023! Thanks Lady Summer
This Lady knew how to take us to church! She was and continues to be (through her music) a blessing from God. This❤️song❤️never❤️fails❤️to❤️move❤️me!!!
❤❤❤❤❤I ĺove her as well as her songs. She & God in the name of Christ are & always will be in my heart forever!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
R.I.P. Donna, I will never ever forget you & through your being & your music, I will ɓless the Lord for as ĺong as he let's me draw breath. Thank you for being my idol!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
Donna nailed it! I wish more people could hear this song. Donna did this song proud.
Amen
I must say this track has haunted me for years . Awesome .
Well I’m here again!
I was a kid watching this when it aired. I love this song so much
This woman can reduce me to tears in a heartbeat !
THE best singer EVER for me !
californian condor I am in agreement with you
I agree!
wat een zangeres was het ook. helemaal gelijk condor
YES!!!!!!!
Yep! Probably one of the most respectable artist , rare talent and quality!
The duo mother-daughter is amazing. Such power and 💕. Powerful song of praise of God for God
Jon Anderson and Vangelis made a glorious song and the fact that Donna Summer sings it makes me so happy
Might have done, but it never touched this within a million miles....
Love Donna
Just listen to this: ruclips.net/video/80sL3gfNz1Y/видео.html@@williamhill8756
@@graziacavasino8884 absolute best version. Same goes for the Anderson/Todmobile version of Awaken
@@williamhill8756 They are all amazing artists.
She was the gorgeous Queen of pop music in the 1980's. Nobody else could beat her at singing this at least.
R.I.P. Donna
True
i say the AbbA Girls had a wider and better range but Donna Still a great singer
Love her music
Wow 🤩
THIS magnificent song by a Wonderful Artiste will be played at my funeral :-) Saw Donna LIVE in London in 1978 - LOVE Her always
The Queen of disco .rip donna xx
For me, the greatest voice in the last forty years in music industry. RIP my Donna
I love the graceful way that Donna works her way across the stage - a great voice, beautiful lady and so elegant. Sadly missed but never forgotten.
I love this song -- her voice is so clear and strong -- beautiful!
Listening in 2021, bought the CD in 1992. One of the greatest songs in music history, excellent performanced.
So so sad that she is no longer with us but her voice and music will never die !
If ever I could love someone I never met it is this lovely lady !
She is still with us. Listen, because the answers are in the silence.
This is so cool. Donna sings with her daughter, everyone holds hands on stage, its so loving!
How many classics did this lady record? She leaves behind an amazing legacy and that voice was second to none. She was effortlessly brilliant
Brian Eno just brought me here. I knew if Eno liked this, spoke highly of this piece, its accomplishments. Just beautiful, I saw Jon and Vangelis do this, Kudos girl.
Donna Summer was an inspiration with this song. The words are powerful with so much meaning. God Bless You and RIP Donna
One of those legendary videos
Having Michael jackson, Dionne Warwick Lionel Richie and more A listers as her background singers in this song just states how respected Donna was.
I first heard this song when I was nine. Dad had bought a VCR and his workmate gave him this concert on VHS. It was one fun show. We sang and danced to along. Then this song played and I just burst into tears. My sister and Mum thought it was the weirdest thing. I couldn't articulate what it was then. Now I can. It was the only way my young mind and soul could react to a work of such beauty. It was visceral and divine. Thank you Lord for blessing us with Donna Summer.
Dang, I'm crying again.
Beautiful song, sung by a beautiful lady who was taken from us far too early but now singing great songs in heaven.
Michael Day And you know that's right!!!
I agree 💯 percent with you on that comment, I love this song and I have an album with this song on it!!! So awesome!!!👍👍👼😢💔. She's surely will be missed!!!! I listen to her music all the time!!!! God bless her soul 😇. RIP, Donna Summer!!!!!
This song out of no where on uTube. I'm glad it did because Babylon/America & the World needs to hear this beautiful song by Donna Summers plus her family, band, singers etc. Just beautiful & the lyrics overall. Donna, rest in peace with the almighty God in his heavenly kingdom. ❤love❤
I am blessed to share a birthday with this beautiful, amazingly talented woman. RIP Donna Summer. You are missed
I recall seeing that Special on television. You will always be my favorite Donna Summer Rip
It just builds and builds, and builds... effortlessly. Anthemic!
One of the best examples of a cover surpassing the original. Never fails to give me goosebumps upon goosebumps upon goosebumps :)
sorry the original. 100 X better
@@daniellastuart3145 I snicker in your general direction. You do realize your opinion only matters to you, right?🤣
@@daniellastuart3145 who sang the original?
@Bobos Jon Anderson and Vangelis
That's your opinion. The facts are that this version is much more accessible and simple while Vangelis and Jon's version was much more complex musically.
Accessible always "wins" with the majority.
All versions are great. But the original has my utmost respect.
I discovered this song yesterday on an 80s radio station. I’ve listened to it about 5 times since. What a song!
written by Jon Anderson of YES, I also like this version by Donna Summer.
@GDH1918. "And I looked, and I saw a new Jerusalem! " Donna got it.
Glorious New Year, 2023! Donna Summer the best!
There is just something truly magical about this song ...
There is absolutely❤
Truly wonderful
I try to listen to her music everyday. Donna Summer, wasn’t she magical?
The best cover ever of a fabulous Jon and Vangelis songs absolutely outstanding
Thank god, I am part of a generation that can fondly reflect and enjoy Donna Summer's trademark 70s hits. Clearly a defined elegant diva in a class of her own. Along with Diana Ross. She defined elegance that seems to be missing in today's music culture. This HBO special, I remember my family crowding around the TV to see Donna Summer. Thanks for the upload, reminded of fond memories, 70s and 80s.
They don't make music like this anymore. Thank you Donna. We love you.
They didn’t make music like that then either, one of a kind, absolute genius and perfection
Damn, I just got up, got inspired to post a link to this to a friends fb page and I'm in tears.. not heard it in a while.. an amazing song, just stunning.. an anthem
Love this. Great cover of Jon and Vangelis
When I hear this song, I never want it to end. It's so beautiful.
I can't believe how amazing she is live. She always manages to sound better than on record. She will be missed. Especially by me.
Thank you Ms Summer, really thank you.
I couldn’t agree more!!
listening in 2020 - amazing performance from Donna and everyone
love this song ...love you donna so effotless ...touches your heart xxxxx love you donna xxxxxxx
2021 and counting...💕
March 21,
Great anthem for the coming together of HUMANITY, in Unity we stand against this absurd insult to our collective intelligence, what would Jesus say...
🙌🙏🌟
And
@@DM-ol9ne
Get out much?
I was privileged to have hugged her in 1979, forever in my heart
Holy smokes what an amazing singer she was and so God damn beautiful
She was very beautiful
Love this song, who's listening in 2019?
Still rocking this classic in September! Good Music is Timeless!
Simply awesome. Brings back memories of yesteryears.
Still listening and still telling people to view this. Outstanding voice and performance. Bless you Donna Summer.
Best of all time on my list; awesome!!
I am! I LOVE this song, always have. I heard it for the first time on the tv special this video came from. I found it so intense it made me cry - to this day, it makes me cry when I hear it. It is a deeply spiritual song for me. I couldn't find out the name of it but one day in 1992 on the radio was this song performed by Moodswings. Thank you, Donna Summers.
I probably watched this concert 100 times when I was a kid and this song was definitely the highlight. RIP Ms. Summer.
I cannot think of one performer today that has even 1/10 th of Donna Summer's talent. She never misses a note she is pure perfection. With auto tune and all the technology in the music industry who would even know who can sing like her. It is effortless. God bless you Donna & your beautiful family. I recently heard an interview with her husband Bruce & he spoke so lovingly about her. He said he is finally at the point he wants to talk about her & share her with her fans. It took 2 years to get to this point.
j flo your comments are spot on.
No need to put down the present to enjoy the past
And what a beautiful family she left to her legacy - haven't seen the grands yet but my spirit tells me that they are beautiful as well
Agree!
she is good, but queen Freddie Mercury it the nr 1
She had the ability to bring everyone together.
first time i have seen this live performance, amazing, donna summers voice just flows from her effortlessly, she has the best female voice of all time
I am a UK National, although my son lives in Nashville, USA. I visit twice a year so know Tennessee quite well, and just tracked down Donnas place of rest outside Nashville, so therefore will visit a place of rest and lay flowers, and pay my respect and gratitude on behalf of her fans in the UK, once this COVID ban lifts.
Thank you for doing that!!
wow. imagine having donna summer for a mom... and there you are on stage with her, performing!. rest in peace sweet lady, you left us with soooo much.
oh yes,
it was 1983 and HBO showcased this wonderful lady's concert for our viewing pleasure.
i'll never never forget that first broadcast.
Where was this concert? In Poland, Donna was only in the "Radio Luxembourg". LP unattainable.
´Pause at 8:00 read the credits, thank me later
Yes - Pacific Amphitheatre! (Costa Mesa, California) THANK YOU!!!(I'm from Poland.)
I remember this concert coming on HBO when I was a kid. My Mom video taped it & she played it over & over again. This is 1 of my many favorites by her. May she R.I.P. ✝️🕊🪽🐑🙏😇🖤
Must have listened to this and watched the video thousands of times ... I WISH someone could upgrade the video ... Love Donna Summer and this will live on forever ... Miss you ♥
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Hermoza voz de la grandiosa Donna, cuanto la extraño!, gran alegría encontrar este video para revivir momentos de esperanza e ilusión. ¡Gracias!
Beautiful voice of the great Donna, how much I miss her! Great joy to find this video to relive moments of hope and excitement. Thank you!
Please, play this at my funeral...
Donna, this is just as moving now in 2022 (me: 53) as when I sang it in the 70’s, same age of this sweet child on stage with you. Always the SOUL of this song!! Thank you :-)
She was a beautiful lady in every way. She sings this song so effortlessly. Another one taken from us way too soon RIP Donna xxxxxxxxxx
The first time I saw this was on HBO in the early 80s I finally found it on RUclips it I'm a 69 years old and the song Donna's voice and everyone in the video bring me to tears my have things changed
I LOVED HER and HER MUSIC!!!! SHE HAD A VOICE ON HER!
And I'm glad I can say I was around when this song released originally...and loved donna summer but this song remember..and glad I was around when released thank you donna for such a beautiful voice song and your music shared xxx
Probably the most underrated song of all time absolutely top tune 😅
This has to be a great memory for her daughter who got the chance to share the stage with her mom. R.I.P Donna Summer.
It is 2021,we need the sentiments of this song more than ever.
BE THIS!!! I AM. WILL YOU JOIN ME? :)
@@THX-ov8rv why is ur channel so empty?
So true
2022 isn't any different
@@janpiet4740 neither is 2023
I do know the original song by J & V - this version makes tears stream down my face every time I watch it. We are lucky to have heard her. I agree with the other posters that God favoured us with her presence.
Arguably one of the greatest cover versions ever.
so beautifull
Aw, I love she included Mimi! ❤
I m proud, that I live in this time of music.Donna, you was a piece of my youth. Thx for all the funny music moments!
RIP. Wishes from Germany.
That was 33(!) years ago, and she still sounds great!
Jolanta Zacharska
I was 17 years old and the song touched me .
Massive hit song. Am still listening in 2021. Donna Summer was simply superb.
@@etopudoma8901 Yes! An amazing vocalist. I love listening to her.
I don't know how I spent 13 years with this on the internet but I just got to see it. This performance is beautiful and uplifting. You can tell she felt this song. It spoke to something in my soul since I first heard the original. It's a loving rendition, where she only built upon it, rather than strip it out like some do when making a song theirs.
Tell your Dad you love him. Tell your mum you love her. Tell your wife. Tell your husband. Tell your sister and brother. It's too late to tell them when they are gone. We love you Donna, god bless. Yours is a special talent and dignity that will always live. Rest In Peace. x
Donna was SO good. Yes she was the Queen of Disco but she had such an amazing voice She sand so many great songs. This be one of them. Donna you truly are at the top of my list. Thank you for being with us to show us your talent.
Big thank you Jon Anderson and Vangelis, you made her sing it in another perfect version. Donna lives forever and ever..
In 2022 and 2023 too!
I drove my neighbor crazy last night listening over and over of the studio version of this song but felt there was something missing so I decided to watch this version, is it any wonder why God took Donna, yes someone might say she wasn't perfect but her heart was in the right place. This version just blew me away as I can only imagine a lot of you felt the same, Donna does such a good version of this song, here she does more than her best. As we get older a lot of great performers will pass on leaving their legacy of music,memories, hope and love. You tube hopefully will continue to keep the memory of performers like Donna Summer forever in our hearts and our hips swinging to the beats.
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+myfeeling4you I don't know, I think she just may have been perfect. :-)
You are so right !!!!!!
transcendental !!!
A very nice cover of Jon Anderson's song he wrote with Vangelis. She takes some poetic license by adding scripture but considering Jon created the lyrics on the spot as he was singing the spiritual origins are pretty clear. Checkout Todmobile's version with Jon Anderson himself singing.
So well said you made me cry. I was a very defiant precocious confused boy of 13 in the tumultuous throws of puberty desperately needing to know why I wasn't like most of the other boys and praying to God almighty the things my classmates were calling me behind my.back were not, could not be true. I loved Donna so much in the movie, "Thank God It's Friday", that I almost forgot John Travolta jn, Saturday Night Fever", completely. My Mother crossed her fingers and bought me the double set albumin collection of ON THE RADIO even though it had "that vulgar song" on it. "But at least it has that nice disco duet with Barbra Streisand on there. Now that's a woman that can sing O'Leary", and I won't bore you with the diatribe or soliloquy that accompanied about having to turn off Barbra's Mic and amplifier so she didn't drown Donna out. Wouldn't have carried it that far if I didn't want to see who at this point can tell me if they can guess in which direction my sexual identity went, haha. So my crush on Donna Sumner crushed me when my new peer group turned against her for her nerve to speak what was actually said out of love, I later in life came to realize. Love for our creator and love for the fans that adored her, wishing she could save us from what she felt would be permanent separation from the greatest love ever. She couldn't hate the thought of that and I worry it crushed her when her fans turned on her much more painfully than her devotion to what she believed and was taught to believe crushed Charles Emerson Riley or Paul Lynd. I never turned on you Donna but I AM ashamed to say I didn't play her songs at the decibel my neighbours had become accustomed to hearing them. Eh, enough mistakes have been made by all and all is forgiven and that's that. Donna's talent WILL always be remembered in my heart, my story, and yes I pray as well here on u-tube. I'm 52 yrs old and proud to say this Gay man's current neighbours can hear Donna Summers belt out Hot Stuff and State of.... at the same decibel my old ones did or louder with my hearing going. My love and prayers to her family and those closest to her that shall always know the pain of losing her including those in my own LGBT community who foolishly have yet to forgive her just as I'm sure she would have it herself had she not received her glory before we were able to let her go.
I saw this concert many times on HBO as a child and remember thinking how beautiful she and her daughter were. Cool song!