Everybody LOVED her! She was the Queen of Disco! She brought so much joy and happiness to millions of people during her long career! She is surely missed!
Donna married fellow broadway performer Austrian Helmut Sommer, "Summer" was mistake made by the record company. The never corrected it and it became her stage name. Donna was Pop Music's first female Mega Star selling millions worldwide and breaking boundaries by crossing into multiply genres. Named the "Diva De Tutti Dive" by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, meaning the first true diva of the modern pop era. She was the first female artist and the first black artist to bring 3 albums to the top of the Billboard Charts back to back. They just happened to be 3 multi-platinum selling double albums. She was the first female artist to dominate the Billboard Charts. The first female to sit on top of 3 major charts as the same time. She was first to have 2 singles in the top 3 at the same time (twice in 4 months). She was the first artist to have 2 #1 singles in the top 5 and top 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. She was the first female artist to repeat having the #1 single and #1 album simultaneously on the Pop chart (3 times in 8 months). She was the first solo artist to have 3 #1 singles and 5 top 10 and/or 5 top 5 singles in a calendar year 1979. She scored 9 consecutive tp 5 singles between July 78 and Oct 80, on the Hot 100 all selling a million copies or better, a physical sales record. She sold 20 million albums and 15 million singles in the US Market at the end of the 70s with Casablanca Records. She has sold more than 150 million records worldwide, her wikipedia page (and related pages) are in dire need of an update. She had 14 top 10 hits on the Hot 100 Love to Love You Baby #2 (76), I Feel Love #6 (77), Last Dance (78), Mac Arthur Park #1 (78), Heaven Knows #4 (79), Hot Stuff #1 (79), Bad Girls #1 (79), Dim All The Lights #2 (79), No More Tears #1 (79), On The Radio 3% (80), The Wanderer #3 (80), Love Is In Control #10 (82), She Works Hard for The Money #3 (83), This Time I Know Its For Real #7 (89). She was the first black female artist to be played in heavy rotation by MTV in 1983, and set a precedent of have 3 consecutive videos placed in heavy rotation (Not Surpassed until Janet Jackson and Rhythm Nation in 89/90). She kicked the door down for artists (especially females) to build careers on dance music. One of the greatest voices of our time.
"I KNEW IT!" - Thor I knew the Wiki was weaky, as it was missing a whole lot of her accomplishments I'd read about in the past, seems someone removed the info, probably to make Cardi-B*tch or Nasty Minage look like something in comparison. Once you pull up ALL THE RECEIPTS the game is OVER!
GREAT reaction to one of the most incredible singers ever!!!!! Donna's vocal skills were off the chart. Long before Whitney (love my Whitney) there was Donna. Donna is the only recording artist to have Grammy's in 5 different genres of music. She Won for best rock vocal and had other rock song nominations. You ask the question what happened to disco, here you go. Donna is responsible for changing pop music forever with the song in 1977 "I Feel Love". This is the song that bridged disco sensuality and the synthesizer into the electronic revolution, Summer and producers/co-writers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte not only crafted an international smash with I Feel Love, they helped lay a path for synth pop, New Romantics, Italo disco, Hi-NRG, electro, house, techno, and more, influencing generations of pop, rock, and dance artists along the way. Donna actually had #1 songs until her death in 2012. She got labeled a disco queen, but was way beyond everyone else on so many levels not just vocally. ruclips.net/video/9ZqqvrWCs3Q/видео.htmlsi=h_8RNsIeHCNSUQZU
So many of us young guys had Donna Summer among our first crushes-she was smokin hot good looking, had the voice of an angel and put out hit after hit. She always seemed to have a song on the radio. She will forever be the Queen of Disco to me
We miss Disco too! Glad generation after generation is still playing and dancing to it! This music will last forever! After we got out of the movie watching Last Dance us kids were dancing in the street! We were on a natural high after seeing this movie and dancing to Donna Summer!👏🏽❤️💃🏽🎉🙏🏽
In the 70s Disco was a tag given to any R&B or Pop song that was danceable. The tag faded away but pop dance music continued . Disco got so big that a bunch of White rockers protested it. Donna was a force in the pop charts.. and remains one of the Top 15 female pop vocalist of all time. She won a R&B Grammy for this song (not disco) and a Grammy for best Rock female for the hit “Hot Stuff” don’t let the disco tag fool you. Donna won five Grammys, all in different categories of music and had 18 nominations. She’s royalty. 👑 Thanks for an amazing reaction. ❤
I love your energy. I wish you were with us at the nigh clubs back in the 70's , Our new generation doesn't;'t know the meaning of a dance floor. Before Madonna was Donna Summer !!
*I danced through the Disco Era in the clubs and it was a BLESSING. The demise of disco is a complex story! There are documentaries. This was ALWAYS the last song played in the club before closing. It is from the film THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY. She wad my first concert! For me, her most important hit is "Macarthur Park." Check it out!*
The album you have pictured is outstanding! Everysong breaks intyo another song with no interruption. It's like the entire side is just one-long-song! Her voice was magnificent!
Out of the THOUSANDS of talented and great artists out there, past and present & future, in ANY GENRE, DONNA is SPECIAL .... MAGICAL 🤩😍 unlike any other, just ask Patti LaBelle..."NO ONE does it like Donna" 🎤drop. R.I.P. BEAUTY 😢
I'm not a big fan of many artists. But as a teen I was crazy about Donna Summer. She will always be the queen of Disco. I'm with you bro, I love Donna Summer.
Saw her about a year before her death. Her voice and stage presence was still fantastic. Of course Last Dance ended the concert, bringing the audience on their feet dancing.
Donna Summer's first top 40 hit was in 1975 and is called Love To Love You Baby. It hit #2. The single version is the last three minutes of the album version which is 16:50 long. You should go ahead and hear the album version. It took up one whole side of the album. You will love this Disco Ballad!😮😊
Welcome to the CLUB! I have loved Donna Summer ever since i heard her in 1976. and have been lucky enough to see her in concert 8 times in the 90's and 2000's She had club hits thoughout her career right up till 2011 on the dance charts. ANY of her 14 top tens hits is worth reacting to!! You will be even more amazed!~!
In the seventies, I was a teenager and Ms. Donna's #1fan. Disco's formal end was the retaliation from the conservative rock world and other societal factions which rebelled against many things which had become associated with the musical phenomenon known as Disco. However, the love for the format continues. We, humans love to dance! So, the disco genre of the seventies (my era) morphed into what is now called "dance music" . Yet we true devotees of Disco know the modern genre to just be an updated version of true Disco. But Ms. Donna was part of all of the original scene in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s until her passing. You are correct, she is a legend for all time! Ms. Donna was SUPERB. I attended her concerts in each decade. She was a trailblazer and consummate artist! Checkout her 2008 song "The queen is back". Young man, I am certain you'll like it as well. This is her signature tune. I am glad you and many other young people like Ms. Donna's music. It seems the the American public has a brand new interest in Ms. Donna. Young man , I wish you could've seen her in the seventies and eighties. But check out the VH1 Live and more Encore concert. I believe you'll also enjoy the other songs as well. There is no need to envy the life experiences of those who lived in the seventies. Youdon't need, nor want the drug use which also was rampant at the time. But, now you can enjoy Ms. Donna for all time. Checkout the 2023 HBOfilm "Love to love you, Donna Summer"
Donna's disco story began in the "alternate lifestyle" dance club scene. The DJ in gay bars began playing what would become disco hits before they were being played on the radio. The slow intro gave dancers time to get to the dance floor...because "Last Dance" was the last dance of the night at, eventually, all the dance clubs in the late 80s and into the early 90s. Which is when disco "died", as some like to report. But what disco did was.... evolve. It evolved into alternative music. Now alternative split into alternative dance and alternative rock. But there were a lot of crossovers between both genres throughout the 90s. A song, "Disco Duck" was hashed together. Many say that song killed disco. Well those folks were never people who like disco music. "Disco Duck" was a mockery song. We actual disco dancing people knew that, it was definitely NOT a loved disco hit! Disco evolved into alternative. And we let the hater believe "disco died" as they started liking what disco turned into.... alternative dance and alternative rock. Which most haters liking both. But Donna was, and still is, the Queen of Disco. One of the major Divas from that era. And still loved by those who loved her first....the "alternative lifestyle" guys and gals!
Yeah, lets see him dive into 1980's "HOUSE MUSIC", "FREESTYLE", "HEARTBREAK" all musical children of the Disco era mostly started in NYC or by ex-New York residents in Chicago, Fl, CA etc. He'll be the 1st channel I'll see reacting to any of those 3 genres.
She had 4 #1 songs and many top 40. And she won 5 Grammys. And "Last Dance" won the Oscar for best theme song for the movie "Thank God it's Friday" in which she also starred.
You are a very good dancer!!! You have NAILED DISCO dancing!!! As I think about it, it was a few "elite influencers" basically cancelled it!!! Bring it back!!!
I saw her live in concert in either 1976 or 1977 at the Ohio State Fair. She was amazing live! I was a kid in the 70’s and it just kind of died out and morphed into other stuff- pop, New Romantics, new wave/ synth pop. But you can still feel its influence in current music if you’re listening for it.
I love your reaction to Donna!!! I was one who was on the dancefloors during the height of disco. If you want to hear another amazing disco song that starts slow and then explodes is "No More Tears (extended version) by Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand. It is over 8 minutes long, so do not listen to the shorter version. As for disco dying, disco became too commercial, with silly and dumb songs set to a disco beat. It was made into a joke.
You've not even begun to scratch the surface of the goddess Donna Summer. Her vocal ability was EFFORTLESS. You MUST dig deeper into this amazing ladies' catalog. You will love it. MACARTHUR PARK, I FEEL LOVE, NO MORE TEARS, and LOVES ABOUT TO CHANGE MY HEART are just 4 Donna Summer songs that will definitely make you a fan.
You have got to hear on the radio sung by Donna Summer! This current song was featured in her movie thank God it’s Friday. I went to see it when I was about seven years old and I have been loving Donna Summer ever since. She was a wonderful person, not just a beautiful singer but a beautiful person advocating for herself and everyone else who was in New York City during 9/11 who got very very sick and died. She is dearly missed and loved❤
Man you have to keep on going cause Donna Summer is the gift that keeps on giving! If you haven’t heard it yet, check out “I Feel Love”, “Bad Girls”, “Hot Stuff”, “MacArthur’s Park” & the song that started it for her “Love To Love You Baby”. Donna Summer is THE TRUTH & I’m so glad you’re already seeing her greatness!
Donna ALWAYS tore it up LIVE! Even fighting LUNG CANCER ( gotten from breathing 9/11 attack NYC air when it happened) she was top notch. The mic & equipment couldn't handle the power of her voice, at times she has to put it far away from her mouth to control the mix.
So many disco greats out there, one of my favorites is teri de sario, aint nothing gonna keep me, written and produced by the bee gees i believ, so a treat….then tina Charles one hit wonder i love to love, 10 th avenue, miami heat wave…great songs keep going …its 50 year old music and still great 😊
Around 1984 it started to change into club music... it was also great music, for example "Play at your own risk"... the mother of all club music. Donna has one of the best voices EVER...no matter what genre.. check out "On The Radio" and "MacArthur Park"
You asked what happened to disco, why it went away, since the music was great and it seemed like such a fun time period. It seemed on-top-of-the-world popular from 1974 to summer of 1979, when there was an anti-disco riot and record-burning called "Disco Demolition Night" during the halftime of a ballgame in Comiskey Park in July. That caught my disco-loving teenage self by surprise, but apparently there were quite a few people who had come to hate disco, people who seemed mostly to prefer hard rock and didn't think that a person could like both. Honestly, there had been kind of an over-saturation of disco by advertisers, etc, with disco-themed items of all kinds everywhere and even rock stars like the Rolling Stones, Kiss, Rod Stewart, and Blondie making disco songs, something that apparently made some people mad. After Comiskey Park, disco was said to be dead, but only in the US. Europe never had an anti-disco moment like that and the word didn't go out of fashion there. Even though disco went out of fashion in the US, musicians continued to make popular music that was structurally disco; they just didn't call it disco anymore and musicians like Donna Summer would add aggressive-sounding guitar solos and stuff to make their still-disco-structured music sound tougher or whatever. And the basic four-on-the-floor, beats-per-minute, metronomic structure of disco is the basis for supposedly totally different later genres like house, HI-NRG, techno/EDM, etc., so in a way, disco never totally died.
I wish I was old enough to go to clubs during the Disco era because I love to dance. I was about 8 years too young but remember watching my best friend's older brother and his girlfriend practice their dance moves all week long for Friday and Saturday night. I couldn't get enough and would happily DJ for them. That was as close as I got to Disco clubbing and I loved it. I had hundreds of Disco records. Of course, when I began going to clubs, New Wave was the thing I was dancing to which I come back to at the end of this. What happened to Disco? Well, it's a long and sordid story but to make it short, Disco was vehemently reviled by Rock & Roll fans, particularly men. It was seen as "gay", as "Black", as getting too much airplay and drowning out Rock & Roll as many stations changed formats dropping Rock for Disco. Disco began in the early 70s in underground clubs in NYC, LA, Chicago and soon became popular in the gay club scene and in the Black R&B scene. There were two main types of Disco; R&B based American Disco and Euro-Disco which is the forerunner of today's Electronica music. Donna Summer's early hits produced by Giorgio Moroder like "I Feel Love" is a well-known example of Euro-Disco. Gloria Gaynor and the Bee-Gees are a good example of American R&B based Disco. Disco was popular but its over-commercialization didn't help. After "Saturday Night Fever",everything was "disco" and Disco came out of the clubs and went everywhere. Company's jumped on the trend, turning Disco into something corny. In a way, "Saturday Night Fever" was the beginning of the end for Disco. Disco got even bigger after that movie but so did the resentment from white Rock fans in particular. Corporate record labels began churning out anything they could call Disco, a lot of it became garbage. Old people were learning the Hustle at dance studios. There were Disco fitness tapes and instructors. Disco TV shows like "Dance Fever" and "Solid Gold" were also adding to its oversaturation and corniness. Stupid songs like "Disco Duck" began flooding the airwaves and "Disco Duck", a horrible horrible song, even went to #1. Things especially got bad when quite a few Rock groups created their own Disco hits. Their fans saw it as selling out and made them hate Disco even more. Groups like KISS, Styx, Rod Stewart, The Rolling Stones, and more began cutting songs that were danceable to catch the Disco wave. I remember in my high school, there was a music divide; white Rock fans and Latino and Black Disco and R&B fans. While we didn't hate Rock music, many Rock fans hated Disco. There were "Disco Sucks" t-shirts and bumper stickers everywhere. Lots of times, white guys would drive by us and yell "Disco Sucks" at us and drive away. Then came the night the music died; Disco Demolition night in 1979 in Chicago. A radio disc jockey who hated Disco to this core, invited attendees at a White Sox game to bring Disco records and he was going to blow them up. The game was packed and thousands of people brought all kinds of Disco records. They also brought any kind of Black artist records they could find that were definitely NOT Disco, which shows that this was more than about "Disco". Anyways, that night and the riot that ensued scared American radio stations who promptly dropped their Disco formats and changed back to Rock or Top 40. Disco disappeared from the airwaves seemingly overnight. The Bee Gees paid a heavy price as they went from being played on almost every station to being hard to find on radio after that. In fact, it pretty much halted their recording careers. They went on to writing hit songs for other artists. They had a few hits later on, but they definitely weren't what they were. Their concerts were still big, it was just hard to hear them on the radio. You should watch the HBO documentary "The Bee Gees: How Do You Mend A Broken Heart" from 2020. Barry Gibb tells of the Disco fallout as it affected them. Interestingly, Disco never died in Europe. It remained popular. In fact, David Bowie said in an MTV interview that Disco never died in Europe like it did in the US and called the "New Wave" of the 80s basically, "Disco with guitar" played by white guys. He said he thought it was interesting that when white guys from the UK came to the US for the 2nd British invasion of the 80s playing dance music, calling it New Wave, that white guys started to love it. Here is a video about Disco Demolition Night ruclips.net/video/AiDYGlSJY1E/видео.html&ab_channel=RedBullMusicAcademy
Ummm yessss this is disco! It pulled you right out your chair and made you dance! Great reaction! Brings back a lot of memories for me. I’m 66, so this song was popular in my disco clubbing days. Check out her song, MacArthur Park. Another gem.
That is how ya do it. Dancing from the beginning. By you joining in, you got some of that energy that will propel you today, tomorrow, forever. Great reaction.
Woo!!! Thanks for the Donna reaction!!! She is my ALL TIME favorite!!! She was more than just "The Queen of Disco" though. She was way much more and could sing so many genres of music. You'll have to go down the Donna rabbit hole now!! You'll love it! Donna also did a couple of appearances on that old sitcom "Family Matters" and played Steve Urkel's aunt, Oona. She was such a talented person, was even an accomplished painter. Listen to MacArthur Park!
Donna did a lot of songs that started slowly to showcase her amazing voice. You could hear how pure and controlled her voice was when she's start off her songs slowly like that. Check out her duo with Barbra Streisand, No More Tears (Enough Is Enough). It's legendary.
I was lucky to see her in concert a few years before she passed, and she still sounded great! Lots to check out the"Queen of Disco". My faves are "Hot Stuff", "She Works Hard for The Money," and the song that had me blushing and🥵 as a teenager "Love To Love You Baby" 😎
Thanks for playing Donna Summer favourite 70's artist and recommend all her hits, with ' Hot Stuff', 'MacArthur's Park' and more. I was lucky to dance at discos, back then and wish they were still around, like that. It was only the other competition music genres that campaigned against disco, to push other types. But Donna and the Bee Gees are legends now. Keep up the choices and good information too. D🎶
Donna Summer burst onto the music scene with a hit called "Love to Love You Baby" which was not only epic, but the original extended play got banned from many radio stations due to its sexualized lyrics. I would also recommend "MacArthur Park" and her duet with Barbra Streisand called "No More Tears".
Donna was that artist that comes along every few decades. The one that everyone loves. You hate disco, but you love Donna. From rockers to ravers, they all loved that voice and attitude. She really was the blueprint of the pop star you know now.
The best time of my life was the 1970's Disco Era. Donna was not only a great singer but a beautiful woman who left us way to early. Studio 54 officially opened on April 26th 1977. You should check out C.J. and Company "Devil's Gun", it was the first song played on opening night.
Donna Summer did a 2 album set dedicated to ladies of the night called “BAD GIRLS”. You have to check that entire 2 album set. Sunset people will blow you away.
I'm from Chicago and in 1979, a dj decided to have a Disco Sucks gathering between a baseball doubleheader at the old White Sox Park. They blew up a huge bunch of disco records in the outfield. People who hated disco poured out of the stands, ran onto the field and smoke and fire from the explosion got out of control. The White Sox had to forfeit the second game. Many believed, including me, that it was racially motivated and also homophobic, because minorities and gay people favored the disco genre. Those who rioted on the field, were long-haired rock and rollers. Rock and Roll was created by Black people, which many people are unaware of, some people protested outside disco concerts with signs containing racial and gay slurs. I know this to be true, because I attended a Sister Sledge concert and had to walk through a gaunlet of hateful people. The dj denied the motivation, but disco soon stopped being as popular. It wasn't the music they hated, it was the type of people who loved disco that they hated.
My theory is they couldn't dance or dress (people got decked out to go out Disco dancing) and were JEALOUS. The racial/gay hate was a coverup for their lack of tempo/timing/taste. LOL. Seriously it's sad that people don't know every genre came from one before it and BOTH Black & White have contributed over the centuries almost equally to music from creating the instruments, equipment, recording techniques to playing and singing/performing/culture. Music is UNIVERSAL!
Disco is excellent roller skating music. That's where I was '76 - '80. High school years. You haven't lived until you Roller Disco'd. For real!!!! 😊😊❤❤
Nice reaction...Donna Summer was indeed the Queen of Disco. I was a teenager in the 70th and loved this music. Disco never really disappeared, it reinvented to HiNRG Music in the 80th and now you can find NuDisco is on the rise. The sound changed a bit but it`s danceable like the 70th disco.
There was a huge backlash against disco in about 1980, when "hair" bands became popular. It was VERY UNCOOL to like disco after that. I was in high school at the time. Donna had some other awesome songs you will love... There are quite a few great recommendations below, but I would like to add "No More Tears" which is a duet with Barbra Steisand.
This is my era!! Yes at the clubs we all got on the floor when this one came on. One of my favorites! Have to imagine the guy spinning the girl. And doing a lot of old disco moves...ah memories! 4inch heels dancing till your were out of breath. Disco was so much fun!!
I love the way you describe Disco...the music was "so fun, so free"....That was how I felt about Disco and I was there. In my opinion Disco was killed off by the 'Hard Rock" community that hated it and made fun of it by introducing songs like Disco Duck and other nonsense. They hated it and said it was only for Black and Brown people and the Gay community. They bought Disco Albums to White Sox Park here in Chicago and threw them in the field and set fire to them. That quickly ended Disco. I'm sure you can find the video somewhere probably, here on RUclips. Disco was the most fun in my life. It went back underground and after a while it turned into House Music.
Donner Summer - 'I feel love' is so great and was an example of its time when there was so much synth experimentation. I loved it way back then growing up.
I can’t believe you haven’t heard this before. To this day almost every wedding I’ve been to and lots of other dances/clubs have this as the closing number from the DJ. BTW disco was wrongly pronounced dead in the late 70’s. I always loved it though. I idolized Donna Summer as a singer back in the day.
I tended bar at a disco during the late 70's, and this Donna Summer song, Last Dance was played as the last song of the night (well, 1:45 am in the morning actually because bars closed at 2am, 3:30 on Saturdays, back in those days) damn near every single night. It Was an appropriate song for bar closing though so.... 💃🕺 It was a great disco tune however. I personally was into the classic and prog rock of the day, and a Deadhead at heart, but disco had it's place in musical history. Rockers Hated disco and burned albums and all that crap, but I found the disco scene fun too. People dressed up, women in heels, race didn't matter, everyone was just there to have a good time and Dance Dance Dance. Donna Summer was a huge influence in the disco scene and from all I have read, a fine friend, remarkable woman, a pioneer. 🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃
I’m dancing 😅💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻 ( almost from the start of the song). It’s been awhile since I listened to the soundtrack, but I think I liked the whole album 🤔 and the movie.🍿 she has a great range
I Loved Disco and still do! It was fun, happy dancable music. As you know, there are always the haters who don't like something, so they don't want you to have the opportunity to like it either.
I love Donna Summer's "State of Independence" very catchy beat. it was 82 so as disco was waning. what came after disc- electronic dance music, hip hop, new wave, dance-punk, and post-disco. like Burning down the house. group Talking heads, that was in the Nerds Movie. and Valley Girl with Nicholas cage. strange time in music.
This was just a small sample of the EFFORTLESS POWER in her voice. Labeling the LEGENDARY Donna Summer the Queen of Disco was a disservice. This woman could sing ANY genre of music. Even whole battling lung cancer, her voice never changed. That power was always there.
I was in the car driving I can’t get up and dance, but I did dance at red lights and my seat. And I’ve been dancing to that song since middle school. Lol
I just saw this. I was too young to go out n dance when this song came out. LOVED rhe intro & the song. I heart Donna Summer. I enjoyed her as Urkles aunt in Family Matters. YOU GOT SOME GREAT MOVES! I ❤ disco music. But it pretty much died out by time I was 18 & went dancing on dates. May Donna R I P
Most of the people who didn't like disco in the 70s, didn't like it because they couldn't dance to it. Those who could dance, felt it was a chance to show off their moves, and loved it. Yes, it IS disco!
"Last Dance", the beautiful iconic Disco song by the gorgeous "Queen Of Disco", Donna Summer. The Disco Music it is the most spectacular style in history! I love your reactions... You should to hear the Donna Summer's Masterpiece "MacArthur Park Suite" (1978). It is the most beautiful Disco mix or songs combination, with the same base sounds. I will like to see your reactions on these "voices and sound explotions". You will be crazy with all the Donna Summer's impressive music catalog, including her "Greatest Hits On The Radio Volumes I & II" album. Donna Summer is the phenomenal greatest vocalist in the music history, because she was a carismatic humble woman, that had the hole package: beauty, perfect camaleonic voice, talent, lyrics, orchestration, music styles, image and love to each other. I call her: "The One Thousand Voices Girl", and you will know why... Eventualy, she was called: "One Take", due to a lot of her songs was recorded from the first time ever. Donna Summer was the Queen of the Puerto Rico's radio stations and dance clubs. She is my favorite artist, from 1976, until today. "Nobody can do it like Donna Summer", as Patti LaBelle said. She gave us, all her love❤, arts and her greatness. Blessings to everybody! William Rodríguez-Zayas, from my gorgeous Island of Puerto Rico 🇵🇷.
Donna is my favorite singer ever. I feature her songs on my channel every Sunday (Donna Summer Sunday). Discover more of her music, including remixes, on my channel and elsewhere. Great intro to the lady I call The Voice. Can you hear her sing other songs, you understand why I call her the voice. And, it's not for riffs and runs. It's for her ability to sound different on different songs. One of the reasons Disco died is because, lots of white, anti-gay and anti-black people protested against it after the genre took over the airwaves. A lot of Rock & Roll disc jock lost their jobs because radio stations changed from a Rock music format to a Disco format. That's how overwhelming Disco was. It took over for an era and some people hated it. Disco came from gay and black culture and you know how some people feel about gay and black people to this day. Back then was no different. Eventually, Disco died out as a result of the negative reactions to it. Some even burned Disco records. Put them all in a pile and burned them as a protest. The protest slogan was "Disco sucks!" Crazy, right?
10:42 Watch her documentary, or maybe not now, later, but it was a whole movement leaded by rock fans (white rock fans) that were against Disco music and they made an "event" where they burn a lot of disco records, and the GP, as always, followed the lead. Disco started underground, with the black community, queer community, latino community, and it became very popular with time. But that "event" happened and disco "died". It never did tbh, it evolved. And there have been a few records in the 90s, 00s, 10s that are disco. Thankfully disco had a "resurrection" a few years ago, it gained popularity once more.
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Got a giggle when you said this wasn't disco! I said to myself just wait. One of my favorites! It was a blast to dance to.
Everybody LOVED her! She was the Queen of Disco! She brought so much joy and happiness to millions of people during her long career! She is surely missed!
Donna married fellow broadway performer Austrian Helmut Sommer, "Summer" was mistake made by the record company. The never corrected it and it became her stage name. Donna was Pop Music's first female Mega Star selling millions worldwide and breaking boundaries by crossing into multiply genres. Named the "Diva De Tutti Dive" by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, meaning the first true diva of the modern pop era. She was the first female artist and the first black artist to bring 3 albums to the top of the Billboard Charts back to back. They just happened to be 3 multi-platinum selling double albums. She was the first female artist to dominate the Billboard Charts. The first female to sit on top of 3 major charts as the same time. She was first to have 2 singles in the top 3 at the same time (twice in 4 months). She was the first artist to have 2 #1 singles in the top 5 and top 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. She was the first female artist to repeat having the #1 single and #1 album simultaneously on the Pop chart (3 times in 8 months). She was the first solo artist to have 3 #1 singles and 5 top 10 and/or 5 top 5 singles in a calendar year 1979. She scored 9 consecutive tp 5 singles between July 78 and Oct 80, on the Hot 100 all selling a million copies or better, a physical sales record. She sold 20 million albums and 15 million singles in the US Market at the end of the 70s with Casablanca Records. She has sold more than 150 million records worldwide, her wikipedia page (and related pages) are in dire need of an update. She had 14 top 10 hits on the Hot 100 Love to Love You Baby #2 (76), I Feel Love #6 (77), Last Dance (78), Mac Arthur Park #1 (78), Heaven Knows #4 (79), Hot Stuff #1 (79), Bad Girls #1 (79), Dim All The Lights #2 (79), No More Tears #1 (79), On The Radio 3% (80), The Wanderer #3 (80), Love Is In Control #10 (82), She Works Hard for The Money #3 (83), This Time I Know Its For Real #7 (89). She was the first black female artist to be played in heavy rotation by MTV in 1983, and set a precedent of have 3 consecutive videos placed in heavy rotation (Not Surpassed until Janet Jackson and Rhythm Nation in 89/90). She kicked the door down for artists (especially females) to build careers on dance music. One of the greatest voices of our time.
"I KNEW IT!" - Thor
I knew the Wiki was weaky, as it was missing a whole lot of her accomplishments I'd read about in the past, seems someone removed the info, probably to make Cardi-B*tch or Nasty Minage look like something in comparison.
Once you pull up ALL THE RECEIPTS the game is OVER!
This was always the last song played at the Disco before it closed. Disco was destroyed by a campaign of people who couldn't dance.
McArthur Park! Vocal perfection
enough is enough ,duo barbara stresand n donna summer will blow your mind . im 73 years , i lived it weho the best times ever!
GREAT reaction to one of the most incredible singers ever!!!!! Donna's vocal skills were off the chart. Long before Whitney (love my Whitney) there was Donna. Donna is the only recording artist to have Grammy's in 5 different genres of music. She Won for best rock vocal and had other rock song nominations. You ask the question what happened to disco, here you go. Donna is responsible for changing pop music forever with the song in 1977 "I Feel Love". This is the song that bridged disco sensuality and the synthesizer into the electronic revolution, Summer and producers/co-writers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte not only crafted an international smash with I Feel Love, they helped lay a path for synth pop, New Romantics, Italo disco, Hi-NRG, electro, house, techno, and more, influencing generations of pop, rock, and dance artists along the way. Donna actually had #1 songs until her death in 2012. She got labeled a disco queen, but was way beyond everyone else on so many levels not just vocally. ruclips.net/video/9ZqqvrWCs3Q/видео.htmlsi=h_8RNsIeHCNSUQZU
"DISCO WILL NEVER DIE "
It suffered a hit on July 12, 1979 at Comiskey Park!😂😂😂😂😂😂 🤘
It just reinvents itself
I absolutely love that you jumped out of your chair and danced! That’s disco in a nutshell!
So many of us young guys had Donna Summer among our first crushes-she was smokin hot good looking, had the voice of an angel and put out hit after hit. She always seemed to have a song on the radio. She will forever be the Queen of Disco to me
Donns was one of the most underrated singers of the last century.
Donna Summer was Pop Royalty! ❤
Even after disco was “over” this was often the last song played for the night at dance clubs and bars. RIP Ms. Donna!
Last Call Y'all and then it starts. Shout out to Woody's in Daytona
Queen of disco!!!!!❤❤❤❤
We miss Disco too! Glad generation after generation is still playing and dancing to it! This music will last forever! After we got out of the movie watching Last Dance us kids were dancing in the street! We were on a natural high after seeing this movie and dancing to Donna Summer!👏🏽❤️💃🏽🎉🙏🏽
And THAT NOTE is what made her THE QUEEN!
In the 70s Disco was a tag given to any R&B or Pop song that was danceable. The tag faded away but pop dance music continued . Disco got so big that a bunch of White rockers protested it. Donna was a force in the pop charts.. and remains one of the Top 15 female pop vocalist of all time.
She won a R&B Grammy for this song (not disco) and a Grammy for best Rock female for the hit “Hot Stuff” don’t let the disco tag fool you. Donna won five Grammys, all in different categories of music and had 18 nominations. She’s royalty. 👑
Thanks for an amazing reaction. ❤
She was the BEST! Donna Summer gave us some great years with her music and we’re forever grateful! Gone too soon 🙏🏼
She also has a great duet with Barbra Streisand called No More Tears! Another great one to check out!
I love your energy. I wish you were with us at the nigh clubs back in the 70's , Our new generation doesn't;'t know the meaning of a dance floor. Before Madonna was Donna Summer !!
Miss Donna Summer, the undisputed Queen of Disco definitely go down the rabbit hole what a talent she was may she Rest in Peace ✌️
*I danced through the Disco Era in the clubs and it was a BLESSING. The demise of disco is a complex story! There are documentaries. This was ALWAYS the last song played in the club before closing. It is from the film THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY. She wad my first concert! For me, her most important hit is "Macarthur Park." Check it out!*
Same. I was a disco dance instructor. Best money I ever made!
Sigh. I really miss the 70s.
The album you have pictured is outstanding! Everysong breaks intyo another song with no interruption. It's like the entire side is just one-long-song! Her voice was magnificent!
Donna never had a bad song. Lovely Legend ❤
"On The Radio" is a great song by Donna
Don't be ashamed of your dancing! You look like you could tear up the floor!!!!🕺🕺🕺🕺❤
Out of the THOUSANDS of talented and great artists out there, past and present & future, in ANY GENRE, DONNA is SPECIAL .... MAGICAL 🤩😍 unlike any other, just ask Patti LaBelle..."NO ONE does it like Donna" 🎤drop.
R.I.P. BEAUTY 😢
I'm not a big fan of many artists. But as a teen I was crazy about Donna Summer. She will always be the queen of Disco. I'm with you bro, I love Donna Summer.
Saw her about a year before her death. Her voice and stage presence was still fantastic. Of course Last Dance ended the concert, bringing the audience on their feet dancing.
Donna Summer's first top 40 hit was in 1975 and is called Love To Love You Baby. It hit #2. The single version is the last three minutes of the album version which is 16:50 long. You should go ahead and hear the album version. It took up one whole side of the album. You will love this Disco Ballad!😮😊
Welcome to the CLUB! I have loved Donna Summer ever since i heard her in 1976. and have been lucky enough to see her in concert 8 times in the 90's and 2000's She had club hits thoughout her career right up till 2011 on the dance charts. ANY of her 14 top tens hits is worth reacting to!! You will be even more amazed!~!
In the seventies, I was a teenager and Ms. Donna's #1fan. Disco's formal end was the retaliation from the conservative rock world and other societal factions which rebelled against many things which had become associated with the musical phenomenon known as Disco. However, the love for the format continues. We, humans love to dance! So, the disco genre of the seventies (my era) morphed into what is now called "dance music" . Yet we true devotees of Disco know the modern genre to just be an updated version of true Disco. But Ms. Donna was part of all of the original scene in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s until her passing. You are correct, she is a legend for all time! Ms. Donna was SUPERB. I attended her concerts in each decade. She was a trailblazer and consummate artist! Checkout her 2008 song "The queen is back". Young man, I am certain you'll like it as well. This is her signature tune. I am glad you and many other young people like Ms. Donna's music. It seems the the American public has a brand new interest in Ms. Donna. Young man , I wish you could've seen her in the seventies and eighties. But check out the VH1 Live and more Encore concert. I believe you'll also enjoy the other songs as well. There is no need to envy the life experiences of those who lived in the seventies. Youdon't need, nor want the drug use which also was rampant at the time. But, now you can enjoy Ms. Donna for all time. Checkout the 2023 HBOfilm "Love to love you, Donna Summer"
Donna's disco story began in the "alternate lifestyle" dance club scene. The DJ in gay bars began playing what would become disco hits before they were being played on the radio.
The slow intro gave dancers time to get to the dance floor...because "Last Dance" was the last dance of the night at, eventually, all the dance clubs in the late 80s and into the early 90s.
Which is when disco "died", as some like to report.
But what disco did was.... evolve. It evolved into alternative music. Now alternative split into alternative dance and alternative rock. But there were a lot of crossovers between both genres throughout the 90s.
A song, "Disco Duck" was hashed together. Many say that song killed disco. Well those folks were never people who like disco music. "Disco Duck" was a mockery song. We actual disco dancing people knew that, it was definitely NOT a loved disco hit!
Disco evolved into alternative. And we let the hater believe "disco died" as they started liking what disco turned into.... alternative dance and alternative rock. Which most haters liking both.
But Donna was, and still is, the Queen of Disco. One of the major Divas from that era. And still loved by those who loved her first....the "alternative lifestyle" guys and gals!
Yeah, lets see him dive into 1980's "HOUSE MUSIC", "FREESTYLE", "HEARTBREAK" all musical children of the Disco era mostly started in NYC or by ex-New York residents in Chicago, Fl, CA etc.
He'll be the 1st channel I'll see reacting to any of those 3 genres.
She had 4 #1 songs and many top 40. And she won 5 Grammys.
And "Last Dance" won the Oscar for best theme song for the movie "Thank God it's Friday" in which she also starred.
I know you would enjoy the song No More Tears, a duet with Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand, two of the greatest singers ever
Yes! I was just about to recommend that!
Was going to recommend this one, too!
You are a very good dancer!!! You have NAILED DISCO dancing!!! As I think about it, it was a few "elite influencers" basically cancelled it!!! Bring it back!!!
NO MORE TEARs! duet with Barbra
I saw her live in concert in either 1976 or 1977 at the Ohio State Fair. She was amazing live! I was a kid in the 70’s and it just kind of died out and morphed into other stuff- pop, New Romantics, new wave/ synth pop. But you can still feel its influence in current music if you’re listening for it.
I love your reaction to Donna!!! I was one who was on the dancefloors during the height of disco. If you want to hear another amazing disco song that starts slow and then explodes is "No More Tears (extended version) by Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand. It is over 8 minutes long, so do not listen to the shorter version. As for disco dying, disco became too commercial, with silly and dumb songs set to a disco beat. It was made into a joke.
You've not even begun to scratch the surface of the goddess Donna Summer. Her vocal ability was EFFORTLESS. You MUST dig deeper into this amazing ladies' catalog. You will love it. MACARTHUR PARK, I FEEL LOVE, NO MORE TEARS, and LOVES ABOUT TO CHANGE MY HEART are just 4 Donna Summer songs that will definitely make you a fan.
Bad Girls! She Works Hard for the Money; State of Independence
This is pure disco.
You have got to hear on the radio sung by Donna Summer!
This current song was featured in her movie thank God it’s Friday. I went to see it when I was about seven years old and I have been loving Donna Summer ever since. She was a wonderful person, not just a beautiful singer but a beautiful person advocating for herself and everyone else who was in New York City during 9/11 who got very very sick and died. She is dearly missed and loved❤
Donna Summer won the Academy Award (Oscar) for best original song in a movie for "Last Dance" as featured in "Thank God It's Friday".
Donna Summer so beautiful ❤ and I love that colour shirt on you Drew 👌
Man you have to keep on going cause Donna Summer is the gift that keeps on giving! If you haven’t heard it yet, check out “I Feel Love”, “Bad Girls”, “Hot Stuff”, “MacArthur’s Park” & the song that started it for her “Love To Love You Baby”. Donna Summer is THE TRUTH & I’m so glad you’re already seeing her greatness!
Donna ALWAYS tore it up LIVE! Even fighting LUNG CANCER ( gotten from breathing 9/11 attack NYC air when it happened) she was top notch.
The mic & equipment couldn't handle the power of her voice, at times she has to put it far away from her mouth to control the mix.
So many disco greats out there, one of my favorites is teri de sario, aint nothing gonna keep me, written and produced by the bee gees i believ, so a treat….then tina Charles one hit wonder i love to love, 10 th avenue, miami heat wave…great songs keep going …its 50 year old music and still great 😊
Around 1984 it started to change into club music... it was also great music, for example "Play at your own risk"... the mother of all club music. Donna has one of the best voices EVER...no matter what genre.. check out "On The Radio" and "MacArthur Park"
Donna was one of the best female singers in the 70s and early 80s.
You asked what happened to disco, why it went away, since the music was great and it seemed like such a fun time period. It seemed on-top-of-the-world popular from 1974 to summer of 1979, when there was an anti-disco riot and record-burning called "Disco Demolition Night" during the halftime of a ballgame in Comiskey Park in July. That caught my disco-loving teenage self by surprise, but apparently there were quite a few people who had come to hate disco, people who seemed mostly to prefer hard rock and didn't think that a person could like both. Honestly, there had been kind of an over-saturation of disco by advertisers, etc, with disco-themed items of all kinds everywhere and even rock stars like the Rolling Stones, Kiss, Rod Stewart, and Blondie making disco songs, something that apparently made some people mad. After Comiskey Park, disco was said to be dead, but only in the US. Europe never had an anti-disco moment like that and the word didn't go out of fashion there. Even though disco went out of fashion in the US, musicians continued to make popular music that was structurally disco; they just didn't call it disco anymore and musicians like Donna Summer would add aggressive-sounding guitar solos and stuff to make their still-disco-structured music sound tougher or whatever. And the basic four-on-the-floor, beats-per-minute, metronomic structure of disco is the basis for supposedly totally different later genres like house, HI-NRG, techno/EDM, etc., so in a way, disco never totally died.
I wish I was old enough to go to clubs during the Disco era because I love to dance. I was about 8 years too young but remember watching my best friend's older brother and his girlfriend practice their dance moves all week long for Friday and Saturday night. I couldn't get enough and would happily DJ for them. That was as close as I got to Disco clubbing and I loved it. I had hundreds of Disco records. Of course, when I began going to clubs, New Wave was the thing I was dancing to which I come back to at the end of this.
What happened to Disco? Well, it's a long and sordid story but to make it short, Disco was vehemently reviled by Rock & Roll fans, particularly men. It was seen as "gay", as "Black", as getting too much airplay and drowning out Rock & Roll as many stations changed formats dropping Rock for Disco. Disco began in the early 70s in underground clubs in NYC, LA, Chicago and soon became popular in the gay club scene and in the Black R&B scene. There were two main types of Disco; R&B based American Disco and Euro-Disco which is the forerunner of today's Electronica music. Donna Summer's early hits produced by Giorgio Moroder like "I Feel Love" is a well-known example of Euro-Disco. Gloria Gaynor and the Bee-Gees are a good example of American R&B based Disco.
Disco was popular but its over-commercialization didn't help. After "Saturday Night Fever",everything was "disco" and Disco came out of the clubs and went everywhere. Company's jumped on the trend, turning Disco into something corny. In a way, "Saturday Night Fever" was the beginning of the end for Disco. Disco got even bigger after that movie but so did the resentment from white Rock fans in particular. Corporate record labels began churning out anything they could call Disco, a lot of it became garbage. Old people were learning the Hustle at dance studios. There were Disco fitness tapes and instructors. Disco TV shows like "Dance Fever" and "Solid Gold" were also adding to its oversaturation and corniness. Stupid songs like "Disco Duck" began flooding the airwaves and "Disco Duck", a horrible horrible song, even went to #1.
Things especially got bad when quite a few Rock groups created their own Disco hits. Their fans saw it as selling out and made them hate Disco even more. Groups like KISS, Styx, Rod Stewart, The Rolling Stones, and more began cutting songs that were danceable to catch the Disco wave. I remember in my high school, there was a music divide; white Rock fans and Latino and Black Disco and R&B fans. While we didn't hate Rock music, many Rock fans hated Disco. There were "Disco Sucks" t-shirts and bumper stickers everywhere. Lots of times, white guys would drive by us and yell "Disco Sucks" at us and drive away.
Then came the night the music died; Disco Demolition night in 1979 in Chicago. A radio disc jockey who hated Disco to this core, invited attendees at a White Sox game to bring Disco records and he was going to blow them up. The game was packed and thousands of people brought all kinds of Disco records. They also brought any kind of Black artist records they could find that were definitely NOT Disco, which shows that this was more than about "Disco". Anyways, that night and the riot that ensued scared American radio stations who promptly dropped their Disco formats and changed back to Rock or Top 40. Disco disappeared from the airwaves seemingly overnight. The Bee Gees paid a heavy price as they went from being played on almost every station to being hard to find on radio after that. In fact, it pretty much halted their recording careers. They went on to writing hit songs for other artists. They had a few hits later on, but they definitely weren't what they were. Their concerts were still big, it was just hard to hear them on the radio. You should watch the HBO documentary "The Bee Gees: How Do You Mend A Broken Heart" from 2020. Barry Gibb tells of the Disco fallout as it affected them.
Interestingly, Disco never died in Europe. It remained popular. In fact, David Bowie said in an MTV interview that Disco never died in Europe like it did in the US and called the "New Wave" of the 80s basically, "Disco with guitar" played by white guys. He said he thought it was interesting that when white guys from the UK came to the US for the 2nd British invasion of the 80s playing dance music, calling it New Wave, that white guys started to love it. Here is a video about Disco Demolition Night
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Club music today is basically disco.
Ummm yessss this is disco! It pulled you right out your chair and made you dance! Great reaction! Brings back a lot of memories for me. I’m 66, so this song was popular in my disco clubbing days. Check out her song, MacArthur Park. Another gem.
That is how ya do it. Dancing from the beginning. By you joining in, you got some of that energy that will propel you today, tomorrow, forever. Great reaction.
Wait I until he listens to “I Feel Love”or “Love to Love You” In the Radio is one of my favorites of hers.
Woo!!! Thanks for the Donna reaction!!! She is my ALL TIME favorite!!! She was more than just "The Queen of Disco" though. She was way much more and could sing so many genres of music. You'll have to go down the Donna rabbit hole now!! You'll love it! Donna also did a couple of appearances on that old sitcom "Family Matters" and played Steve Urkel's aunt, Oona. She was such a talented person, was even an accomplished painter. Listen to MacArthur Park!
This song is from the movie “Thank God it’s Friday”. Donna was also in the movie.
That was a delightful reaction! Try "Hot Stuff" from Donna next ... or "She Works Hard For The Money", both great bangers.
Donna did a lot of songs that started slowly to showcase her amazing voice. You could hear how pure and controlled her voice was when she's start off her songs slowly like that. Check out her duo with Barbra Streisand, No More Tears (Enough Is Enough). It's legendary.
Love donna summer, great career, great life story, so sad to see her go.
I was lucky to see her in concert a few years before she passed, and she still sounded great! Lots to check out the"Queen of Disco". My faves are "Hot Stuff", "She Works Hard for The Money," and the song that had me blushing and🥵 as a teenager "Love To Love You Baby" 😎
Reactions to "Love to Love You Baby" are always hilarious
Her voice is perfect.
Thanks for playing Donna Summer favourite 70's artist and recommend all her hits, with ' Hot Stuff', 'MacArthur's Park' and more. I was lucky to dance at discos, back then and wish they were still around, like that. It was only the other competition music genres that campaigned against disco, to push other types. But Donna and the Bee Gees are legends now. Keep up the choices and good information too. D🎶
If you watch the documentary “Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” you’ll find out what happened to disco.
Donna Summer burst onto the music scene with a hit called "Love to Love You Baby" which was not only epic, but the original extended play got banned from many radio stations due to its sexualized lyrics. I would also recommend "MacArthur Park" and her duet with Barbra Streisand called "No More Tears".
Disco was shut down by racism, and we also evolve to dance, and from dance we moved to FUNK, then pop, and so on.
Queen of Disco . Legend
Donna was that artist that comes along every few decades. The one that everyone loves. You hate disco, but you love Donna. From rockers to ravers, they all loved that voice and attitude.
She really was the blueprint of the pop star you know now.
The best time of my life was the 1970's Disco Era. Donna was not only a great singer but a beautiful woman who left us way to early. Studio 54 officially opened on April 26th 1977. You should check out C.J. and Company "Devil's Gun", it was the first song played on opening night.
Donna Summer did a 2 album set dedicated to ladies of the night called “BAD GIRLS”. You have to check that entire 2 album set. Sunset people will blow you away.
Donna Summers had the sickest intros. Listen to radio
Disco QUEEN!
I'm from Chicago and in 1979, a dj decided to have a Disco Sucks gathering between a baseball doubleheader at the old White Sox Park. They blew up a huge bunch of disco records in the outfield. People who hated disco poured out of the stands, ran onto the field and smoke and fire from the explosion got out of control. The White Sox had to forfeit the second game. Many believed, including me, that it was racially motivated and also homophobic, because minorities and gay people favored the disco genre. Those who rioted on the field, were long-haired rock and rollers. Rock and Roll was created by Black people, which many people are unaware of, some people protested outside disco concerts with signs containing racial and gay slurs. I know this to be true, because I attended a Sister Sledge concert and had to walk through a gaunlet of hateful people. The dj denied the motivation, but disco soon stopped being as popular. It wasn't the music they hated, it was the type of people who loved disco that they hated.
My theory is they couldn't dance or dress (people got decked out to go out Disco dancing) and were JEALOUS.
The racial/gay hate was a coverup for their lack of tempo/timing/taste.
LOL.
Seriously it's sad that people don't know every genre came from one before it and BOTH Black & White have contributed over the centuries almost equally to music from creating the instruments, equipment, recording techniques to playing and singing/performing/culture.
Music is UNIVERSAL!
What you said was factually inaccurate except for the city and the year.😂😂😂
It was not racially or homo motivated at all... 🤘
Stopped watching another video to see this reaction ASAP!
FINALLY THE QUEEN!🎤👸🏾🎙
Have these people who are just discovering Donna summer, the legend. Been living on the moon?????😂😂😂
Disco is excellent roller skating music. That's where I was '76 - '80. High school years. You haven't lived until you Roller Disco'd. For real!!!! 😊😊❤❤
Nice reaction...Donna Summer was indeed the Queen of Disco. I was a teenager in the 70th and loved this music.
Disco never really disappeared, it reinvented to HiNRG Music in the 80th and now you can find NuDisco is on the rise. The sound changed a bit but it`s danceable like the 70th disco.
There was a huge backlash against disco in about 1980, when "hair" bands became popular. It was VERY UNCOOL to like disco after that. I was in high school at the time. Donna had some other awesome songs you will love... There are quite a few great recommendations below, but I would like to add "No More Tears" which is a duet with Barbra Steisand.
This is my era!! Yes at the clubs we all got on the floor when this one came on. One of my favorites! Have to imagine the guy spinning the girl. And doing a lot of old disco moves...ah memories! 4inch heels dancing till your were out of breath. Disco was so much fun!!
I love the way you describe Disco...the music was "so fun, so free"....That was how I felt about Disco and I was there.
In my opinion Disco was killed off by the 'Hard Rock" community that hated it and made fun of it by introducing songs like Disco Duck and other nonsense. They hated it and said it was only for Black and Brown people and the Gay community. They bought Disco Albums to White Sox Park here in Chicago and threw them in the field and set fire to them. That quickly ended Disco.
I'm sure you can find the video somewhere
probably, here on RUclips.
Disco was the most fun in my life. It went back underground and after a while it turned into House Music.
LOVE Donna Summer !!!! She has so many great songs
That's my girl! Love the amazing Donna Summer. I have the double live album and favorite thing is listening to MacArthur Park ❤❤
Donner Summer - 'I feel love' is so great and was an example of its time when there was so much synth experimentation. I loved it way back then growing up.
The pride of Dorchester MA, she was great. My mom loved her.
I can’t believe you haven’t heard this before. To this day almost every wedding I’ve been to and lots of other dances/clubs have this as the closing number from the DJ.
BTW disco was wrongly pronounced dead in the late 70’s. I always loved it though. I idolized Donna Summer as a singer back in the day.
I actually produced Donna's Carnegie Hall debut concert, an AIDS fundraiser in 1998. She was lovely and the concert was the most fun I ever had!
I tended bar at a disco during the late 70's, and this Donna Summer song, Last Dance was played as the last song of the night (well, 1:45 am in the morning actually because bars closed at 2am, 3:30 on Saturdays, back in those days) damn near every single night. It Was an appropriate song for bar closing though so.... 💃🕺 It was a great disco tune however. I personally was into the classic and prog rock of the day, and a Deadhead at heart, but disco had it's place in musical history. Rockers Hated disco and burned albums and all that crap, but I found the disco scene fun too. People dressed up, women in heels, race didn't matter, everyone was just there to have a good time and Dance Dance Dance. Donna Summer was a huge influence in the disco scene and from all I have read, a fine friend, remarkable woman, a pioneer.
🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃
Donna "Summer" :)
I’m dancing 😅💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻 ( almost from the start of the song). It’s been awhile since I listened to the soundtrack, but I think I liked the whole album 🤔 and the movie.🍿 she has a great range
I Loved Disco and still do! It was fun, happy dancable music. As you know, there are always the haters who don't like something, so they don't want you to have the opportunity to like it either.
I love Donna Summer's "State of Independence" very catchy beat. it was 82 so as disco was waning. what came after disc- electronic dance music, hip hop, new wave, dance-punk, and post-disco. like Burning down the house. group Talking heads, that was in the Nerds Movie. and Valley Girl with Nicholas cage. strange time in music.
I loved SOI! ❤It was written by Vangelis for Jon Anderson of Yes. Check it out! Donna’s is my favorite. Quincy Jones arranged her version.
This was just a small sample of the EFFORTLESS POWER in her voice. Labeling the LEGENDARY Donna Summer the Queen of Disco was a disservice. This woman could sing ANY genre of music. Even whole battling lung cancer, her voice never changed.
That power was always there.
I'll be 60 in March. I got up and danced. I loved Disco while it lasted. But... I just love to dance. ❤❤
I was in the car driving I can’t get up and dance, but I did dance at red lights and my seat. And I’ve been dancing to that song since middle school. Lol
I just saw this. I was too young to go out n dance when this song came out. LOVED rhe intro & the song. I heart Donna Summer. I enjoyed her as Urkles aunt in Family Matters. YOU GOT SOME GREAT MOVES! I ❤ disco music. But it pretty much died out by time I was 18 & went dancing on dates. May Donna R I P
Must listen to
Donna Summer - "Love To Love You"🔥🔥🔥
Most of the people who didn't like disco in the 70s, didn't like it because they couldn't dance to it. Those who could dance, felt it was a chance to show off their moves, and loved it. Yes, it IS disco!
I love donna
"Last Dance", the beautiful iconic Disco song by the gorgeous "Queen Of Disco", Donna Summer.
The Disco Music it is the most spectacular style in history!
I love your reactions...
You should to hear the Donna Summer's Masterpiece "MacArthur Park Suite" (1978). It is the most beautiful Disco mix or songs combination, with the same base sounds. I will like to see your reactions on these "voices and sound explotions".
You will be crazy with all the Donna Summer's impressive music catalog, including her "Greatest Hits On The Radio Volumes I & II" album.
Donna Summer is the phenomenal greatest vocalist in the music history, because she was a carismatic humble woman, that had the hole package: beauty, perfect camaleonic voice, talent, lyrics, orchestration, music styles, image and love to each other.
I call her: "The One Thousand Voices Girl", and you will know why... Eventualy, she was called: "One Take", due to a lot of her songs was recorded from the first time ever.
Donna Summer was the Queen of the Puerto Rico's radio stations and dance clubs. She is my favorite artist, from 1976, until today.
"Nobody can do it like Donna Summer", as Patti LaBelle said.
She gave us, all her love❤, arts and her greatness.
Blessings to everybody!
William Rodríguez-Zayas, from my gorgeous Island of Puerto Rico 🇵🇷.
Donna is my favorite singer ever. I feature her songs on my channel every Sunday (Donna Summer Sunday). Discover more of her music, including remixes, on my channel and elsewhere. Great intro to the lady I call The Voice. Can you hear her sing other songs, you understand why I call her the voice. And, it's not for riffs and runs. It's for her ability to sound different on different songs.
One of the reasons Disco died is because, lots of white, anti-gay and anti-black people protested against it after the genre took over the airwaves. A lot of Rock & Roll disc jock lost their jobs because radio stations changed from a Rock music format to a Disco format. That's how overwhelming Disco was. It took over for an era and some people hated it.
Disco came from gay and black culture and you know how some people feel about gay and black people to this day. Back then was no different. Eventually, Disco died out as a result of the negative reactions to it. Some even burned Disco records. Put them all in a pile and burned them as a protest. The protest slogan was "Disco sucks!" Crazy, right?
from the film 'Thank God it's Friday'- this song won the Oscar for Best Original Song
10:42 Watch her documentary, or maybe not now, later, but it was a whole movement leaded by rock fans (white rock fans) that were against Disco music and they made an "event" where they burn a lot of disco records, and the GP, as always, followed the lead. Disco started underground, with the black community, queer community, latino community, and it became very popular with time. But that "event" happened and disco "died". It never did tbh, it evolved. And there have been a few records in the 90s, 00s, 10s that are disco. Thankfully disco had a "resurrection" a few years ago, it gained popularity once more.