Fun Music Information -> Donna Summer
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Music Quotes:
God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful - Donna Summer Submitted by: LucidLupin
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Performer Pseudonyms:
Also known as: La Donna Gaines. Submitted by: Cara Miles
Performer Nick Names:
Known informally as: The Queen of Disco. Submitted by: Martha Hankins
Strange Offspring Names:
- Brooke-Lynne - I wonder if she was also conceived there! Submitted by: Jessica
- Brooklyn - The name of one of her three daughters. Submitted by: Eric Andrews
Better Names for Current Songs:
Original Song Name | New Song Name | Submitter Name |
| "Cold Stuff" | "Hot Stuff" | Sam |
| "There Goes My Career" | "There Goes My Baby" | disco |
Use a Song Title to Answer a Different Song:
Song & Band Name | Song & Band Name | Comments & Submittor Name |
| "Let There Be Love" | "I Feel Love," Donna Summer | Kathy |
| "Why Don't You Get A Job?" | "Heaven Knows," Donna Summer | Franka |
| "Fire" | "Hot Stuff," Donna Summer | Kathy |
| "If You Really Love Me" | "Love To Love You Baby," Donna Summer | Kathy |
| There are additional songs titles that answer other songs available. | ||
Remove a Letter From a Song Title:
"Love Is In Control (Finger On The Tigger)" originally "Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)"
If tigger's slow down to have fingers on them?
me
"Ad Girls" originally "Bad Girls"
Girls who take part in advertisements!
Tracy
Add a Letter To a Song Title:
"Glove Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)" originally "Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)"
Regina George of the Jungle
"Band Girls" originally "Bad Girls"
Alanis More Upset
"Blast Dance" originally "Last Dance"
A dance done in war zones, everywhere.
Nora Aaron
"Bald Girls" originally "Bad Girls"
:P
Bridget Andrews
"Love To Love Your Baby" originally "Love To Love You Baby"
Thessaly Danes
There are additional song titles with a letter added available.
Change a Letter In a Song Title:
"Dove Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)" originally "Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)"
Kayla Stewart
"Lore Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)" originally "Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)"
Kayla Stewart
"In The Radio" originally "On The Radio"
Mallory
"Dim All The Fights" originally "Dim All The Lights"
Nora Aaron
"Dim All The Nights" originally "Dim All The Lights"
That should make it really dark.
Nora Aaron
There are additional song titles with a letter changed available.
Song Parodies:
Original Song Name | Parody Song Name | Parody Author |
| "Hot Stuff" | "Hot Rod" | Phil Alexander |
| "Hot Stuff" | "Pasta" | Agrimorfee |
| "MacArthur Park" | "Jonathan Creek" | Friz |
| "Hot Stuff" | "Snot Rag" | Phil Alexander |
| "She Works Hard For The Money" | "He Jerks Hard For The Money" | Johnny D |
| "Bad Girls" | "Fat Girls" | Malcolm Higgins |
| "Bad Girls" | "Fat Girls" | Malcolm Higgins |
| "I Feel Love" | "I Feel Rough (the Morning After Song)" | Malcolm Higgins |
| "Love Is In Control" | "Joan is in Control" | Terrance Tucker |
| "Hot Stuff" | "Silent Stuff" | MasonR |
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Untapped Commercial Ideas:
Song Name | Product | Submittor |
| MacArthur Park | World War II Veterans Memorial Fundraising Campaign | Forteen and Baeutiful |
| Hot Stuff | Mexican-style Restaurant | Edward |
| On The Radio | Any Radio Station | Da Phoenix |
Bad Choices for On Hold Music:
Song Name | Company/Organization | Submittor |
| Bad Girls | Convent | kookoodee |
| On The Radio | Radio Station | Marv |
| Love To Love You Baby | Sex-a-holics Anonymous | BiG BaCoN |
Duets Not Yet Performed:
First Band/Song Name | Second Band/Song Name | New Song Name | Submittor |
| Put Your Records On Corinne Bailey Rae | On The Radio Donna Summer | Put Your Records On The Radio ...so we can all hear them! | nally |
| Get Ya Freak On Missy Elliot | On The Radio Donna Summer | Get Ya Freak On The Radio Just a couple of Bad Girls. | soul ii |
| Party 'Til You Puke Andrew W.K. | On The Radio Donna Summer | Party 'Til You Puke On The Radio I hope that radio was waterproof, mister. | Chandi! |
| She Works Hard For The Money Donna Summer | Money For Nothing Dire Straits | She Works Hard For The Money For Nothing Now that's a contradiction if there ever was one. | Ed |
| There are additional duets that haven't been done yet available. | |||
If Groups Combined, Their Names Might Be :
The Donna Summers
The Donnas combined with Donna Summer
Submitted By: Emily
Madonna Summer
Madonna combined with Donna Summer
Submitted By: nally
Winter & Summer
Edgar Winter Group combined with Donna Summer
Submitted By: Raphael
Donny Summer
Donna Summer combined with Donny Osmond
Submitted By: soul
Misheard Lyrics:
"Hot Stuff"
Misheard Lyrics: Wanna share with my love with a wombat lover
Wanna bring a wombat back home. Original Lyrics: Wanna share with my love with a warm-blooded lover
Wanna bring a wild man back home. | "Bad Girls"
Misheard Lyrics: Why don't you "eff" yourself?
Original Lyrics: Now don't you ask yourself.
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"Hot Stuff"
Misheard Lyrics: Looking for some pasta, baby, this evening.
Original Lyrics: Looking for some hot stuff, baby, this evening.
| "Love Is In Control"
Misheard Lyrics: I've got my baby on the table.
Original Lyrics: I've got my finger on the trigger.
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Misheard Lyrics Story:
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"Hot Stuff"
Misheard Lyrics: Wanna share with my love with a wombat lover
Wanna bring a wombat back home. Original Lyrics: Wanna share with my love with a warm-blooded lover
Wanna bring a wild man back home. |
Story about this misheard lyric by: Axel Well I was singing it to my iPod to my grandparents; and my dad in the car on the way to Scotland. And when I sang that wrong verise they were like: Whaaa? xD |
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Repetitive Lyrics:
"She Works Hard for the Money"
The Repetitive Lyrics: She works hard for the money
So hard for it honey She works hard for the money So you better treat her right Why They're Repetitive: I tried to count how many times she repeats this, but I fell asleep.
Submitted by: Glenn
| "I Feel Love (Rollo And Sister Bliss Monster Mix)"
The Repetitive Lyrics: I feel x60
Why They're Repetitive: A great, if rather long (9:54), version of Donna Summer's classic disco track- assuming you can stay away past the first 2 minutes when 'I Feel' is repeated 60 times. Donna Summer must be very tactile. My advice? Stick to the radio edit which cuts this bit out.
Submitted by: Paul
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Nonsensical Lyrics:
"MacArthur Park"
The Nonsensical Lyrics: MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet green icing flowing down Why They're Nonsensical: She makes it sound like MacArthur Park is a cake. I mean MacArthur Park is exactly what its name implies, a park.
Submitted by: Wario
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Songs That Open With Their Titles:
"She Works Hard For The Money"
Opening Lines: She works hard for the money, so hard for it, honey, She works hard for the money, so you better treat her right.
Comments: 1983's "She Works Hard For The Money" was Donna Summer's biggest hit since 1979's "No More Tears" duet with Barbra Streisand. In the interim she had moved to Geffen records from Casablanca records, and then made a further move to Polydor records (but ended up in a contractual dispute with Geffen record owner, David Geffen, and had to record an lp, "She Works Hard For The Money", on Polydor that some of the proceeds went to Geffen), became a born again Christian and had to see and hear a changing pop music industry that had gone away from Disco to at first a Harder Rock sound and then to New Wave. In that manner, Summer's first top ten hit in the New Wave era was "Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)" from the fall of 1982, it fit in perfectly at time when the big names on the charts were the Go-Go's, Men At Work, the Human League and the Motels. In 1983, and maybe because of the contractual dispute with Geffen, "She Works Hard For The Money" on Polydor was even more fitting in with the times when the big pop names changed even more to such artists as the Eurythmics, the Culture Club and Duran Duran, as well as Michael Jackson. "She Works Hard For The Money" was released in late summer 1983 and quickly went to #3 and partly on the basis of a wonderful video. After this Summer would continue to have some minor hits, until the top ten hit of 1989, "This Time I Know It's For Real" (which sounded the most like her Disco hits of old than any song had in years). Summer has continued to record and go on concert from time to time.
Submitted by: Peter
| "On The Radio"
Opening Lines: Someone found a letter you wrote me, on the radio, And they told the world just how you felt.
Comments: "On The Radio" was a top five hit for Summer in the spring of 1980, and would be her last hit on the Casablanca records label before she went to a more lucrative contract with Geffen records. "On The Radio" was from the "On The Radio, Greatest Hits, Volume 1 & 2" lp and also contains the #1 November 1979 hit duo that Summer had with Barbra Streisand, "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)". Shortly after the success with the single of "On The Radio" Summer left Casablanca for Geffen and then became a Born Again Christian. Summer continued to have some slight success with tunes, for a time on Geffen, but none of the tunes went into the top ten. By this time such groups as Pat Benatar, the Pretenders, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Journey and REO Speedwagon were taking pop music back to it's rock music foundations of the 1950's and 1960's and Disco was dying a slow death due to it's excesses and a changing audience. Donna was relegated to the sidelines at this time, but not for long as Donna was starting to listen to some of the new dance synthesizer pop called New Wave by groups such as the Go-Go's, the Human League, and Duran Duran were starting to become popular.
Submitted by: Peter
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Band Name Anagrams:
Sun Made Morn Submitted by: Kayla Stewart
Indeed it did!
Songs That Are Banned:
"Love to Love You Baby"
Banned on some stations (including the BBC) due to the content, especially the "simulated orgasms"
Submitted by: Ra'akone
Super Long Pop Songs:
"Medley: Hot Stuff/Bad Girls" Length: 10:09
In 1979 Donna Summer recorded the probably most memorable and best selling Disco album of all time, "Bad Girls" for Casablanca Records. It was a trend setter with several nods in the direction that music was going to take in the 1980's (many consider the album not to be just a Disco album, but also the first true New Wave album with sounds that Dance music would take in the 1980's) . The first two songs on the album were the #1 hit, "Hot Stuff" that clocked in at 5:14 and "Bad Girls" that clocked in at 4:55. On their own both are length tunes and faces some single editing by Top 40 radio, but on the lp they are sung by Donna Summer as one long medley actually becoming a story line, and on most Disco dance floors the songs were played as they appeared on the lp (several radio stations also played the lp version). The total length of the Medley of "Hot Stuff" and "Bad Girls" is 10 minutes 9 seconds.
Submitted by: Peter
"MacArthur Park Suite" Length: 17:40
In 1978 Donna Summer recorded a Disco remake of Richard Harris' 1968 #2 hit, "MacArthur Park" and on the lp, "Live And More" there was a 8 minute 40 second version that was edited for single release (although most radio stations played the lp version). The single went to #1 on Billboard Magazine's HOT 100 charts topping Richard Harris' version. There was also a 12" single version for the Disco dance floor that went to #1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play charts. The Disco dance floor version incorporated into the "Suite" with "MacArthur Park", Donna Summer's song "One Of A Kind" and Donna Summer's tune with the Brooklyn Dreams, "Heaven Knows" (that went to #2 on Billboard's HOT 100 charts as a single edit). "Heaven Knows" was also featured in the Disco movie, "Thank God, It's Friday". The "MacArthur Park Suite" was sort of a medley with "MacArthur Park", "One Of A Kind" and "Heaven Knows", but Summer and producer Giorgio Morodor also weaved the songs into sort of Disco story anthem.
Submitted by: Peter
"Love To Love You, Baby " Length: 36:36
Some of the recordings of Donna Summer's 1975 smash hit (her first in the U.S.), "Love To Love You, Baby" clocked one for the record books, over 36 minutes long. Definitely for the Disco dance floor, with Donna repeating her infamous moans that sounded like she was making love.
Submitted by: Peter
Upbeat Songs With Depressing Lyrics:
"she works hard for the money"
The Lyrics: she works hard for the money so hard for it honey so you better treat her right
Why: it is a lively song about a PROSTITUTE
Submitted by: art
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Band Name Spoonerisms:
Sonna Dumber originally "Donna Summer"
Submitted by: Peter
Products Bands Should Endorse Based on Their Name:
Swimwear
Like to see her in some.
Submitted by: She
