Soul Train playlist
The Isley Brothers - I Wanna Be With You
The Gap Band – Shake
Barry White - Any Fool Could See
Carrie Lucas – Dance with You
Foxy – Hot Number
Donna Summer – Hot Stuff
Sister Sledge & Chic – We Are Family
G.Q. - Disco Nights
Narada Michael Walden - I Don't Want Nobody Else
Carrie Lucas - Sometimes a Love Goes Wrong
Yvonne Stevens (Taka Boom ) Night Dancing
G.Q. – This Happy Feeling
Not only one of the landmark records of the disco era, Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" also anticipated the emergence of techno -- sleek, pulsating, and sensual, its signature galloping bass line and sequencer-driven rhythm established the sonic blueprint for virtually all of the dance music to follow in its wake. Written by Summer in tandem with her longtime production team of Giorgio Moroder and Peter Bellotte, upon its 1977 release "I Feel Love" heralded a massive shift from the lushly orchestral disco records popular during the middle of the decade toward a harder-edged, electronic approach -- completely computer-generated, the song's futuristic sheen combines with its dreamily orgasmic vocal to create an experience that's both clinically remote and primally erotic. Summer's second Top Ten hit, "I Feel Love" ranks alongside Brian Eno's Another Green World and Kraftwerk's Trans Europe Express among the era's seminal electronic recordings, and is perhaps even more pivotal because of its mainstream success; a subsequent 20-minute remix by Patrick Cowley pushed the envelope even further, while in 1985 the Jimmy Somerville-led Bronski Beat recorded a hit cover featuring Marc Almond.
Dance Party USA playlist:
Girl-group disco /pop /soul music oldie from 1976: Donna Summer - Try Me I Know We Can Make It
Will to Power - Dreaming (1988)
Loverboy - Hometown Hero (1988)
Pointer Sisters - Be There (1988)
Janet Jackson - The Pleasure Principle (1987)
Elisa Fiorillo - Who Found Who (1987)
Dance Party USA upbeat playlist:
Girl-group disco /pop /soul music oldie from 1976: Donna Summer – Spring Affair
Sweet Sensation – Sincerely Yours (1988)
Doris Higginsen (Doris Troy) – What You Gonna Do About It (1963)
Paula Abdul – Forever Your Girl (1988)
The Pasadenas – Tribute (Right On) (1988)
R&B / Soul / Disco music oldie from 1979: The Whispers – The Beat Goes On
Rob Base & EZ Rock – Joy & Pain (1988)
Marcia Griffiths – It’s Electric (1980) - 1st version
Rob Base & EZ Rock – Get on the Dance Floor (1988)
Guy – Teddy’s Jam (1988)
Bobby Brown – My Prerogative (1988)
Oldies pop /soul ballad slow dance: Jimmy Cliff – Sitting Here in Limbo (1971)
Poison – Your Mama Don’t Dance (1988)
Dance Party USA Hawaiian Luau episode playlist:
The Ventures – Hawaii 5-O
Fat Boys with The Beach Boys – Wipeout (1987)
Otaya – Motuliu South Pacific Review – lipsynch performance
Samantha Fox – I Want to Have Some Fun (1987)
Beach Boys – Kokomo (1988)
Girl-group disco /soul / pop oldie from 1976: Donna Summer – Try Me I Know We Can Make It – short edit pop music version
2 songs by Salt & Pepper: “Twist & Shout”, “Shake Your Thing”
Girl-group disco /soul oldie from 1976: Roberta Kelly – Love Power (1976)
Rhythm & Blues /soul ballad oldie from 1981: Kenny Hamilton – The Same Folks (1981)
Girl-group disco /pop oldie from 1975: Silver Convention – Fly Robin Fly (1975)
The Techniques with Pat Kelly – You Don’t Care for Me (1978)
Katrina & The Waves – Walking on Sunshine (1985)
Dancin On Air playlist:
Sister Sledge & Chic - We Are Family (1979)
Chic - Good Times (1979)
Donna Summer - I Feel Love (1977)
The 4 Tops with The Andantes on backup vocals - Reach out for Me (1966)
Donna Summer - Love Is in Control (1982)
ABC - The Look of Love (1982)
Melba Moore - Loves Coming At You (1982)
Kool & The Gang with Something Sweet - Ladies Night (1979)
10cc - Run Away - with Andrew Gold on backup vocals (1982) -
slow dance
Kool & The Gang - Big Fun (1982)
Linda Ronstadt - Get Closer (1982)
The Cast of The Pirate Movie - Happy Ending (1982)
This is my vocal range video for the best queen of pop and disco from Canada the World has ever seen : Miss France Joli
Voice Type: Mezzo-soprano
Vocal Range: E3? - Bb5
Low Register: E3? - A3
Highest note: Bb5 ("Come To Me" and "The Heart to Break the Heart")
France Joli ([ˈfʁɑnʒɔˈli] born February 2, 1963) is a Canadian singer, best known for the disco classics "Come to Me" and "Gonna Get Over You".
Teen stardom
Born France Joly in Montreal, Quebec, Joli grew up in Dorion. Her father was a hardware merchant and her mother was a teacher.
As early as age four, Joli was performing for relatives lip-syncing to Barbra Streisand records while handling a skipping rope like a microphone; she had appeared on television by age six. At age 11, Joli left the public school system (her mother tutored her) to concentrate on her performing career appearing regularly in television commercials and talent shows. A mutual acquaintance suggested Joli meet up with musician Tony Green who Joli approached backstage after he'd given a concert, Joli inviting Green to be her record producer. Green didn't take the 13-year-old Joli seriously: he'd recall: "To get rid of her I [told] her to keep in touch." According to one source Joli eventually visited Green's home to sing for him; it's also reported that Green first heard Joli sing from the audience of an "end of school year show" in which she performed in the fall of 1978. Both accounts concur that Green first heard Joli singing along with a Streisand record. Green had written the song "Come to Me" for Joli by the next day.
When the producer Green originally commissioned to record Joli indicated a desire to develop Joli as a Francophone singer, Green himself took over production duties for Joli. The tracks Joli cut with Green were picked up by Prelude and released on April 17, 1979 as the album France Joli: the track "Come to Me" received a boost when Joli performed it as a last-minute replacement for Donna Summer at a concert held on Fire Island on July 7, 1979 before an estimated audience of five thousand.
"Come to Me" began a three-week reign atop the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play on 22 September 1979 and the France Joli album rose to #26. On the Billboard Hot 100 "Come to Me" peaked at #15 November 17, 1979, the same week that Donna Summer peaked at #2 with "Dim All the Lights".
Joli made her network television debut on 26 October 1979 broadcast of The Midnight Special and she co-hosted the 7 December episode. Her other TV credits included episodes of the talk shows of Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin and Dinah Shore and also a Bob Hope special.
1980 saw the release of Joli's second album Tonight with the ballad "This Time (I'm Giving All I've Got)" released as a single bubbling under for two weeks pk #103: this attempt to curry favor in the mainstream market was unsuccessful with Joli receiving support only in the dance club market where the tracks "The Heart to Break the Heart" and "Feel Like Dancing" achieved a joint position of #3: Tonight was ranked on the Billboard album chart at #175.
In 1981 Joli's third album Now – produced by Ray Reid and William Anderson from Crown Heights Affair rather than Tony Green1 – failed to generate even a low chart placing, success apparent only in another dance club smash with the track "Gonna Get Over You", which went to number two for two weeks on the American dance charts.[1] However Joli, as evidenced by her opening for the Commodores during their American tour of 1981, was still viewed as having star potential: she departed the dance music-oriented Prelude label for mainstream music giant Epic.
1The track: "Your Good Lovin'" was arranged and produced by Prelude regulars Eric Matthew and Darryl Payne.
2"Gonna Get Over You" reached #43 on the French Pop charts [1]
"Come to Me" is a #1 disco hit from 1979 performed by France Joli, who had recorded it at the age of fifteen with producer, Tony Green, who composed the song and briefly sings on it. The track also features the famed Philadelphia session vocalists, The Sweethearts of Sigma Sound. The song was introduced on the album France Joli, which was released in the US on 17 April 1979 on Prelude, and rose to #26. "Come to Me" received a major boost on 7 July when Joli performed it as a last minute replacement for Donna Summer at a concert held on Fire Island, whose estimated audience numbered 5,000.[citation needed] "Come to Me" began a three-week reign atop the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart on 22 September 1979.[1] "Come to Me" peaked at #15 on the Hot 100 and at #36 on the R&B chart.[2]
Girl-Group Disco/Soul playlist:
Donna Summer - Spring Affair (1976)
Personnel
Donna Summer – lead vocals
Thor Baldursson – keyboards, string and horn arrangements
Keith Forsey – drums, percussion
Nick Woodland – guitar
Les Hurdle – bass guitar
Dino Solera – saxophone
Geoff Bastow – synthesizer
Madeline Bell, Sue & Sunny – girl-group backing vocals
Recorded at Musicland Studios, Munich, Germany
Mixed by Giorgio Moroder
Engineered by Jurgen Koppers
Album Cover Concept by Susan Munao, Joyce Bogart & Donna Summer
Design by Henry Vizcarra & Gribbitt!
Art Direction by Gribbitt! & Chris Whorf
Photography – Mario Casilli
Carol Douglas - I Got the Answer (1979)
Lead Vocal - Carol Douglas
Arranged By – Bert Keyes, Greg Carmichael
Girl-Group Backing Vocals – Cathy Msingi Jones, Dian Sorel, Gail Thomas
Baritone Saxophone – Seldon Powell
Bass – Norbert Sloley
Bass Trombone – Earle McIntyre*
Cello – Harry Wimmer, Kermit Moore
Drums – Jimmy Young, Richie Taninbaum*
Engineer – Bob Blank, Joe Arlotta, John Morales, Pat Jaques, Tommy O'Connell
Engineer [Mixing] – Bob Blank, Greg Carmichael
Guitar – Billy Mersey, Kenny Mazur*
Harp – Margaret Ross
Keyboards – Allen Wentz, Greg Carmichael, Patrick Adams
Mixed By – John Morales
Percussion – Michael Lewis (3)
Producer – Greg Carmichael
Trombone – Sam Burtis
Trumpet – Jimmy Owens, Joe Shepley
Vibraphone – Greg Carmichael
Viola – Julien Barber, Seymour Berman
Violin – David Sackson, Harry Lookofsky, Irving Spice, Louis Haber, Noel Dacosta, Sanford Allen
Written By – Greg Carmichael / Esther Williams
"Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" is a song by American singer and songwriter Donna Summer from her third studio album A Love Trilogy album released in 1976. Summer's breakthrough had come in the form of the disco song "Love to Love You Baby" which in its entirety lasted almost seventeen minutes and took up the entire first side of the album of the same name. Due to its success (and also its success as a 12" maxi single) the format was repeated with the next album and with this song. In fact, "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" actually lasted even longer than "Love To Love You Baby", clocking in at eighteen minutes. Edited versions were also released on the 7" single format.
The song peaked at number eighty on the American pop chart and number thirty-five on the soul chart.[1] It was more popular with disco audiences, however, becoming Summer's second number one single on the dance chart in May 1976 and remaining atop that chart for three weeks.[2] The song also peak #6 in Spain singles charts and #22 in Spain Radio chart.[3]
Dance Party USA Senior Prom playlist:
Spring Affair – Donna Summer
Cherish – Madonna Cicconne
The Way That You Love Me – Paula Abdul
Make That Move – Shalamar
Just A Friend – Biz Markie
Take Me Home – Cher
Run Away – 10cc
Survivor – Cindy Bullens
I Need Your Loving – Teena Marie
Lightning Lipsync:
"Love Song" by Madonna Cicconne
You Don’t Know A Good Thing – Michael Zager Band
I Love You – Climax Blues Band
Love Shack – B- 52’s
People In Love – 10cc
"Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" is a song by American singer and songwriter Donna Summer from her third studio album A Love Trilogy album released in 1976. Summer's breakthrough had come in the form of the disco song "Love to Love You Baby" which in its entirety lasted almost seventeen minutes and took up the entire first side of the album of the same name. Due to its success (and also its success as a 12" maxi single) the format was repeated with the next album and with this song. In fact, "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" actually lasted even longer than "Love To Love You Baby", clocking in at eighteen minutes. Edited versions were also released on the 7" single format.
The song peaked at number eighty on the American pop chart and number thirty-five on the soul chart.[1] It was more popular with disco audiences, however, becoming Summer's second number one single on the dance chart in May 1976 and remaining atop that chart for three weeks.[2] The song also peak #6 in Spain singles charts and #22 in Spain Radio chart.[3]
"I'm A Rainbow" by Donna Summer who passed away on May 17, 2012 at the age of 63.
R.I.P. Donna
私は虹
魂の情熱に効く特効薬ってあるのかしら
そんなものあるかどうか、本当にわからないわ
私ったら想像をふくらませすぎたのかしら
私は虹
そう、虹なの
私、この名もない国に住んでるの?
暗闇に光、沈黙の音
よくわからないわ
私は私以外の誰にもなりなくたくないの
私は虹
そう、虹なの
虹のいろんな色、全部私なの
私のおかしな世界ではね
木々に吹き付ける風のように
そよ風をもとめて滑りぬける
いつも色を変えながら
私は虹
そう、虹なの
常に色を変えてるの
私は虹
カラフルな虹
時には輝くわ
Donna Summer was the undisputed "Queen of Disco." She is the first artist to hit #1 with three consecutive double albums. She is the first female artist to have five top 10 singles in one calendar year. Donna Summer has earned five Grammy Awards. Her #1 hits on the dance music chart have spanned from 1975 through 2009.
Top Five Hits
* 1979 - "Bad Girls" - #1
* 1979 - "Hot Stuff" - #1
* 1978 - "MacArthur Park" - #1
* 1979 - "Dim All the Lights" - #2
* 1975 - "Love To Love You Baby" - #2
Check out Disco, the latest creation from Fergie's shoe line. Fergie channels Donna Summer in this sexy heel. Suleika shows you what makes this high heel fabulous.
Calling all cheerleaders, Dance Squads, or even you and a few of your friends … Put together your best “Stamp Your Feet” Dance Routine, and UPLOAD it to OurStage and you could be a winner of $5,000 cash for new uniforms, equipment for your team, or whatever else you see fit!
Legendary singer songwriter, DONNA SUMMER and Ourstage.com invite you to enter the “Stamp Your Feet” dance routine contest. Watch the video for details. You could win $5000!
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Ultimate Video Mash-up!! I found this song online, it was put together by DJ Earworm, obviously a VERY talented DJ, pure genius. So I decided to Make a Video for it. Let e Know what you think! The Song and the Video include 22 different songs: Ace Of Base - All That She Wants Mamma's and the Papa's - California Dreamin' Brandy and Monica - The Boy Is Mine Aaliyah - Try Again Britney Spears - Oops! I Did It Again Beyonce - Naughty Girl Donna Summer - I Feel Love Maroon5 - This Love Eminem - My Name Is Alicia Keys - You Don't Know My Name Destiny's Child - Say My Name Snoop Dogg - Who Am I? (What's My Name?) DMX - What's My Name? The Who - Who Are You? Madison Avenue - Who The Hell Are You? Eurythmics - Who's That Girl Peter Gabriel - I Don't Remember Irene Cara - Fame! Kanye West - The New Work-out Plan Lynyrd Skynyrd - What's Your Name? Jason Mraz - Eyes Open (Remember My Name) Phil Collins - Take Me Home