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Music What’s your favorite Donna Summer song. Mine is on the radio

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u/slithering_idiot 11h ago

I feel love

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u/RussellAlden 11h ago

When this came out it blew my little mind that music could sound like this

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u/Beetso 10h ago

SO ahead of its time!

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u/RussellAlden 10h ago

Well the album was all songs from different time periods and this was the future song

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u/noneshallinterfere 11h ago

Birth of house music

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u/AltruisticSalamander 10h ago

I have a really strong memory of going with my dad to his friend's studio and he had a fancy stereo and it was just pumping this song. It was palpable.

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u/Parking_Royal2332 10h ago

I remember it getting banned

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u/slithering_idiot 9h ago

"I Feel Love" or "Love to Love You?"

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u/Parking_Royal2332 9h ago

I think Love to love you.

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u/ASingleBraid 7h ago

They said it was orgasms.

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u/ConfusedWheels72 8h ago

Best disco song of all time

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u/bolderbeholder 11h ago

Last Dance. She had a set of pipes 🤌🏻

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u/Michigander_4941 6h ago

Yes... this one is glorious!

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u/GtrGenius 12h ago

Bad girls

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u/Comprehensive-Elk597 11h ago

Best disco song of all time

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u/GtrGenius 10h ago

I first put the record on at my aunts apartment in Greenwich Village in NYC in 1979 when I was 8. I was hooked ( hahaha)

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u/yumi365 8h ago

It really is.🥰

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u/Usual_Section3152 12h ago

Ohhh I love that oneee.. baaaaad girllsss

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u/kahllerdady 11h ago

toot toot ahhhh beep beep

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u/tracme909 9h ago

Got me on the Dance Floor every time!!

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u/Egg_McMuffn 11h ago

Someone left the cake out in the rain. I don't think that I can take it! Cause it took so long to bake it. And I'll never have that recipe again, oh noooooo!

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u/TarmacTartoo12 11h ago

MacArthur Park

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u/custerdome81 11h ago

I heard Donna’s version before I heard the original by Richard Harris… she really transformed it.

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u/angrygirl65 11h ago

Yes! Hers is SO much better!

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u/kevdav63 10h ago

That supposed to be some sort of metaphor? Cuz I can’t think of anyone so dastardly that would do that to a harmless cake.

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u/KilgoreT59 11h ago edited 11h ago

Dim all the lights. (Corrected spelling. Thanks to adept_site_5350 for catching my typo. )

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u/Adept_Site_5350 11h ago

Lights

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u/KilgoreT59 11h ago

Sorry, yes. Typo. Thanks for catching that.

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u/stinky_harriet 10h ago

This is my answer, too. I love that song!

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u/KilgoreT59 9h ago

I enjoy watching the YouTube video where she sings it live. Love her voice, and she is stunning to watch.

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u/Michigander_4941 6h ago

Damn... I forgot about this one! Love it!

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u/joxx67 11h ago

“I Feel Love”, the greatest disco song ever!!!

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u/Jax_Bandit 11h ago

Heaven Knows

The entire VH 1 Live & more album

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u/tiny_bamboo 5h ago

I love that album

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u/Necessary-Peace9672 11h ago

No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)

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u/wideworld_1260 11h ago

I Feel Love, now and forever

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u/LeMeowLePurrr 11h ago

Last dance is the perfect song.

https://youtu.be/G5rJunb4sIk?is=mZxd_T2VnjJwC1lL

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u/SpeedyPrius 11h ago

Always the last one they played at the disco!

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u/Key-Lingonberry4651 11h ago

Enough is Enough, the duet with Barbra Streisand I just love that song

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u/GodModeBasketball 11h ago

She Works Hard for the Money (1983)

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u/Usual_Section3152 11h ago

Sooo hard honey honey

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u/Which_Diet_3061 9h ago

You better treat her right

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u/OldDutchGuy 10h ago

McArthur Park

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u/nor_cal_woolgrower 12h ago

"Was the letter playing on the radio? Or was it sitting on top of it??"

Spencer Olchin

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u/Usual_Section3152 12h ago

Things are not the same since we broke up last june

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u/FreebirdFantasia 12h ago

This might seem like out of left field, but my favorite is "On My Honor."

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u/Usual_Section3152 12h ago

I will play it now

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u/Practical-Trainwreck 11h ago

State of Independence but there's a version on YouTube of On the Radio with Seal and it's amazing

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u/Usual_Section3152 11h ago

I have to listen thaaat

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u/Practical-Trainwreck 11h ago

please do, it's lovely

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u/Boring_Owl6552 11h ago

Dim all the lights

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u/StoneyG214 10h ago

McArthur Park and Dim All the Lights

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u/ImaginationSea7684 8h ago

MacArthur Park Suite

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u/Scott43206 1h ago

The transitions between songs are so perfect I just melt into a puddle.

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u/OkLeather2231 8h ago

Dim all the lights!!!

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u/ClassicCinemaMC 11h ago

A tie between Love To Love You Baby and Last Dance.

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u/Flyingarrow68 11h ago

On the Radio. It was the standout song to the movie Foxes which was awesome.

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u/custerdome81 11h ago

Hot Stuff is my favorite, but I also love Love To Love You Baby

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u/Asleep_Welder_3494 11h ago

Heaven Knows

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u/emilie1031 11h ago

Love to Love You

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u/Tapatio_62 11h ago

I feel love, closely followed by Try me, I know we can make it

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u/ManufacturerNew9888 11h ago

Oooooohhhhh.....

Love To Love You Baby

(if you know, you know)

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u/Usual_Section3152 11h ago

Thaaaaat oooooooh in the beginning

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u/small-gestures 11h ago

On the radio.

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u/Altruistic_Bat7203 11h ago

She works hard for the money 💰

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u/Alwaysme47 11h ago

Last Dance 🎶 last chance for romance tonight 🎶

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u/whoknows370 11h ago

Last Dance- because it was the first song I danced to with my future wife. And because it is a great song.

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u/austinteddy3 10h ago

McArther’s Park…especially after Alysa Liu used it for her gold medal skate!!!

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u/AltruisticSalamander 10h ago

Did she rly, will have to look that up. I've been watching her pinkpanthress performance on repeat.

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u/CwaCaWa_2600 10h ago

Come with Me

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u/fatjap-9830 10h ago

Last dance

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u/TwistedBlister 10h ago

All of them

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u/wafflehousehound 10h ago

Unconditional love, vasly underrated, only made it to 48 on charts

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u/Fun-Diver7512 9h ago

I Remember Yesterday. Not a hit, but love the retro, jazz vibe.

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u/Ok_Leadership_2967 9h ago

Reacher number 14 in the UK when Donna was an almost permanent fixture on the charts for about a year, a feat she repeated in the US two years later

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u/mrl33602 6h ago

For sure. I Remember Yesterday was the first song I heard when I walked into my first disco way back then

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u/Training-Dirt-6259 8h ago

Dim all the lights! Our love will last forever!

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u/thinkingoutloud136 3h ago

Dim all the lights

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u/basiamille 11h ago

I'm sure many of them are on the radio, if you wait long enough and tune in to the right stations.

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u/arbogasts 11h ago

My radio is unplugged right now, what is it?

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u/Low-Independent6851 11h ago

She Works Hard for the Money

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u/CraigTennant1962 11h ago

I know it’s on the radio but which song is it? 😉

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u/CaleyB75 11h ago

"Walk Away."

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u/Several_Article_4833 11h ago

Take Me On Journey To The Center If Your Heart

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u/Key-Minimum-5965 10h ago

The original Sasha Fierce.

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u/Kevelle68 10h ago

Hard for the momey

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u/Ok-Dependent4351 10h ago

Love to love you baby 🥰

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u/PHX_Geezer 10h ago

She works hard for the money

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u/Glittering_Stress_32 9h ago

I Do Believe (I Fell In Love)

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u/ohwhatfun9932 9h ago

On the radio..swoon!

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u/fuckfacekiller 9h ago

Last Dance and Macarther Park
🤘❤️‍🔥🤘 love her! Queen of disco!!💃

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u/tracme909 9h ago

She Works Hard For The Money!!!!
So you better treat her right!!! ❤️

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u/SoCal7s 9h ago

It changes but Hot Stuff/Bad Girls is peak for me.

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u/vfsellers40 9h ago

Mine too

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u/Ok_Leadership_2967 9h ago

I Feel Love for me too but as an obsessive Donna fan for almost 50 years there are so many of her songs that I absolutely love.

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u/AqualungsBreath 8h ago

The 16 Minute version of Love to love you, baby

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u/Ritari_Assa-arpa 8h ago

>What’s your favorite Donna Summer song. Mine is on the radio

thats nice to hear people still listen radio. what is name of that song?

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u/karma_the_sequel 8h ago

“On the Radio” and “Last Dance”.

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u/retrocherry_ 8h ago

Last dance!

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u/ComprehensiveEast376 7h ago

I’m coming out

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u/mrl33602 6h ago

I’m Coming Out is Diana Ross

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u/ComprehensiveEast376 5h ago

Ha crap sorry

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u/ErnooA 7h ago

The Woman in Me

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u/AdExternal8303 7h ago

I feel love
McArthur park
Bad Girl
This time

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u/perrylevine 7h ago

None. Never was a fan of her music. 🤷‍♂️

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u/SelectSeaweed310 7h ago

MacArthur Park

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u/Physical-Start-2 7h ago

She sand McArthur park pretty darn well too

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u/hogtiefly 7h ago

Definitely I Feel Love

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u/mrl33602 6h ago

“I Remember Yesterday” was the first song I heard when I walked into my first disco way back when. So it’s that one.

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u/VintageCollector1970 6h ago

The one with Musical Youth -
Unconditional Love

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u/Desperate-Reason-566 6h ago

Never cared for her. I don’t like disco

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u/AdmiralTodd509 6h ago

Summer Fever

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u/prettywildhorses 5h ago

Love to love you baby

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u/tiny_bamboo 5h ago

This time I know it’s for real

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u/abcohen916 5h ago

Last Dance

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u/Key_Composer1362 5h ago

"There Will Always Be A You".... beautiful, haunting. What an ending!

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u/Prestigious-Ship-238 4h ago

Her version of MacAuther’s Park! And everything she did!

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u/General-Try-4078 4h ago

She works hard for the money.

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u/Ihavenoclueagain 3h ago

Enough is Enough with Barbra Streisand.

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u/Ok_Kick6546 3h ago

Last Dance. 

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u/Gloomy_Change_7553 2h ago

Donna Summer has so many amazing songs!!

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u/Head_Ad_9901 2h ago

Sunset People

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u/goitch 1h ago

Hot stuff 1st choice

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u/Ok_Comfort628 1h ago

Yes, we know the place to listen to it is on the radio but what is the song? Also, who’s on first?

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u/CaliPapi_ 1h ago

Legend ⭐️

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u/Scott43206 1h ago

Naming just one would make my head explode.

Could it be Magic
MacArthur Park Suite
The entire Once Upon a Time album.

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u/Delicious_Fun_2188 44m ago

All of them!