Donna Summer passes

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Anthony De Rosa (@AntDeRosa)
5/17/12 11:44 AM
RT @ProducerMatthew: Just in - TMZ: Donna Summers dead at 63.

Awwwww maaaannnn......

For you dear lady:

May you lead the heavenly disco. The ball is being installed now.

[Capt. Obvious]

1. She did not survive

[Nye Bevan]

3. This post is a perfect candidate for self-delete (nt)

[treestar]

9. +1

[obamanut2012]

12. +1

[lpbk2713]

6. Cheap shot.

Is anything a target for your "humor" ?

[Capt. Obvious]

18. Of course not

I have standards

[Arugula Latte]

8. Gloria Gaynor did that song, not Donna Summer.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

13. Summers did a cover of it

It was hot during the disco era

[Capt. Obvious]

17. Summer covered everything

I think she did The Hustle too.

[CTyankee]

33. A friend of my daughter's had that song played when she walked down the aisle at her wedding.

We thought that was kind of odd...

[Laughing Mirror]

40. Are you sure about that?

Never heard any version of her performing that Gloria Gaynor classic.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

43. Multiple Google references to it but its not in her Wikipedia entry

It may have been an assumption on my part since she did just about everything disco.

[Bluenorthwest]

11. Gloria Gaynor sang that song, and thus far, she survives...

http://www.gloriagaynor.com/

[NoGOPZone]

16. wrong on at least two levels nt

[Logical]

27. I alerted it but the dumb jury system allowed it!

[Capt. Obvious]

28. Well?

We're waiting

[Logical]

29. I rather enjoy people knowing how you are! Rude and tacky!

[Capt. Obvious]

30. Are you going to post the results or not?

Let me know if you're going to H&M with it

[Quantess]

35. No alert is complete until you post a thread about it in H&M!

At least, that's how it seems.

[MineralMan]

37. -100

Posted with no explanation or discussion.

[marmar]

39. Tasteless.

[malaise]

2. I didn't even know she was sick

Wow! Rest in peace Donna Summers

[bigtree]

4. rest in peace, dear lady ___ 'There Will Always Be a You'

Last edited Thu May 17, 2012, 01:08 PM - Edit history (3)

____ Of all the songs Donna Summer has written, one song holds a very special place for her: “There Will Always Be a You”. Written in Lake Tahoe for her husband, it originally appeared on Side Three of Bad Girls (1979), an album that featured a number of Summer’s own compositions including “Dim All the Lights” and “My Baby Understands”. “For me, that was, poetically, one of the best songs that I ever wrote”, she enthuses. “I just love that song. I always say that people who really know me will regard that song. They’re going to listen to that song and they’re going to know that it’s me”. Underscoring the poignancy of “There Will Always Be a You”, Summer shares a story about when a friend of hers from Australia visited her in Los Angeles:

“We went to a garden center to pick some flowers for my house. She was out looking at flowers but she was a distance from me and I didn’t see her. I went to ask a question of the lady who was the proprietor. As I’m standing with this woman, I hear this song that sounds familiar but I couldn’t make out what it was. I started walking over to where the song was coming from and all of a sudden my girlfriend popped up – she was down looking at something on the ground – and there she was singing ‘There Will Always Be a You’. I said, ‘What song is that?’ She said, ‘That’s your song. Whenever I miss you I put that song on because that’s the song, to me, that represents you the most.’”

read: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/the-queen-and-her-crayons-an-interview-with-donna-summer

excerpt from 'There Will Always Be a You', written by Donna Summer:

A ship sailing without end a lost tired, worm down friend and old broken run down shore I keep running back for more at least you thought I would be sure but I give up, I broke it's true still there will always be a you

I am yours and you are mine till the stars fall from my eyes there will always be a you

I will never go away if you wanted me to stay well in a million years I wouldn't go cause I love you so yes I do I love you so I could never leave you I love you I love you don't go away can't go away there will always be a you

At night I cry can't find a reason I'm left alone can't seem to understand at night I cry can't find a reason I'm left alone can't seem to understand there will always be a you there will always be a you



cross posted in 'videos'

[GoneOffShore]

5. There was a talent.

[Arugula Latte]

7. Wow, very sad. Too young.

[leftynyc]

10. RIP - Ms. Summer

I wasn't a big fan of the disco era but I know your music was greatly loved by many.

[cynatnite]

14. The Queen of Disco...

RIP.

[Odin2005]

20. :-(

[lamp_shade]

24. This is heartbreaking news. :-(

[joeybee12]

25. I love disco and she was the greatest of them all...

Her talent wasn't really recognized because she got stuck with that label...one of the greatest singers of her generation...RIP Donna.

[CTyankee]

36. I remember that "contest" with Barbra Streisand...fun, that...

I, too, still love disco. My grown kids think I'm crazy. I loved John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever...

[MerryBlooms]

26. dang :-(

[Uncle Joe]

31. Those were some great times and "Last Dance" was always the last song played.

A most excellent ending to many a good night on the disco floor.

RIP Donna, thanks for the music and memories.

Thanks for the thread, grits.

[Zalatix]

32. NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

ARGH... she was such a GREAT artist. No wonder it's cloudy outside. Damn.

RIP, Donna Summer.

[DainBramaged]

34. loved her and her music, makes me cry damn it. Why not karl Rove?

There is no justice

[MineralMan]

38. I'm sorry to hear that. I like her a lot.

[Raine]

41. Those were the very best of times for me

I met the love of my life at a disco 33 years ago. Unfortunately he died almost 2 years ago. Donna Summer was a part of it all, this is such sad news. R-I-P Donna.

[JNelson6563]

42. Thanks for everything Ms. Summer!

The music will live on and she through it.

Julie