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#26

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 1:53pm

Wow this took me off guard and I'm absolutely gutted. On The Radio was the first album I ever bought, with money I was given for my birthday. I used to sit in my room for hours and listen to it while staring at that glorious fold out album cover. I also used to make my GI Joe action figures put on Donna Summer concerts. How gay is that?
I always thought she had the one of the best voices in the business. And she never lost it. My one regret will be I never had the chance to see her live.
I do hope this means will be hearing a lot of her music this summer.
RIP Donna
#27

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 2:22pm

Many on here know how hard this has hit me--I am glad she was so close with her family. Nobody in the pop world had meant more to me than Donna Summer--an outstanding singer, probably the best vocalist ever recorded, who always treated her songs as mini dramas and didn't oversing them or do other diva tricks. And an amazine woman--controversy aside when I met her, she was the nicest, most giving celebrity I'd ever met. I was lucky to have been in the same hotel she was after her Vancouver show a few years back and she was getting ice (!) as I was, and we had a quick but great talk--I think I gushed and said she should work with Moroder again--and then back in our room we went to the balcony and you could hear her and her sisters singing and laughing outside.

I am gutted. A great talent, a great lady. Once Upon a Time and Bad Girls alone will be remembered as two of the greatest concept albums of all time.
#29

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 2:27pm

And as for the inevitable gay "rumour" that came up when she was at her most born again period which will come up now http://www.donna-tribute.com/articles/99/rumor.html She sang at Paul Jabara's funeral, she was not filled with hate and it's frustrating how people like Shirley Bassey can say worse things about gays and be adored for it.
#30

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 2:39pm

"Many on here know how hard this has hit me-"

We do now.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2
#31

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 2:44pm

Thanks Diva :) Sorry I irritate you so f ucking much that you have to always get something in.
#33

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 3:01pm

I don't mean to call them out on this and expose them ... but don't all Muppets lip-sync?
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#34

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 3:13pm

I very much enjoyed her benefit concert for GMHC all those years ago. RIP.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
#36

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 4:13pm

Rest in Peace... what a talent.
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#38

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 4:55pm

And I loved the way she looked. I used to wish I looked like her!
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#40

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 5:08pm

Heartbroken. I didn't know she was sick.

Her music is the soundtrack to SO many memories of the formative years of my young adult life: high school in the 70's, college and moving to NY in the early 80s. Going to clubs and discos was at the center of our social lives, and we all danced (the hustle!) the night away to her songs. (Remember those wraps, and dips, The Pretzel and line dances? I learned every move!)

Somehow I could go out every night with my boyfriend and friends, and we'd dance until the sun came up - always ending the night with the very sexy 'Last Dance'. And then head to work, only to make plans to go out again that next night.

Happy, happy times. Those songs bring it all back.

RIP, Miss Summer.
Thank you.





"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

Updated On: 5/17/12 at 05:08 PM

#41

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 5:13pm

"So did a lot of us."


Now that you mentioned it, I think I remember Donna as being a popular drag act. And those guys got the look down pat!
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#42

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 5:32pm

I guess it's morbid curiosity, but I wonder what kind of cancer she had. Every report just says "cancer."
#43

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 5:35pm

I just read a report that said it was lung cancer.

There has also been a report that she felt it may have been connected to inhaling particles following the 9/11 destruction of the Twin Towers.


(apparently she was very private about it, and kept her condition a secret)







"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

Updated On: 5/17/12 at 05:35 PM

#44

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 5:50pm

Yes--she maintained that her illness was a result of the 9/11 'dust storm'.

And, yes--oh, yes. Nights and mornings on the dance floor with Donna Summer. Is there any stronger trigger to bring me back than hearing a chord from one of her tracks?

And how do these crazy kids today know when it's time to go home without 'Last Dance'?

Rest in Peace, Donna. Thanks for the music.
You think, what do you want? You think, make a decision...
#45

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 5:51pm

I don't think anyone has mentioned it, but I also adore her version of Time To Say Goodbye (which she called I Will Go With You).

That whole live album was the soundtrack to my life the summer it came out.
....but the world goes 'round
#46

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 6:44pm

I always get in trouble for saying this, but her version of Conte Partiro is the only version I can take--it helps that it was one of the first songs I heard when I was 18 and snuck into my first gay bar (and danced with a dragqueen who was performing it during the dance break!).
#47

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 6:45pm

^^^^^^^^^
That version ROCKED!
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2
#48

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 6:49pm

She toured her last album Crayons (which actually is pretty good despite some attempts to get her to sound like Rhianna) which is when I met her--one of the most gracious celebrities I've met.

She reportedly has an album of standards and one of new dance songs in the bag, and her unreleased Sony album from 2000 (which was done by Metro who did Cher's Believe material at the time) so i suspect songs will trickle down for a while, though nothing compares to her work with Moroder in the 70s--as a dance music fan it's stunning in hindsight how they would move between radio hits and club cuts, or the progress even from I Feel Love to six months later with Now I Need You/Working The Midnight Shift which I heard, much to my thrill, in a bar in Rome a few years back).
#49

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 6:49pm

^ Yes, it did!

I loved it, too. Many memories ...

She really was the voice of a generation.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#50

Donna Summer has died

Posted: 5/17/12 at 7:42pm

I hope this (as awful as it says) causes a re-evalutation of her work, including her many strengths as a songwriter (though hearing the demo, I think her musical should largely stay burried). I really do think she had the talent of Whitney, or other more current divas, yet she never over sang a song.

And I can't believe TheatreDiva and I agree on something Donna Summer has died

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