DONNA SUMMER : ENDLESS SUMMER - DONNA SUMMER'S GREATEST HITS

 

  1. Melody Of Love (Wanna Be Loved)
  2. Love To Love You Baby
  3. Could It Be Magic
  4. I Feel Love
  5. Last Dance
  6. MacArthur Park
  7. Heaven Knows
  8. Hot Stuff
  9. Bad Girls
  10. Dim All The Lights
  11. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
  12. On the Radio
  13. The Wanderer
  14. Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)
  15. State of Independence
  16. She Works Hard for the Money
  17. This Time I Know It's for Real
  18. Any Way at All

Label : Casablanca Records

Released : 1994

Length : 72:08

Review (AllMusic) : With '70s and disco nostalgia taking the U.S. by storm in the early to mid-'90s, it wasn't surprising that Mercury/Polygram saw Donna Summer's recordings as a way to make a quick dollar. What is surprising is that the label came out with this single-disc best-of collection only a year after releasing the two-CD set The Donna Summer Anthology in 1993. Why was another greatest-hits package needed? Though not definitive, this CD does contain many of Summer's essential material. From the erotic club diva of Love to Love You Baby, Could It Be Magic, and I Feel Love to the Vegas-like pop star of On the Radio, Last Dance, and Dim All the Lights, the Queen of Disco is as charismatic as she is cutting edge. And Summer still sounds incredibly fresh on 1989's infectious This Time I Know It's for Real and 1994's previously unreleased Melody of Love. It would have been preferable to hear many of these songs in their extended versions (as opposed to the shorter ones provided here), but then, a label can only fit so much on a single disc. Although The Donna Summer Anthology is more comprehensive, Endless Summer can work well as a shorter introduction to her innovations.

Review (Wikipedia) : Endless Summer: Donna Summer's Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Donna Summer, released in 1994. It contains many of her best known songs from her 1970s breakthrough to the present day. Summer is best known for her work during the 1970s disco era, though released a substantial amount of material in the 1980s and 1990s, covering a variety of genres. Unlike 1993's The Donna Summer Anthology, which had used the majority of the songs in their original, longer forms, Endless Summer generally contained the versions of the songs that were used upon their release as a single. However, the version sold in the UK which included "I Don't Wanna Get Hurt" used the album version of the track (from "Another Place and Time"), not the more club-oriented mix released as a 7" single there. Endless Summer also featured two new tracks, the first of which, "Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)", became a moderate hit when issued as a single. Summer was given production credits on the track, which she had written with Robert Clivilles and David Cole of C&C Music Factory. The other new track was the soulful ballad "Any Way At All", which Summer had written with her husband Bruce Sudano. This song was produced by Michael Omartian, who had produced some of Summer's work in the 1980s. For many years this was regarded as the "definitive" Donna Summer hits CD, as it was the last international non-budget compilation to be released right up until 2003. The track listing of Endless Summer varied from nation to nation as some of Summer's hits were more popular in certain places than others. For example, "Heaven Knows" and "The Wanderer", big hits in the US, are not featured on the European edition of the album and are replaced with a couple of her 1980s hits that were less successful in the US. In France however, the compilation was not released until the following year and as a bonus track contained the 1995 remix of her 1977 hit "I Feel Love".