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1975 single past Donna Summertime

1975 single by Donna Summer

"Beloved to Love You Baby"
A-side label of United states of america vinyl single
Unmarried by Donna Summer
from the anthology Love to Love You lot Baby
B-side	"Need-a-Man Blues"
Released	June 1975 (Netherlands, as "Beloved to Dearest You") November 26, 1975 (worldwide, as "Love to Love Y'all Infant")
Recorded	1974 (as "Love to Love You lot") May–June 1975; Musicland Studios (Munich, Due west Germany) (equally "Love to Love You Baby")
Genre	Euro disco[1] [2] [3]
Length	3:20 (original NL version) 16:49 (album version) 4:57 (single version)
Label	Oasis (United States/Canada) GTO (United Kingdom) Polar (Sweden) Ariola (Kingdom of spain/Portugal) Interfusion (Australia) Atlantic (France/Frg) Durium (Italy)
Songwriter(s)	Giorgio Moroder Pete Bellotte Donna Summertime
Producer(southward)	Pete Bellotte
Donna Summertime singles chronology
"Lady of the Night" (1974) "Love to Dear You Baby" (1975) "Virgin Mary" (1975)
"Virgin Mary" (1975) "Love to Love You Baby" (1975) "Could It Exist Magic" (1976)
"Protection" (1983) "Love to Beloved You Babe (re-effect)" (1983) "She Works Difficult for the Money" (1983)
Music video
"Dear to Beloved You Baby" on YouTube

"Honey to Love You Baby" is a song by American vocalist Donna Summertime from her 2nd studio album Love to Love You Babe (1975). Produced by Pete Bellotte, and written past Italian musician Giorgio Moroder, Summertime, and Bellotte, the song was kickoff released as a single in kingdom of the netherlands in June 1975 as "Love to Dear You" and and then released worldwide in November 1975 as "Love to Love You lot Baby". It became i of the first disco hits to be released in an extended form.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named it one of the 500 Songs That Shaped Stone and Roll, Summertime's but choice on this list.^[4]

Background [edit]

By 1975, Summer had been living in Deutschland for eight years and had participated in several musical theatre shows. She had also released an anthology in The netherlands entitled Lady of the Nighttime (1974), written by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte and produced past Bellotte, which had given her a couple of hitting singles. She was withal a complete unknown in her dwelling country when she suggested the lyric "Honey to Dear You Baby" to Moroder in 1975. He turned the lyric into a full disco song and asked Summer to tape it. The total lyrics were somewhat explicit, and at first, Summer said she would just tape it equally a demo to give to someone else. However, Summer'south erotic moans and groans impressed Moroder so much that he persuaded her to release information technology equally her ain song, and "Love to Dear Yous" became a moderate hit in holland.

In an interview in 1976, Summer responded to a number of questions that she claimed she'd been asked almost the procedure of recording the song: "Everyone's asking, 'Were you alone in the studio?' Yep, I was alone in the studio. 'Did you lot affect yourself?' Yeah, well, actually I had my hand on my genu. 'Did you fantasize on annihilation?' Yeah, on my handsome boyfriend Peter."^[5]

International release and reception [edit]

A tape of the song was sent to Casablanca Records president Neil Bogart in the U.Southward., and he played it at a party at his home. Impressed with the track, Bogart continued to play it over and over all night. He subsequently contacted Moroder and suggested that he make the track longer - perhaps as long as 20 minutes. However, Summer over again had reservations; she was not certain of all of the lyrics. Notwithstanding, she imagined herself as an actress (namely Marilyn Monroe)^[6] playing the part of someone in sexual ecstasy. The studio lights were dimmed so that Summer was more or less in complete darkness as she lay on the floor.

The final recording lasted over xvi minutes, and co-ordinate to the BBC, contained 23 "orgasms".^[vi] Past that point, the song was renamed "Love to Dearest You lot Baby". It took up the entire outset side of the anthology of the aforementioned name, and edited versions were also constitute on 7" vinyl.

Originally released in November 1975, the song became an international disco smash. In the U.S., it became Summer's first US Top 40 hit, spending two weeks at #two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on Feb 7 and 14, 1976,^[7] beingness held off the number 1 spot by Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" and logged four weeks atop the Billboard Trip the light fantastic Gild Songs nautical chart,^[eight] likewise number three on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs nautical chart.^[9]

In the Great britain, upon release in Jan 1976, the vocal reached #four^[ten] on the Uk Singles Chart in spite of the BBC's initial refusal to promote it. They besides refused to play it.^{[ citation needed ]} Every bit a effect of the success of the vocal, Summertime would exist named "the first lady of love," which labeled her with a sexually oriented, fantasy image from which she would struggle to complimentary herself.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Impact and legacy [edit]

Rock and Curlicue Hall of Fame named the song one of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll in 1995.

VH1 placed "Love to Love You lot Baby" at #63 in their list of 100 Greatest Dance Songs in 2000.^[11]

Slant Mag ranked the song 10th in its 100 Greatest Trip the light fantastic toe Songs in 2006.^[12]

According to Peter Shapiro, a freelance British music journalist, the song was marked by "little more than Donna Summertime simulating an orgasm over a background of blaxploitation cymbals, wah-wah guitars, a funky-butt clarinet riff, and some synth chimes." He connected, "Love to Love You lot Babe" [...] was extended into a seventeen-minute minisymphony at the behest of Casablanca Records chief Neil Bogart, who wanted a soundtrack for his sexual exploits. The song reached number two in the American charts and was largely responsible for the development of the twelve inch single."^[13]

Donna Summertime was forced to cease performing "Love to Love You" live when, "Riots broke out [...] [She] was in a tent in Italy, 5,000 men, about no women, and was doing 'Love to Honey Yous, Baby,' fairly scantily clad, and the guys got so wrapped up that they began to push the phase back. And [she] had to run off the stage, to [her] trailer out the dorsum. And they came to the trailer and started to rock information technology. [She] just thought, 'I'm going to die today, I'grand non going to become out of hither.' Information technology'south not the kind of song yous merely want to throw out at that place."^[14]

Personnel [edit]

• Donna Summer – pb vocals
• Pete Bellotte – guitars
• Dave King – bass
• Michael Thatcher & Giorgio Moroder – keyboards
• Martin Harrison – drums
• Lucy, Betsy, Gitta – bankroll vocals

Track listing and formats [edit]

Original Netherlands seven" (Great GR 1211)

1. "Honey to Beloved You" (3:xx)
2. "Need-a-Man Blues" (?)

NB This original release (without the "Babe" in the title) ran for only over 3 minutes and 20 seconds. This version was integrated into the 16-minute version establish on the anthology. All subsequent international releases either contained a new edit of the full album version (lasting just under v minutes) or the original version (but all the same adding "Baby" to the title). In some cases (for example, the The states), both versions were found on different sides of the record.

The states 7" (Oasis OC 401)

1. "Honey to Love You lot Baby" (4:57)
2. "Love to Love Yous Baby" (three:27)

UK seven" (GTO GT 17)

1. "Love to Love You Baby" (four:57)
2. "Need-a-Man Blues" (?)

Germany vii" (Atlantic ATL 10625)

1. "Honey to Love You" (3:twenty)
2. "Need-a-Homo Dejection" (3:09)

NB The word "Babe" appears on the sleeve but non the label

Netherlands 7" (Nifty GR 1218)

1. "Love to Love You lot Infant Part I" (3:30)
2. "Love to Dearest Y'all Baby Office Two" (5:xx)

NB This Dutch re-release was issued shortly after the song became a hit internationally, with "Baby" being added to the title

France vii" (Atlantic 10.693)

1. "Love to Love Yous Baby (Part 1)" (3:27)
2. "Love to Dearest You Baby" (Office 2)" (4:57)

Canada 7" (Oasis OC 401X)

1. "Dear to Love You Babe" (3:22)
2. "Demand-a-Man Blues" (three:12)

Sweden seven" (Polar POS 1209)

1. "Love to Love You Baby" (3:21)
2. "Demand-a-Man Blues" (three:x)

Kingdom of spain 7" (Ariola 16575)

1. "Dear to Love You Baby" (iii:42)
2. "Demand-a-Man Blues" (4:xxx)

1983 re-upshot [edit]

Following the dance chart success of the Patrick Cowley remix of Summer's "I Experience Dearest" in 1982, Casablanca Records/PolyGram re-issued her first hit unmarried "Love to Love You Baby". However, the single failed to make an touch on on the charts the second time effectually, and it would be the characterization'south final single re-release of tracks from the Donna Summer back itemize in the 1980s. In 1984, Casablanca Records was airtight by PolyGram.

U.k. 7" (Casablanca Can 1014)

1. "Dear to Dearest You Baby" (Part One) – three:35
2. "Love to Dearest Y'all Baby" (Function Two) – iv:12

Britain 12" (Casablanca CANX 1014)

1. "Love to Love Yous Baby" (Come On Over to My Identify Version) – 16:l
2. "Love to Love Y'all Baby" (Come Dancing Version) – 8:ten (A Young and Strong mega-edit)

NB: The "Come On Over to My Identify Version" is in fact the original total-length anthology version

1990 re-release [edit]

Germany CD unmarried (Casablanca 874 395-ii)

1. "Beloved to Love Yous Baby" – 4:15
2. "I Feel Love" – 5:39
3. "Bad Girls" – three:54
4. "On the Radio" (long version) – five:51

2013 release [edit]

1. "Love to Love Yous Baby" (Giorgio Moroder Remix) (featuring Chris Cox) (4:15)

Charts [edit]

Certifications and sales [edit]

Cover versions and samples [edit]

• The refrain "Dear to dear you" can be heard predominantly in the groundwork of Diana Ross' 1976 hit "Love Hangover".
• In 1982, Indian singer Sharon Prabhakar recorded a cover of the vocal in Hindi, entitled "Aaj Ki Raat" on her album "Disco Mastana", released on Multitone records.
• Bronski Beat out recorded a Medley with Marc Almond consisting of I Feel Honey, Love to Love Yous Baby and Johnny Remember Me (by John Leyton).
• An extract of the song was featured during the outset episode of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour and a subsequent tell-all volume about the show was titled "Love to Love Y'all Bradys."^[39]
• Digital Underground made the song the primal sample of the song "Freaks of the Manufacture" on their 1990 debut album Sex Packets.
• Samantha Fox covered her melody into a medley with More, More, More than from her 1991 album Just One Night.
• TLC sampled the song on the album version of their 1999 song "I'm Good At Being Bad".
• The Tom Tom Guild recorded a cover for their 2000 album "The Good, The Bad, and the Funky."^[40]
• Eyedea & Abilities sampled the bassline for their vocal "Big Shots", on their 2001 album Commencement Built-in. "Big Shots" would after feature on the soundtrack to the 2002 video game Tony Hawk'south Pro Skater 4.
• No Doubt covered the vocal on the soundtrack for the 2001 pic Zoolander.
• Beyoncé also sampled the refrain of the song for her hit "Naughty Girl" on her album Dangerously in Honey, which she performed live for the Style Rocks Awards 2004.^[41] She would afterward interpolate more elements of the original version in alive performances, such as in the Mrs. Carter Show Globe Bout.
• French male model and singer Baptiste Giabiconi covered it as an accommodation and heavy sampling of the hit in 2016, only with added lyrics and new EDM arrangement. His version credited to mononym Giabiconi entered the French SNEP chart at #14 in July 2016.^[42] It somewhen made information technology to number 4 in France.^[42]
• In 2018, the song was included in the Broadway musical Summertime: The Donna Summer Musical.
• Kylie Minogue performed the vocal as a medley with her 2003 unmarried "Slow" on her live stream concert 'Infinite Disco'.^[43]

See too [edit]

• 1975 in music

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External links [edit]

• Donna Summer - Love to Dear Y'all Baby on YouTube

weldonbutionfoned91.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_to_Love_You_Baby_%28song%29

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