[TR24][OF] Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby - 1975/2013 (Electronic, Funk, Soul, Disco, R&B)

Chart History/Awards
- Reached #11 on the Billboard 200.
- Reached #6 on Billboard's Top R&B Albums.
- "Love To Love You Baby" reached #3 on Billboard's Top R&B Singles.
- "Love To Love You Baby" reached #1 on Billboard's Top Disco Singles.
Love To Love You Baby is Donna Summer’s captivating sophomore album and a quintessential masterpiece in the disco genre. The Gold-certified classic was led by the title track, which reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. “Love To Love You Baby” is a thrilling fusion of R&B and disco, highlighting Summer’s breathtaking vocal abilities. This classic reached the Top Twenty in both the U.K. and the United States. Other standouts include “Full Of Emptiness” and “Whispering Waves.”
"Love to Love You Baby"'s 16 minutes and 48 seconds of arousal and refill -- ticklishly sensitive rhythm and fusion -- threw disco into a tizzy overnight, but the tonally starved blues-of-isolation on the B-side isn't to be missed, either: the broken promises Donna Summer bemoans in "Full of Emptiness"; "Need-a-Man Blues," with its unrequitedly sexy guitar rhythm as out of range of Summer's voice as she of satisfaction; the imaginary seaside hold-me in "Whispering Waves"; and "Pandora's Box," where Summer and guitar scream icily at one another as they turn their backs on each other's body music. Hunger without recourse; essential disco. --Michael Freedberg

Personnel:
Donna Summer – lead vocals
Molly Moll, Nick Woodland, Pete Bellotte – guitars
Dave King – bass
Michael Thatcher – keyboards
Giorgio Moroder – keyboards, percussion
Martin Harrison – drums
Franz Deuber – string session
Bernie Brocks – percussion
Lucy, Betsy, Gitta – backing vocals