Donna Summer ~ Love To Love You Baby 1975 Disco Purrfection Version

LaDonna Adrian Gaines born December 31, 1948, married Helmut Sommer and gained her very famous stage name by anglicizing it as Donna Summer. The name evokes good times and great music and her first really big hit was with a song that set the standard for porno disco, “Love To Love You Baby“. It was released on December 6, 1975 and was the highest new entry that week at #55 when Silver Convention’s “Fly Robin Fly“ was on its second week at #1 and two future #1’s were below Donna’s song, Rhythm Heritage “Theme From SWAT“ at #84 and the CB themed tune “Convoy“ from CW McColl at #82. Her rise to the top of the Ho100 was thwarted by Paul Simon’s “50 Ways To Leave Your Lover“ and it spent two weeks at #2 in February of 1976. Time was that radio would play hits way after their peak and Donna joined Diana Ross for the battle of song of the summer 1976 with “Love Hangover“ which was the logical conclusion to the radio love fest