"this time I Know It's For Real" was released on valentine's day 1989 (13rd Feb. 1989) was a success wellcome back for Donna... A.P.A.T was her renaissance album
Their best ever album, Still play it often, What a voice, what a singer and a banger of a track. Just a shame people were fed ud with PWL. I love them, their style, But hen I like Steps and Abba ;)
"It's a very kind of European, English sound. Donna came from America." But her producers were British and Italian and she lived and performed in Germany, so her sound was definitely influenced by those factors.
Me too!!! Lonnie Gordon’s great song “Happening all Over Again” was supposedly written for Donna’s second SAW album which never came to fruition. Instead she released “Mistaken Identity” in 1991 which was so so and really didn’t have the gems of her previous album, “Another Place and Time”….
Donna said she wished she could have worked on the album more, but SAW works so quickly, it's like a factory or an assembly line, they have an idea, they write it, the next day all the tracks are done and ready for the vocals, you sing it, wham-bam on to the next song. Love's About to Change My Heart and This Time I Know Its for Real are the best two tracks. I was hoping they would do at least one song with a real edge to it, like Dead or Alive. Donna's Bad Girl's album had an edge to a lot of the songs, especially Not Stuff. I can't stand Rick Astley. He's just so boring. I'm not saying he isn't talented, it's just that his songs bore me to tears. Donna's voice is incredible.
Matt Stock and Mike Aitken get such little coverage . I didn't know what they looked like compared with Pete Waterman who was on the telly all the time and even pops up now and then nowadays. Mister Stock and Mister Aitken not so much.
Personally, I have always found Another Place In Time rather boring. What Donna produced with Giorgio Moroder was, is and always will be revolutionary. SAW really could have expanded their horizons with Donna but they made tracks that sounded exactly like everyone else they produced in 1989.
I partly agree. This time I know it's for real, and Love's about to change my heart where outstanding. Lyric wise the only awful song was I don't wanna get hurt. Not the lyrics for an adult woman, and it would have been a better fit for Kylie or Sonia at this time.
Number one artist
Best voice
You guys absolutely made a GREAT album together!
Donna made SAW great!
Of course, she was incredible, the best artist you ever had.
True! ❤❤❤😊😊😊❤❤❤
What an incredible album, sound and voice!!!!!
Geeeez, the best lines in This Time I Know It's For Real are from Donna, no surprise there
"this time I Know It's For Real" was released on valentine's day 1989 (13rd Feb. 1989) was a success wellcome back for Donna... A.P.A.T was her renaissance album
Toda una Diva siempre y en todo momento. Su voz y su personalidad la hacen una de las más prolijas y mejores artistas ...Donna ppr siempre!!!
The real diva the voice
Their best ever album, Still play it often, What a voice, what a singer and a banger of a track. Just a shame people were fed ud with PWL. I love them, their style, But hen I like Steps and Abba ;)
Me too!!! This time I know it’s for real is a pop classic….
The Best ❤
Donna was known in Europe first.
LTLTYB was recorded as a demo to give to someone else.
You know how that turned out.
Pure serendipity. It was just meant to be.
Very true.
"It's a very kind of European, English sound. Donna came from America." But her producers were British and Italian and she lived and performed in Germany, so her sound was definitely influenced by those factors.
Good point. Don't know how they missed that. They probably meant her later work like #HotStuff #Badgirls #Ontheradio etc.
Love this!
Me encanta la canción songwrtiter
I'd be very interested in knowing if they did any songs with Summer that haven't been released.
Me too!!! Lonnie Gordon’s great song “Happening all Over Again” was supposedly written for Donna’s second SAW album which never came to fruition.
Instead she released “Mistaken Identity” in 1991 which was so so and really didn’t have the gems of her previous album, “Another Place and Time”….
AP&T Is a PERFECT album ❤️🔥
Her 2nd Casablanca moment
❤️❤️❤️🥺🥺🥺🥺
Donna said she wished she could have worked on the album more, but SAW works so quickly, it's like a factory or an assembly line, they have an idea, they write it, the next day all the tracks are done and ready for the vocals, you sing it, wham-bam on to the next song. Love's About to Change My Heart and This Time I Know Its for Real are the best two tracks. I was hoping they would do at least one song with a real edge to it, like Dead or Alive. Donna's Bad Girl's album had an edge to a lot of the songs, especially Not Stuff. I can't stand Rick Astley. He's just so boring. I'm not saying he isn't talented, it's just that his songs bore me to tears. Donna's voice is incredible.
Matt Stock and Mike Aitken get such little coverage . I didn't know what they looked like compared with Pete Waterman who was on the telly all the time and even pops up now and then nowadays. Mister Stock and Mister Aitken not so much.
Personally, I have always found Another Place In Time rather boring. What Donna produced with Giorgio Moroder was, is and always will be revolutionary. SAW really could have expanded their horizons with Donna but they made tracks that sounded exactly like everyone else they produced in 1989.
Agreed. But, you have to admit that her voice truly elevates the material.
I partly agree. This time I know it's for real, and Love's about to change my heart where outstanding.
Lyric wise the only awful song was I don't wanna get hurt. Not the lyrics for an adult woman, and it would have been a better fit for Kylie or Sonia at this time.
The tracks may have sounded like their other songs but the vocalist definitely didn't
Donna’s most consistent album of the 80’s!!
Every track was great and not just filler….