Nobody kills it @20 yrs old. That takes YEARS to happen and only a few get to slay it. This is why age is just not a number. Experience can never be substituted. Donna Summer was an original. ❤
This will never be repeated! Glorious voice, luscious tone, powerful projection, musicality. Great orchestra and conductor, mesmerised public! THAT must have been THE most exciting rendition of 'Last Dance' EVER. What a splendid voice! Nobody will ever come close to THAT Donna sound! Remember that she has been classically trained: no doubt we can appreciate that in her unique style. Her voice was HUGE, unlike the current crop of would-be divas (Donna never considered to be one). MAGIC! RIP.
She's at her 60's and still belts like she's just 18. She sings with class, have amazing vocals and control. I love your music and your good spirit. This lady is a "SINGER!!!" Today the definition of singers are those who wear Halloween costumes, teen boys who look like tomboys and those who sings crappy lyrics. RIP Donna Summer thank you for the Last Dance and for the "CAKE".
This live performance and her voice were incredible! Her voice was like a wine,better with age. Im so glad that she made her "exit" with this amazing performance full of greatness!
On this day in 1978 {May 27th} Donna Summer performed this song on the late Dick Clark's American Bandstand... Two weeks earlier on May 13th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100; eventually it peaked at #3 and spent 21 weeks in the Top 100... It reached #5 on Billboard's R&B chart... And it won an Academy Award & a Golden Globe award for "Best Original Song" from the movie "Thank God, It's Friday"... Sadly; Donna Summer passed away on May 17th... R.I.P. Ms. Summer and Mr. Clark...
3 years later, she was gone. can only imagine if she was dealing with the lung cancer that would claim her, during this concert. so glad I got to experience her in my life.
She never lost her voice, but her voice changed when she got older! It became lower , when she was younger she had a high voice but still she sounds fabilous
Not lower... But more weight. This recording is still in the original key. Voices change but the beauty here is she could still sing without lowering the key of her songs. She preserved her voice until the end
NOBODY..... Will ever be able to sing a Donna Summer song. Quite like the late & overly gorgeous Miss Donna Summer herself.. She was surely one of a kind.. #RestInPeaceDiVa.
Please pay attention to the conductor. It's another highlight of this show! The look at the conductors face: the intense concentration and the passionate look in his eyes, his potent gestures while conducting, his whole face oozes of the satisfaction he is feeling...the sweet smile at his mouth expresses the almost orgasmic experience he is having while conducting what irrefutable is the most exceptional musical performance of his life! :-)
I love coming back over and over to watch. Yes, the conductor is having such a great time with this song. He’s really into it as I would say most of the musicians are. She was great.
Jens Wendelboe is the conductor here, he loved Donna, and loved working with her. Whenever she did shows that used a full orchestra he was her first choice to conduct them. Just look at that huge smile on his face, he was not faking it.
One class act. So glad I got to see her live....she sang so strong with so little effort. Just a crazy talented woman. Too damn young to die....R.I.P. Ms. Summer. You will never ever be forgotten.
When I was a 16 year old kid in 1978 in Dallas, I first heard her...I bought her album "On the Radio"...And I fell in love with her...I would look at her picture on the album, and almost cry...I still love her, and I cried the day she passed...
This is pure magic! I keep watching this clip over and over again. Thank you Donna! (RIP) And thanks to the great Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra. She was such an fantastic artist, and the orchestral arrangements gives me goosebumps.
She had style, she had grace, and with that smile, gave good face! What the Rock Establishment too too long to recognize, the rest of us knew years ago: the woman was THE QUEEN. At Rama (north of Toronto) the crowd was yelling how fab she was, and yet she stood there laughing, saying that "we didn't live with her" and didn't know what she could be like first thing in the morning. What self-depracating humour, what a lady, what a songstress. She invited the WORLD to dance - what an ambassador of joy!
Can't keep playing the reprise at 05:47 and the way Donna leaves the stage, controling her voice perfectly while walking to the wings. OMG those security guards around the stage must have thought: "Jeez, she's something, she's fabulous! - a real Queen!") Who would have guessed that she was already suffering? Perhaps THE most sensational live performance by the "Queen of disco"! Love Her. RIP
The world has lost one of its greatest singers. Donna you were a big part of my life during the 70's and 80's. Your, "Love to Love You Baby" filled the dance floors in 1975 and will fill the floors just as full now 37 years later. RIP Donna, you will have all of heaven dancing! You will always be remembered.
RIP Donna , you made growing up in the 80s such much more fun , and no-one can take that anyway from me! KEEP SINGING IN HEAVEN , GOD BLESS, but he did already xx
She was approximately 60 years old when this concert was filmed and she still sounds like she did her in glory days (which were glory days for so many of us). She proves that true talent doesn't fade and we all feel better knowing her voice is permanently a part of our memories. This is a voice that will never be silenced, not even with her early death. God bless you Donna Summer.
I found it hard to hold back some tears today. As with many who have posted here, Don Summer was the summer of my youth. That voice and her music will love on forever. RIP and sleep tight special one and thank you for such wonderful memories.
Unbelievable!!! After all these years and her voice was still ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!! That's what real entertainer looks like folks, a true lady, with a voice that never failed. I love you so much Donna Summer Sudano. Thank you for sharing your gifts and your love with us. You will be truly missed but never forgotten!! :-(
The women could blow. It was her last dance but we will always remember. RIP. The NBO also did a huge effort here, they managed to serve Ms. Summer with honors.
R.I.P. Donna Summer!~ Last Dance...right up there with Happy trails...Bar Closing Favorites...then the house lights go on...and you realize just what you almost went home with... GodSpeed to that next Disco Ballroom Honey ....so sad only 63 years old
I was made aware of her passing away over the weekend!... I'm still in complete shock!!! I'm so devastated and saddened that Donna is gone!!!... cuz I love her sooo much!!!, Oh my God!!!... her music just brings so much happiness into my life!!!... Why my Lord?... Why did you take her so soon???... because she was so much better than me!!!... cuz if I could take her place "I would!!!" R.I.P. Donna :(
This was incredible! I would have loved to grow up in the 70s where she reigned as Queen of Disco...such feel good music. But thank God for youtube and for her blessing us with her music. RIP Donna Summer
DONNA MARKED A FANTASTIC ERA.....HER VOICE WAS UNIQUE AND POWERFUL SHE ALWAYS BE THE DIVA.....THE QUEEN OF DISCO 4EVER !!!!. REST IN PEACE DONNA....ANOTHER ANGEL IN HEAVEN !!!
You can hear the congestion and stuffiness and still she blew it out with incredible vocals...Amazing. I have followed her tour and this is the lowest key I heard her sing this song in and it still commanded the audience...you go Donna!!
That's what real singers sound like 100% Live!!! That song just transported me back to the 70's... She was a Phenomenal singer... I can't believe how good she sang near the end. RIP
Will never be another like Donna! Either this or Night of the Proms may have been her last performance - so fantastic! Sadly she passed 3 years later here in Florida. R.I.P Donna.... one of a kind voice
Gotta say, I lived the disco life of the 70's and early 80's, and always loved Donna Summer. She had a lot of excellent tracks. So talented. So beautiful. But today she has died, and I'm a little in shock. Its only now I realise how much of my life was played out to a soundtrack that Donna Summer featured so heavily. This performance shows what a phenomenal talent she was, right til the end. RIP Donna Summer.
One of the greatest song writers and singers that ever lived! What a powerhouse voice that got better and stronger with time! This song just touches my heart! She was dearly loved and she is dearly missed!
I could not agree more. This woman had an amazing voice that did not change over the decades. She did not the recognition that she deserved! God Bless her soul.
On this day in 1978 {May 13th} Donna Summer's "Last Dance" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100; eventually it peaked at #3 and spent 21 weeks in the Top 100... It reached #5 on Billboard's R&B chart, #51 on the United Kingdom's Singles chart, and peaked at #3 in New Zealand... It won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe award for "Best Original Song"...
Donna Summer rocketed to international super-stardom in the mid-1970s when her groundbreaking merger of R&B, soul, pop, funk, rock, disco and avant-garde electronica catapulted underground dance music out of the clubs of Europe to the pinnacles of sales and radio charts around the world. Maintaining an unbroken string of hits throughout the 70s and 80s, most of which she wrote, Donna holds the record for most consecutive double albums to hit #1 on the Billboard charts (3) and first female to have four #1 singles in a 12 month period; 3 as a solo artist and one as a duo with Barbra Streisand. A five-time Grammy winner, Donna Summer was the first artist to win the Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female (1979, "Hot Stuff") as well as the first-ever recipient of the Grammy for Best Dance Recording (1997, "Carry On"). In 2004, she became one of the first inductees, as both an Artist Inductee and a Record Inductee (for 1977's "I Feel Love") into the Dance Music Hall of Fame in New York City. Born Donna Gaines on New Year's Eve to a large family in Boston, she developed an early interest in music. From the age of eight, Summer sang in church choirs and city-wide choruses, and by her early twenties, was performing in musical theatre in Germany, winning parts in such highly-acclaimed shows as "Hair," "Showboat," "Godspell," and "Porgy and Bess" as well as performing with the Viennese Folk Opera. She released her first single, a cover of the Jaynett's girl group classic, "Sally Go Round The Roses," in 1971. While singing backup, she met producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte who produced her first single, "Hostage," which became a hit in the Netherlands, France and Belgium. In 1975, Moroder and Bellotte produced the international hit, "Love to Love You Baby," which rose to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and triggered Summer's triumphant return to the United States as a key figure of the then-emerging disco genre. "Love To Love You Baby" paved the way for such international hits as "MacArthur Park," "Bad Girls," "Hot Stuff," "Dim All The Lights," "On The Radio," and "Enough Is Enough," as well as the Grammy and Academy award winning theme song "Last Dance," from the film "Thank God It's Friday," which remains a milestone in Donna's career. In 1980, Summer became the first artist to sign with David Geffen's new label, Geffen Records, leaving her disco days behind and moving into the next phase of her career ." In the years that followed, Summer collaborated with writers and producers such as Quincy Jones, Michael Omartian and England's dance-pop production compound Stock Aitken Waterman and produced a steady stream of hits from "State of Independence," featuring Michael Jackson on backing vocals, to the abiding feminist anthem "She Works Hard For The Money," one of the most-played songs of all-time, and the infectious "This Time I Know It's For Real." In 1994, she released "Endless Summer," a greatest hits retrospective containing a new song, "Melody of Love," which became Billboard's #1 Dance Record of the Year. She also released the critically acclaimed gem "Christmas Spirit," a collection of Summer's original songs and holiday standards recorded with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Summer spent the '90s continuing to tour, performing to sold-out audiences worldwide. In 1997, when the new "Best Dance Recording" Category was created at the Grammy Awards, Donna Summer was the first winner with her fifth career Grammy award for "Carry On." In 1999, Sony/Epic Records released "VH1 Presents Donna Summer: Live & More - Encore!," an album and DVD of Summer's critically acclaimed VH1 broadcast taped at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom. The show premiered on VH1 as one of the network's highest rated shows to date and featured live performances of Summer's top hits. In addition to her five Grammy Awards, Summer has won six American Music Awards, three consecutive #1 platinum double albums (she's the only solo artist, male or female, ever to accomplish this), 11 gold albums, four #1 singles on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart, 3 platinum singles, and 12 gold singles. Summer is also the first female artist to have a #1 single and #1 album on the Billboard charts simultaneously ("Live & More;" "MacArthur Park" 1978) a feat she also repeated six months later ("Bad Girls" & "Hot Stuff" in 1979). She has charted 33 Top Ten hits on the combined Billboard Disco/Dance/Dance Club/Play charts over a period of 37 years with 18 reaching the #1 spot solidifying her as the undisputed Queen of Dance. In addition to her recording and performing career, Summer is an accomplished visual artist whose work has been shown at exhibitions worldwide including Steven Spielberg's "Starbright Foundation Tour of Japan" and The Whitney Museum as well as a prestigious engagement at Sotheby's in New York. Since 1989, she has sold over 1.7 million dollars in original art - with her highest piece going for $150,000. In 2003, Random House published her autobiography "Ordinary Girl," co-authored with Marc Eliot. Also that year, Universal released "The Journey," containing all of her original hits, as well as two new songs. In 2008, celebrating four decades of milestones, Summer adds another accomplishment to her list with the success of her new album "Crayons." The album debuted at #17 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart making it Summer's highest debuting album ever. It also debuted at #5 on the Billboard R&B chart - another personal best. "Crayons" is Summer's first album of all new studio material in 17 years and is her highest charting album since "She Works Hard For The Money" in 1983. To date, the album has spawned three #1 Dance hits "I'm A Fire," "Stamp Your Feet" and "Fame (The Game)." It is estimated that Summer has sold more than 130 million records worldwide. Ranked #24 on Billboard Magazines 50th Anniversary issue's "Hot 100 Artists of All Time," Donna Summer was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame on April 18, 2013
Attention: Bouncy, Ruinana, Bebe ... this is what you call a Star, Artist, Icon. Also note: natural talent, no auto corrector and/or sound engineering! Never will be another like Miss Summer. R.I.P. Donna. We miss you!
this is exactely how I feel about Donna, I started to know her when I was about 10 years old, and I LOVED HER!! And I still do. I did not cry when she died but since that time, I'm still thinking of her... I also agree with others that it is absolutely NOT understandable that it took so long for Donna to reach the Hall of Fame!!!!!!!!!! She should have been there 20, sorry, I still think I'me 20, 30 years ago!!!!!!!
I'm so fortunate to have grown up in an era where I was exposed to her music. Donna is so talented and timeless. I was so saddened to learn she passed away but she did make an inedible mark on music in a big way. She will be greatly missed by me but never forgotten. We've truly lost some talented people lately.
wow, what memories this brings up. It was always the last song played when the lights came up, letting evryone know it was the last dance or drink for the night. Time to go home!
One thing the entertainment business never took from Donna Summers is her voice. She took that with her. Thank God
Entertainment business sucks
A good singer never lets the business take their gift! What an asinine statement!!
Good God this is absolute slayage of the highest order. 60 years old here and yet she killed it like she was 20 years old. Legend.
She died 3 years later from lung cancer. 😰😨😭
@@romerjusu3804 Beautiful woman, one of the greatest singers. We miss you so much...RIP Donna Summer 🙏
Omg I love how perfectly you said it❤❤❤❤ I feel you must be a Capricorn 😂😂😂😂
Nobody kills it @20 yrs old. That takes YEARS to happen and only a few get to slay it. This is why age is just not a number. Experience can never be substituted. Donna Summer was an original. ❤
When you got it, you usually keep it. She was massively gifted!!
She's sung this song hundreds of times on tv, but this is one of my favorite performances of it.
This will never be repeated! Glorious voice, luscious tone, powerful projection, musicality. Great orchestra and conductor, mesmerised public! THAT must have been THE most exciting rendition of 'Last Dance' EVER. What a splendid voice! Nobody will ever come close to THAT Donna sound! Remember that she has been classically trained: no doubt we can appreciate that in her unique style. Her voice was HUGE, unlike the current crop of would-be divas (Donna never considered to be one). MAGIC! RIP.
i can repeat it
@@lexitnute1306 So funny!!!
She's at her 60's and still belts like she's just 18. She sings with class, have amazing vocals and control. I love your music and your good spirit. This lady is a "SINGER!!!" Today the definition of singers are those who wear Halloween costumes, teen boys who look like tomboys and those who sings crappy lyrics. RIP Donna Summer thank you for the Last Dance and for the "CAKE".
This live performance and her voice were incredible! Her voice was like a wine,better with age.
Im so glad that she made her "exit" with this amazing performance full of greatness!
Her voice matured so gracefully Rest in Peace Donna. U might be gone but will never be forgotten.
On this day in 1978 {May 27th} Donna Summer performed this song on the late Dick Clark's American Bandstand...
Two weeks earlier on May 13th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100; eventually it peaked at #3 and spent 21 weeks in the Top 100...
It reached #5 on Billboard's R&B chart...
And it won an Academy Award & a Golden Globe award for "Best Original Song" from the movie "Thank God, It's Friday"...
Sadly; Donna Summer passed away on May 17th...
R.I.P. Ms. Summer and Mr. Clark...
3 years later, she was gone. can only imagine if she was dealing with the lung cancer that would claim her, during this concert. so glad I got to experience her in my life.
I think so. Her voice is a little lower here but she still sounds great. Or it could have been the effects of aging.
legends dont die they lived on and on
william Islas yes :(
Yes, they live on so we can always enjoy them❤️❤️❤️
Hell of a voice! She never lost her voice
Who knew a Nobel show could be this exciting?!!!
She never lost her voice, but her voice changed when she got older! It became lower , when she was younger she had a high voice but still she sounds fabilous
Your so Right!!!
+AB -Leen Wilson Good Voice. RIP Donna ....
that happens to everyone. As you get older, your voice goes lower
Not lower... But more weight. This recording is still in the original key. Voices change but the beauty here is she could still sing without lowering the key of her songs. She preserved her voice until the end
NOBODY..... Will ever be able to sing a Donna Summer song. Quite like the late & overly gorgeous Miss Donna Summer herself.. She was surely one of a kind.. #RestInPeaceDiVa.
Dedric Carey You are so right.
I agree 100%!!!
Gone so soon. I kept saying that her voice was like wine: it only got better with time. RIP, dear DONNA!
she is the queen , and diva, and women
the voice of the world is Donna Summer.
Please pay attention to the conductor. It's another highlight of this show! The look at the conductors face: the intense concentration and the passionate look in his eyes, his potent gestures while conducting, his whole face oozes of the satisfaction he is feeling...the sweet smile at his mouth expresses the almost orgasmic experience he is having while conducting what irrefutable is the most exceptional musical performance of his life! :-)
I love coming back over and over to watch. Yes, the conductor is having such a great time with this song. He’s really into it as I would say most of the musicians are. She was great.
Jens Wendelboe is the conductor here, he loved Donna, and loved working with her. Whenever she did shows that used a full orchestra he was her first choice to conduct them. Just look at that huge smile on his face, he was not faking it.
So amazing.Even the conductor was jamming to the tune.You just cant help it when she sings.Still hitting those notes like a pro.Fantastic!
One class act. So glad I got to see her live....she sang so strong with so little effort.
Just a crazy talented woman. Too damn young to die....R.I.P. Ms. Summer.
You will never ever be forgotten.
This wonderful woman with a magnificiently under rated voice succombed to lung cancer a few years after this.. We were so fortunate to have her..
When I was a 16 year old kid in 1978 in Dallas, I first heard her...I bought her album "On the Radio"...And I fell in love with her...I would look at her picture on the album, and almost cry...I still love her, and I cried the day she passed...
This is Donna Summer`s signature song...Last Dance-Thank God It`s Friday! - Forever....RIP Ms.Donna Summer!
I am so grateful for people who download this material....such a great way to experience those artists and their music, that we will always love.
Her voice does not age it only improves. I cannot believe this (audio) clip is from 2009 and not 1975.
Her voice did age. It got a little bit deeper but still a great voice, nonetheless.
@@JimmieJamOfTheDay Her voice is deeper. Her voice was still in tack unlike many other singers her age. Still strong and not scratchy
This is pure magic! I keep watching this clip over and over again. Thank you Donna! (RIP) And thanks to the great Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra. She was such an fantastic artist, and the orchestral arrangements gives me goosebumps.
escLIVEmusic1 You are so right! The first album I ever bought with my own money was Bad Girls at age 12 I fell in love with her then and miss her now.
I am still watching this video 11 years later!!!! Thank God for TH-cam!!!
God I miss her! She did not live long after this and yet the performance was flawless. My favorite Disco Artist. Such class.
17 mai 2012.
She had style, she had grace, and with that smile, gave good face! What the Rock Establishment too too long to recognize, the rest of us knew years ago: the woman was THE QUEEN. At Rama (north of Toronto) the crowd was yelling how fab she was, and yet she stood there laughing, saying that "we didn't live with her" and didn't know what she could be like first thing in the morning. What self-depracating humour, what a lady, what a songstress. She invited the WORLD to dance - what an ambassador of joy!
RIP Donna Summer. Gracias por esa música eterna.
Singers and bands have come and gone , but she still shines after all these years .She's awsome!
Donna, thanks for making that whole time one of glamour and excitement..We will never forget you.
Can't keep playing the reprise at 05:47 and the way Donna leaves the stage, controling her voice perfectly while walking to the wings. OMG those security guards around the stage must have thought: "Jeez, she's something, she's fabulous! - a real Queen!") Who would have guessed that she was already suffering? Perhaps THE most sensational live performance by the "Queen of disco"! Love Her. RIP
She was the best! She made it all look so effortless from the beginning of her career to the end.
She was the last great Diva of my youth. I remember this song so well from 1978.
The world has lost one of its greatest singers. Donna you were a big part of my life during the 70's and 80's. Your, "Love to Love You Baby" filled the dance floors in 1975 and will fill the floors just as full now 37 years later. RIP Donna, you will have all of heaven dancing! You will always be remembered.
RIP Donna , you made growing up in the 80s such much more fun , and no-one can take that anyway from me! KEEP SINGING IN HEAVEN , GOD BLESS, but he did already xx
She was approximately 60 years old when this concert was filmed and she still sounds like she did her in glory days (which were glory days for so many of us). She proves that true talent doesn't fade and we all feel better knowing her voice is permanently a part of our memories. This is a voice that will never be silenced, not even with her early death. God bless you Donna Summer.
Pffttt... she sounds absolutely _nothing_ like she did in her hayday, which wasn’t all that great back then.
@@monkeygraborangelol ok
oh wow she didn't lost her voice! although it's deeper but she song so perfect! I miss her so much sighs
Nearly shed a tear as people stood up to dance.
Thanks for the music...a true ICON and she'll be missed! RIP Ms. Summer
She was so talented and beautiful. RIP DONNA.
I found it hard to hold back some tears today. As with many who have posted here, Don Summer was the summer of my youth. That voice and her music will love on forever. RIP and sleep tight special one and thank you for such wonderful memories.
That voice and it's power, just amazing! She was so talented. RIP
R.I.P. to the one and only Queen of Disco. Thank you for the music.
RIP Donna, you are singing en heaven now.
Unbelievable!!! After all these years and her voice was still ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!! That's what real entertainer looks like folks, a true lady, with a voice that never failed. I love you so much Donna Summer Sudano. Thank you for sharing your gifts and your love with us. You will be truly missed but never forgotten!! :-(
SHE HAS LOST NONE OF THAT WONDERFUL VOICE WE ALL LOVE SOOOO MUCH!!
YEAH INDEED DONNA ROCKS!! NOT MATTER HOW OLD SHE IS!!
The orchestra director is the best. El director de la orquesta es el mejor.
Just amazing voice. We miss her...
Thank you for the soundtrack to an era! What joys your music gave us. Rest in Peace.
the music director is awesome!!!
3:05 amazing u sing Donna got it man she gives u goose bumps
OMG her voice is a God given talent!!!! Donna you will be missed!!!!
Wow! So sad she no longer is here....
The women could blow. It was her last dance but we will always remember. RIP. The NBO also did a huge effort here, they managed to serve Ms. Summer with honors.
Absolutely world class Donna Summer; what more can you say!!
We will never find a female singer like this again!
Love 4 ever
// Swedish fan
R.I.P. Donna Summer!~
Last Dance...right up there with Happy trails...Bar Closing Favorites...then the house lights go on...and you realize just what you almost went home with...
GodSpeed to that next Disco Ballroom Honey ....so sad only 63 years old
Incredible Queen and top singer !!!
You miss me Donna !
NO ONE - NO ONE can do it like Donna Summer! NO ONE!! Thanks for posting this!!
This was in Oslo. Was there !!!!!
Electrifying. what a Performance for the ages !
my favourite female singer ever
none of us are perfect....not you...not me!!!!!.... no matter what....she will still the Queen of Disco....
I was made aware of her passing away over the weekend!... I'm still in complete shock!!! I'm so devastated and saddened that Donna is gone!!!... cuz I love her sooo much!!!, Oh my God!!!... her music just brings so much happiness into my life!!!... Why my Lord?... Why did you take her so soon???... because she was so much better than me!!!... cuz if I could take her place "I would!!!" R.I.P. Donna :(
Donna Summer had such a gift. Incredible. Incredible. She was a divine force of nature. We miss you, Donna.
This was incredible! I would have loved to grow up in the 70s where she reigned as Queen of Disco...such feel good music. But thank God for youtube and for her blessing us with her music. RIP Donna Summer
RIP beautiful queen you are truly missed 😢 ❤ 💔
Wonderful! Her voice..the orchestra... FABULOUS!!
RIP Donna Summer. Absolutely fantastic the way she sang. We´ll never forget you.
God Bless you classy lady..Thank you for your beautiful voice and this beautuful last song!!
DONNA MARKED A FANTASTIC ERA.....HER VOICE WAS UNIQUE AND POWERFUL
SHE ALWAYS BE THE DIVA.....THE QUEEN OF DISCO 4EVER !!!!.
REST IN PEACE DONNA....ANOTHER ANGEL IN HEAVEN !!!
You can hear the congestion and stuffiness and still she blew it out with incredible vocals...Amazing. I have followed her tour and this is the lowest key I heard her sing this song in and it still commanded the audience...you go Donna!!
por dios que artista!!! que mujer maravillosa! para ella los años pasan pero para su voz no! es increíble!
she was bigger then life. r.i.p donna summer your songs will live forever
That's what real singers sound like 100% Live!!! That song just transported me back to the 70's... She was a Phenomenal singer... I can't believe how good she sang near the end. RIP
Forever missed!!! ✨✨✨
Will never be another like Donna! Either this or Night of the Proms may have been her last performance - so fantastic!
Sadly she passed 3 years later here in Florida. R.I.P Donna.... one of a kind voice
Gotta say, I lived the disco life of the 70's and early 80's, and always loved Donna Summer. She had a lot of excellent tracks. So talented. So beautiful. But today she has died, and I'm a little in shock. Its only now I realise how much of my life was played out to a soundtrack that Donna Summer featured so heavily. This performance shows what a phenomenal talent she was, right til the end. RIP Donna Summer.
One of the greatest song writers and singers that ever lived! What a powerhouse voice that got better and stronger with time! This song just touches my heart! She was dearly loved and she is dearly missed!
Bare en superstjerne som Donna Summer kunne synge til Nobelprisen, Takk så mye...
Impossible to have more goosebumps this live version it maybe the best one.
I could not agree more. This woman had an amazing voice that did not change over the decades. She did not the recognition that she deserved! God Bless her soul.
What a great voice...classy lady....!
The orchestra, band and backingvocalsists aswell as the conductor are all Norwegian. The conductors name is Jens Wendelboe
On this day in 1978 {May 13th} Donna Summer's "Last Dance" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100; eventually it peaked at #3 and spent 21 weeks in the Top 100...
It reached #5 on Billboard's R&B chart, #51 on the United Kingdom's Singles chart, and peaked at #3 in New Zealand...
It won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe award for "Best Original Song"...
I am so happy to have been part of the disco era. I'm still dancing to her music. You will always live in my heart.
Donna Summer rocketed to international super-stardom in the mid-1970s when her groundbreaking merger of R&B, soul, pop, funk, rock, disco and avant-garde electronica catapulted underground dance music out of the clubs of Europe to the pinnacles of sales and radio charts around the world. Maintaining an unbroken string of hits throughout the 70s and 80s, most of which she wrote, Donna holds the record for most consecutive double albums to hit #1 on the Billboard charts (3) and first female to have four #1 singles in a 12 month period; 3 as a solo artist and one as a duo with Barbra Streisand. A five-time Grammy winner, Donna Summer was the first artist to win the Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female (1979, "Hot Stuff") as well as the first-ever recipient of the Grammy for Best Dance Recording (1997, "Carry On"). In 2004, she became one of the first inductees, as both an Artist Inductee and a Record Inductee (for 1977's "I Feel Love") into the Dance Music Hall of Fame in New York City. Born Donna Gaines on New Year's Eve to a large family in Boston, she developed an early interest in music. From the age of eight, Summer sang in church choirs and city-wide choruses, and by her early twenties, was performing in musical theatre in Germany, winning parts in such highly-acclaimed shows as "Hair," "Showboat," "Godspell," and "Porgy and Bess" as well as performing with the Viennese Folk Opera. She released her first single, a cover of the Jaynett's girl group classic, "Sally Go Round The Roses," in 1971. While singing backup, she met producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte who produced her first single, "Hostage," which became a hit in the Netherlands, France and Belgium. In 1975, Moroder and Bellotte produced the international hit, "Love to Love You Baby," which rose to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and triggered Summer's triumphant return to the United States as a key figure of the then-emerging disco genre. "Love To Love You Baby" paved the way for such international hits as "MacArthur Park," "Bad Girls," "Hot Stuff," "Dim All The Lights," "On The Radio," and "Enough Is Enough," as well as the Grammy and Academy award winning theme song "Last Dance," from the film "Thank God It's Friday," which remains a milestone in Donna's career. In 1980, Summer became the first artist to sign with David Geffen's new label, Geffen Records, leaving her disco days behind and moving into the next phase of her career ." In the years that followed, Summer collaborated with writers and producers such as Quincy Jones, Michael Omartian and England's dance-pop production compound Stock Aitken Waterman and produced a steady stream of hits from "State of Independence," featuring Michael Jackson on backing vocals, to the abiding feminist anthem "She Works Hard For The Money," one of the most-played songs of all-time, and the infectious "This Time I Know It's For Real." In 1994, she released "Endless Summer," a greatest hits retrospective containing a new song, "Melody of Love," which became Billboard's #1 Dance Record of the Year. She also released the critically acclaimed gem "Christmas Spirit," a collection of Summer's original songs and holiday standards recorded with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Summer spent the '90s continuing to tour, performing to sold-out audiences worldwide. In 1997, when the new "Best Dance Recording" Category was created at the Grammy Awards, Donna Summer was the first winner with her fifth career Grammy award for "Carry On." In 1999, Sony/Epic Records released "VH1 Presents Donna Summer: Live & More - Encore!," an album and DVD of Summer's critically acclaimed VH1 broadcast taped at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom. The show premiered on VH1 as one of the network's highest rated shows to date and featured live performances of Summer's top hits. In addition to her five Grammy Awards, Summer has won six American Music Awards, three consecutive #1 platinum double albums (she's the only solo artist, male or female, ever to accomplish this), 11 gold albums, four #1 singles on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart, 3 platinum singles, and 12 gold singles. Summer is also the first female artist to have a #1 single and #1 album on the Billboard charts simultaneously ("Live & More;" "MacArthur Park" 1978) a feat she also repeated six months later ("Bad Girls" & "Hot Stuff" in 1979). She has charted 33 Top Ten hits on the combined Billboard Disco/Dance/Dance Club/Play charts over a period of 37 years with 18 reaching the #1 spot solidifying her as the undisputed Queen of Dance. In addition to her recording and performing career, Summer is an accomplished visual artist whose work has been shown at exhibitions worldwide including Steven Spielberg's "Starbright Foundation Tour of Japan" and The Whitney Museum as well as a prestigious engagement at Sotheby's in New York. Since 1989, she has sold over 1.7 million dollars in original art - with her highest piece going for $150,000. In 2003, Random House published her autobiography "Ordinary Girl," co-authored with Marc Eliot. Also that year, Universal released "The Journey," containing all of her original hits, as well as two new songs. In 2008, celebrating four decades of milestones, Summer adds another accomplishment to her list with the success of her new album "Crayons." The album debuted at #17 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart making it Summer's highest debuting album ever. It also debuted at #5 on the Billboard R&B chart - another personal best. "Crayons" is Summer's first album of all new studio material in 17 years and is her highest charting album since "She Works Hard For The Money" in 1983. To date, the album has spawned three #1 Dance hits "I'm A Fire," "Stamp Your Feet" and "Fame (The Game)." It is estimated that Summer has sold more than 130 million records worldwide. Ranked #24 on Billboard Magazines 50th Anniversary issue's "Hot 100 Artists of All Time," Donna Summer was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame on April 18, 2013
Thank you for making us dance Donna Summer!
I always get so emotional every time I watch this performance ❤
Dim all the lights sweet darling - The Queen of Disco has passed. Her legacy will live on forever.
R.I.P.
We lost "Donna Summer" way to early. R.I.P. Timeless Voice!!!!!
AN INCREDIBLE VOICE ! The best that i can heard
Go Donna Summer!
Attention: Bouncy, Ruinana, Bebe ... this is what you call a Star, Artist, Icon. Also note: natural talent, no auto corrector and/or sound engineering! Never will be another like Miss Summer. R.I.P. Donna. We miss you!
this is exactely how I feel about Donna, I started to know her when I was about 10 years old, and I LOVED HER!! And I still do. I did not cry when she died but since that time, I'm still thinking of her... I also agree with others that it is absolutely NOT understandable that it took so long for Donna to reach the Hall of Fame!!!!!!!!!! She should have been there 20, sorry, I still think I'me 20, 30 years ago!!!!!!!
Rest in Peace. You may be gone but your music will live on forever. Thanks you for all the wonderful memories. I already miss you.
I'm so fortunate to have grown up in an era where I was exposed to her music. Donna is so talented and timeless. I was so saddened to learn she passed away but she did make an inedible mark on music in a big way. She will be greatly missed by me but never forgotten. We've truly lost some talented people lately.
wow, what memories this brings up. It was always the last song played when the lights came up, letting evryone know it was the last dance or drink for the night. Time to go home!
Donna is the best....this song makes me cry and dance at the same time......how can you sit down you just want to move to this:)