Donna Summer - Greatest Hits

Donna Summer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 23, 2012)
• Original Release Date: September 15, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Island Def Jam
• ASIN: B00000AFCI
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,956 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

There's no scarcity of Donna Summer greatest-hits packages, but this chronological bargain-line disc eschews her rep as extendo-orgasmo dance-floor heroine in favor of her equally deserved rep as mistress of radio-friendly three-minute pocket symphonies. The production of Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte on the early stuff sounds like disco clichés because it invented them, and their fondness for cramming in instrumental details (check out the whistles on "Bad Girls") keeps the songs ecstatic. And the four-song condensation of Summer's post-Moroder career is a great mini-history of the way disco evolved into other kinds of dance-pop through the '80s as she picks up ideas from funk and reggae and ends up wailing her heart out on the gloriously plastic "This Time I Know It's for Real." --Douglas Wolk

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Greatest Hits: Donna Summer by Donna Summer

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great album, December 9, 2010

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This review is from: Donna Summer - Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

I am a big fan of Donna Summer, and have been for many years, as I guess many people are. Unlike some, I like this album. I really like the mix of songs included on this album, which is very much a window into life and soul. It's all here - love and loss, wanting to be your own person, and wanting recognition as a human being. Personally, I think that this is a great album. Yeah, if you already have an anthology of her complete works, then this will be redundant - period - full stop. But, nonetheless it's a great album, and if you don't have that anthology I think you'll really like it, like I do.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Donna Summer: GREATEST HITS (1998), November 18, 2006

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Chad DeFeo "(ChandlerBingFan)" (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Donna Summer - Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

In September of 1998, Donna Summer released her twenty-fourth album entitled GREATEST HITS, just keeping it simply, I guess. This greatest hits album is very good, but I wish more hits were included.

LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY (Single Version)
Original version from the album LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY (1975). Awesome song.

COULD IT BE MAGIC (Single Version)
Original version from the album A LOVE TRILOGY (1976). Awesome. I know that Barry Manilow is very proud of Donna's cover.

I FEEL LOVE (Single Version)
Original version from the album I REMEMBER YESTERDAY (1977). Great song.

LAST DANCE
From the original motion picture & motion picture soundtrack THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY (1978). Still a classic.

HOT STUFF
From the album BAD GIRLS (1979). Great song.

BAD GIRLS
From the album BAD GIRLS (1979). Great song.

ON THE RADIO
From the album ON THE RADIO: GREATEST HITS VOLUMES I & II (1979). Awesome.

THE WANDERER
From the album THE WANDERER (1980). An awesome song.

LOVE IS IN CONTROL (FINGER ON THE TRIGGER)
From the album DONNA SUMMER (1982). Amazing.

STATE OF INDEPENDENCE
From the album DONNA SUMMER (1982). Amazing.

SHE WORKS HARD FOR THE MONEY
From the album SHE WORKS HARD FOR THE MONEY (1983). Great song.

THIS TIME I KNOW IT'S FOR REAL
From the album ANOTHER PLACE AND TIME (1989). A song I will never, ever get tired of.

This is a great album, but I do wish that Donna would have included "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It", "Spring Affair", "Love's Unkind", "Once Upon A Time", "I Love You", "Rumour Has It", "MacArthur Park", "Heaven Knows", "Dim All The Lights", "Sunset People", "Our Love", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (performed by Barbra Streisand & Donna Summer), "Cold Love", "Unconditional Love" (performed by Donna Summer & Musical Youth)", "There Goes My Baby", "Supernatural Love", "All Systems Go", "I Don't Wanna Get Hurt", & "Love's Abou To Change My Heart". But, this is still an album that belongs in your Donna Summer collection.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I Don't Understand Why This Was Made?, September 2, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Donna Summer - Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

Like other reviewers, this is NOT a great hit colllection. Here's why: I will highlight her previous hit collections.
Buy:
1. On The Radio - Greatest Hits 1&2 -- If you only like her 70's music.

2. The Anthology Collection - If you want to dig deeper beyond a hits collection with 2 CDs.

3. Endless Summer - If you want THE major highlights spanning her entire collection up to 1994 including 80s tracks that obviously you won't have on On The Radio.

You can buy any of these 3 and not be disappointed. Anything else after that is UNNECESSARY unless you have money to splurge or Donna gets back on Top 40 radio (which I always hope for:)) Donna is certainly capable of a few more hits even though she is 54 years old.