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Love Trilogy

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How do you follow up a monumental genre defining hit like `Love to love you baby'?

The answer is with the gold certified `A love trilogy'. Full of everything that made disco; strings, horns, bass, rich percussion, and a sexy voice. Everything but the glittery disco ball.

Opening cut `Try me' was loosely split into four sections; the breathy `Try me' with Donna's cooing hitting stratospheric notes and that distinctive guitar riff, `I know' sung in a slightly lower, sexier register, a wonderful musical bridge links to `We can make it' with a lovely simple keyboard bit and sung in her real voice before returning to falsetto on `Try me I know we can make it'. A charming multi style suite!

Side 2 (on the original vinyl LP) opened with the 1 minute `Prelude to love', a breathy spoken piece with lush, dramatic strings.

Next was the albums biggest hit, her cover of the Barry Manilow song `Could it be magic. This starts off with Donna singing in a lazy yearning version of her real voice. The strings are awesome, and there are lots of sensual moans and gasps. The final 1 and a half minutes is climatic with dreamy sounding backing vocals, magical keyboards and Donna's voice floating above it all. This song, along with `Try me' are still major crowd pleasers at her concerts.

`Wasted' has a funky R&B feel, with Donna cooing in her falsetto to a melancholic musical backdrop replete with harps and sweeping cutting strings. The percussion on this song is really rich, tiny details that set the Summer/Moroder/Bellotte team apart from the others. The final 1 minute musical outro of the song is simply outstanding. Great keyboards.

Closing is my favourite track. `Come with me'. Again, sung in her lazy, yearning voice. Very dreamy sounding and again, richly textured; guitars, horns, strings and excellent percussion. Great OO-OO-OO backing vocals. Very catchy upbeat song about desire.

A magical, musical journey into disco from the queen which like the album photo will take you for a ride above the clouds.

After her first Casablanca album, Love To Love You Baby sold gold, Donna Summer followed up that success quickly with another album; "A Love Trilogy". This album contains the surprise hit "Could It Be Magic". This revved up Barry Manilow song unmasked the Diva behind the novelty singer. of course there's some Love To Love You-ish songs on the album for the fans who came back for more; the long playing "Try me I Know We Can Make It" and the techno tune, "Wasted". Both songs are forerunners of "I Feel Love". Moroder & Bellote's symphonic arrangements make for a lush backdrop to this trilogy. Donna belts it out on the final siren song "Come With me". The album is a delight.

Love Trilogy is one of the sexiest albums i have ever heard and it finds Ms. Summer in full steamy siren mode.
"Try me,I know we can make it" grooves along with hot dripping sensuality and captures Donna singing a seductive breathy falsetto throughout and then bulking up her vocals to tell you that "we can make it if we try".
Are you willing to make it with Donna or is it too much for you to handle????
"A prelude to love" finds Donna confessin',pleadin' and panting away in hot smoldering ecstacy which leads into the classic rendition of "Could it be magic".
Donna gives this Manilow classic a sexiness mixed with a contained yet fragile urgency that the original never had and you can feel the desperation and heartfelt sincerity in Donna's delivery resulting in one of her most compelling performances.
"Wasted" is a great little funky dance number which will get your feet shuffling and your body grooving and "Come with Me" closes out this love trilogy with a shake your booty get down and boogie disco vibe that's so hot that you'll need to call your lover to release that fire scorching from within you or to cool down those family jewels...
OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!
Simply put, Love Trilogy is a finger lickin' lip smackin' disco classic and is without a doubt the SEXIEST Donna Summer album ever.
So get those fingers walking and let the music do the talking....

O.F.

Why I didn't purchase this when it first came out,I'll never know! This is probably one of Donna's stongest albums that she has recorded.From "Try Me...to Come With Me"each song has a wonderful sound and just fun to dance to.I have almost every one of her albums/CD's. Just waiting for her to put something new out! I did purchase the CD single "I Got Your Love" and was very pleased.Thank you,Donna,for all the wonderful dance music you've contributed to the music scene and has been a part of my life for all these years! I love to love you baby! :) If you don't have this CD,purchase it! It's great!

Enough of how this album became my initiation into a lifetime of Donna Summer fandom. This album is the bridge from sexual overdrive enrapturing Love To Love You Baby (and the Pillow Talk, Midnight At The Oasis, and other breathy swoons of the day) to the land of the mainstream disco. While still breathing and moaning in trademark fashion throughout the album, Donna has the guts to take on a cover of Manilow's Could It Be Magic, something lesser artists wouldn't dare do with material of such iconic status. And by doing it, Donna surpasses Barry and lets us hear her cut loose with all of her voice at the end of the song. Try Me...Suite on Side 1 was so good that it, along with Could...was chosen for the soundtrack of the infamous "Looking For Mr. Goodbar." In fact, I think Could... is playing when Diane Keaton's character meets her demise. The long first side suite set the tone for many to follow including Carol Douglas, Marlena Shaw, and countless others who learned that this tactic ensured their play time and exposure at the disco. This album is so good that it was hard for me to wrench it out of my mother's hands as a teenager...she was hell bent on playing it to motivate her doing housework. The cover art was revisited in her 1996 tour, and the expression is one that Donna still gets on her face today. True artistry. All cuts romantic, sensual and A+++. A logical foundation to build her next concept albums from in its mini-concept seduction theme.

Althought this is probably her least popular album, it ia, in my opinion, one of her best. With the success of "Love To Love You Baby" Donna and Producer Georgio Moroder decided to stay with the disco formula which catapulted her to Superstardom. This, her 3rd album, maintained more of a consistancy than it's two predecessors, and is, by far, a better showcase of Donna's broad vocal style.

The album features the two singles "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" and a disco remake of Barry Manilow's "Could It Be Magic", which would later be a big hit for Brit boyband Take That. The other two tracks "Wasted" and "Come With Me" could have been club favorites in their own right as well. Actually, it's really a suprise that nobody ever covered the dance-floor ready "Come With Me", it was destined to be a sure-fire hit.

This album contains the full uncut version of Barry Manilows' "Could it Be Magic." This album is one of the
few that sets the tone for the Disco Age..This was cutting
edge when new..the new sound we hoped would last forever..Donnas'voice does'nt really get a work out here
but it is very good disco music..

As 2nd albums are called this "sophmore" effort showed that Donna was far from a "flash-in-the-pan" Disco Star who would come and go quickly. When your first big hit is a novelty sound such as Love To Love You Baby, many wonder if you can move on from that.

Donna continued to move forward with Love Trilogy, yet the album contained more of an erotic undercurrent than her first domestic release. On the LTLYB album, side 2 portrayed a more diverse side of Donna where on this release side 2 continued with the sensual side of things. Her steamy reworking of Could It Be Magic (much steamier than the live read that she does today), and the tracks Wasted, and Come With Me feed into her developing image as a Disco Sex Kitten.

This album gave Donna her second gold single (Try Me, I Know We Can Make It), and her second gold album.

I would have loved this release even more if more of Donna diverse talent was allowed to be exposed.

I have to say each and every one of these songs are fantastic. I can listen to Try Me, I Know We Can Make It over and over, thus in my opinion is the best track on the album. I have to warn you though, buy this album if 1. You love Donna Summer 2. You love disco. 3. You love Giorgio Moroder. Otherwise don't buy it.

Back in 1976 this was her follow up for the now classic monster
"Love to love you baby". "Try Me, I know we can make make it" is
indeed a very long (17:57) and at times lost in a boring trance disco song. Accompanied by the Munich Machine the song seems to fade and then recharges with stronger dance beats. But without any doubt the gem from this recording is "Could it be magic". To
see her performimg this song live in concert is a breathtaking
experience."Come with me" could be cut as a 12" single back then.
Is a nice song to be remixed and perhaps reissued today. Without
any doubt Donna Summer has charisma and a unique voice.