Love to Love You Baby

Donna Summer

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 9, 1992)
• Original Release Date: September 1975
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mca Special Products
• ASIN: B000001F9M
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #78,663 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Love to Love You Baby

2. Full of Emptiness

3. Need-A-Man Blues

4. Whispering Waves

5. Pandora's Box

6. Full of Emptiness (Reprise)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love to love you lady!!!, October 9, 2005

By	Nse Ette (Lagos, Nigeria) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

`Love to love you baby' was Donna Summer's US debut in 1975, her real debut, `Lady of the night' was released in Europe in 1974. However, where the latter comprised European styled folk/rock/pop compositions, `Love to love you baby' featured Summer's new sleek, sexy disco style.

The title track was groundbreaking in many ways; it was stretched to a 16 minute plus track at the request of label boss Neil Bogart which filled out one side of the LP (and thus was born the 12" extended dance remix), featured a consistent throbbing beat, featured lots of steamy moans and groans (prompting an instant ban on the BBC, years before more risqué acts like Madonna et all) with Summer cooing in a falsetto, and a distinctive funky bassline. The single sold a million copies earning Summer the first of 10 gold (and 2 platinum) singles, hit #2 in the US and #4 in the UK, and was a smash just about everywhere else.

Covered numerous times (No doubt, Bronski beat, Tom Tom Club) and more recently sampled by Beyoncé in her hit single `Naughty girl', and TLC in `I'm good at being bad'.

The album itself was certified gold in just 12 days in the US.

The other side featured a variety of dreamy sensual songs like the piano ballad `Full of emptiness' (present in two brief versions), the mid tempo funky blues of `Need-a-man blues' with wah wah guitar, the sea shore sound filled breezy piano/string ballad `Whispering waves' featuring a vulnerable falsetto performance from Summer.

Final track `Pandora's box' was the only track hinting to `Lady of the night'; a piano folk rocker a-la Elton John with Donna belting out fervently in her full vocals, no falsetto here.

Our vinyl copy of the album (when I was a kid) had as a bonus track the dramatic kidnap drama `The hostage' which is available on the `Lady of the night CD.

This was the album that set the glitter ball spinning, and kindled the spark that ignited thousands of dancefloors all over the world. Great news, this CD has been remastered and is part of the 3 CD box set 'Chronicles'.

Aaah, love to love you bay-bee!!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love to Love You Baby, and More!, August 17, 2005

By	KRA (East End of LI) - See all my reviews

Donna's first USA album was and will always be most notable for the full 17 minute orgasmic symphony of Love to Love You Baby.
This song would start her career YET, it would be her later Disco/Pop crossover songs that would launch her into superstardom.

The title track filled all of side 1, and the sad part is many people did not bother to listen to side 2. Side 2 is very similar to the work Donna did on her first ever album, Lady of The Night (released in Europe), and all of the tracks here are winners. The side starts and finishes with Full of Emptiness, and includes Need A Man Blues (later covered by The Bronski Beat), Whispering Waves, and the great folk song Pandora's Box.

Listen to the entire release and Love To Love It!

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars One Reason To Buy This CD, August 22, 2001

By	Martin A Hogan "Marty From SF" (San Francisco, CA. (Hercules)) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

The only reason to purchase this CD is for the nearly 17 minute version of "Love To Love You Baby". Yup, it reaks of mid-seventies disco, but isn't that the point? It was the first of it's kind and somewhat of a collector's item. The other five songs seem like dated fillers, but the title track is great music, produced at a time when dicso could be listened to as well as danced to. A real band with no synthesizers! Great memories!