Four Seasons of Love

Donna Summer

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 14, 1994)
• Original Release Date: October 1976
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Island / Mercury
• ASIN: B000001FEA
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #15,402 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Spring Affair

2. Summer Fever

3. Autumn Changes

4. Winter Melody

5. Spring Reprise

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hot SeasonsSummer's Soul Music!, July 27, 2000

By	Vincent M. Mastronardi (Michigan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'm surprised that most people find this album as so typically disco while the only song that truly comes off like that "Spring Affair". The song is very light and danceable. The other songs to me feel like they have a very deep soul vibe. The mix of horns and bass make "Summer Fever" feels like a disco meets '70s R&B heat. Maybe her sexiest non-moaning number seventies song. "Autumn Changes" is sophisticated dance sounds with longing vocals and great use of wind instruments. "Winter Melody" is probably the best example of hot seventies soul although it's so sad. It feels like the emotional high point in a action film like "Shaft". In fact, it might have fit in perfectly in something like that or "Foxy Brown". The numbers are perfectly in place and describe a relationship very well. From the love at first sight ("Spring Affair") to passion ("Summer Fever") to problems ("Autumn Changes") and just plain heartache ("Winter Melody").

I don't know, but I'm I the only one that hears all the soul and lust in the album rather than just cleaver disco arrangements. I think this was Donna's first, only and best seventies soul album. Hear it for yourself and see what could have been a great singer of classic R&B. Also these are some of her best written songs at the time. Of course, Donna's awesome disco hits that would come later on is nothing to sneeze at either. Just another cool side of Summer.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE PERFECT DISCO PERFORMER IN PEAK FORM!, March 3, 2003

By	Paulo Leite (Lisbon, Portugal) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

I still have the original vinyl album my folks bought back in 1977. For a start, what a beautiful cover! Donna sitting on the moon. What a great idea! She was by then the true disco queen. The original album had a 1977 4-leaf calendar with Donna in four different seasons (the cover image is the Summer). When I bought the cd I was happy to see that the original calendar art was reproduced.

The record itself is nothing lees than great. Donna sings beautifuly and the four tracka are a great example of great disco sound. Later, disco became a bit stupid, but these Donna Summer recordings are from a time when disco was at its best.

Spring Affair is a warm song with lot of rhythm and we can see the taste the producers printed into the material. A great orchestra with top players. Summer Fever has a bass you'll never forget and (again) a great beat. The back vocals have that distinct echo we only find in 70's disco sound. Autumn Changes is another rhythmic gem with flutes and syntethizers. Winter Melody slows it all and turns the "mellow" mood on.

This is one of the best albums ever produced in the Disco era. Every one who lived at that time will remember it instantly. A great buy.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Four Seasons of Love, Disco, and Donna!, August 21, 2005

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

On her third release for Casablanca Records Donna continued to build her reputation as the Queen of Disco, yet this concept album started her journey to be so much more.

Like the 2 releases before this, Four Seasons of Love gave Donna another gold record, AND, another gold single for the albums centerpiece, Spring Affair. This track reinforced Donna has the evolving Disco Diva and her producers, Giorgio Mororder, and Pete Belotte as the production team to watch.

The other "seasons" were far more diverse. Summer Feaver hinted at the rock edge that Donna always had, and would later allow to come to the forefront. Autum Changes focused more on the pop side, with ovetones of her sensual side, and Winter Melody would be the first in a string of great ballads that would grace most of her future releases.

This would be the last of Donna's albums to feature only one song on side 1 (in this case, Spring Affair), and it layed the groundwork for her more intricate concept albums.