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Album Review: Once Upon a Time...

  • Artist: Donna Summer
  • Rating: StarStarStar
  • Release Date: 1977 11
  • Total Time: 69:15
  • Type: Lyrics are included with the album
  • Genre: Rhythm & Blues

Review

Donna Summer and her liberators have created one audience and redefined another, and this record's four sides of dream worlds without end sometimes manipulate each audience. The candy-girl music of "Fairy Tale High," "Queen for a Day," and "If You Got It Flaunt It" explicitly recognizes her newly created gay audience, a daring acknowledgement coming from a mainstream pop star. As for her redefined audience of naïve young things who live in the suburbs and dream of romance, adventure, and sex while they search for identity, Summer works her music into a true-to-life Cinderella story staged as four acts of impatient pulse, delirious space noise, wish-upon-a-star voice monologues, and motion. ~ Michael Freedberg, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Once Upon a Time (Lyrics) Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte Donna Summer (4:02)
Faster and Faster to Nowhere (Lyrics) Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte Donna Summer (3:34)
Fairy Tale High (Lyrics) Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte Donna Summer (4:25)
Say Something Nice (Lyrics) Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte Donna Summer (4:44)
Now I Need You (Lyrics) Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte Donna Summer (6:09)
Working the Midnight Shift (Lyrics) Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte Donna Summer (5:07)
Queen for a Day (Lyrics) Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte Donna Summer (5:59)
If You Got It Flaunt It (Lyrics) Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte Donna Summer (4:43)
A Man Like You Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte Donna Summer (3:34)
Sweet Romance (Lyrics) Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte Donna Summer (4:31)
Once Upon a Time (Theme) Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte Donna Summer (:48)
Dance into My Life (Lyrics) Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte Donna Summer (4:10)
Rumour Has It (Lyrics) Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte Donna Summer (4:57)
I Love You (Lyrics) Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte Donna Summer (4:43)
Happily Ever After (Lyrics) Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte Donna Summer (3:51)
Once Upon a Time (Theme) Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte Donna Summer (3:58)

Credits

Bob Conti (Percussion), Keith Forsey (Percussion), Hermann Breuer (Brass), Judy Cheeks (Vocals (Background)), Edo Zanki (Vocals (Background)), Way Bandy (Make-Up), Dino Solera (Saxophone), Giorgio Moroder (Moog Synthesizer), Bob Esty (Vocals (Background)), Dino Solera (Brass), Stephen Lumel (Artwork), Dan Wyman (Moog Synthesizer), Giorgio Moroder (Producer), Donna Summer (Vocals), Hanus Berka (Brass), Mats Bjoerklund (Guitar), Ted Jensen (Mastering), Francesco Scavullo (Photography), Geoff Bastow (Guitar), Lee Harper (Brass), Juergen Koppers (Mixing), Giorgio Moroder (Arranger), Keith Forsey (Drums), Pete Bellotte (Producer), Les Hurdle (Bass), Jerry Rix (Vocals (Background)), Bob Esty (Arranger), Donna Summer (Vocals (Background)), Bob Esty (Keyboards), Benny Gebauer (Brass), Allen Zentz (Mastering), Pete Bellotte (Percussion), Alan Hawkshaw (Keyboards), Mary Ellen Gaines (Vocals (Background)), Carlena Williams (Vocals (Background)), Juergen Koppers (Engineer), Bob Esty (Percussion), Gitta Walther (Vocals (Background))
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