Summer made her name as the queen of the disco genre during the 1970s while signed to Casablanca Records. She left the label in 1980 following a dispute and became the first ever artist to be signed to the new Geffen label. Summer continued to work with Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte who had produced the vast majority of her disco hits. However, disco by now had experienced a backlash - rock DJs were out of work and people were starting to hate disco - though they sure looked silly trying to Pogo on the dance floor! Rock music was by now becoming popular and the Summer/Moroder/Bellotte team had incorporated this into Summer's 1979 international bestselling album Bad Girls which had seen rock and several other styles of music merged into the disco beat. Summer's first Geffen album, The Wanderer album was a fully-fledged new wave/rock-flavoured affair, picking up in many ways where Bad Girls left off, and arguably this song was the first true New Wave radio hit.
Vocally, it was a return to her understated 1975 debut sound - soft, whispery phrases were the norm in this song, taking on an almost Elvis Presley effect, instead of the power belt she had used often since her Once Upon a Time album and Last Dance single.
This first single from the album became a big hit for Summer in the United States - peaking at Number 3 on the Hot 100 singles chart and selling over a million copies. A 12" promotional single was issued, however, unlike all her Top 40 hits prior to this one, it was not an extended version.
Until now! (I've since learned not to use jpegs as pics on these videos! But hey, for me it's the listening experience, not the visuals)
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