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Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money

Donna Summer - She Works Hard For The Money Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: She Works Hard For The Money
Released: 1983

She Works Hard For The Money Lyrics

She Works Hard For The Money
So hard for it, honey
She works hard for the money
So you better treat her right

She works hard for the money
So hard for it, honey
She works hard for the money
So you better treat her right

I met her there in the corner stand
And she wonders where she is and
It's strange to her
Some people seem to have everything

Nine a.m. on the hour hand
And she's waiting for the bell
And she's looking real pretty
Just waiting for her clientele

She works hard for the money
So hard for it, honey
She works hard for the money
So you better treat her right

She works hard for the money
So hard for it, honey
She works hard for the money
So you better treat her right

Twenty-eight years have come and gone
And she's seen a lot of tears
Of the ones who come in
They really seem to need her there

It's a sacrifice working day to day
For little money, just tips for pay
But it's worth it all
To hear them say that they care

She works hard for the money
So hard for it, honey
She works hard for the money
So you better treat her right

Already knows
She's seen her bad times
Already knows
These are the good times

She'll never sell out
She never will
Not for a dollar bill
She works hard

She works hard for the money
So hard for it, honey
She works hard for the money
So you better treat her right

Hard for the money
So hard for it, honey
She works hard for the money
So you better treat her right
(Alright)

She works hard for the money
(Hard, hard, hard for the money)
So hard for it, honey
(Hard, hard, hard for it, honey)
She works hard for the money
So you better treat her right

She works hard for the money
(Hard, hard, hard for the money)
So hard for it, honey
(Hard, hard, hard for it, honey)

Writer/s: OMARTIAN, MICHAEL / SUMMER, DONNA
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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She Works Hard For The Money

This song was based on a true-to-life experience. Donna Summer was in Chasens restaurant in Los Angeles. She went to the bathroom and saw the attendant taking a nap with a small TV on. Donna startled the woman from her nap, and the woman told Donna she worked two jobs and was really tired. Donna thought to herself, "Wow, she really works hard for her money." Later that night while at home thinking about her, Summer wrote the song in about 20 minutes.

The bathroom attendant from Chasens was placed on the back of the album cover. The first line of the song says her name - "Onetta there in the corner stands..."

Summer wrote this with Michael Omartian, who also produced the album and played many of the instruments. Omartian also co-wrote "Sailing" with Christopher Cross and produced "We Are The World" with Quincy Jones.

The music video was directed by Brian Grant, who was one of the first directors in the medium, having done clips for Queen and The Human League the predated MTV. The video for "She Works Hard For The Money" shows various women working difficult jobs - nurse, housekeeper, waitress - and then joining together in the end for a group dance. According to Summer, this was to show that they have overcome their challenges and succeeded.

The video was very popular on MTV, airing a few months after Michael Jackson broke the MTV color barrier with "Billie Jean." Summer became the first black female singer to land a video in hot rotation on the network.

Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby

Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Love To Love You Baby
Released: 1975

Love To Love You Baby Lyrics

I Love To Love You Baby
I love to love you baby
I love to love you baby
I love to love you baby
I love to love you baby

When you're laying so close to me
There's no place I'd rather you be than with me

I love to love you baby
I love to love you baby
I love to love you baby

Do it to me again and again
You put me in such a awful spin, in a spin

I love to love you baby
I love to love you baby
I love to love you baby

Lay your head down real close to me
Soothe my mind and set me free, set me free

Uh, love to love you baby
Uh, love to love you baby
Uh, love to love you baby
Uh, love to love you baby
Uh, love to love you baby
Uh, love to love you baby

When you're laying so close to me
There's no place I'd rather you be than with me

I love to love you baby
I love to love you baby
I love to love you baby

Do it to me again and again
You put me in such a awful spin, in a spin

I love to love you baby
I love to love you baby
I love to love you baby
I love to love you baby
I love to love you baby
I love to love you baby
I love to love you baby

Writer/s: SUMMER, DONNA / MORODER, GIORGIO / BELLOTTE, PETE
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Love To Love You Baby

Summer wrote this with the help of European producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. It was the first big hit for Moroder, who went on to great success as a songwriter and producer. Among his accomplishments: Summer's "Hot Stuff" and "On The Radio"; scores for many movies, including Scarface, Midnight Express and American Gigolo; and many songs used in movies, among them "Take My Breath Away" (used in Top Gun) and "Call Me" (used in American Gigolo).

This was Summer's first hit, and one of the first disco hits. Disco gained popularity in gay dance clubs where they used DJs instead of bands. Eventually, the music spread to mainstream clubs and made it's way onto radio stations and movies like Saturday Night Fever. Summer had many hits and became known as the "Queen of Disco," but before "Love To Love You Baby," she was more of a folk-pop artist, and before that, she performed in musicals and recorded show tunes. This was the song that set her on the path to disco divadom.

It was rumored that Summer sang her very convincing orgasmic-sounding vocals on the studio floor while simulating a sex act. The rumor was partly true - after trying to record her vocal the traditional way, her producer Giorgio Moroder had her sing on the studio floor while lying on her back with the lights out, since she didn't want the guys working on the album looking at her when she sang it. She explained that she was indeed touching herself during the vocal: she had her hand on her knee. Her boyfriend Peter served as her fantasy inspiration.

Donna Summer had had a Christian upbringing and was an unlikely writer of such a sexual song. She told Time magazine December 1975 that to write the lyrics, "I let go long enough to show all the things I've been told since childhood to keep secret." She added in an interview with the Telegraph Magazine: "So I took on this character and eventually it just fitted me."

Donna had a hard time listening back to the song after she recorded it and was concerned about what the song did to her image, but she learned to embrace it and made it a centerpiece of her subsequent tour, putting on a stage show that Madonna would later crib from, complete with dancers simulating sexual positions and Summer squatting over an array of guys.

According to a tally by Time magazine, Summer could be heard enjoying 22 orgasms in this number. In Britain the BBC banned the song. In the US, the Reverend Jesse Jackson attacked her. Summer told the Telegraph Magazine: "They were afraid of what it would perpetrate among the youth. And I don't disagree with them on this end of it as a mother. I would not have chosen that specific song to open my career with. But I accept that's what happened. And I tried my best to parlay the success of that record into something else and get away from that imagery as soon as I could."

Summer explained to the Telegraph Magazine why she stopped performing this song at her concerts. "If I were to do that song like I did it in the old days, the fire department would have to be at the show," she said. "Seriously. Riots broke out in, like, Argentina and Italy. I was in a tent in Italy, 5,000 men, almost no women, and I was doing 'Love to Love You, Baby' and I was fairly scantily clad - I was fairly young, and the guys got so wrapped up that they began to push the stage back. And I had to run off the stage, to my trailer out the back. And they came to the trailer and started to rock it. Five thousand guys in a little village in Italy! I just thought, 'I'm going to die today, I'm not going to get out of here.' It's not the kind of song you just want to throw out there."

Summer's record label, Casablanca Records, made a huge push to promote their new artist, and in a classic example of record company excess, had a life-sized cake sculpted in her image that was flown from Los Angeles to New York on two first class airline seats. The cake made it's way to a disco on December 31, 1975, where Summer performed in celebration of the release of this single and her birthday (this story is recounted in the book Love Saves the Day by Tim Lawrence). Summer did a variety of press press parties to promote the song and her upcoming tour. The reception wasn't always good, but it did get her lots of attention. When this song was played at the parties, Summer said, "The audience was groaning worse than I was."

The full version of this song (found on the album) runs 16:50. The single version is cut down to 4:57. It was extended after Summer's label boss, Neil Bogart, called Giorgio Moroder up after he'd sent him a three-minute version. The Italian producer recalled to Redbull Music Academy : "He called me at 3 a.m., and asked me to extend the song. He said that he had a party at his house and he was playing the single version and that people wanted to hear it over and over again. He thought that was a great idea – and so did I. That was the key element for the song to become a hit."

Summer explained during a 1977 interview with Black Music magazine how plans for this song were laid during a 1975 meeting with Moroder. "Giorgio remarked that Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg's 'Je T'Aime' had been re-released and was again doing well," she recalled. "Then he asked me what I thought of the idea of recording that sort of song. I reckoned it was worth a try so we went ahead… we had to create the atmosphere we wanted by turning the studio lights down and keeping people out."

According to Giorgio Moroder, the bass guitarist didn't do a good job on the original short version of the song. He told Redbull Music Academy: "When it came if you hear the first part of it, the bass sounds good. But if you hear it soloed, it's terrible. Absolutely terrible. Two weeks later we did the longer version and, in the meantime, the bass player learned the song better. So the bass in the second part is much better. If you hear it with all the other instruments, though, you don't notice. It's quite good."

Scarlett Johansson based her monologue on this song when she hosted Saturday Night Live on May 2, 2015. Johansson had her first child, a daughter named Rose, the previous year and was demonstrating how she sings "Love To Love You Baby" as a lullaby, apparently clueless as to the song's sexual connotation.

In a 2003 interview with NPR's Fresh Air Summer remembered coming up with the hook that inspired this song: "I had this idea at home one day, and I ran into the studio, and I said Giorgio, I have this idea. Would you - do you think you could write something to it? And I sort of sang it to him, and he kept saying it over, he says love to love you, I love to love you. He kept rubbing his chin and thinking like a little mad scientist, and then he went into the studio, and Giorgio had written this track."