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"Last Dance" is a song by American singer Donna Summer from the soundtrack album to the 1978 film Thank God It's Friday. [1] It was written by Paul Jabara , co-produced by Summer's regular collaborator Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, and mixed by Grammy Award -winning producer Stephen Short , whose backing vocals are featured in the song.
Summer is upset that Wendy's pulled the CD containing her 1978 disco hit "Last Dance," over suggestions made on the Internet that one line in the song -- "I'm oh so horny" -- is just not the right ...
Summer sent a song to the top 40 for nine consecutive years (1976-1984). Summer's last Hot 100 hit, "I Will Go with You (Con te partirò)", charted in 1999. [8] Summer was mostly successful on the magazine's Hot Dance Club Songs chart where she recorded 16 number one singles. Summer died in 2012 from lung cancer, at her home in Naples, Florida. [9]
It was recorded by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes, and used as the theme song for the 1987 film Dirty Dancing. [2] The song has won a number of awards, including the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, and the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.
On Aug. 21, 1987, summer vacations changed forever when Dirty Dancing premiered.. The film told the stories of resort dance director Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze, then 34) and young guest Frances ...
INTERVIEW : Donna Summer’s daughter, Brooklyn Sudano, and Roger Ross Williams chat to Jim Farber about the nuanced and painful truths they uncovered while making a new documentary about the ...
The composer, Paul Jabara, won an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 51st Academy Awards, and Summer herself won a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance (her first) with this song at the 21st Annual Grammy Awards. Some versions of "Last Dance" have the slow tempo section removed from the middle but kept at the beginning.
The Dance Collection: A Compilation of Twelve Inch Singles is a compilation album by Donna Summer released in 1987 (see 1987 in music). Summer had become the biggest star of the disco era in the 1970s when signed to Casablanca Records. By 1987, Summer was signed to the Geffen label, and Casablanca had long since been bought out by Polygram ...