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In August 1978, American singer Donna Summer released a multi-million selling vinyl single disco version of "MacArthur Park". The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of November 11, 1978, for three weeks, and earned Summer her first nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 21st Annual ...
The release featured the 12" single mix of the "MacArthur Park Suite", rather than the original Live and More album version which appears on The Dance Collection. The digital (streaming and downloading) edition of The Dance Collection restores the original LP track listing.
Rather than release the album as a two-disc set, it was released as a single CD, and "MacArthur Park Suite" was replaced with an extended version of the song "Down Deep Inside", which Summer had recorded for the film soundtrack for The Deep during the previous year.
The film opens and ends with Donna Summer’s 1978 remake, which sends everyone out with a spring in their step, after hearing the more melodramatic Harris version at length earlier.
Songwriter Jimmy Webb wrote the song "MacArthur Park" in the late '60s. While it was recorded by multiple artists, most people remember Donna Summer's massive disco version.
In 2013, Summer, who died in 2012, achieved a posthumous No. 1 hit on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs when Laidback Luke remixed the ballad as “MacArthur Park 2013” for the tribute album "Love ...
The discography of American singer Donna Summer includes 17 studio albums and 89 singles, plus several other releases. Her first single, "Wassermann", a German version of the song "Aquarius" from the musical Hair, was released in Europe in 1968 under her maiden name, Donna Gaines.
"Dim All the Lights" is a song by American recording artist Donna Summer released as the third single from her 1979 album Bad Girls. It debuted at number 70 on August 25, 1979, and peaked that year at number two on November 10 and November 17 on the Billboard Hot 100. [1]