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Track Listing DISC 1: 1. Love to Love You Baby 2. Could It Be Magic 3. I Know We Can Make It Try Me 4. Spring Affair 5. Love's Unkind 6. I Feel Love 7. I Love You 8. Last Dance 9. MacArthur Park 10. Heaven Knows 11. Hot Stuff 12. Bad Girls 13. Dim All the Lights 14. Sunset People 15. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) 16. On the Radio DISC 2: 1. The Wanderer 2. Love Is Control (Finger on the Trigger) 3. State of Independence 4. She Works Hard For the Money 5. Unconditional Love 6. There Goes My Baby 7. Supernatural Love 8. Dinner With Gershwin 9. All System Go 10. This Time I Know It's For Real 11. I Don't Wanna Get Hurt 12. Love's About to Change My Heart 13. When Love Cries 14. Carry On 15. Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved) 16. I Will Go With You (Con Te Partiro) 17. Dream-a-Lot's Theme (I Will Live For Love) 18. You're So Beautiful
Album Notes Personnel: Donna Summer (vocals); Barbra Streisand (vocals); Jeff Baxter, Paul Jackson, Jr. (guitar); Ernie Watts (tenor saxophone); Greg Mathieson (piano, electric piano); Harold Faltermeyer (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, synthesizer, keyboard bass, programming); Steve Lindsey (piano, organ, synthesizer, drum programming); Michael Omartian (piano, keyboards, synthesizer); Greg Phillinganes (keyboards, synthesizer); Giorgio Moroder (Moog synthesizer); Leon "Ndugu" Chancler (drums); Munich Machine, Musical Youth, Brooklyn Dreams.Liner Note Author: Brian Chin .Gold isn't the first Donna Summer compilation (it isn't even the 24th), and you can bet it won't be the last. Released by the reputable Hip-O, it's a two-disc set containing an overly generous list of 34 songs, roughly half of which will be of no consequence to those only wanting the big dancefloor hits from the '70s and '80s -- "I Feel Love," "Love to Love You Baby," "Last Dance," "Hot Stuff," "On the Radio," "She Works Hard for the Money," and the like. All the obvious picks are included, along with just about every other chart entry through 2004. Though this does have the advantage of being an up-to-date anthology as of early 2005, the track listing is too extensive to appeal to those who want a quicker introduction (and there are several of those floating around). This set does score points for snaring "Spring Affair," an excellent Giorgio Moroder collaboration from 1976 that gets unfairly lost in the shuffle of the more familiar singles. ~ Andy Kellman |
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