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Donna Summer Once Upon A Time CD

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Personnel includes: Donna Summer (vocals); Dino Solera (saxophone); Giorgio Moroder (Moog synthesizer); Keith Forsey, Josef Spector, Bob Conti, Pete Bellotte, Bob Esty (percussion).
Donna Summer and her liberators have created one audience and redefined another, and this record's four sides of dream worlds without end sometimes manipulate each audience. The candy-girl music of "Fairy Tale High," "Queen for a Day," and "If You Got It Flaunt It" explicitly recognizes her newly created gay audience, a daring acknowledgement coming from a mainstream pop star. As for her redefined audience of naïve young things who live in the suburbs and dream of romance, adventure, and sex while they search for identity, Summer works her music into a true-to-life Cinderella story staged as four acts of impatient pulse, delirious space noise, wish-upon-a-star voice monologues, and motion. ~ Michael Freedberg
Although disco is primarily thought of as a singles-based music, Donna Summer and her primary collaborators, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, indulged in some fairly ambitious concept albums that belie that simplistic assertion. ONCE UPON A TIME is one of their most wide-ranging efforts, a double-album modern-day fairy tale that truly only makes sense when listened to as a whole, rendering Summer's inter-song narration and Moroder and Bellotte's use of repeated musical elements much more effectively. Of course, this didn't really help the album reach its dance-floor audience; it was a comparative flop, with the single "I Love You" barely cracking the Top 40. In retrospect, however, ONCE UPON A TIME has become a firm fan favorite, with the anthemic "Queen for a Day" and the funky-yet-symphonic title track among Summer's most beloved songs.

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Category Rock/Pop Albums, R&B CDs, Dance, Urban Soundtrack, Soul/R&B, Disco
Label Casablanca / Universal
Orig Year 1977
All Time Sales Rank   6671  
CD Universe Part number 1056541
Catalog number 826238
Discs 1
Release Date Oct 25, 1990
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Producer Giorgio Moroder; Pete Bellotte
Personnel Donna Summer - vocals
Giorgio Moroder - Moog synthesizer
Giorgio Moroder - Moog synthesizer
Keith Forsey
Bob Esty - percussion
Pete Bellotte
Bob Conti
Dino Solera - saxophone
Josef Spector
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Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample5.Now I Need You  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample6.Working the Midnight Shift  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample7.Queen For a Day  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample8.If You Got It Flaunt It  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample9.Man Like You, A  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample10.Sweet Romance  $0.99
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Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample12.Dance Into My Life  $0.99
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample13.Rumour Has It  $0.99
14.I Love You
Windows MediaWindows MediaRealAudio MediaRealAudio MediaMP3 Track Sample15.Happily Ever After  $0.99
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Average Rating: (4.7 out of 5 stars) 4.5 stars

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5 stars Happily Ever After...
If I were allowed to own just one album in my lifetime, this would be it! Not only is this the best work that Donna has ever done, but out of a collection of nearly 1,000 CD's, this album still reigns supreme. A true classic in every sense of the word. - D.Harris
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5 stars Fantastic lyrics and music
I purchased this record on 1979. I wanted it on cd. It is a wonderful record, wonderful voice and wonderful music. And your service is very fast. Thank you
Submitted by info (Albacete. Spain) Verified Buyer
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5 stars Spectacular - Pure 70's spangle
This ranks as one of her best. A sheer journey into way ahead of its time "Disco trance". 20 years on and its still takes me back. The production is amazing. Alongside I remember yesterday it is not only one of Donna's best but also one of the best products of the 70's

FAB!!!!!!!

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5 stars A Truly Masterpiece all the way.
Once Upon A Time is one of the greatest album ever made the music is so great and the lyrics superb, this album is a class act and Donna on the cover spectacular picture.
Submitted by c_orlando (New York,NY)
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5 stars Once upon a queen!!
This album was originally released in 1977 but was way ahead of it's time, and still sounds fresh today, 28 years after. The electronic perfection of 'Now I need you', 'Working the midnight shift', and 'Queen for a day', the tender soulful ballads 'A man like you', 'Sweet romance', and the upbeat 'I love you', 'Fairy tale high' and 'Happily ever after'. Perfection!
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