Donna Summer LOVE TO LOVE YOU BAB

Personnel includes: Donna Summer (vocals); Nick Woodland, Pete Bellotte (guitar); Mike Thatcher, Giorgio Moroder (keyboards); Dave King (bass); Martin Harrison (drums); Bernie Brocks (percussion).
LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY was the album that started it all, in more ways than one. Although this was not Donna Summer's first recording--in her adopted home of Germany during the early '70s, she'd recorded with such producers as Peter Thomas and the resulting material has been re-released several times over--it was her first with the songwriting and production team of Giorgio Moroder and Pete Belotte. The first fruit of this collaboration, the legendary title track, single-handedly invented the extended disco mix, when an 18-minute version became a dancefloor classic.
Summer's blatantly orgasmic moans make Jane Birkin's squeaks on Serge Gainsbourg's similar "Je T'Aime?Moi, Non Plus" sound like she's yawning, and still startle today. Of the others, only the jazzy "Pandora's Box" is entirely up to the title track's standards, but those two songs are nearly two-thirds of the brief album's total running time, while the others are more inconsequential than actively bad.

• Format: CD