Baby Baby Baby I'm on Fire as Long as I Got You

1975 single past Donna Summer

1975 single by Donna Summer

"Honey to Love You lot Baby"
A-side label of US vinyl unmarried
Single by Donna Summer
from the anthology Love to Love Y'all Babe
B-side	"Need-a-Man Dejection"
Released	June 1975 (Netherlands, every bit "Beloved to Love You lot") November 26, 1975 (worldwide, every bit "Love to Dearest Y'all Babe")
Recorded	1974 (as "Love to Dear You lot") May–June 1975; Musicland Studios (Munich, West Germany) (as "Love to Love Yous Baby")
Genre	Euro disco[1] [2] [3]
Length	three:xx (original NL version) 16:49 (album version) 4:57 (unmarried version)
Label	Haven (United States/Canada) GTO (United Kingdom) Polar (Sweden) Ariola (Espana/Portugal) Interfusion (Commonwealth of australia) Atlantic (France/Germany) Durium (Italy)
Songwriter(south)	Giorgio Moroder Pete Bellotte Donna Summer
Producer(s)	Pete Bellotte
Donna Summertime singles chronology
"Lady of the Night" (1974) "Love to Dearest You Baby" (1975) "Virgin Mary" (1975)
"Virgin Mary" (1975) "Honey to Love You Baby" (1975) "Could It Exist Magic" (1976)
"Protection" (1983) "Love to Beloved You lot Baby (re-issue)" (1983) "She Works Difficult for the Coin" (1983)
Music video
"Love to Dearest You Baby" on YouTube

"Love to Dearest You Baby" is a vocal past American singer Donna Summer from her 2d studio album Dearest to Love Y'all Babe (1975). Produced by Pete Bellotte, and written by Italian musician Giorgio Moroder, Summer, and Bellotte, the vocal was showtime released as a single in kingdom of the netherlands in June 1975 as "Love to Love You" and then released worldwide in Nov 1975 as "Beloved to Love You Baby". It became one of the beginning disco hits to be released in an extended form.

The Rock and Curl Hall of Fame named it ane of the 500 Songs That Shaped Stone and Scroll, Summertime'due south only selection on this list.^[4]

Background [edit]

By 1975, Summer had been living in Frg for eight years and had participated in several musical theatre shows. She had also released an album in Kingdom of the netherlands entitled Lady of the Dark (1974), written by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte and produced past Bellotte, which had given her a couple of hitting singles. She was still a complete unknown in her home land when she suggested the lyric "Beloved to Honey You Baby" to Moroder in 1975. He turned the lyric into a full disco song and asked Summer to record it. The total lyrics were somewhat explicit, and at starting time, Summer said she would only record it as a demo to give to someone else. However, Summertime'south erotic moans and groans impressed Moroder so much that he persuaded her to release it every bit her own vocal, and "Love to Dearest Yous" became a moderate hit in the Netherlands.

In an interview in 1976, Summertime responded to a number of questions that she claimed she'd been asked about the process of recording the song: "Anybody's request, 'Were you lot solitary in the studio?' Yeah, I was alone in the studio. 'Did you touch yourself?' Yes, well, really I had my paw on my knee. 'Did you daydream on anything?' Aye, on my handsome boyfriend Peter."^[five]

International release and reception [edit]

A tape of the song was sent to Casablanca Records president Neil Bogart in the U.S., and he played it at a party at his home. Impressed with the track, Bogart continued to play information technology over and over all night. He later contacted Moroder and suggested that he make the track longer - possibly as long as 20 minutes. However, Summertime once again had reservations; she was non sure of all of the lyrics. Yet, she imagined herself as an extra (namely Marilyn Monroe)^[6] playing the part of someone in sexual ecstasy. The studio lights were dimmed so that Summertime was more or less in complete darkness as she lay on the floor.

The final recording lasted over xvi minutes, and according to the BBC, contained 23 "orgasms".^{[half dozen]} Past that signal, the song was renamed "Love to Love You lot Baby". It took up the entire first side of the album of the same name, and edited versions were likewise institute on seven" vinyl.

Originally released in November 1975, the song became an international disco blast. In the U.Southward., it became Summer's starting time US Superlative 40 striking, spending ii weeks at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on February seven and fourteen, 1976,^[vii] being held off the number ane spot past Paul Simon's "fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover" and logged iv weeks atop the Billboard Dance Guild Songs chart,^[8] also number three on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs nautical chart.^[9]

In the Britain, upon release in January 1976, the song reached #4^[10] on the UK Singles Chart in spite of the BBC'southward initial refusal to promote it. They also refused to play it.^{[ citation needed ]} As a upshot of the success of the song, Summer would exist named "the get-go lady of love," which labeled her with a sexually oriented, fantasy image from which she would struggle to free herself.^{[ citation needed ]}

Bear on and legacy [edit]

Rock and Coil Hall of Fame named the vocal i of the 500 Songs That Shaped Stone and Roll in 1995.

VH1 placed "Honey to Dear You Baby" at #63 in their listing of 100 Greatest Dance Songs in 2000.^[11]

Slant Magazine ranked the song 10th in its 100 Greatest Dance Songs in 2006.^[12]

According to Peter Shapiro, a freelance British music journalist, the song was marked by "footling more than than Donna Summer simulating an orgasm over a background of blaxploitation cymbals, wah-wah guitars, a funky-butt clarinet riff, and some synth chimes." He continued, "Love to Honey You Baby" [...] was extended into a seventeen-infinitesimal minisymphony at the behest of Casablanca Records main Neil Bogart, who wanted a soundtrack for his sexual exploits. The song reached number two in the American charts and was largely responsible for the development of the twelve inch single."^[thirteen]

Donna Summertime was forced to stop performing "Love to Honey You" live when, "Riots broke out [...] [She] was in a tent in Italy, 5,000 men, almost no women, and was doing 'Love to Love You, Infant,' fairly scantily clad, and the guys got so wrapped up that they began to push button the stage back. And [she] had to run off the stage, to [her] trailer out the back. And they came to the trailer and started to rock information technology. [She] just thought, 'I'm going to die today, I'm non going to become out of here.' Information technology'southward not the kind of vocal you just want to throw out there."^[14]

Personnel [edit]

• Donna Summer – pb vocals
• Pete Bellotte – guitars
• Dave King – bass
• Michael Thatcher & Giorgio Moroder – keyboards
• Martin Harrison – drums
• Lucy, Betsy, Gitta – bankroll vocals

Rails listing and formats [edit]

Original Netherlands 7" (Groovy GR 1211)

1. "Love to Beloved You" (three:twenty)
2. "Need-a-Man Blues" (?)

NB This original release (without the "Baby" in the title) ran for simply over 3 minutes and 20 seconds. This version was integrated into the xvi-minute version constitute on the anthology. All subsequent international releases either contained a new edit of the full album version (lasting just under five minutes) or the original version (just nonetheless adding "Baby" to the title). In some cases (for example, the United States), both versions were found on different sides of the tape.

U.s. 7" (Oasis OC 401)

1. "Beloved to Love Yous Baby" (4:57)
2. "Love to Honey You Babe" (3:27)

UK 7" (GTO GT 17)

1. "Love to Love You Babe" (4:57)
2. "Need-a-Human being Blues" (?)

Germany 7" (Atlantic ATL 10625)

1. "Love to Love You" (3:20)
2. "Need-a-Man Blues" (3:09)

NB The word "Baby" appears on the sleeve but non the label

Netherlands 7" (Groovy GR 1218)

1. "Love to Dearest You Baby Part I" (three:30)
2. "Beloved to Honey Y'all Baby Function II" (5:20)

NB This Dutch re-release was issued presently later the vocal became a hit internationally, with "Baby" being added to the championship

France 7" (Atlantic ten.693)

1. "Honey to Love You Baby (Office 1)" (three:27)
2. "Love to Beloved You lot Infant" (Function 2)" (4:57)

Canada vii" (Oasis OC 401X)

1. "Love to Honey Yous Baby" (three:22)
2. "Need-a-Man Blues" (three:12)

Sweden 7" (Polar POS 1209)

1. "Love to Love You Infant" (3:21)
2. "Need-a-Man Blues" (3:10)

Espana seven" (Ariola 16575)

1. "Love to Love You Baby" (3:42)
2. "Demand-a-Man Blues" (4:30)

1983 re-issue [edit]

Following the dance nautical chart success of the Patrick Cowley remix of Summer's "I Feel Love" in 1982, Casablanca Records/PolyGram re-issued her commencement hit unmarried "Beloved to Beloved You Infant". Nevertheless, the single failed to make an impact on the charts the second time around, and it would be the label'due south final single re-release of tracks from the Donna Summertime dorsum catalog in the 1980s. In 1984, Casablanca Records was closed past PolyGram.

Britain seven" (Casablanca Tin can 1014)

1. "Dearest to Dear You Infant" (Part I) – 3:35
2. "Love to Love You Baby" (Role Two) – four:12

Great britain 12" (Casablanca CANX 1014)

1. "Love to Beloved You Baby" (Come up On Over to My Place Version) – sixteen:50
2. "Love to Dearest Y'all Infant" (Come Dancing Version) – 8:10 (A Immature and Potent mega-edit)

NB: The "Come On Over to My Place Version" is in fact the original full-length album version

1990 re-release [edit]

Germany CD unmarried (Casablanca 874 395-2)

1. "Love to Beloved You Infant" – 4:15
2. "I Experience Honey" – five:39
3. "Bad Girls" – iii:54
4. "On the Radio" (long version) – 5:51

2013 release [edit]

1. "Dearest to Love You lot Baby" (Giorgio Moroder Remix) (featuring Chris Cox) (4:15)

Charts [edit]

Certifications and sales [edit]

Cover versions and samples [edit]

• The refrain "Love to love you" can exist heard predominantly in the background of Diana Ross' 1976 hit "Love Hangover".
• In 1982, Indian singer Sharon Prabhakar recorded a cover of the song in Hindi, entitled "Aaj Ki Raat" on her album "Disco Mastana", released on Multitone records.
• Bronski Crush recorded a Medley with Marc Almond consisting of I Feel Dear, Love to Love Y'all Baby and Johnny Call up Me (by John Leyton).

• An excerpt of the song was featured during the first episode of The Brady Agglomeration Multifariousness Hour and a subsequent tell-all book almost the show was titled "Love to Love Y'all Bradys."^[39]
• Digital Underground made the vocal the central sample of the song "Freaks of the Industry" on their 1990 debut album Sex Packets.
• Samantha Fox covered her tune into a medley with More, More, More from her 1991 anthology Just Ane Dark.
• TLC sampled the song on the album version of their 1999 song "I'm Skillful At Being Bad".
• The Tom Tom Club recorded a cover for their 2000 album "The Good, The Bad, and the Funky."^[40]
• Eyedea & Abilities sampled the bassline for their song "Large Shots", on their 2001 album Kickoff Born. "Large Shots" would afterwards feature on the soundtrack to the 2002 video game Tony Militarist's Pro Skater 4.
• No Doubt covered the vocal on the soundtrack for the 2001 motion picture Zoolander.
• Beyoncé also sampled the refrain of the song for her hit "Naughty Girl" on her album Dangerously in Love, which she performed live for the Mode Rocks Awards 2004.^[41] She would afterwards interpolate more than elements of the original version in live performances, such as in the Mrs. Carter Prove World Tour.
• French male model and singer Baptiste Giabiconi covered it as an accommodation and heavy sampling of the hit in 2016, but with added lyrics and new EDM system. His version credited to mononym Giabiconi entered the French SNEP nautical chart at #14 in July 2016.^[42] It eventually made it to number four in France.^[42]
• In 2018, the vocal was included in the Broadway musical Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.
• Kylie Minogue performed the song as a medley with her 2003 single "Deadening" on her alive stream concert 'Infinite Disco'.^[43]

See besides [edit]

• 1975 in music

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External links [edit]

• Donna Summer - Love to Dearest Yous Baby on YouTube

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_to_Love_You_Baby_%28song%29

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