RIP Donna Summer

[KJ3N]

http://todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/17/11745326-donna-summer-dead-at-63?lite

[W1GUH]

63....cancer. Here's another article.
(http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-the-presses/disco-queen-donna-summer-reported-dead-age-63-162434888.html)


However, a report by TMZ, which initially broke the story, notes that those close to the singer--known for mega-hits including "Last Dance" and "Bad Girls"--revealed she had been trying to hide how sick she was. The exact nature of her illness has not yet been identified. A source said that Summer did not seem to be in that bad of shape two weeks ago.

OK...looks good one day...two weeks later she's gone.

Yikes!!!!!!! HHHHEEEELLLLPPPP!!!

[KG4CGC]

Wow, that goes back a long way.

[NQ6U]

OK...looks good one day...two weeks later she's gone.

Not unlike a sorely missed SK Islander...

[N8YX]

With the exception of 'MacArthur Park', I liked a lot of her material. RIP. :(

[W1GUH]

Yea, I loved lots of it. Love to Love You, of course, what an anthem for '75. Then Prelude to Love - the whole album....etc.

[ab1ga]

OK...looks good one day...two weeks later she's gone.
Yikes!!!!!!! HHHHEEEELLLLPPPP!!!


Get ugly... now. :)

[NQ6U]

Get ugly... now. :)

Hell, if ugly is all it takes, I'm gonna live forever.

[W4GPL]

Hopefully she's not Hot Stuff in the afterlife..

Too soon? :shifty:

[NQ6U]

Too soon? :shifty:

It's never too soon for bad taste! ;)

[w2amr]

Not unlike a sorely missed SK Islander...
True, We all miss Mack.:mrgreen:

[ad4mg]

Yea, I loved lots of it. Love to Love You, of course, what an anthem for '75. Then Prelude to Love - the whole album....etc.

"Love to love you" (long version) had a snippet of "Tubular Bells" (The Exorcist) mixed in, didn't it?

[KB3LAZ]

I have no idea who this is but RIP.

[NA4BH]

I have no idea who this is but RIP.

She was probably playing on the cassette player when you were made.

[KJ3N]

She was probably playing on the cassette player when you were made.

Now you're going to make him look up what a cassette player is. :lol:

[KB3LAZ]

She was probably playing on the cassette player when you were made.

8 track and I was made in the back seat of a 73 camaro. More likely to a hard rock song.


Now you're going to make him look up what a cassette player is. :lol:

Nope, I had a few. I in fact have a record player that takes cassettes, 8 tracks, and has an ipod doc. They thought of everything. xD

[W1GUH]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5AztWseIdU

[W1GUH]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jpG_hSTS2E

Ahhhh...the 70's. Before Aids, Before ronnie, when life was very sexy. And then some.

[n2ize]

I have no idea who this is but RIP.

She was very popular around 1976 at the height of the disco era. That was right about the time I graduated from high school. In those days there was plenty of "high" in high school.

[kf0rt]

"Love to love you" (long version) had a snippet of "Tubular Bells" (The Exorcist) mixed in, didn't it?

The long version was created for those who had more stamina.

True story.

[n2ize]

"Love to love you" (long version) had a snippet of "Tubular Bells" (The Exorcist) mixed in, didn't it?

Remember when people were demanding that radio stations censor that song ? They argued it was too suggestive and lewd for decent ears.

[n2ize]

Ahhhh...the 70's. Before Aids, Before ronnie, when life was very sexy. And then some.
That was a great time. The sex, the dope, the drugs, the booze. Remember the days of hanging out till 4 o clock in the morning in a parking lot, an alley, or a park. Drinking beer till 5:00 am or getting high or stoned till the sun came up. . Getting high, stoned, drunk, tripping , scribbling graphite and then crashing out and then doing the same thing again the next day. I would say I would like to relive those days but, I'm not through yet.

[ad4mg]

Remember when people were demanding that radio stations censor that song ? They argued it was too suggestive and lewd for decent ears.

Absolutely! It was seldom heard on the air here, but that only made it more popular!

[suddenseer]

That was a great time. The sex, the dope, the drugs, the booze. Remember the days of hanging out till 4 o clock in the morning in a parking lot, an alley, or a park. Drinking beer till 5:00 am or getting high or stoned till the sun came up. . Getting high, stoned, drunk, tripping , scribbling graphite and then crashing out and then doing the same thing again the next day. I would say I would like to relive those days but, I'm not through yet.Hell, I do all that stuff now, and i have a faint memory of the 70's. The weed today is much stronger. I smoked that Columbian gold, but the herb today is 100x better. 3 tokes, I am blissfull.

[ad4mg]

That was a great time. The sex, the dope, the drugs, the booze. Remember the days of hanging out till 4 o clock in the morning in a parking lot, an alley, or a park. Drinking beer till 5:00 am or getting high or stoned till the sun came up. . Getting high, stoned, drunk, tripping , scribbling graphite and then crashing out and then doing the same thing again the next day. I would say I would like to relive those days but, I'm not through yet.

I was a party animal for quite a while. I can recall stepping out of the after-hours club at the corner of Laurel & Broad in Richmond and seeing the sunrise over the downtown buildings many times. Couldn't carry on that like anymore!

[ki4itv]

The long version was created for those who had more stamina Nose Candy.

True story.

Corrected for historical truth. ;)

[W1GUH]

I was a party animal for quite a while. I can recall stepping out of the after-hours club at the corner of Laurel & Broad in Richmond and seeing the sunrise over the downtown buildings many times. Couldn't carry on that like anymore!

Vicki Sue sang a song about that....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8RTeAwnlu8


But....as sweet and benign and fun all this disco bullshit seems from a distance, it sucked big time. It was the start of music censorship that's still happening. It wiped out all the great rock clubs -- it was far cheaper to hire some dork to be a DJ and put the musicians out of work. So there's one venue out the window. It had no real creativity; most of it was "formula written". The regimentation and dress codes were pretty odious. Pretty much the beginning of the end for real creativity and artistry in pop music.

Oh, and disco dancing, especially that line dance crap was set to MARCH TIME!!!!!

Regiment those troops....don't let 'em think for themselves...keep 'em in line. Hut-two-three-four.


And the disco drug was coke, not pot. As such, it was nothing but a cheap thrill.