Best of Donna Summer

Best of Donna Summer
Author: Donna Summer
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2018-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781540031334

For voice and piano, with chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams.

Ordinary Girl

Ordinary Girl
Author: Donna Summer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Ordinary Girl is legendary singer-songwriter Donna Summer's delightfully candid memoir about her journey from signing in a Boston church to her unexpected reign as the Queen of Disco, and the tragedy and spiritual rebirth that followed.

Songs of the 1980s

Songs of the 1980s
Author: Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 746
Release: 2019-02-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1540049116

(Easy Piano Songbook). Easy piano arrangements of over 80 songs from the decade of excess where Generation X came of age. Includes: Another Brick in the Wall * Billie Jean * Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) * Chariots of Fire * Don't Stop Believin' * Endless Love * Eye of the Tiger * Flashdance...What a Feeling * Girls Just Want to Have Fun * How Will I Know * I Love Rock 'N Roll * Jump * Karma Chameleon * Let's Hear It for the Boy * Like a Virgin * Missing You * Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now * One More Night * Pour Some Sugar on Me * Right Here Waiting * Sweet Child O' Mine * Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) * Take on Me * Through the Years * Up Where We Belong * What's Love Got to Do with It * When Doves Cry * With or Without You * and more.

Best of Donna Summer Songbook

Best of Donna Summer Songbook
Author: Donna Summer
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2018-12-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1540047482

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 16 of the best known songs from this Grammy Award-winning disco star, including: Bad Girls * Dim All the Lights * Heaven Knows * Hot Stuff * I Feel Love * Last Dance * Love to Love You Baby * MacArthur Park * No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) * On the Radio * She Works Hard for the Money * Stamp Your Feet * State of Independence * This Time I Know It's for Real * Unconditional Love * The Wanderer. Includes bio.

To Disco, with Love

To Disco, with Love
Author: David Hamsley
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2015-11-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1250068460

Over 250 Disco-era album covers-from sexy to silly, elegant to outrageous-that brings alive a time when fashion, politics, and sexuality all converged in harmony on the dance floor. Paging through To Disco, with Love is like catching Saturday Night Fever all over again. From Diana Ross and Donna Summer gazing fiercely from their chart topping albums to the Village People's trademark costumes and the Bee Gee's blinding white jumpsuits, To Disco celebrates the days when the dance floor ruled the world. Gathered together and presented chronologically, these striking covers tell the story of a moment in time when art and photography, music, and dance changed the world. We see a rapid evolution, from the early days when Disco's roots were firmly planted in Soul, Latin, and Jazz, all the way to the digital revolution of the 1980s. Like fleeting moments caught in the strobe, these covers vibrantly capture our takes on fashion and beauty, wealth and status, sex, race, and even God. As the hair gets bigger, bell bottoms wider, and platform shoes steeper, the vibrancy and energy of this moment in music history is brought back to vivid life. Accompanied by insightful, spirited descriptions that showcase the evolving trends in photography, illustration, and design, To Disco, with Love charts the history of the music and the industry during its groovy heyday.

After Dark

After Dark
Author: Noel Hankin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2021-08-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781736614914

Mid-town Buppies, big-time mobsters, fabulous dancing queens, and unscrupulous promoters all come together in After Dark, a first-hand account of the birth and growth of the disco movement in the 1970s. Disco music has earned an unflattering reputation for being garish and flashy; however, it was the voice of a generation that spoke using the power of dance to unite people. Now, for the first time you can hear the compelling, never-been-told story of the rise of the New York disco scene. In the late 1960s, a group of college students formed a social club called "The Best of Friends" (TBOF) and learned to monetize their love of dancing and music by building a multi-million-dollar network of discotheques. Their innovative DJing techniques transported dancers into a carefree state of euphoria that paved the way for "Saturday Night Fever," Studio 54, and the nationwide explosion of disco in the late '70s. TBOF discotheques attracted everyone from CEOs to mailroom clerks, from Rick James to Elizabeth Taylor, and from big-time mobsters to FBI agents. This unprecedented collection of humanity made it impossible to know what excitement would unfold each night. What the partners in TBOF did know is that After Dark, they had to be on their toes.

Donna Summer's Once Upon a Time

Donna Summer's Once Upon a Time
Author: Alex Jeffery
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2021-05-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1501355473

Contradicting assumptions that disco albums are shallow and packed with filler, Donna Summer's double album Once Upon A Time stands out as a piece that delivers on its promise of an immaculately crafted journey from start to finish. A new interpretation of the Cinderella story, it is set in the then contemporary world of New York disco and takes the listener on a journey from urban isolation and deep despair to joy and vindication, all filtered through the mind of its naïve and fantasy-prone protagonist. As well as charting the production of the album within the legendary Munich Machine in Germany, this book digs deep into the album's rich themes and subtexts. Approaching the book from inventive angles, the four essays within the book act as a prism connecting the reader to the classical aspirations of Eurodisco, the history of the black fairy tale and a queer knowledge that reads Summer's Cinderella tale in some surprising ways.

Books for Idle Hours

Books for Idle Hours
Author: Donna Harrington-Lueker
Publisher: UMass + ORM
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2019-08-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1613766319

The publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture and tourist culture expanded in the United States. As an emerging middle class increasingly embraced summer leisure as a marker of social status, book publishers sought new market opportunities, authors discovered a growing readership, and more readers indulged in lighter fare. Drawing on publishing records, book reviews, readers' diaries, and popular novels of the period, Donna Harrington-Lueker explores the beginning of summer reading and the backlash against it. Countering fears about the dangers of leisurely reading—especially for young women—publishers framed summer reading not as a disreputable habit but as a respectable pastime and welcome respite. Books for Idle Hours sheds new light on an ongoing seasonal publishing tradition.

I Feel Love

I Feel Love
Author: Dave THOMPSON
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781493049806

A celebratory look at how the groundbreaking disco hit changed the world and became "one of the most influential records ever made". (Financial Times)

Frank Sinatra - Centennial Songbook

Frank Sinatra - Centennial Songbook
Author: Frank Sinatra
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 789
Release: 2014-12-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1495011674

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Frank Sinatra and celebrations and concerts are planned for the whole year. This songbook gathers piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of 100 of Ol' Blue Eye's finest in a fitting tribute to one of the greatest entertainers of all time! Songs include: All the Way * Come Fly with Me * I Get a Kick Out of You * I've Got the World on a String * I've Got You Under My Skin * The Lady Is a Tramp * My Way * Night and Day * One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) * Strangers in the Night * Summer Wind * (Love Is) The Tender Trap * Witchcraft * Young at Heart * and more.