Id Love to Make Love to You Baby

1975 single by Donna Summer

1975 single by Donna Summer

"Love to Dearest You Baby"
A-side characterization of U.s.a. vinyl unmarried
Single by Donna Summer
from the album Love to Love Yous Baby
B-side	"Need-a-Homo Blues"
Released	June 1975 (Netherlands, as "Dearest to Love You") November 26, 1975 (worldwide, every bit "Love to Honey You Baby")
Recorded	1974 (every bit "Love to Love You") May–June 1975; Musicland Studios (Munich, West Federal republic of germany) (as "Dear to Honey You lot Infant")
Genre	Euro disco[1] [two] [iii]
Length	three:20 (original NL version) xvi:49 (album version) 4:57 (single version)
Characterization	Oasis (The states/Canada) GTO (U.k.) Polar (Sweden) Ariola (Spain/Portugal) Interfusion (Australia) Atlantic (French republic/Germany) Durium (Italy)
Songwriter(s)	Giorgio Moroder Pete Bellotte Donna Summer
Producer(s)	Pete Bellotte
Donna Summer singles chronology
"Lady of the Nighttime" (1974) "Love to Love You Baby" (1975) "Virgin Mary" (1975)
"Virgin Mary" (1975) "Love to Dear Yous Baby" (1975) "Could It Be Magic" (1976)
"Protection" (1983) "Love to Love Yous Baby (re-issue)" (1983) "She Works Difficult for the Money" (1983)
Music video
"Dearest to Honey Y'all Baby" on YouTube

"Love to Love You Baby" is a song past American vocalizer Donna Summertime from her second studio album Dearest to Love You Babe (1975). Produced by Pete Bellotte, and written past Italian musician Giorgio Moroder, Summer, and Bellotte, the vocal was kickoff released as a single in the Netherlands in June 1975 as "Love to Love You lot" and then released worldwide in Nov 1975 as "Love to Love You lot Baby". Information technology became one of the commencement disco hits to be released in an extended form.

The Rock and Whorl Hall of Fame named it 1 of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, Summer'south just selection on this list.^[4]

Background [edit]

Past 1975, Summer had been living in Germany for eight years and had participated in several musical theatre shows. She had likewise released an album in The Netherlands entitled Lady of the Night (1974), written by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte and produced by Bellotte, which had given her a couple of hit singles. She was nonetheless a consummate unknown in her home country when she suggested the lyric "Love to Honey You Babe" to Moroder in 1975. He turned the lyric into a full disco song and asked Summer to record it. The full lyrics were somewhat explicit, and at showtime, Summer said she would only tape it equally a demo to requite to someone else. However, Summer'south erotic moans and groans impressed Moroder so much that he persuaded her to release it as her ain song, and "Love to Love Yous" became a moderate hit in kingdom of the netherlands.

In an interview in 1976, Summer responded to a number of questions that she claimed she'd been asked well-nigh the process of recording the vocal: "Anybody'southward asking, 'Were y'all alone in the studio?' Yes, I was alone in the studio. 'Did you affect yourself?' Yes, well, actually I had my hand on my knee. 'Did you fantasize on anything?' Yes, on my handsome young man Peter."^[5]

International release and reception [edit]

A tape of the song was sent to Casablanca Records president Neil Bogart in the U.South., and he played information technology at a political party at his home. Impressed with the track, Bogart connected to play it over and over all night. He later contacted Moroder and suggested that he brand the track longer - maybe equally long as twenty minutes. All the same, Summertime once again had reservations; she was not certain of all of the lyrics. Nevertheless, she imagined herself as an actress (namely Marilyn Monroe)^{[half dozen]} playing the part of someone in sexual ecstasy. The studio lights were dimmed and then that Summer was more or less in complete darkness every bit she lay on the floor.

The final recording lasted over 16 minutes, and according to the BBC, contained 23 "orgasms".^[6] By that indicate, the song was renamed "Love to Dear You Baby". Information technology took up the unabridged first side of the album of the aforementioned name, and edited versions were likewise found on 7" vinyl.

Originally released in November 1975, the vocal became an international disco smash. In the U.S., it became Summer'south showtime US Acme 40 hit, spending two weeks at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 nautical chart on February 7 and 14, 1976,^[7] being held off the number i spot by Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" and logged four weeks atop the Billboard Trip the light fantastic toe Guild Songs chart,^[8] as well number 3 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.^[9]

In the Great britain, upon release in January 1976, the song reached #four^[10] on the UK Singles Chart in spite of the BBC's initial refusal to promote it. They as well refused to play it.^{[ citation needed ]} Equally a result of the success of the song, Summer would exist named "the first lady of love," which labeled her with a sexually oriented, fantasy image from which she would struggle to gratuitous herself.^{[ citation needed ]}

Impact and legacy [edit]

Stone and Coil Hall of Fame named the song 1 of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll in 1995.

VH1 placed "Love to Beloved Y'all Baby" at #63 in their list of 100 Greatest Trip the light fantastic toe Songs in 2000.^[11]

Slant Magazine ranked the song tenth in its 100 Greatest Trip the light fantastic toe Songs in 2006.^[12]

Co-ordinate to Peter Shapiro, a freelance British music journalist, the song was marked by "little more than Donna Summertime 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 Love You Babe" [...] was extended into a seventeen-minute minisymphony at the behest of Casablanca Records chief Neil Bogart, who wanted a soundtrack for his sexual exploits. The song reached number 2 in the American charts and was largely responsible for the evolution of the twelve inch single."^[13]

Donna Summer was forced to stop performing "Love to Love You" alive when, "Riots broke out [...] [She] was in a tent in Italy, five,000 men, virtually no women, and was doing 'Love to Honey You, Infant,' adequately scantily clad, and the guys got and so wrapped upwardly that they began to push button the stage dorsum. And [she] had to run off the stage, to [her] trailer out the dorsum. And they came to the trailer and started to rock it. [She] merely thought, 'I'm going to dice today, I'one thousand not going to leave of here.' Information technology's non the kind of song you only want to throw out there."^[fourteen]

Personnel [edit]

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

Track list and formats [edit]

Original Netherlands 7" (Groovy GR 1211)

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

NB This original release (without the "Infant" in the title) ran for only over three minutes and 20 seconds. This version was integrated into the 16-minute version found on the album. All subsequent international releases either contained a new edit of the full album version (lasting but under five minutes) or the original version (but yet adding "Baby" to the title). In some cases (for example, the United States), both versions were constitute on dissimilar sides of the tape.

United states of america seven" (Oasis OC 401)

1. "Love to Love You Baby" (iv:57)
2. "Love to Love You Babe" (3:27)

Uk seven" (GTO GT 17)

1. "Honey to Beloved You Baby" (4:57)
2. "Need-a-Man Blues" (?)

Federal republic of germany vii" (Atlantic ATL 10625)

1. "Love to Love You" (3:20)
2. "Need-a-Human being Dejection" (3:09)

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

Netherlands 7" (Groovy GR 1218)

1. "Love to Love Yous Baby Office I" (3:thirty)
2. "Dearest to Love Yous Baby Function 2" (5:20)

NB This Dutch re-release was issued shortly after the vocal became a hit internationally, with "Baby" existence added to the title

France 7" (Atlantic 10.693)

1. "Love to Dearest You Infant (Part 1)" (3:27)
2. "Beloved to Love You Baby" (Part 2)" (four:57)

Canada 7" (Haven OC 401X)

1. "Love to Love You Baby" (three:22)
2. "Need-a-Man Blues" (3:12)

Sweden vii" (Polar POS 1209)

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

Spain 7" (Ariola 16575)

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

1983 re-issue [edit]

Following the dance chart success of the Patrick Cowley remix of Summertime'south "I Feel Love" in 1982, Casablanca Records/PolyGram re-issued her first hit single "Love to Love You lot Baby". However, the single failed to brand an impact on the charts the second time around, and it would be the characterization's terminal unmarried re-release of tracks from the Donna Summer back catalog in the 1980s. In 1984, Casablanca Records was closed by PolyGram.

Great britain seven" (Casablanca Tin 1014)

1. "Love to Love Yous Baby" (Part One) – 3:35
2. "Love to Honey You Baby" (Role 2) – 4:12

UK 12" (Casablanca CANX 1014)

1. "Dear to Love You Baby" (Come On Over to My Identify Version) – sixteen:50
2. "Love to Love You Infant" (Come Dancing Version) – 8:10 (A Young and Potent mega-edit)

NB: The "Come On Over to My Identify Version" is in fact the original total-length anthology version

1990 re-release [edit]

Germany CD unmarried (Casablanca 874 395-2)

1. "Love to Honey Yous Baby" – 4:xv
2. "I Feel Love" – 5:39
3. "Bad Girls" – 3:54
4. "On the Radio" (long version) – five:51

2013 release [edit]

1. "Dear to Love You 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 yous" tin be 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 Shell recorded a Medley with Marc Almond consisting of I Feel Honey, Dear to Love You Baby and Johnny Call back Me (by John Leyton).

• An excerpt of the song was featured during the kickoff episode of The Brady Agglomeration Diverseness 60 minutes and a subsequent tell-all book near the evidence was titled "Dearest to Honey You Bradys."^[39]
• Digital Underground made the song the central sample of the song "Freaks of the Industry" on their 1990 debut album Sex Packets.
• Samantha Trick covered her tune into a medley with More than, More than, More from her 1991 album Just One Night.
• TLC sampled the vocal on the anthology version of their 1999 vocal "I'g Good At Existence Bad".
• The Tom Tom Club recorded a comprehend for their 2000 anthology "The Good, The Bad, and the Funky."^[40]
• Eyedea & Abilities sampled the bassline for their song "Big Shots", on their 2001 album Starting time Built-in. "Big Shots" would afterwards feature on the soundtrack to the 2002 video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4.
• No Doubt covered the vocal on the soundtrack for the 2001 picture Zoolander.
• Beyoncé too sampled the refrain of the song for her striking "Naughty Daughter" on her anthology Dangerously in Love, which she performed alive for the Fashion Rocks Awards 2004.^[41] She would afterward interpolate more elements of the original version in live performances, such equally in the Mrs. Carter Show World Bout.
• French male person model and vocalist Baptiste Giabiconi covered information technology as an adaptation and heavy sampling of the hit in 2016, simply with added lyrics and new EDM arrangement. His version credited to mononym Giabiconi entered the French SNEP nautical chart at #14 in July 2016.^[42] It eventually made it to number 4 in French republic.^[42]
• In 2018, the song was included in the Broadway musical Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.
• Kylie Minogue performed the vocal as a medley with her 2003 single "Slow" on her live stream concert 'Infinite Disco'.^[43]

See also [edit]

• 1975 in music

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

• Donna Summer - Love to Dear You Baby on YouTube

millergragairehe.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_to_Love_You_Baby_(song)

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