Denver Dream

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“Denver Dream”
“Denver Dream” cover
Single by Donna Summer
B-side Something's In The Wind
Released 1974
Format 7" single
Genre Pop
Label Lark Records
Writer(s) Pete Bellotte
Producer Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
Donna Summer singles chronology
"If You Walkin' Alone"
(1972)
"Denver Dream"
(1974)
"The Hostage"
(1974)

"Denver Dream" is a single by Donna Summer, released in 1974. This was her first collaboration with Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, a songwriting team that would stay together until 1981 and produce all of Summer's biggest disco hits. At this time Summer was living in Munich, Germany and singing backup for groups such as Three Dog Night. Through her job as a backup singer she met Moroder and before long he started using her as a lead vocalist. This single also marked the first usage of Summer's stage name (she had previously been credited as Donna Gaines, but had anglicised her married name to Austrian actor Helmut Sommer). It was released in The Netherlands in 1974, but did not make any particular impact on the chart. The B-side, "Something's in the Wind", would, in 1976, be re-worked into the single, "Back in Love Again", which would become a top-40 UK hit.