Endless Summer: Greatest Hits

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Endless Summer: Greatest Hits
Endless Summer: Greatest Hits cover
Compilation album by Donna Summer
Released October 04, 1994
Genre Disco, Pop, Dance, Soul, R&B, Rock
Length 71:26 (US edition)
76:09 (UK edition)
Label Mercury/PolyGram
Producer Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte, Gary Klein, Quincy Jones, Michael Omartian, Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, Pete Waterman, Donna Summer
Professional reviews

All Music Guide 4.5/5 stars [1]
Donna Summer chronology
Christmas Spirit
(1994)		 Endless Summer: Greatest Hits
(1994)		 Live & More Encore
(1999)

Endless Summer: Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Donna Summer, released in 1994. It contains many of her best known songs from her 1970s breakthrough to the present day. Summer is best known for her work during the 1970s disco era, though released a substantial amount of material in the 1980s and 1990s, covering a variety of genres. Unlike 1993's The Donna Summer Anthology, which had used the majority of the songs in their original, longer forms, Endless Summer generally contained the versions of the songs that were used upon their release as a single. However, the version sold in the UK which included "I Don't Wanna Get Hurt" used the album version of the track (from "Another Place and Time"), not the more club-oriented mix released as a 7" single there.
Endless Summer also featured two new tracks, the first of which, "Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)", became a moderate hit when issued as a single. Summer was given production credits on the track, which she had written with Robert Clivilles and David Cole of C&C Music Factory. The other new track was the soulful ballad "Any Way At All", which Summer had written with her husband Bruce Sudano. This song was produced by Michael Omartian, who had produced some of Summer's work in the 1980s.

For many years this was regarded as the "definitive" Donna Summer hits CD, as it was the last international non-budget compilation to be released right up until 2003.

[edit] Different versions

The track listing of Endless Summer varied from nation to nation as some of Summer's hits were more popular in certain places than others. For example, "Heaven Knows" and "The Wanderer", which were big hits in the U.S. were not featured on the European edition of the album and were instead replaced with a couple of her 1980s hits that were less successful in the U.S. In France however, the compilation was not released until the following year and as a bonus track contained the 1995 remix of her 1977 hit "I Feel Love".

[edit] Tracklisting

US edition

  1. "Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)" (Carrano, Clivilles, Cole, Summer) - 4:16
  2. "Love to Love You Baby" (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) - 3:21
  3. "Could It Be Magic" (Anderson, Manilow) - 3:55
  4. "I Feel Love" (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) - 3:46
  5. "Last Dance" (Jabara) - 3:18
  6. "MacArthur Park" (Webb) - 3:55
  7. "Heaven Knows" (Bellotte, Mathieson, Moroder, Summer) - 3:22
  8. "Hot Stuff" (Bellotte, Faltermeyer, Forsey) - 3:50
  9. "Bad Girls" (Esposito, Hokenson, Sudano, Summer) - 3:54
  10. "Dim All the Lights" (Summer) - 4:04
  11. "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" - duet with Barbra Streisand (Jabara, Roberts) - 4:48
  12. "On the Radio" (Moroder, Summer) - 4:03
  13. "The Wanderer" (Moroder, Summer) - 3:45
  14. "Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)" (Jones, Ross, Temperton) - 4:19
  15. "State of Independence" (Anderson, Vangelis) - 4:25
  16. "She Works Hard for the Money" (Omartian, Summer) - 4:33
  17. "This Time I Know It's for Real (Aitken, Stock, Summer, Waterman) - 3:36
  18. "Any Way At All" (Silver, Sudano, Summer) - 4:16

UK edition

  1. "Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)" (Carrano, Clivilles, Cole, Summer) - 4:16
  2. "Love to Love You Baby" (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) - 3:21
  3. "Could It Be Magic" (Anderson, Manilow) - 3:55
  4. "I Feel Love" (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) - 3:46
  5. "Love's Unkind" (Bellotte, Moroder, Summer) - 4:26
  6. "I Love You" (Bellote, Moroder, Summer) - 3:19
  7. "Last Dance" (Jabara) - 3:18
  8. "MacArthur Park"(Webb) - 3:55
  9. "Hot Stuff" (Bellotte, Faltermeyer, Forsey) - 3:50
  10. "Bad Girls" (Esposito, Hokenson, Sudano, Summer) - 3:54
  11. "Dim All the Lights" (Summer) - 4:04
  12. "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" - duet with Barbra Streisand (Jabara, Roberts) - 4:48
  13. "On the Radio" (Moroder, Summer) - 4:03
  14. "Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)" (Jones, Ross, Temperton) - 4:19
  15. "State of Independence" (Anderson, Vangelis) - 4:25
  16. "She Works Hard for the Money" (Omartian, Summer) - 4:33
  17. "This Time I Know It's for Real" (Aitken, Stock, Summer, Waterman) - 3:36
  18. "I Don't Wanna Get Hurt" (Aitken, Stock, Waterman) - 3:26
  19. "Any Way At All" (Silver, Sudano, Summer) - 4:16

[edit] Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1994 UK Album chart 37
Single
Year Single Chart Position
1994 "Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)" UK's single chart 21