Hot Stuff (Donna Summer song)

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“Hot Stuff”
Single by Donna Summer from the album Bad Girls
B-side	"Journey to the Centre of Your Heart" "Heaven Knows" (Brazil) "Bad Girls" (Japan)
Released	1979
Format	7" single, 12" single
Recorded	1979
Genre	Disco/rock
Length	7" - 3:57, 12" - 6:47, Album - 5:16
Label	Casablanca
Writer(s)	Pete Bellotte, Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey
Producer	Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
Certification	2x Platinum (US)
Donna Summer singles chronology
"Heaven Knows" (1978) "Hot Stuff" (1979) "Bad Girls" (1979)

"Hot Stuff" is a well known hit single released by American disco singer Donna Summer in 1979 as the first single release from her Bad Girls album through Casablanca Records. Up to that point, Summer had mainly been associated with disco songs but this song also showed significant rock influences including the guitar, which had never been used in a Donna Summer single before. It was certified double-platinum by the RIAA (for sales of over two million copies in the United States) and remained at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for three non-consecutive weeks. "Hot Stuff" would also win Summer the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, making her the first African-American artist to achieve that feat. It is ranked #103 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

The song also topped the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart, with Summer's follow-up "Bad Girls" as a double A-side. The popular 12" single edition of the song plays the full 6:47 version of the song and then segues into "Bad Girls" 4:55 version.

[edit] Cover versions

The track was covered in 1995 by DJ Miko, giving the tune a contemporary dance music twist, and later partially covered by The Pussycat Dolls in their 2005 debut album PCD. The verses (which were slightly altered) and the overall sound of the song are from Siobhan Fahey's "Bitter Pill", but with the chorus of Summer's "Hot Stuff" and it was renamed it "Hot Stuff (I Want You Back)". For the build up of the 1998 FA Cup final, Arsenal covered the song, using samples from the original, and replacing some lyrics, with descriptions of the squad, who were to play in the final.

[edit] Appearances in other media

The song was memorably featured in the popular 1997 film The Full Monty. During a press event on his 50th birthday, Charles, Prince of Wales helped recreate the scene in which the four main characters overhear the song while waiting in line at the unemployment office.^[1]

The song is also featured prominently in an episode of the British mystery television series Jonathan Creek in the episode Angel Hair where it is sung by Caroline Carver who plays popstar Sally Ellen Oakley. It also forms a part of the soundtrack of the movie Eurotrip.

Steve Allen did a "poetic" reading of "Hot Stuff" on one of his 1980 television shows, along the lines of his "poetic" readings of rock and roll songs he had done in the 1950s. At one point, Allen solemnly intoned, "Hot, hot, hot . . . stuff, stuff, stuff."

Professional Wrestler Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert used it as his theme song thru out the years til his passing in 1995.

Preceded by "Reunited" by Peaches & Herb	Billboard Hot 100 number one single First time: June 2, 1979 Second time: June 16–June 23, 1979	Succeeded by First: "Love You Inside Out" by Bee Gees Second: "Ring My Bell" by Anita Ward
Preceded by "Ring My Bell" by Anita Ward	Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number-one single (with "Bad Girls") May 26, 1979 - July 7, 1979	Succeeded by "Born to Be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez

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