| "Hot Stuff" | ||||
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| Single by Donna Summer | ||||
| from the album Bad Girls | ||||
| B-side |
"Journey to the Centre of Your Heart" |
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| Released | April 1979 | |||
| Format | 7" single, 12" single | |||
| Recorded | 1979 | |||
| Genre | Disco, funk rock | |||
| Length | 7" - 3:47 12" - 6:47 Album Version - 5:16 |
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| Label | Casablanca | |||
| Writer(s) | Pete Bellotte, Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey | |||
| Producer | Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte | |||
| Certification | Platinum (US) | |||
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"Hot Stuff" is a hit single released by American 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 a guitar solo by ex-Doobie Brother and Steely Dan guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter.
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"Hot Stuff" won Summer the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, making her not only the first African-American artist to achieve that feat, but also the first woman to ever win a Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance. It is ranked #104 on the updated Rolling Stone magazine's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".[1] The songs also lists at #67 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of all time.[2]
In 1979 the Hungarian singer Kati Kovács sang it on Disco Party album. 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. Still in 1998 Mietta recorded an Italian language "Hot Stuff (Musica che scoppia)" for her album La mia anima.
The most recent artist to cover the song is EliZe, a Dutch popstar. Her version was released in September 2008 and is currently charting on various charts in Europe.
The track was also performed by artist Just Kait for MTV's made for TV movie Turn the Beat Around.
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.[3]
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 pop star 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."
In 1981, it was adapted to a TV commercial in Australia advertising the Four'N Twenty Pie.
It was referenced and quoted in Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike.
This song was used by several popular professional wrestlers, including "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert, Randy Savage, and Scott and Rick Steiners.
The song appears on the video game Karaoke Revolution Volume 2.
"Hot Stuff" is the background song in Episode 31 of Sex and the City, in which Carrie Bradshaw is a guest celebrity judge on Staten Island for the New York City Fire Department's "Calendar Contest". "Bad Girls" is then played as the female characters dance afterwards.
The song was performed by Roselyn Sánchez for the 2003 TV special The Disco Ball.
The song was performed by Glaiza de Castro for the GMA's 60th anniversary special GMA @ 60: The Heart of Television.
Allison Iraheta sang this song on American Idol Season 8 on Disco Week.
It was featured in the stage musical, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
This song will appear in the upcoming game Dance Central 2. Donna Summer reappears in top of the pops with new song hot metal the group name in the new comedy/romance film the full monty
The song appears in Just Dance 2, Katy Perry who is in the game as well played this song with Rebecca Black in her video Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.).
"Hot Stuff" was certified Platinum by the RIAA and remained at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for three non-consecutive weeks. The songs also lists at #67 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of all time.[2] 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.
| Chart (1979) | Peak position |
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| Dutch GfK chart[4] | 21 |
| Dutch Top 40 | 4 |
| US Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play | 1 |
| Preceded by "Reunited" by Peaches & Herb (first run) "Love You Inside Out" by Bee Gees (second run) |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single June 2, 1979 (first run) June 16–June 23, 1979 (second run) |
Succeeded by "Love You Inside Out" by Bee Gees (first run) "Ring My Bell" by Anita Ward (second run) |
| 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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