Love to Love You Baby is the second studio album by American singer Donna Summer, released on August 27, 1975 and her first to be released internationally and in the United States. Her previous album Lady of the Night (1974) was released only in the Netherlands. In the summer of 1974, Summer approached producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte with an idea for a song
Love to Love You Baby" is a song by American singer Donna Summer from her second studio album Love to Love You Baby (1975). Produced by Pete Bellotte, and written by Italian musician Giorgio Moroder, Summer, and Bellotte, the song was first released as a single in the Netherlands on June 1975 as "Love to Love You" and then released worldwide on November 1975 as "Love to Love You Baby". It became one of the first disco hits to be released in an extended form.
Artist: Donna Summer. Album: Love To Love You Donna. Style: Pop. Format: MP3 320Kbps, FLAC.
Track 1 published by Rightsong Music, Inc. Budde Music, Inc. Sweet Summer Night Music Tracks 2,4,5,6 published by Rightsong Music, Inc. Track 3 published by Budde Music, Inc. Global Musik Verlag. Disc label side: no country mentioned, only the Rights Societies Disc laser-read side: Made in Germany by PMDC, full center disc but with hub separation, matrix goes all the way to the spindle hole.
Donna Summer had had a Christian upbringing and was an unlikely writer of such a sexual song. She told Time magazine December 1975 that to write the lyrics, "I let go long enough to show all the things I've been told since childhood to keep secret. In Britain, the BBC banned "Love To Love You Baby. In the US, the Reverend Jesse Jackson used his group Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) to rail against songs of this nature, claiming they led to an increase in teen pregnancy. Summer told the Telegraph Magazine: "They were afraid of what it would perpetrate among the youth.
In 1976 the song in the charts was Love to Love You Baby by Donna Summer. Love to Love You Baby by Donna Summer. 15. ▼ Select Rank Below 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 #.
Original long version 1975, vocalist D. Summer, electronic music, Giorgio Moroder. Video produced by: oirad1962. New video with new images and HQ audio.
Album On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II. Love to Love You Baby Lyrics. Ahaaw, I love to love you, baby Ahaaw, I love to love you, baby. When you're laying so close to me There's no place I'd rather you be than with me. Do it to me again and again You put me in such a awful spin In a spin, in-uh. Written By Pete Bellotte, Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summer.
Tracklist Hide Credits
A | Love To Love YouWritten-By – Summer*, Moroder*, Bellotte* |
B | Need-A-Man BluesWritten-By – Moroder*, Bellotte* |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright (p) – Basart Records International
- Published By – Sunday Music
- Pressed By – EMI-Bovema N.V. – 24477
- Pressed By – EMI-Bovema N.V. – 24478
Credits
- Producer – P. Bellotte*
Notes
℗ 1975 Basart Records InternationalA Say Yes Production
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A): GR1211 A//HM 24477-1-Y
- Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B): GR1211 B//HM 24478-1-Y
- Rights Society: STEMRA
Other versions
Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
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OC 401 | Donna Summer | Love To Love You Baby (7", Single) | Oasis | OC 401 | US | 1975 |
ATL 10 625 | Donna Summer | Love To Love You Baby (7", Single, RE) | Atlantic | ATL 10 625 | Germany | 1976 |
16575-A, 16.575-A | Donna Summer | Love To Love You Baby (7") | Ariola, Ariola | 16575-A, 16.575-A | Spain | 1976 |
GT 17 | Donna Summer | Love To Love You Baby (7", Single) | GTO | GT 17 | UK | 1975 |
PD 1218 | Donna Summer | Love To Love You Baby (7", Single) | Gallo | PD 1218 | South Africa | 1975 |