Donna Summer Album: “A Love Trilogy”
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Personnel: Donna Summer (vocals); Madeline Bell, Sue Glover, Sunny Glover (background vocals); The Munich Machine.
<p>Recorded at MusicLand Studios, Munich, Germany.
<p>In 1975, Donna Sunmer's "Love to Love You Baby," a lengthy, loosely hypnotic Euro-dance track complete with orgasmic vocalizations courtesy of Ms. Summer, conquered the American airwaves. It's safe to say that popular music has never been the same since. Detroit expatriate Summer, fresh from a road tour of the musical HAIR, had a striking combination of cool anonymity and soul. Still, the album LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY, though produced by Munich disco-meister Georgio Moroder, mainly consisted of filler apart from the monster title track.
<p>Moroder and Summer's second collaboration, A LOVE TRILOGY, suffers from no such deficiencies. The 18-minute opener, "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It," a tightly constructed and performed disco "suite," provides driving machine-like dance rhythms--techno begins here with the Munich Machine--as well as freshly conceived instrumental surprises along the way. The standout here however is a highly sexualized, lush take on Barry Manilow's "Could It Be Magic," introduced by a deliciously portentous Chopin-derived "Prelude to Love."
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UPC:042282279323
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Format:CD
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Type:Performer
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Genre:R&B - Disco
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Artist:Donna Summer
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Producer:Giorgio Moroder; Pete Bellotte
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Label:Casablanca/Universal
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Distributed:Universal Distribution
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Release Date:1992/06/09
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Original Release Year:1976
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Discs:1
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Mono / Stereo:Stereo
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Studio / Live:Studio
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
- How About A Nice STEAMY ORGASM FOR DINNER???
Love Trilogy is one of the sexiest albums i have ever heard and it finds Ms. Summer in full steamy siren mode.
"Try me,I know we can make it" grooves along with hot dripping sensuality and captures Donna singing a seductive breathy falsetto throughout and then bulking up her vocals to tell you that "we can make it if we try".
Are you willing to make it with Donna or is it too much for you to handle????
"A prelude to love" finds Donna confessin',pleadin' and panting away in hot smoldering ecstacy which leads into the classic rendition of "Could it be magic".
Donna gives this Manilow classic a sexiness mixed with a contained yet fragile urgency that the original never had and you can feel the desperation and heartfelt sincerity in Donna's delivery resulting in one of her most compelling performances.
"Wasted" is a great little funky dance number which will get your feet shuffling and your body grooving and "Come with Me" closes out this love trilogy with a shake your booty get down and boogie disco vibe that's so hot that you'll need to call your lover to release that fire scorching from within you or to cool down those family jewels...
OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!
Simply put, Love Trilogy is a finger lickin' lip smackin' disco classic and is without a doubt the SEXIEST Donna Summer album ever.
So get those fingers walking and let the music do the talking....
O.F.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
- Hot Stuff!!! :)
Why I didn't purchase this when it first came out,I'll never know! This is probably one of Donna's stongest albums that she has recorded.From "Try Me...to Come With Me"each song has a wonderful sound and just fun to dance to.I have almost every one of her albums/CD's. Just waiting for her to put something new out! I did purchase the CD single "I Got Your Love" and was very pleased.Thank you,Donna,for all the wonderful dance music you've contributed to the music scene and has been a part of my life for all these years! I love to love you baby! :) If you don't have this CD,purchase it! It's great! 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
- A More Consistant Donna Album
Althought this is probably her least popular album, it ia, in my opinion, one of her best. With the success of "Love To Love You Baby" Donna and Producer Georgio Moroder decided to stay with the disco formula which catapulted her to Superstardom. This, her 3rd album, maintained more of a consistancy than it's two predecessors, and is, by far, a better showcase of Donna's broad vocal style.
The album features the two singles "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" and a disco remake of Barry Manilow's "Could It Be Magic", which would later be a big hit for Brit boyband Take That. The other two tracks "Wasted" and "Come With Me" could have been club favorites in their own right as well. Actually, it's really a suprise that nobody ever covered the dance-floor ready "Come With Me", it was destined to be a sure-fire hit.
KRA (East End of LI) - August 25, 2005
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
- The Ever Important "Sophmore" Album
As 2nd albums are called this "sophmore" effort showed that Donna was far from a "flash-in-the-pan" Disco Star who would come and go quickly. When your first big hit is a novelty sound such as Love To Love You Baby, many wonder if you can move on from that.
Donna continued to move forward with Love Trilogy, yet the album contained more of an erotic undercurrent than her first domestic release. On the LTLYB album, side 2 portrayed a more diverse side of Donna where on this release side 2 continued with the sensual side of things. Her steamy reworking of Could It Be Magic (much steamier than the live read that she does today), and the tracks Wasted, and Come With Me feed into her developing image as a Disco Sex Kitten.
This album gave Donna her second gold single (Try Me, I Know We Can Make It), and her second gold album.
I would have loved this release even more if more of Donna diverse talent was allowed to be exposed.
Customer review - July 27, 2002
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
- "And we tried her, we knew she could make it"
Back in 1976 this was her follow up for the now classic monster
"Love to love you baby". "Try Me, I know we can make make it" is
indeed a very long (17:57) and at times lost in a boring trance disco song. Accompanied by the Munich Machine the song seems to fade and then recharges with stronger dance beats. But without any doubt the gem from this recording is "Could it be magic". To
see her performimg this song live in concert is a breathtaking
experience."Come with me" could be cut as a 12" single back then.
Is a nice song to be remixed and perhaps reissued today. Without
any doubt Donna Summer has charisma and a unique voice.
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