# Donna Summer has died. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 17, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218 "2012-05-17T15:58:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/21 "2012-05-17T16:55:27Z")
Someone just e-mailed me about this. So long, hot stuff. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/22 "2012-05-17T17:11:21Z")
Wow. What a wonderful voice. And people can still get their panties in a wad about disco, but songs like _I Feel Love_, with their amazing Giorgio Moroder techno grooves coupled with her voice are great music. Thanks Donna. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/23 "2012-05-17T17:16:41Z")
So sad. Great voice. She could belt it out. Last Dance transports me back to the late 70s. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/24 "2012-05-17T17:45:41Z")
R.I.P., Donna Summer. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/25 "2012-05-17T18:24:04Z")
[Fuck cancer.](http://xkcd.com/931/) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/26 "2012-05-17T19:59:55Z")
Donna Summer started out by doing German musicals, including Hair, Ich Bin Ich (the German version of The Me Nobody Knows), Godspell and Show Boat. Quite a talent. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/27 "2012-05-17T20:39:53Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > When my generation is old and in the nursing home, they are going to fuck with us by playing “Last Dance” on the p.a. system, and watch us all try to frantically write our phone numbers on cocktail napkins. :D:D:D Whenever I hear “Bad Girls” I am taken right back to hot summer nights in the 70’s, my friends and I walking down a dark city street to The Machine Shop, all decked out in our finest, reeking of Chanel No. 5, and feeling like The Bomb…bartender, a screwdriver, please in memory of Ms. Summer! Good times, good times. RIP, hon, you were on the soundtrack of our youth. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/28 "2012-05-17T23:04:08Z")
Aww, man…Last Dance was always the last song played at the roller rink; gonna miss that girl. RIP ☹ ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/29 "2012-05-17T23:43:19Z")
Never a big disco fan but liked Donna. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/30 "2012-05-18T02:36:29Z")
She was beautiful in looks, sound and heart in any order you wanted to list them. She made me see that there was a light on the other side of adolescence that was worth crossing over to. RIP, girl. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/31 "2012-05-18T02:51:43Z")
This is one of my [favourite disco beats](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcp0qjETxjk). ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/32 "2012-05-18T02:56:24Z")
She was much too young. RIP Donna. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/33 "2012-05-18T03:18:05Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > This is one of my [favourite disco beats](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcp0qjETxjk). I was just listening to the [original album version](http://youtu.be/9e3H6t6j3Rk). I didn’t appreciate it at the time because I pretty much only listened to Prog, but now I hear how brilliant it is. Early techno! And her voice! Wow. Without knowing much about the disco/club culture I’m trying to imagine what a dance floor packed with gays, straights and everyone else looked like when this song came on over the speakers, LOUD, for the _very first time_. Did people stop and stare at each other with their eyes wide and their mouths hung open in amazement? Did everyone clamor for the DJ to play it again? and again? and AGAIN? Did people rush out to the 24 hour record store and buy a copy of the album so they could listen to it again at home? RIP Donna. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/34 "2012-05-18T03:31:55Z")
I must credit [Blue Man Group and Venus Hum](http://youtu.be/vyL09hTLOls) for first making me HEAR “I Feel Love” as a truly great song, which finally made me appreciate Donna’s version. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/35 "2012-05-18T06:31:04Z")
Bruce Springsteen wrote the song “Cover Me” and had intended to give it to Donna Summer to record. However, Springsteen’s manager, Jon Landau heard the demo and insisted that Springsteen keep it for himself and put it on his “Born in the U.S.A.” album. Bruce was unsure, but Landau successfully insisted that Springsteen keep the song. A shame, actually. I believe that Donna would have knocked it right out of the park. It’s a shame we never got to hear what she could have done with it, as much as I like the Boss’s version of it. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/36 "2012-05-18T06:34:02Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > When my generation is old and in the nursing home, they are going to fuck with us by playing “Last Dance” on the p.a. system, and watch us all try to frantically write our phone numbers on cocktail napkins. Oh Eve, you make death so funny. Please live long enough to give the eulogy at my funeral. Or just write my headstone. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/37 "2012-05-18T06:56:13Z")
Danced many a disco night to her sultry voice. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/38 "2012-05-18T11:11:03Z")
So sad…even though I wasn’t a big disco fan, I loved Donna’s voice-such energy and talent. We’ll miss you…“Bad Girl”…RIP ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/39 "2012-05-18T19:57:05Z")
I notice this thread has NOT mentioned “MacArthur Park.” A song that should not have been done once, never mind twice. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218/40 "2012-05-18T20:02:38Z")
The ring tone I use for my girlfriend is a snippet of “Love to Love You, Baby.” RIP, Queen Donna. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donna-summer-has-died/622218.md?page=1)