I do believe "Stamp Your Feet" gets released to radio this week. At least, I hope so. In the meantime, "I'm A Fire" moves from #9 to #4 on the latest Billboard Club Play Dance Chart. I sure hope it reaches #1 just when the official single starts making its rounds.
Congratulations to Donna Summer. The unofficial single "I'm A Fire" will be revealed as the #1 Dance/Club Play song in the country. Let's hope "Stamp Your Feet" does just as well once it's released next week as stated by Donna's record company.
Currently, the best selling pre-order on Amazon.com is, you guessed it, Donna Summer's long anticipated "Crayons". You can also check out her myspace page and read a little something about some of the tracks. One of them sounds like it will be an acapella recording. Possibly, the only ballad on the cd. Fans are truly peeing in their pants. LOL.
Oh, and take a gander at a much clearer sample of the first radio release from the cd. The single is "Stamp Your Feet" and you can listen at Amazon.com as well. Here you go...
Donna Summer Tops the Billboard Charts Tuesday April 8, 3:37 pm ET 'I'm a Fire' Reaches #1 on Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart
NEW YORK, April 8, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Celebrating four decades of milestones, DONNA SUMMER adds another accomplishment to her list with the recent success of "I'm A Fire." "I'm A Fire" has risen to #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Charts making it her 13th #1 single to top the club charts and her 19th #1 charting single across all charts. This is Donna's first #1 hit in almost 10 years. Donna Summer is the only artist to have had a #1 charting dance hit in every decade since the 1970's.
Buy the latest mp3 single from Donna Summer. "Stamp Your Feet" will be available for download on amazon.com tomorrow (4.15.08). I'm getting mine as soon as I wake up (smile). However, I won't be stamping my feet. I wouldn't want to disturb my neighbors. Here you go!
Singer/songwriter/pop culture icon Donna Summer has been working hard on CRAYONS, her bold and long-awaited new collection of songs, the artist's first full-length studio album of newly-penned material since 1991's "Mistaken Identity" and her first new release since "VH1 Presents: Live & More Encore!," which returned her to the Billboard Top 200 in 1999.
Summer, of course, rocketed to international superstardom in the mid-1970s when her groundbreaking merger of R&B, soul, pop, funk, rock, disco and avant-garde electronica catapulted underground dance music out of the clubs of Europe to the pinnacles of sales and radio charts around the world.
Maintaining an unbroken string of hits throughout the 70s and 80s, most of which she wrote, Donna holds the record for most consecutive double albums to hit 1 on the Billboard charts (3) and first female to have four 1 singles in a 12 month period; 3 as a solo artist and one as a duo with Barbara Streisand.
A five-time Grammy winner, Donna Summer was the first artist to win the Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female (1979, "Hot Stuff") as well as the first-ever recipient of the Grammy for Best Dance Recording (1997, "Carry On"). In 2004, she became one of the first inductees, as both an Artist Inductee and a Record Inductee (for 1977's "I Feel Love") into the Dance Music Hall of Fame in New York City. It is estimated that Donna Summer has sold more than 130 million records worldwide.
The arrival of a new Donna Summer album is a major musical event and CRAYONS is a worthy addition to one of the world's most influential musical catalogs. "I wanted this album to have a lot of different directions on it," says Donna. "I did not want it to be any one baby. I just wanted it to be a sampler of flavors and influences from all over the world. There's a touch of this, a little smidgeon of that, a dash of something else … like when you're cooking."
CRAYONS with all its songs co-written by Donna Summer, is an international banquet of musical delights and surprises. The lead-in track, "Stamp Your Feet," co-written by Summer with Greg Kurstin (Lily Allen, Kylie Minogue, Pink) and Danielle Brisebois (Natasha Bedingfield, New Radicals, Kelly Clarkson), is a powerhouse stadium tub-thumper which, according to Donna, was originally called “The Player's Anthem.” “It's the whole concept of being a player in life, coupled with the idea of being a player on an actual field, the whole thing, dealing with the pain and doing things even though you are afraid. Even though you're afraid of something and your knees are knocking, you get up and do it because a lot depends on it. Players get taken off to the sidelines and bandaged and thrown back in the game because it depends on them to win the game. We're all 'players.' It goes back to Shakespeare: 'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.'"
Here is the actual Billboard interview as paraphrased in the post that was posted earlier. I have since deleted it to post the original Billboard Magazine article that another fan posted on another site. ___________________________________________
By Kerri Mason
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Seventies flashbacks aside, Donna Summer is not Rod Stewart.
When executives at her label saw the massive success that Stewart was having with his oldies albums a few years back, they suggested that the 70s disco diva do the same thing.
Summer had different ideas, and played them a new song she co-wrote with Lester Mendez (Shakira, Santana) and Wayne Hector. The tune, "Be Myself Again," was inspired by James Blunt's smash ballad "You're Beautiful."
"I was thinking to myself, 'I would love to do a song like "You're Beautiful," where I don't sing very many lyrics, where there is just the simplicity of a broken heart, no frills,"' Summer recalled.
The lyrics sketch a life lived in the public eye, lamenting the resulting loss of self ("I gave everything to play the game/My soul fell apart at the seams"). And at the bridge, when Summer opens up that throaty, yet crystal-clear voice, as familiar to millions as the sound of running water, it's a moment.
"They never mentioned that oldies thing again," Summer said. "Not once."
The track appears on the May 20 release "Crayons (Burgundy/Sony BMG), her first album since 1991's "Mistaken Identity." Not that she was taking it easy in that time.
The 59-year-old is mother to three daughters, two of whom are "in the business"; wife of 27 years to musician Bruce Sudano; and grandma, not to mention painter, amateur interior designer and consistent touring artist (she was at home in Nashville a total of eight short weeks last year).
But the diva -- who is estimated to have sold 130 million albums worldwide -- is also a consummate songwriter, and that was what finally pushed her back to the studio.
"I've been extremely blessed, and I am obviously aware of it. That was one of the reasons I felt that I shouldn't even bother to be out there again, because there are so many people who haven't even had a chance yet, and it just clutters up the market," she said. "But at some point, I just got bored. There were songs that were in me, and the little head kept popping up. I felt like, 'You know what, I'm supposed to do this.' "
"Crayons" brings the unmistakable Summer sound into the 2000s, with the help of a slew of of-the-minute writers and producers, including Greg Kurstin (Lily Allen, Pink), Danielle Brisebois (Natasha Bedingfield, New Radicals), JR Rotem (Sean Kingston, Rihanna) and Evan Bogart, who co-wrote Rihanna's "SOS." Bogart is the son of Casablanca Records head Neil Bogart, who discovered and nurtured Summer before succumbing to cancer in 1982, at the age of 39. Working with the younger Bogart, who "looks just like his dad," was "interesting and very joyful," Summer said.
Bogart's two tracks, "The Queen Is Back" and "Mr. Music," wear their modern influences -- Rihanna, Ciara --on their sleeves, but don't betray what made Summer great in the first place.
"She's still got it," Bogart said. "Her voice is so powerful; she still has that Donna diva swagger. I knew she wanted to stay away from most of the disco elements. She really wanted to come into today's sound. It was finding a compromise -- what's a Donna Summer kind of melody, what's a Donna Summer kind of concept -- and melding them with today's melodies and concepts."
The rest of the material genre-hops without leaving the pop realm. First single "Stomp Your Feet" rocks a big room like a hipper Celine Dion anthem; the Latin-flavored "Driving Down Brazil" has a breezy, windows-down pulse; and "I'm a Fire," the lone electronic dance entry, has "a mellow softness to it that makes it sound unlike a thumping typical dance tune," Summer says. And definitely unlike disco.
"I think her old fans are going to be really excited to hear ("Crayons"). And I definitely think she'll be pulling in new people," Bogart said. "This isn't what Donna Summer sounds like; this sounds like something new."
Summer will hit the road starting in July. She is also scheduled to perform on NBC's "Today Show" on May 30.
Reuters/Billboard
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UPCOMING DONNA SUMMER TV APPEARANCES: (all on the east coast)
1. May 25 - CBS Sunday Morning - 9 am (cbs) 2. May 30 - The Today Show - 7 am (nbc) 3. June 2 - David Letterman - 11:30 pm (cbs) 4. June 9 - The View - 11 am (abc)
WOW!! You've got to check out this sneak peek look into Donna Summer's CRAYONS. Did I say WOW already? Add the new recordings to her body of work and Donna Summer confirms that she is a bonafide diverse female vocalist. I am honored. My father would give a big sarcastic sigh, but I am serious. LOL. Check it out:
It is 1:41 a.m. (central time). An Australian online radio station is playing tracks from the new Donna Summer. It sounds like they are playing some of her older songs as well. If you'd like to listen, go to the link below. Ofcourse, if you wake up later today (5.4.08), you will have missed it...Unless they repeat it (smile). Good night!
Here are the lyrics from the song that the Billboard magazine article stated that Donna played for her record company after they mentioned to her that they wanted her to do a cd of standard songs (ala Rod Stewart). The song is called "Be Myself Again" and the song is extremely personal and emotional. Kudos, Donna.
BE MYSELF AGAIN
Let me introduce myself I’m a woman that you’ve never seen You might know me from somewhere else As someone that I’ve never been
I gave everything to play the game My soul fell apart at the seams I fell down like a house of cards When somebody pulled the queen
Chorus:
‘Cuz you can spend your life Looking for your own reflection Time to blur the lines Between what’s real and what’s projected
Had I known what I lost What I gained, what it cost I’d still give what remains To be myself again
You must believe me when I say Don’t live someone else’s desire (or design) Turn it around like a photograph The writing’s been there all the time
Now you can have all these hopes and dreams The one’s I can’t use anymore I don’t know what it is you lost But I hope you got what you came for
Chorus
Sometimes I wanna leave right now Sometimes I wanna cry out loud I wanna let it all hang out But I don’t wanna let you down
Sometimes I wanna just lay here Sometimes I wanna disappear I wanna show you all my fear But I don’t wanna let you down
Chorus
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Originally posted by mark.rell: "Stamp Your Feet" is a nice track.
Hey! This is my thread!! Nobody else really posts here, but me (sarcasm). Nice to see someone besides me post something (smile). Yes, I love Stamp Your Feet. Hope you purchased it. Better yet, hope you get the whole box of Crayons or buy each color individually on an online mp3 store.
Copied this from a fansite. Nice story about a young girl who loves rock n' roll and Nirvana. This is about the sneak peek EPK for Donna Summer's "Crayons" cd release that I posted a link to earlier.
"Speaking of the younger crowd liking Donna; the other day at the work office, a lady who works there was there with her daughter. The girl was wearing a Nirvana sweat shirt w/hood. Since it was after we had closed, I decided to play the EPK, loud. I noticed that the daughter was watching what I was looking at / listening to. I asked her at one point if she liked it. She said, "I dunno." Her Mom and another lady said they recognized her face and voice and asked who it was. I said, "Donna Summer." They were like, "Oh! Wow! Etc." As I kept listening, I noticed the daughter was kind of moving to the beat of what was on. She moved closer to the computer and was really listening. She then had a kind of a twinkle in her eye. When it finished I asked her, "Well? So?" She responded, "What?" I said, "Did you like it, at all?" She said, "I liked the sound, in fact, I would buy it."
And so, there you have it from one young lady who is into heavy metal and had never heard Donna before"
