This Time I Know It’s For Real (Donna Summer) / On The Radio (Donna Summer) - Day 5

She was the Queen of Disco, and I had to listen to her albums secretly, because by the time I had really discovered her, disco was dead, and I was living in the Poconos, where Lynyrd Skynyrd was king. Sounds insane, right? Well, I’m not embarrassed now, to say how much I love Donna Summer. She broke so many boundaries, and her music is unforgettable. Her sound ruled the late seventies, and her soul started the eighties with a huge song of empowerment, She Works Hard For The Money. Another of the many songs that bring to mind my number one girl Maria, my life saver during the most tumultuous of times in my youth. But Donna Summer’s songs were many. Last Dance, Bad Girls, Heaven Knows, Hot Stuff, I Feel Love, MacArthur Park, and on and on and on. Her comeback song in nineteen eighty-nine is one of the two featured today: This Time I Know It’s For Real. Big shock, another Vinny song. We would hear the opening note and our eyes would lock, and bulge out of our heads, cartoon-style, and we’d jet for the dance floor at Grand Central, and just let the rhythm take over our bodies. I can only imagine how ill we looked. Song number 2 is my personal favorite – (which was an impossible mission when it comes to Donna Summer songs) - On The Radio. It takes me back to that room in the Poconos, lifting the needle on the turntable every time the song ended, just to start it back over. Simpler times, strangely fond memories.