Donna Summer "Once Upon A Time" Act 2 

THIS AMAZING JOURNEY OF AN ALBUM WAS RELEASED 46 YEARS AGO TODAY, ON OCTOBER 31, 1977. I was 8 when this was released and I LOOOOOVED it so much as a kid.......I am now 54 years old and it remains MY ALL TIME FAVORITE DISCO LP AND MY ALL TIME FAVORITE DONNA SUMMER LP!!! WOW WOW WOW!!!!!! If I was only allowed to own one LP., THIS WOULD BE IT!! SO AMAZING!!!!!!!

This album was voted by Rolling Stone magazine, one of the 50 best concept albums of all time. A pure disco opera which is a retelling of Cinderella story (can also be interpreted as Donna's own story) in modern days in four acts. It's unique, you never heard and will never hear anything like it. It's a massive production with superb synthesizer work, omnipresent back up singers, perfect arrangements and, of course, showcasing Donna's beautiful larger than life voice and her stunning vocal range throughout the songs. The whole thing is mixed to perfection. Although every track is brilliant the one that stands out in my opinion is "Now I need you", featuring an impressive choir, epic arrangements (the reverberating synthesizer effects...wow!) leading to those last two minutes outro...EPIC! You will also hear classic dance tracks (acts 1 and 4), soulful ballads (such as the beautiful "A Man Like You") and futuristic electronic tracks (act 2). Her masterpiece with 'Bad Girls' album right behind it! Donna was categorised as a disco singer but she could sing anything: Ballads, rock, country, r&b....

I have had this CD for years but have not listened to it in a long while. What a masterpiece. That was a wonderful period for music and Donna was truly more than the Queen of Disco. God Bless her. She is missed.

I sailed from Germany to New York on the "MIKHAIL LERMONTOV" in 1979. On board we had 3 channel radio - and was woken up daily to Donna Summer´s song >Now I Need You< in the cabin. I then bought the album in Germany - the prices for records in New York were very, very high.

GOD BLESS OUR QUEEN!!!! 11 YEARS HAVE PASSED AND IT STILL FEELS LIKE YESTERDAY!!!

NOW I NEED YOU is a MASTERPIECE. Giorgio and Donna created PERFECTION!

NOW I NEED YOU!!!! MY FAVE FROM ONCE UPON A TIME!!!! SUCH AN AMAZING TRACK. IN MY TOP 10 OF ALL TIME FAVORITE DONNA SONGS!!!!

I was working the night shift at cedars Sinai hospital and then going out dancing until to this until noon! ❤️

Era un doble LP.yo lo tuve y lo disfruté.

42 Years ago this week, the same week as The Queen's Birthday, this LP was spending it's 3rd consecutive week at the top of Billboard's Disco Chart!!! Happy Anniversary to the BEST DISCO LP ever made and MY ALL TIME FAVORITE Donna Lp and HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN HEAVEN!!! LONG LIVE OUR QUEEN!!!!

My best friend as a teen, introduced me to Donna Summer’s music. We’d get high and listen to this. Glenda, wherever you are. Thank you.

The last two minutes of Now I Need You are just MINDBLOWING. This song should have been one of the MAIN focal points of this MAGNIFICENT LP. It reminds me so much of I Feel Love in its futuristic sound.

As far as the electronic material Donna/Giorgio/Pete did, while "I Feel Love" gets all the notice, side two of this album - plus side four of BAD GIRLS - brings it to another level. Brilliance.

La reyna d la disco única

I've had this album for years, but just this week I realized how transformative it really is! The singing is superb of course, the production and mixing is perfection, the storyline is worthy of a 🎥 at the very least an anime series. I'd be happy to join that endeavor. This album is a foundational pillar for today's dance music, 43 years old and still sounds revelatory! Very few have achieved that feat. Why did I never see this as the expansive concept album that it is?😔. Enough, 2021 is the year Once Upon A Time enters Heavy, I mean daily rotation!

SPACE, CREATION, FUTURE.......GOD!!!! What A Woman...Way ahead of herself and Time

Your parting words still echo clear. R.I.P.

Great concept album, and MORODOR

Procurei toda minha vida esse álbum, acabei achando agosto 2024

G. Moroder ,uno de los precursores de la música electrónica.

Love to hear this act with I Need You on my headphones

The first disco opera. 💥🌈

I was a student in upstate NH college. Somehow the library technically was able then to play selected music into tinny headphones. I had the LP but I was hooked. Now I listen to it on my tinny sounding I phone speaker. I am bed written It is what it is. Still stuck on this section.

Act 2 on Donna Summer "Once Upon A Time", is some of her best work. It was superbly mixed, and smoothly blended. It has outstanding vocals, the each song touches on what my life was like as a young man in the Disco Era. Outstanding and still sounding fresh in 2017!

una obra maestra, que coros y los acordes tan originales, sólo se les podría ocurrir a giorgio moroder y donna summer, nunca aburrirá esta canción, a pesar de 17 min de duración tiene muchas variantes, fantástica la instrumentación

Angel you have a new fan!

Ótimo lp da Donna sumer

Лучший диско альбом во всем мире!!

Música q marco una apoca en lo personal una voz privilegiada

Thanks for such a Loud upload.

Thanks for the crisp loud uploads.

Immer wieder Wunderbar 😄

Donna summer ❤️❤️

Depois de muitos anos, encontrei o álbum melhor dela,alguém aqui ouvindo Tbm,fevereiro de 2024

Now that I just listened to the full album for the first time,It is just as good as Bad girls album that I own.....now I want a copy of this one....thanks for posting this set Angel! Ella es la mejor artista de los 70's.

Why isn't this up there with Dark Side of the Moon?

luvvit, luvvit, luvvit 🙏

Congratulations friend, I was looking for these two Long Plays for decades, I lost the Vinyls, and thank you so much for Act1 and Act 2. I'm writing on your channel. Greetings from Brazil! I'm subscribe that!

Diva você é a Rainha para sempre esse título é seu ninguém vai tirar mão tem cantora que faça a metade que você fez brilhantemente até após a sua morte você quantinua marcando demais a vida de todos que sentem um amor imenso e sincero pela Diva . Agradeço por lindas músicas que é uns dos melhores prazer da vida é ouvir uma música que mexe com sentimento adormecido da gente de qualquer situação que passamos .............

SAUDADES DESSA ÉPOCA...SÓ SENTE SAUDADES QUEM JÁ VIVEU !!!

Indiscutible " Reyna de las Discoteques ", junto al gran maestro compositor y arreglista Giorgio Moroder .

This was made by people who understood music, not by people who understand computers.

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Was Giorgio Moroder involved in these track?

18 de mayo 2020

Was für eine wunderbare kaffeebraune Fee Du warst😄

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I think "Now I Need You" is more experimental and a flop in ways.

Angel ur incredible... my Cat Angel was Murdered...by a man named JW born 01-28=50... my name is Gregory Paul St.Patrick De Luca 06-26-1963 I've been a fan of Donna's all my life m it's unfortunate she died of lung cancer In 2012... I'm trying to get a job w the FBI ... FBI.GOV