CHILLLSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. So poignant, Donna's daughter opening up the song, then singing with her mom, with such power!!. AND then the rest of the fam comes out. Rest in peace Donna Summer, at home with the Lord. Your going home took a piece, of so many of us, with you. Thank you for showing me what true greatness looked like.
Was that some of her family? She does thank daughter Mimi and her nephews & neices in the closing credits. I thought the folk at the end was her band and the acts (e.g.Musical Youth) who'd played on the set-list that night?
@@durtyragoux cheers bud! I was just a bit curious... but not enough to re-watch the end credits again. Because they dressed the backing singers as black diner 'waitresses' and there was some very young children, I thought she'd portrayed the final stage as "normal, average everyone". That was just my first, and only, impression. ymmv? 👍 🙂 Cheers 👍 P. S. If you reply (again) I'll end up re-watching the credits again slowly. 🙄 🙂
Tell your Dad you love him. Tell your mum you love her. Tell your wife. Tell your husband. Tell your sister and brother. It's too late to tell them when they are gone. We love you Donna, god bless. Yours is a special talent and dignity that will always live. Rest In Peace. x
@stephenrichmond917 isn't she beautiful 😍 have you noticed she never looks up at the audience, but still held her confidence, loved Donna, and thank you for replying ❤️
Wow. Could you just imagine Jon Anderson being invited out on stage to sing that with her? They would have sounded so incredible together. She really kept the spirit of the original Jon & Vangelis recording, too. Such a magical piece of music and Donna Summer did it justice!
I first heard this song when I was nine. Dad had bought a VCR and his workmate gave him this concert on VHS. It was one fun show. We sang and danced to along. Then this song played and I just burst into tears. My sister and Mum thought it was the weirdest thing. I couldn't articulate what it was then. Now I can. It was the only way my young mind and soul could react to a work of such beauty. It was visceral and divine. Thank you Lord for blessing us with Donna Summer. Dang, I'm crying again.
People don't understand the power of this whole song the lyrics the meaning the love in it is amazing. Since I was the same age as her daughter when this came out I have loved it since. Sometimes I wake up and it is calling me to listen to it ❤️
@@finalflowerchild There´s one version I like too: the one of Anderson himself together with Todmobile 🙂 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-80sL3gfNz1Y.html
Brian Eno just brought me here. I knew if Eno liked this, spoke highly of this piece, its accomplishments. Just beautiful, I saw Jon and Vangelis do this, Kudos girl.
My God, I swear I watched this performance literally every day as a young kid. Donna was my first favorite singer, and I had this home video. This was like a ritual for me from the time I was about 7 to 8 years old. Something about the song always enthralled me, and seeing her daughter up on stage with her fascinated me, too. I'm glad that I found a clean copy of the VHS again a few years back (I wore out the first long ago!)
This Lady knew how to take us to church! She was and continues to be (through her music) a blessing from God. This❤️song❤️never❤️fails❤️to❤️move❤️me!!!
❤❤❤❤❤I ĺove her as well as her songs. She & God in the name of Christ are & always will be in my heart forever!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤ R.I.P. Donna, I will never ever forget you & through your being & your music, I will ɓless the Lord for as ĺong as he let's me draw breath. Thank you for being my idol!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
This song out of no where on uTube. I'm glad it did because Babylon/America & the World needs to hear this beautiful song by Donna Summers plus her family, band, singers etc. Just beautiful & the lyrics overall. Donna, rest in peace with the almighty God in his heavenly kingdom. ❤love❤
I am a UK National, although my son lives in Nashville, USA. I visit twice a year so know Tennessee quite well, and just tracked down Donnas place of rest outside Nashville, so therefore will visit a place of rest and lay flowers, and pay my respect and gratitude on behalf of her fans in the UK, once this COVID ban lifts.
Damn, I just got up, got inspired to post a link to this to a friends fb page and I'm in tears.. not heard it in a while.. an amazing song, just stunning.. an anthem
I don't know how I spent 13 years with this on the internet but I just got to see it. This performance is beautiful and uplifting. You can tell she felt this song. It spoke to something in my soul since I first heard the original. It's a loving rendition, where she only built upon it, rather than strip it out like some do when making a song theirs.
She died in 2012 from lung cancer. Some attributed to heavy smoking as a young girl, and some to the 9/11 World Trade Center attack. I just cry when I think of the loss of this beautiful, extremely talented woman. Love the music! ! R.I.P. from a fan in 2020
I remember this concert coming on HBO when I was a kid. My Mom video taped it & she played it over & over again. This is 1 of my many favorites by her. May she R.I.P. ✝️🕊🪽🐑🙏😇🖤
Wow I never seen this video before. I am a Donna summer fan for many years. She may have left us but she will be in every one heart's including mine for this classic hit with other hits. I hope she has a place in music hall of fame.
Thank god, I am part of a generation that can fondly reflect and enjoy Donna Summer's trademark 70s hits. Clearly a defined elegant diva in a class of her own. Along with Diana Ross. She defined elegance that seems to be missing in today's music culture. This HBO special, I remember my family crowding around the TV to see Donna Summer. Thanks for the upload, reminded of fond memories, 70s and 80s.
I was rehearsing classical music for my choir, and this came up. I have listened to it many, many times...... so moving. I remember first listening to this on Mr Cairo, by Jon and Van Gelis..... but this is on another level. Truly great, and heart rending.
Yes, so good to recall this great sounf of Donna and a wondeful Band and children , too much nice, as A Beazilian Fan always woth it to watch her Donna is a great Treasure of the real good music......forever....Missing her....
The first time I saw this was on HBO in the early 80s I finally found it on RU-vid it I'm a 69 years old and the song Donna's voice and everyone in the video bring me to tears my have things changed
Here we are in Mid March 2021 and im still listening to this great song by the one and only Donna Summer. Her great voice will never be forgotten. How she is still missed after all this time gone. R.I.P. Donna
Must be the greatest song for the Americans for life. For me as a foreigner it feels so. God bless America , espesciality in our war time endendings time 1945. Thank you.
Although she was the queen of disco, I think she could also be the queen of soul, Rhythm and blues, and pop. the best of the best an artist in all the extension of the word, will never be surpassed.
I am! I LOVE this song, always have. I heard it for the first time on the tv special this video came from. I found it so intense it made me cry - to this day, it makes me cry when I hear it. It is a deeply spiritual song for me. I couldn't find out the name of it but one day in 1992 on the radio was this song performed by Moodswings. Thank you, Donna Summers.
Donna, this is just as moving now in 2022 (me: 53) as when I sang it in the 70’s, same age of this sweet child on stage with you. Always the SOUL of this song!! Thank you :-)
Must have listened to this and watched the video thousands of times ... I WISH someone could upgrade the video ... Love Donna Summer and this will live on forever ... Miss you ♥
The smile at 1:20. So nice. We lost a wonderfully talented woman. I can't put this as well as all of the comments below. But It shows so strongly how much Donna is remembered with great affection and missed with great sadness.
