Tuesday September 20, 2022 “On the Radio” Donna Summer

We haven’t had a lot of Donna Summer on our songs of the day because I was saving her for radio week so she could deliver her own special tribute to the radio.

Donna Summer's title as the "Queen of Disco" wasn't mere hype, During the '70s alone, she topped the Billboard club chart eleven times with high-quality, often high-concept material that included the rapturous "Love to Love You Baby" (1975),  "I Feel Love" (1977), a radically transformed "MacArthur Park" (1978), and one of her five Grammy-winning recordings, "Hot Stuff" (1979).

In addition to her strong vocal talents Donna Summer wrote many of her hit songs including “On the Radio” which she co-wrote with Italian composer Giorgio Moroder.

“On the Radio” was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, but lost to Bette Midler's "The Rose".  It would be Donna Summer’s tenth Top 10 hit in the US, and was also her eighth consecutive Top 5 entry. It was also her 14th consecutive entry on the Disco chart, where it peaked at number eight, and it also snagged the number nine spot on the Soul chart.

Sadly, Donna Summer left us on May 17, 2012 but she left behind a remarkable catalog of truly memorable music. 

Stay safe and well…and here’s another demonstration of the power of the radio, as it moves two lovers back together.

Someone found a letter you wrote me, on the radio

And they told the world just how you felt

It must have fallen out of a hole in your old brown overcoat

They never said your name

But I knew just who they meant.

 Whoa I was so surprised and shocked, and I wondered, too

If by chance you heard it for yourself

I never told a soul just how I've been feeling over you

But they said it really loud, they said it on the air

 On the radio

Whoa, oh, oh

On the radio

Whoa oh oh oh

On the radio

Whoa, oh, oh

On the radio

Whoa, oh, oh

 Now, now

Don't it kinda strike you sad when you hear our song

Things are not the same since we broke up last June

The only thing that I want to hear is that you love me still

And that you think you'll be comin' home real soon

 Whoa, oh, yeah, yeah

And it made me feel proud when I heard you say

You couldn't find the words to say it yourself

And now in my heart I know I can say what I really feel

'Cause they said it really loud, they said it on the air

 On the radio

Whoa, oh, oh

On the radio

Whoa, oh, oh

On the radio

Whoa, oh, oh

On the radio

Whoa oh oh

On the radio

 If you think that love isn't found on the radio

Well tune right in you made find the love you lost

'Cause now I'm sitting here with the man I sent away long ago

It sounded really loud , they said it really loud

 On the radio

Whoa, oh, oh

On the radio

Whoa, oh, oh

On the radio

Whoa, oh, oh

On the radio

Whoa, oh, oh

On the radio