Once Upon a Time...

by Donna Summer

Overview

Donna Summer and her liberators have created one audience and redefined another, and this record's four sides of dream worlds without end sometimes manipulate each audience. The candy-girl music of "Fairy Tale High," "Queen for a Day," and "If You Got It Flaunt It" explicitly recognizes her newly created gay audience, a daring acknowledgement coming from a mainstream pop star. As for her redefined audience of naive young things who live in the suburbs and dream of romance, adventure, and sex while they search for identity, Summer works her music into a true-to-life Cinderella story staged as four acts of impatient pulse, delirious space noise, wish-upon-a-star voice monologues, and motion. ~ Michael Freedberg

Product Details

Release Date:	06/22/2018
Label:	Universal
UPC:	4988031275795
Rank:	5682

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Donna Summer   Primary Artist,Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Keith Forsey   Drums,Percussion
Giorgio Moroder   Moog Synthesizer
Benny Gebauer   Brass
Judy Cheeks   Vocals (Background)
Mats Bjoerklund   Guitar
Edo Zanki   Vocals (Background)
Lee Harper   Brass
Geoff Bastow   Guitar
Carlena Williams   Vocals (Background)
Les Hurdle   Bass
Pete Bellotte   Percussion
Alan Hawkshaw   Keyboards
Mary Ellen Gaines   Vocals (Background)
Gitta Walther   Vocals (Background)
Jerry Rix   Vocals (Background)
Dan Wyman   Moog Synthesizer
Hanus Berka   Brass
Dino Solera   Brass,Saxophone
Bob Conti   Percussion
Bob Esty   Keyboards,Percussion,Vocals (Background)
Hermann Breuer   Brass

Technical Credits

Giorgio Moroder   Composer,Producer,Arranger
Donna Summer   Composer
Johnny Green   Composer
Juergen Koppers   Mixing,Engineer
Francesco Scavullo   Photography
Way Bandy   Make-Up
Stephen Lumel   Artwork
Joe Scott   Composer
Pete Bellotte   Composer,Producer
Allen Zentz   Mastering
Ted Jensen   Mastering
Bob Esty   Arranger