Donna Summer - Once Upon a Time
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Artist: Donna SummerBrand: SUMMER,DONNA
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Soundtracks:
- Once Upon A Time
- Faster And Faster To Nowhere
- Fairy Tale High
- Say Something Nice
- Now I Need You
- Working The Midnight Shift
- Queen For A Day
- If You Got It Flaunt It
- A Man Like You
- Sweet Romance
- (Theme) Once Upon A Time
- Dance Into My Life
- Rumour Has It
- I Love You
- Happily Ever After
- (Theme) Once Upon A Time
Music reviews of Once Upon a Time
Music Review: On a fairy tale high!
Rating: 5 Stars
Once upon a time, there was a girl called Donna Summer, who earlier in the year 1977 had released an eclectic collection called `I remember yesterday' which featured the ground breaking monster smash `I feel love'.
How to follow up such a feat might have been daunting to some other artiste, but not the Summer/Moroder/Bellotte team. All the songs were written by the team.
The album `Once upon a time' was a tour de force, a concept album about fairy tales and diamonds and fur and stardust and queens. The album photos show a stunning looking Donna Summer in a night gown and stars sprinkling from her hands. I actually discovered this album in 1980, and it was the cover photo that made me a fan all those years back. Magic!
The album hit the US top 40 and was Donna's 5th gold album in a row.
The original vinyl LP comprised 4 sides on 2 discs. Side 1 opened with the title track, a sparkly dance affair with a dreamy sound, written (Donna says) for her then 3 year old daughter Mimi, followed by the paranoia of `Faster and faster' with Donna's despair laden vocals adding to the chill, followed by the sunny, upbeat, clap-a-long `Fairy tale high' and closing out with `Say something nice' where Donna really didn't need to ask us to `tell me you think that my hair's real nice'. She looks stunning!
Side 2 was `I feel love' part two. Electronica heaven! Right from the hypnotic beat, shimmery synths, electronic bleeps and effects, and choir like backing vocals of `Now I need you', to the swirling synths and delicate haunting falsetto of `Working the midnight shift', to the celebratory sounding `Queen for a day where she hits some glass shattering notes, this suite of songs is a masterpiece!
Side 3 had the horn laden retro sounding soulful `If you got it flaunt it', and the awesome `Dance into my life' with its vocoder effects and slow/fast delivery (fore runner of songs like `Cats without claws', `Voices crying out' and `Love is just a breath away').
There was also the beautiful `Once upon a time' piano/string interlude.
Then there are the brilliant ballads; the very soulful `A man like you' where we get another preview of Donna's belting voice (something that would take over from the breathy delivery) and which features some great horns, and the tender, wistful `Sweet romance', to me, one of her very best ballads ever. Starting slow and gentle with some magical sounding keyboards, it builds to an awesome chorus featuring great acoustic guitar and powerful vocals.
Side 4 opens with the energetic `Rumor has it, a UK top 20 hit, followed by the upbeat dance tune `I love you' a UK #10 hit and a US top 40 hit. `Happily ever after' closed this suite with our girl in the story finally finding love.
The last track, a spoken ballad delivery of `Once upon a time' with different lyrics, is another highlight. This is the story of the girl in once upon a time dramatically narrated against a beautiful keyboard/string/acoustic guitar backdrop, with a slight rock feel. Stunning!
This album was eons apart from what everyone else was doing in disco, and stands as one of the very best albums from the 70s, and of Donna's career.
Once upon a time is the story of dreaming and wishing for something real hard till one day we find that dream...
..something like me and you.
Description of Once Upon a Time
No Description Available.Genre: Soul/R&B
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 12-JAN-1987
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