DONNA SUMMER: The 100 Essential Songs. This post: #50-46. Continues:Wednesday.

Caffè Lattè presents…  THE 100 ESSENTIAL SONGS BY DONNA SUMMER Donna Summer recorded one final collaborative album with Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. ‘I’m A Rainbow’ was shelved, finally released in 1996. Instead, she worked with a new producer: Quincy Jones. At the time, he had produced hit albums by Michael Jackson, George Benson and The Brothers Johnson. The result was the self-titled LP. ‘Donna Summer’ contained the #10 hit single “Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger)”.

50 BE MYSELF AGAIN “Be Myself Again” was a track from Donna’s comeback album ‘Crayons’. This was her first studio album of all new material since 1994’s ‘Christmas Spirit’.

49 THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A YOU  Donna penned this love song from her ‘Bad Girls’ album.

48 THE WOMAN IN ME At the time of Quincy Jones producing Donna, he had just helmed Michael Jackson’s ‘Off The Wall’. He would soon be in even higher demand after ‘Thriller’.

47 WALK AWAY Pete Bellotte co-wrote this single lifted off ‘Bad Girls’ with Harold Faltermeyer. The sixth and last track issued as a single peaked at #36.

46 DANCE INTO MY LIFE As well as co-producing the ‘Once Upon A Time’ LP, Pete Bellotte also worked on Elton John’s 1979 disco album ‘Victim Of Love’.