Release and reception Professional ratings Review scores The song, " Down Deep Inside" was also released as a single and became another hit for Summer (Top five in the UK). Around the same time as the album's release, Summer would further her reputation as a serious and credible artist when she was asked to record the theme song for the film The Deep by famous British composer John Barry. A couple of the "newer" styled songs on Side Two were slightly more of a sexual nature – namely "Take Me" and "I Feel Love". In fact the lyrics to "Love's Unkind" in particular were very non-sexual compared to many of the love-themed songs Summer had recorded (the songs tells the story of a schoolgirl with a crush on one of her classmates). Summer's sexually-oriented image seemed less prominent on this album, perhaps due to the slight departure from the regular disco sound and the fusion of this sound with the older sounding songs. "I Feel Love" firmly secured Donna Summer's place as the leading female artist of disco music. It was also a huge hit in Europe, and became a number one hit in the UK. It finally gave her a follow-up in the US to her initial hit (" Love to Love You Baby"), and made number six on the Hot 100 singles chart. Summer's repetitive vocals over the backing track helped make the song a massive hit. Previous disco tracks had usually been backed by an acoustic orchestra, and it has been reported that this was the first ever track to use an entirely synthesized backing track, which would later help develop genres of music such as dance and techno. However, the impact of the song was so huge that it was soon released internationally as an A-side. Some of the labels chose to release the ballad " Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)" as the first single, with " I Feel Love" as the B-side. ![]() ![]() With the exception of the ballad " Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)", all the songs were written in collaboration by Summer, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte.Īs with Summer's last few albums, different record labels distributed her work in different nations. Side Two consisted of two pop/disco tracks, a ballad and finished with a disco song supposedly representing "the future" that would become one of the most famous songs of that genre – " I Feel Love". Side One of the LP saw Summer "remembering yesterday" by combining the electronic disco sound with sounds of the 1940s (" I Remember Yesterday"), 1950s (" Love's Unkind") and 1960s (" Back in Love Again"). The artwork was designed by Gribbitt! with photography by Victor Skrebneski. Arrangements were handled by Thor Baldursson. The album was recorded in Munich at Musicland Studios and Arco Studios with Summer's long-term collaborators and production team headed by producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. " I Feel Love" and " Love's Unkind" proved to be the album's most popular and enduring hits, the former of which came to be one of Summer's signature songs. I Remember Yesterday includes the singles " Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)", " I Feel Love", the title track, " Love's Unkind" and " Back in Love Again". Like her previous three albums, it was a concept album, this time seeing Summer combining the recent disco sound with various sounds of the past. It was released on May 13, 1977, seven months after the release of her previous album. ![]() I Remember Yesterday is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Donna Summer.
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