On the Radio Greatest Hits [Import]

best compilation by donna,

has all those great classic disco tracks, & they all lead into one another nicely, with that fabulous funky energy from electro keyboards.

i love the full length version of the title track best,

& also the 12 min version of "no more tears" - i originally owned this on vinyl, it was originally sold as two single packages, versions 1 & 2, so good its been combined to two.

was also great to hear those real old-skool '70s tracks, ie, "i remember yesterday" & "try me, i know we can make it" really took me back!

When I am just not in the mood to clean the house, I pop in this incredible CD and I just start dancing around with the vaccuum, dust rag, mop, whatever... it has been my "cleaning" music since the album was first released. A classic must-have for Donna Summer fans!

I went through three copies of this album. One cassette,one double LP and one single CD. I still have the LP and CD. I lost the cassette somewhere. My mom bought the cassette shortly after she bought a new Lloyd's stereo with cassette player in late 1979. Several months later,we bought the 2 LP set. In October 1995,I bought the CD. The title track was the only original track and was a hit. There's also a long version of the song following NO MORE TEARS which is much longer(playing time for NMT is 11:44). NMT is a duet between Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand. It's also on Streisand's 1979 album,WET. Summer was introduced in 1975 with the megahit LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY. Other megahits are LAST DANCE,BAD GIRLS,DIM ALL THE LIGHTS,HEAVEN KNOWS and HOT STUFF. MacARTHUR PARK is a cover of the 60's hit written by Jimmy Webb(I don't know the artist who first recorded it). DIM ALL THE LIGHTS was written by Summer herself. All the other songs are great. Side 1 of the cassette has the songs from sides 1 and 4 of the LP. Side 2 of the cassette has the songs from sides 2 and 3 of the LP. On the LP,side 4 is opposite side 1 and side 3 is opposite side 2. When this album was released in 1979,phonographs with stacking spindles were still made and sold. So owners of this album could place side 2 atop side 1 and side 4 atop side 3. After this album,Summer was dropped from Casablanca and signed with the newborn Geffen label. This was in 1980. Summer had four more big hits after this album. They are THE WANDERER from the 1980 album of the same title,SHE WORKS HARD FOR THE MONEY from the 1983 album of the same title,THERE GOES MY BABY,a cover of the Drifters' recording,and SUPERNATURAL LOVE both from 1984's CATS WITHOUT CLAWS.