Love to Love You Baby

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"Love to Love You Baby" is a 1975 hit song by American singer Donna Summer. It is considered a seminal track in the development of disco music and had a significant impact on studios in New York City that were producing disco music. The song, produced by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, is noted for its erotically charged nature and its extended club version, which introduced the 12-inch disco mix. "Love to Love You Baby" became one of Summer's first major hits in the United States and is a key example of Europop's influence on dance music.123

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Donna Summer
…creating the historic single “Love to Love You Baby” (1975), the first of more than a dozen hits in the United States for Summer, most on Casablanca Records. The club version of the erotically charged song, at nearly 17 minutes long, introduced the 12-inch disco mix. Over the next…
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…creating the historic single “Love to Love You Baby” (1975), the first of more than a dozen hits in the United States for Summer, most on Casablanca Records. The club version of the erotically charged song, at nearly 17 minutes long, introduced the 12-inch disco mix. Over the next…
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Machine-Made Music from Munich
Summer’s “Love to Love You Baby” (1975) was the first international hit made in Munich—nearly 17 minutes of simulated orgasm that both musically and conceptually prefigured the next two decades of dance music. By the end of the 1970s, the Moroder-Bellotte-Summer partnership was based in Los…
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Summer’s “Love to Love You Baby” (1975) was the first international hit made in Munich—nearly 17 minutes of simulated orgasm that both musically and conceptually prefigured the next two decades of dance music. By the end of the 1970s, the Moroder-Bellotte-Summer partnership was based in Los…
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