Posted on 12/08/2018 2:09:31 PM PST by SamAdams76
There is an enormous amount of contemporary Christmas music out there but unfortunately we are bombarded during the Christmas season with the same handful of overplayed "classics" that we get tired of hearing before the last of the Thanksgiving turkey is consumed.
In my continuing series of presenting original and compelling Christmas music that is under-appreciated and rarely played, I present tonight "Lamb of God" by Donna Summer.
Yes, the same Donna Summer who was the disco queen of the late 1970s and had a string of hits that is mostly forgotten (and best forgotten).
I know already most of you have already decided not to click the link because you are probably expecting some overproduced pounding headache-inducing noise.
Well this is certainly NOT that so I urge you to click the link and give it a try. This is not the Donna Summer you know, I guarantee it.
In 1994, Donna Summer dropped, with little fanfare, a Christmas album entitled "Christmas Spirit" which is decidedly more gospel than disco and even included an excellent cover of the Amy Grant song "Breath of Heaven."
Sadly Donna passed away within 10 years of recording this album. Of lung cancer. She never smoked but it is speculated that she got the lung cancer inhaling toxic fumes created by the 9/11 terrorist incident in Manhattan (where she was living at the time).
I urge you to give it a try and then go check out other tracks from the album out on the YouTube. If you are into Christmas music, I guarantee you will not be disappointed.
a string of hits that is mostly forgotten (and best forgotten).
What’s wrong with disco? Donna was indeed the queen, and her hits are NOT forgotten.
She was always a church singer, so her gospel efforts are not surprising.
bkmk
My sister met her while in college in Boston several years ago and said she became a Christian.
Best forgotten!??? I would not have made it through the end of the 70’s without On The Radio.
Or I should have said she was a Christian
You are right - it’s a beautiful song. She has a lovely voice.
For me it was Play That Funky Music White Boy
Not a fan of Summers by any stretch, but gratuitiously trashing her prior career suggests the author does not know much about mainstream music.
Nice. Thanks for sharing.
Very familiar with Loreena McKennitt and she has a lot of great Christmas music. I have "Snow" queued up as one of my future threads. She also does a great version of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen".
I see you have great taste as well! I just linked the same song in my last reply.
Thanks for her video...but I also have to relay this (per wiki):
“Summer earned a total of 42 hit singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 in her lifetime, with 14 of those reaching the top-ten. She claimed a top 40 hit every year between 1975 and 1984, and from her first top-ten hit in 1976, to the end of 1982, she had 12 top-ten hits (10 were top-five hits), more than any other act during that time period. She returned to the Hot 100’s top-five in 1983, and claimed her final top-ten hit in 1989 with “This Time I Know It’s for Real”. Her most recent Hot 100 hit came in 1999 with “I Will Go with You (Con Te Partiro)”. While her fortunes on the Hot 100 waned through those decades, Summer remained a force on the US Dance Club Songs chart over her entire career.”
The woman could flat out sing.
Always loved her....RIP.
Donna Summer was fine. Some disco was fine.
IIRC she had converted to Christianity; hope she's getting to put her voice to good use up there.
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